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Ask HN: No more twitter followers?
1 points by sjsivak 16y ago|0 comments
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by sjsivak 16y ago
Already posted twice: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1334735 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1334747
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by sjsivak 16y ago
I just googled "facebook login" and the results were: 1. www.facebook.com/login.php 2. http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=6147172660&topic=4... 3. apps.facebook.com/onthefarm (apparently many people go straight there and are hit wi
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by sjsivak 16y ago
I think the idea is a great one, just not for this audience. Hackers use the desktop as little as possible, but my mother clutters her desktop with EVERYTHING. Personally, I think you are on a good path. After using it briefly it felt pre
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by sjsivak 16y ago
I worked for Imagineering for a bit and we would do all of our work in the parks at night. It is relatively quiet but there are plenty of white pick up trucks and workers around. We did some stuff with the Indiana Jones ride and it was rea
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by sjsivak 16y ago
I have been saying this since the first proclamation that HTML5 will kill Flash. It will not kill Flash CS it will kill the Flash Player. Artist and designers still need a tool to build content, Flash CS will continue to be that tool.
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by sjsivak 16y ago
Seriously, why is this even on HN? I would have loved to see a coherent argument against putting game mechanics into everything, but this certainly is not it.
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by sjsivak 16y ago
Credit cards do the exact same thing. Sure they will deactivate it, but if you put a charge on it for 60 days it is reactivated. This was a pain for me because almost all my bills are automatic payments.
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by sjsivak 16y ago
It is funny how Apple manages to simply punish everyone for the bad behavior of a few. This would really frustrated me because the poor guy was not evening buying the entire thing using a gift card. He was only using it to cover a portion.
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by sjsivak 16y ago
> Adobe failed to deliver, plain and simple. Hardly. While HTML5 is great, most of the animations I have tested out still red line my processor. While you can hate Flash Player all you want (and I hope HTML5 takes over), artists will s
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by sjsivak 16y ago
This is really awesome. This really showcases what I think HTML5 will be great for: procedural/algorithmic content. I think Flash will still be king until someone creates an authoring tool that can allow artists to easily animate something
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by sjsivak 16y ago
From the article: "Doing these kinds of analyses is notoriously imprecise, in some cases amounting to little more than guesswork." That is does not paint a very good picture, and when looking into the actual report and what industries are c
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by sjsivak 16y ago
From the end of the article: "... the task force should freeze their investigation, return Chen's property, and reconsider whether going after journalists for trying to break news about one of the Valley's most secretive (and profitable) co
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by sjsivak 16y ago
I think this is just a symptom of a greater issue. Many of us assume that when we post something on the internet (facebook) it should be private. The reality is that you are handing your information over to another entity, and you are doi
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by sjsivak 16y ago
I have been sent a handful of these spammy emails. I would not be so concerned if they did not start out with a straight up lie. The emails I see always have something like, "Did you get the email I sent you last? Please confirm your spea
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Ask HN: Anyone in Boston for PAX this weekend?
1 points by sjsivak 17y ago|0 comments
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by sjsivak 17y ago
This is an interesting update on Bartle's Taxonomy of Players ( http://www.mud.co.uk/richard/hcds.htm ) from back in the MUD days. Sadly, this article is a little dated if you check out the list of games used (Dark Ages of Camelot, Star Wa
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by sjsivak 17y ago
1. I have no idea what obligations Yelp has, legally or otherwise. 2. Legal definition of extortion (IANAL): The use, or the express or implicit threat of the use, of violence or other criminal means to cause harm to person, reputation, or
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by sjsivak 17y ago
That is not it at all. The lawsuit claims (from what I read in the article) that the issue is before turning down an offer to advertise on the site for $300 a month, the company had a 4.5 star rating. Two days after the refusal, the compa
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by sjsivak 17y ago
They already exist and are called facebook credits: http://www.facebook.com/help/?page=1038
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by sjsivak 17y ago
I would think your best option is to carpool with those people who are already driving. Luxury public transit already exists in most cities with private limo and car services, and at least here in Boston it is very expensive compared to th
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by sjsivak 17y ago
Am I the only person that really hoped "unbig.me" was a weight-loss related app? And the banner at the top reads "Use unbig.me to to shorten your link and earn $". Obviously you should remove the "to to" and overall that just feels like s
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The Facebook Avatar - Hardcore Facebook Gamers(gamasutra.com)
2 points by sjsivak 17y ago|0 comments
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by sjsivak 17y ago
I do not use the sites listed in the article, but I have found that Epicurious ( http://www.epicurious.com/ ) has plenty of bad recipes that are rated as such. I have had good success following the ratings and checking the comments on the r
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by sjsivak 17y ago
I do not think anyone is asking for all of Mahalo to be blocked. The major issue is the insane amount of auto-generated pages that are not given a noindex call and are also added to the site map xml file. These actions appear to be conscio
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by sjsivak 17y ago
The talk is the excellent, the video is terrible and does not show the slides at all. You can view the slides here: http://www.slideshare.net/jesseschell/beyond-facebook
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by sjsivak 17y ago
Good point. The dev commentary for Half-Life 2 and Portal is really awesome, and very useful for level designers. For Half-Life 2 they talk a bunch about setting up dramatic scenes and in Portal they cover a lot of the ways they had to sto
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by sjsivak 17y ago
Good level design is a closely guarded secret, but you can break-down and study all the great levels yourself. However, some really interesting stuff can be found on the World Creation chapter of the World of Warcraft: Behind the Scenes DV
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by sjsivak 17y ago
True, but if you were also trying to play Left 4 Dead 2, Modern Warfare 2 and Bioshock 2 you would be in a worse spot. Even if you just focused on a single game like World of Warcraft, there is enough content and stuff to do that you would
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by sjsivak 17y ago
Drucker's problem is that he is trying to enjoy the "kitchen sink" of the game industry. This is like saying you enjoy cooking as your hobby and then you try to learn the best culinary techniques of French, Spanish, Italian, Thai, and Creo

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