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by psawaya 17y ago
As great as those are, they still don't provide a replacement for student interactions with a professor and/or tutoring, which are things a site like this could conceivably provide for a monthly fee.
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by psawaya 17y ago
I've nothing constructive to add, but I just wanted to say the twss gag made me smile. =) At least you've still got your sense of humor.
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by psawaya 17y ago
I think this is a pretty good idea! A lot of students at the colleges I went to spent their first year taking core classes or classes in a major they ended up switching out of. Might as well let students take care of that first year somewhe
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by psawaya 17y ago
I'm a big fan of the concept of Pecha Kucha, though it seems to be more popular in graphic design/architecture circles than among hackers. Here's a cool nontechnical one: http://tr.im/wdvt
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by psawaya 17y ago
Now that most home computers have are powerful enough, I definitely think that 3D in the web browser will get more popular, and that a standard will emerge. Director/Shockwave has been around for a while, and naturally has been adopted by m
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by psawaya 17y ago
The shovel:gold rush analogy usually works well for most types of businesses, but it seems that most software (particularly on the web) is sold as a platform of some kind. The Unity engine, for example, seems like a really cool shovel that
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by psawaya 17y ago
Thanks Josh! =)
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by psawaya 17y ago
Thanks! I agree with you. Even though I'm also a flash developer, I'm looking forward to the day when I can get that level of performance out of javascript, and abandon proprietary plugins entirely.
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by psawaya 17y ago
Huh, sorry. It's something I threw together in a night, and only was tested in Firefox.
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Fast vector graphics word art with HTML canvas(paulsawaya.com)
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To be fair, there is pushuptheweb.com, though that's more a general purpose upgrade reminder for your site and not targeted specifically at IE6
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To risk stating the obvious - Most great coders code because they love doing it, or love what they're making. Despite commercial contributions, open source projects thrive on this. When you're a company that sells software, you exist to sel
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Your "your X sucks blog post" sucks.
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by psawaya 17y ago
Well, he said it would be "regional", so I guess it could just as easily be in New Jersey.
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As Stephen Hawking said, people who boast about their IQ are losers.
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by psawaya 17y ago
It seems like whenever you give web users collaboration tools (with proper security/vandalism protection), they often exceed most expectations of what they can accomplish. If someone told you about Wikipedia before it went online, could you
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by psawaya 17y ago
That's definitely true in a lot of cases, but many of the more indie-friendly engines (like Source, I believe) are free or cheap for non-commercial use. I think that works well with the fact that this funding model is most likely to work wi
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What happens if the project falls through/runs out of money? It would be cool if the developers signed some sort of contract requiring them to open source everything in such a case.
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pg himself said in his essay that they end up passing on a lot of founders who seem qualified, but didn't make themselves clear enough. I bet having to choose between too many well written applications submitted by qualified people would be
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by psawaya 17y ago
You certainly can get away with programming on a laptop, but I find the lack of screen real estate causes me to work a lot slower. The best option, for me, is getting a very powerful laptop with a connector for a second monitor while you're
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by psawaya 17y ago
Have to agree with you. If this guy can't do his homework and realize just why AOL and Myspace are sinking ships, then he shouldn't be writing for the WSJ. Comparing all tech companies to those two is, of course, ridiculous.
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by psawaya 17y ago
I think the theory of game play is fascinating, and some of those games were very clever in their design. But I feel as though using only the Sunk Cost Fallacy, as the author calls it, to motivate a player to finish your game isn't enough.
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by psawaya 17y ago
I agree with you about the customers needing to know about Twitter selling private data, but the TC article mentioned nothing about any nefarious going on inside of Twitter. I'm sure they'd be more than happy to be a whistleblower, but in t
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by psawaya 17y ago
It's very different from Watergate! The Watergate scandal involved the U.S. government, which is accountable to its citizens, and this is about a privately held company, accountable only to itself and its investors. Also, the Deep Throat in