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by tablethnuser 7y ago
I don't think the author knows the full set of features available in DevTools. Sourcemaps make the code look familiar. Blackboxing hides the framework stack. DevTools supports conditional breakpoints so in the article's example yo
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by tablethnuser 7y ago
A set of greasemonkey scripts could work but my intended audience is more casual than greasemonkey users. Having a curated set of scripts bundled into its own extension makes the marketing story and installation flow easier. I also think th
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by tablethnuser 7y ago
I'm actually modifying the site DOM to remove the dark patterns. There's no request for remote content that I can block in most (all?) cases. This is fundamentally different than an ad blocker. It's closer to a curated select
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by tablethnuser 7y ago
I wrote a browser extension last year to hide like counts and such from the sites I visit and it definitely changes your browsing behavior for the better. Reacting to those vanity numbers is similar to slowing down to rubberneck. Here'
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by tablethnuser 8y ago
Contemporary video games are way more on rails and experientially constrained than players know. Basically anything implemented with fair odds will be perceived as unfair to the player. Real life is unfair and players play games to escape t
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by tablethnuser 8y ago
Surprising lack of actually qualified respondents but I'm not about to make a Reddit account to help out. Instead HN gets my reply. Worked at Zynga during "the good years" as both a programmer and a designer. Launched game af
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by tablethnuser 8y ago
I think this is likely to go in the other direction where more and more movies find a way to release directly into our homes on streaming services. A single movie theater ticket costs more than a month of Netflix. The theater experience is
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by tablethnuser 8y ago
No one is training the junior devs, which is why GDC, Gamasutra, etc have been discussing the same topics on repeat for a decade or more. The games industry's hive amnesia makes it a great place for sadistic and plain bad managers to m
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by tablethnuser 8y ago
This was cool and inspiring to read. I too enjoy making little apps to meet my needs and it was educational to see how someone else structures their tiny projects. Not just the projects themselves but also the lil domain they're hosted
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by tablethnuser 8y ago
I feel the same way and can't speak to the success of my strategy, but do have one. I've been alternating between working for someone else and then spending my savings investing in myself. In both cases my goal is to aquire new sk
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by tablethnuser 8y ago
Use this browser plugin which hides things like comment karma on HN and stop letting these numbers affect your well-being in the first place https://github.com/a13o/disengaged
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by tablethnuser 8y ago
Once a game company has a hit they become their own angel investor and try to find the next hit. The odds are really low though so most die before finding it. It doesn't help that most companies have no idea why the first game was a hi
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by tablethnuser 8y ago
Don't work in the games industry. This is the par story for game companies. Every little detail of this story I saw repeating on loop in a decade of working in games. The artists grabbing assets to stuff into their portfolios before tw
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by tablethnuser 8y ago
Enrichment Service, aka surveillance capitalism center
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by tablethnuser 8y ago
This was the first test of federation's claim that bad actors can be dealt with by instance-banning. They failed the test and without this key innovation performing to spec I no longer have faith that Mastadon is any more than a techni
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by tablethnuser 8y ago
During the time period in the article EA advocated design via the rule of three: 1/3 proven, 1/3 improved, 1/3 new. They were just getting their feet wet in the f2p space with some Facebook and mobile game acquisitions and wo
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by tablethnuser 8y ago
Thank you for all the thoughtful replies everyone. It's helped me understand Mastodon a little better. I think what I want for my primary instance is to immerse in a culture of makers and then I can follow my interests like tech, philo
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by tablethnuser 8y ago
I'd like things to go in this direction as well, but with slightly different tech than rss. What you really want is the notification layer of social networks as a standard, so that ppl who follow you are merely alerted that they should
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by tablethnuser 8y ago
Thanks, I'll check this one out next time I get the itch to find an instance. It seems straightforward enough but the website gives me a 502 atm
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by tablethnuser 8y ago
I am interested in joining a Mastodon instance but I don't know how to find the right one to join. Every pro-Mastodon article mentions I can pack my bags and leave for a new instance but if you do research you find that that feature is