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by swivelmaster 4y ago
“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll be acquired by Yahoo!.”
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by swivelmaster 4y ago
Can someone explain to me why any of these values truly matter? My background is in game development both on Facebook and mobile, and I spent a lot of time paying close attention to the growth of the web and its various startups. Number of
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by swivelmaster 4y ago
Wow, great comment.
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by swivelmaster 4y ago
Made the mistake of ordering Thai food from a ghost kitchen restaurant from Doordash in Redwood City (they have a kitchen here). It was the worst Thai food I have ever had by about ten miles. Like, I have never had Thai food that approached
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by swivelmaster 4y ago
I would argue that the decline in software quality is related to the rise of SaaS coupled with Product Manager-driven development. If a product is generating consistent revenue, resources are devoted to expanding that revenue. It's ext
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by swivelmaster 4y ago
Google’s knowledge graph feature is just so fundamentally broken that it should probably be subject so some kind of government lawsuit. Google has a near-monopoly in search and has been perceived as the way to get the “correct” answers to q
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by swivelmaster 4y ago
Trans women are women.
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by swivelmaster 4y ago
“Broad jump: Killed her.” is one of the most clever succinct jokes I have ever heard. Works even better because it’s the only pun in the sequence! The first two minutes of the set are incredible.
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by swivelmaster 4y ago
Two reasons. First, supporting the Republican party for fiscal reasons necessarily means that you're supporting their social positions as well. To paraphrase the old line, what do you call someone who only voted for the Nazis because t
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by swivelmaster 4y ago
That is, quite frankly, an insane position.
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by swivelmaster 4y ago
Some places are still like this. EA is not. I worked at a company that was acquired by EA in late 2011 and stayed until 2016. Post-acquisition, EA's HR folks made sure that a whole bunch of the studio's staff were properly classif
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by swivelmaster 4y ago
It’s a great book!
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by swivelmaster 4y ago
Ugh typos, embarrassing. What I meant was, English accents used to sound more like parts of the American south.
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by swivelmaster 4y ago
This is fine. If anyone played the Mark of the Assassin DLC for Dragon Age 2, you might recall how utterly out of place Felicia Day sounded in that game. It was like if Larry David showed up in the Fellowship of the Ring, but everyone else
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by swivelmaster 4y ago
I think this is a per-person issue. I personally am a “I need to care deeply about what I’m working on” kind of person; I’m not motivated by problem-solving for its own sake. Some people are. I suspect that there are many successful entrepr
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by swivelmaster 4y ago
As soon as a project is known internally as the one the B team was assigned to because all the “favorite” people went to the “better” project, it’s basically doomed. This has happened so many times, the game industry has enough people who s
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by swivelmaster 4y ago
I LOVED Secret of Monkey Island when I first played it, and I think I was maybe eight or nine years old.
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by swivelmaster 4y ago
Some shorter/smaller games: A Short Hike (haven’t played it but heard great things) Signs of the Sojourner: A brilliant game about going on bus trips to trade and collect merchandise for a local store, but the core gameplay is conversa
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by swivelmaster 4y ago
A Night In The Woods. Don’t let the cute art fool you: It’s a deep story that touches on mental illness, economic inequality, and other heavy topics… but not in a way that would be too much for a curious young teen. There’s a bit of violenc
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by swivelmaster 4y ago
Pivoting entire company divisions based on what you think other companies might do without data or research to back up the decisions is not the way to play defense.
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by swivelmaster 4y ago
Seems like few people remember that for a brief period, messenger bots were all the rage in the tech press and a lot of investment money was lit on fire to support them. I suspect most or all of that fervor can be traced back to this email.
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by swivelmaster 4y ago
I think you're suggesting that the hunt for identity never ends so why bother? That's ridiculous. Just because we can always be trying to find ourselves doesn't mean we can't do things that get us closer to the ideal ver
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by swivelmaster 4y ago
I think you're looking at it somewhat backwards. Teens are welcome to experiment with identity - that's what teens do and have always done - but I know a shocking number of adults who didn't truly understand their own gender
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by swivelmaster 4y ago
I get your point but I’m unclear how the last bit ties in. Can you elaborate?
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by swivelmaster 4y ago
This has been studied for decades. The number of people who have had some kind of sexual experience with the opposite sex is far higher than many expect. I recommend doing some more reading on this subject before coming to the (ridiculous)
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by swivelmaster 4y ago
This is quite literally not true. Source: I have a film degree, took classes on documentary film. I posted this elsewhere but here’s a nice video with a ton of documentary recommendations. https://youtu.be/0nisJRrsNmc
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by swivelmaster 4y ago
There are myriad fascinating documentaries that aren’t about hammering home a point of view about recent political or social issues. For a very accessible list of recommendations, check out this CineFix video: https://youtu.be&#x
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by swivelmaster 4y ago
It’s not a sequel, were you expecting a sequel?
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by swivelmaster 4y ago
There are way too many people who mistake summarization for analysis. Thanks, YouTube!
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by swivelmaster 5y ago
Great article! Represents the experience pretty well.

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