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by ryanelkins 16y ago
I agree with this as it pertains to kids in school. I wish I better knew how to defend myself as a gangly teenager. I fully plan on making sure my son know knows how to defend himself and when it is appropriate to do so. However, the author
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Gamification, Pointsification and Embarrassment (Effects of gamification)(katiepiatt.blogspot.com)
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by ryanelkins 16y ago
Even when those buttons DO work they aren't instantaneous. You presume a world where pedestrians have almost no patience. A more likely scenario is that people start pushing the button more and more trying to get it to work before they "giv
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by ryanelkins 16y ago
I think that would be true for testing, but not for actual development. When I'm working I want to marginalize anything that might slow me down. You did mention the build machine should be fast - but don't most people build locally first be
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by ryanelkins 16y ago
It looks like it's having a tough time with a lot of misfires (probably due to sarcasm according to the article), at least from a cursory glance at the bot's twitter feed ( http://twitter.com/AI_AGW ) that currently has a lot of apologies.
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by ryanelkins 16y ago
Why would you do something so trivially traceable to you? Mostly because I didn't think it was a big deal. I mean, I changed the default homepage, I wasn't trying to format the drive or actually do anything that could be considered harmfu
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by ryanelkins 16y ago
I remember the time I "hacked" my school library's computers. I changed the homepage on the browsers to my Geocities blog (this was almost 15 years ago). Later that day I was pulled from class by a security guard. In the library was most of
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by ryanelkins 16y ago
This is called meal prep. There are companies like Dream Dinners and Super Suppers that do this. Usually you go and prepare the meals yourself (pick what you want and how many servings from their menu) in a few hours (to make a months worth
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by ryanelkins 16y ago
Sure, usually people that sell things like vending machines will sell the types of ATMs you see at convenience stores. They aren't quite the same as the ones the banks use, but they still hold cash.
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by ryanelkins 16y ago
Actually being that they are contractors, they supply that stuff themselves. My uncle had a few of those trucks that he owned and was paying drivers to operate for a while.
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by ryanelkins 16y ago
I think those of us saying it's possible mean that it isn't impacting what we do in such a negative way that we feel it is altering our chances. I don't think my journey would be drastically different without kids. If you want a concrete ex
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by ryanelkins 16y ago
As the co-founder mentioned above, I'll just add that it's important to have the support of your spouse. It works for us because my wife understands that I'm only going to see the baby for an hour or two if at all during the week (I help mo
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by ryanelkins 16y ago
I'd consider paying for the ability to use some icons for commercial purposes. Perhaps you could get some sort of affiliate program going? Then you could add another rights type - 'Allowed for commercial use (purchase)' or something like th
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by ryanelkins 16y ago
I wonder what percentage of Reddit users run Adblock - I imagine it's much higher than your typical site.
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by ryanelkins 16y ago
This is simply arbitrage. The book sellers don't take the time to do the research to price their books accordingly or offer them for sale online which creates a profit margin from the price difference between the two markets. He's not marki
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by ryanelkins 16y ago
With the English version being Paul and St.Paul.
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by ryanelkins 16y ago
Here is a fanmade trailer that I think really does a good job of selling some of the appeal to this game: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaMTedT6P0I
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by ryanelkins 16y ago
Maybe it's not so much bicycle unfriendly as pedestrian friendly, although other people in this thread have noted that sidewalks are more dangerous than roads for cyclists. It is hard for cyclists - treading that line between pedestrians an
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by ryanelkins 16y ago
I want to give Scribd the benefit of the doubt. I don't really see this as malicious as much as a business decisions that was misinterpreted. It was probably something like this: People upload a lot of stuff to their service. Once content g
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by ryanelkins 16y ago
I've always felt that you grow and perform best when faced with stiff competition. If no one around you is challenging you it's probably time to move on for your own sake. Otherwise you become complacent and stagnate. Even if you push yours
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by ryanelkins 16y ago
I think the idea is interesting, I just want to see the UX developed. It's all really rough right now. The y definitely didn't wait to release before it was fully polished ;) The big thing I see is that it's really hard to figure out what y
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by ryanelkins 16y ago
Heh. Sorry for all the downvotes, I thought it was funny...
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by ryanelkins 16y ago
Sounds like you're looking for something a little more specific than just desktop patterns. Really, most of these patterns aren't web specific and could easily apply to desktop use as well (although the implementation would be a little diff
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by ryanelkins 16y ago
One nice thing about this idea is it lets people jump in and participate when they have time and not be beholden to a schedule or have to rely on a team. It's sort of like an FPS where if you have 15 minutes to kill, you can log in, get som
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by ryanelkins 16y ago
"That which is measured improves. That which is measured and reported improves exponentially." Sure, people should be willing to do things of their own accord without needing any motivation at all, but we live in a world filled with motivat
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by ryanelkins 16y ago
The nice thing is that you can build around all of these with the same system and people can take what they want from them. There is no reason why any of these elements would need to be mutually exclusive.
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by ryanelkins 16y ago
While I agree that it does seem to be the business model I think a hungry competitor would be willing to give it a go if they thought it would give them an edge. If they got traction the others might be compelled to follow. Most advances in
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by ryanelkins 16y ago
I actually feel that leaderboards are mostly bad only when there are too many people participating. With a small enough number of participants they can be motivating (although they might be better yet if they were opt-in). There are a subse
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by ryanelkins 16y ago
Yeah I like the idea of a group working towards a common goal that everyone is contributing to more than trying to beat someone else. Competition works really well sometimes but perhaps not in this case.
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by ryanelkins 16y ago
It's interesting to see how this idea is being received. My startup (IActionable.com) actually provides a way to make this happen to a degree. We're mostly focusing on game mechanics for websites at the moment but I really like the idea of

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