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by physcab 14y ago
Awesome, in theory this is how it should work. I'm actually more curious as to how you handle it practically though. Because for us, validating the receipt from Apple takes time, so if you are first making a request to Parse and then Parse
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by physcab 14y ago
Have you tested whether this is effective in eliminating jailbroken hacks? [1] In my experience, this has been the bulk of illegal transactions being made for in app purchases and its tough to validate server-side. I agree though that makin
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by physcab 14y ago
Its not the business model that will change. The business model works, thats why there is so much competition in the gaming industry and lots of money being made. What will change are the types of games themselves. Because as competition
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by physcab 14y ago
Sorry, my comment wasn't very well formulated. I actually was trying to be slightly sarcastic and over-dramatic to make a point. The point being, Apple seems to demand quite a bit from its employees, such that they are required to make sac
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by physcab 14y ago
Its not a fact, obviously. I was semi-joking. I'm just saying I've heard anecdotal evidence of people's marriages falling apart while working at Apple for long periods of time.
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by physcab 14y ago
Pretty interesting talk, though he paints Apple in a glamorous way. However, in the Q&A he does address the real culture of Apple. Apple is a culture of work. You put in long hours, you don't get very flexible vacation, you don't reall
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by physcab 14y ago
They are usually very accommodating to different dietary restrictions. And the food is usually very delicious (SF has some amazing restaurants!) But restaurant food just tastes...heavy? I loved when we had Osha one day and grilled brisket
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by physcab 14y ago
Ah I see. I really like the personal style. I'll try to rally others to my cause! Its nice to see where your food comes from and who makes it. I feel privileged that we get food in the first place, but always prefer the lunch that comes se
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by physcab 14y ago
So I work for GREE (the company pictured in the article), and while I do like ZeroCater, I actually think Munchery is way better. Just a personal opinion. ZeroCater's service is awesome and their food selection is good, but I always feel ki
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by physcab 14y ago
This post says just as much about Kickstarter as a platform as it does about Ouya. It looks like the time required to raise $1m for a worthy cause is quickly approaching zero now, which is simply astounding. If I were a VC, I'd think long
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by physcab 14y ago
I don't know about you, but a bunch of my friends go to Youtube precisely because they can listen to pirated music. In fact, sometimes when I'm at parties, people pull up their own youtube playlists that are exactly the same content Groove
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by physcab 14y ago
Except I hate bundled services because I feel like I'm getting ripped off. I don't have a subscription to Rdio because I think "wow, I can listen to my favorite bands and have access to all this other content ". No. I have a subscriptio
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by physcab 14y ago
Oh, I assure you, I know the importance of measurement. I'm an analyst for a large social game company :) My point is, it doesn't help you to measure something that isn't actionable. And my list above was just the four that I can think of
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by physcab 14y ago
User privacy concerns aside (yes, I realize that is a big aside), I feel like there are only a handful of use cases where knowing this user data is actually helpful in analytics scenarios, and anything beyond just feels creepy to know. 1)
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by physcab 14y ago
Many different ways. For organic traffic theres links, search results, facebook posts and other social media. For the app store theres added friction bc users have to install the app on their phone and there will be a dropoff between viewi
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by physcab 14y ago
I agree with the author, but not for the same reason they mentioned. Currently, the biggest problem in mobile is discovery. If you're not in the top 25 for your category, its difficult to gain enough organic traffic to build a sustainable
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by physcab 14y ago
TSA's security rules are a mix of deterrents and science. I worked on explosive detection devices for the TSA during my PhD. The banning of liquids and pastes are logical. There are some extremely volatile liquid and plastic explosives th
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by physcab 14y ago
My notes below (disclaimer- never took econ, took very few stats classes): - Barter still exists even though players are more sophisticated. Author expected to find one item becoming defacto currency, but that does not happen. - Because bar
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by physcab 14y ago
Telling someone to "improve or else" is a completely different animal. If you want that employee to focus on doing their job (and improving their performance) they have to not be wasting energy looking for another job. From their perspecti
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by physcab 14y ago
I agree 100%. However, let's not overlook the fact that there are a proportion of managers who view termination as both the start and the end of the process with no conversation taking place. I think that's the "at will" part of the "at wi
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by physcab 14y ago
Firings often come down to differences in expectations. Sometimes those differences arise due to communication failures by both the manager and the employee. I don't see "second chances" as "half firings". I see it as an opportunity to r
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by physcab 14y ago
This article is half as good as it could be. The underlying assumption here is that you already know an employee is bad and that you need to fire them. But how do you know an employee is bad? This is a question that no one seems to get ri
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by physcab 14y ago
I have phone numbers for all my close friends. If I wanted to contact them, I'd just call. The beauty of it is that it isn't all at once :)
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by physcab 14y ago
I stopped using Facebook last November. It's been a fantastic experience. Whether you realize it or not, FB changes your emotional health. FB used to make me oddly depressed. Its like sitting in front of the TV and feasting on Sour Patch K
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by physcab 14y ago
2% of customers paying is pretty average for a free-to-play model. If Zynga has 60 million daily active users, thats 1.2M payers per day, more than enough to be profitable you'd think. The real question is the value of their users, and whe
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by physcab 14y ago
Company name I think is weighted higher than title of the app. I remember for a while the top game in the free section was made by a company called "Top Free Angry Zombies" or something like that. That's when you know App Store discovery i
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by physcab 14y ago
Congrats on the launch! I remember when we (I was a former groovesharker) started working on it back in November of 2010! Great to see that you stuck with the project through what I'm sure were many ups and downs :) I'm curious to know how
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by physcab 14y ago
That's why advertising exists though. I'm sure McDonalds would be very happy if you ate there every day. That guy from Subway did and now hes a company spokesman. So I don't believe its about manipulation - because thats an essential part
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by physcab 14y ago
Your comparison between normal and social economic models within these games is interesting, especially how you equate it to ethics. But if you're going to gripe about people who spend enormous amounts of money who may not have it (ie. add
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by physcab 14y ago
I was a big turntable user too and still am to some extent. I think the site still has huge potential if they can continue to update it, however their lack of updates over the past year leaves me worried. They still have issues with: Loadi

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