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by teej 13y ago
Reminds me of something Paul Graham said a few months ago: "Will ownership turn out to be largely a hack people resorted to before they had the infrastructure to manage sharing properly?" https://twitter.com/paulg&
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by teej 13y ago
We had those in Maryland before the speed cameras, but the crack of speed ticket money is too good for our law enforcement to put down. It's unfortunate, speed cameras have been shown to have a negative impact on accidents.
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by teej 13y ago
The strange thing is that the Amber Alert was for Boulevard, CA which is over 500 miles away.
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by teej 13y ago
There's a few reasons: Simplicity. This automatically tests the whole page "for free". Robustness of feedback for time spent. A small visual change could cascade into lots of tests cases that must be updated (rendering is h
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by teej 13y ago
This is bothering me, but first image is inaccurate. They were asked to memorize a two-digit number (like 17) or a seven-digit number (like 8675309). The image shows 2 two-digit numbers and 7 two-digit numbers. This is important as our w
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by teej 13y ago
This is frightening and fascinating at the same time. Thanks for sharing.
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by teej 13y ago
Isn't this exploitable by forging a transaction? The way I thought the ecosystem worked was that bitcoin mining verified the authenticity of transactions of the page, thus creating the "confirmation". Couldn't a malici
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by teej 13y ago
Reflecting on the fact that this video was recorded before the unix epoch was humbling.
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Somehow, Tim Schafer's Adventure Game Kickstarter Needs More Money(kotaku.com)
2 points by teej 13y ago|0 comments
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by teej 13y ago
The writing on Penny Arcade has always been insightful and funny. I think being great writers is what makes them great comic artists. If you're interested in games news, I've found the Penny Arcade Report to be fantastic. It has
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by teej 13y ago
As an SF resident and hyper-avid grocery delivery user, I welcome our new, Amazonian overlords. I tend to get 1-3 deliveries from Amazon a week, so tacking on groceries to that list would not be a major problem. There's still a question of
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by teej 13y ago
> I mean, it's $20 dude. Here's how I see it. For context, I backed Broken Age for $100 and have the t-shirt. I typically spend $1,000+ on games a year. #################### If I wanted a game for my $20 I could: * Buy 3-5 classic 90s
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by teej 13y ago
I see you're new to Hacker News. I can understand that you don't agree with the developer's choice to use Facebook connect. But this sort of response isn't productive to the conversation. Is it really that black & white? I'd imagine th
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by teej 13y ago
This is why - http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=verbalize
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Chrome’s requestAutocomplete()(blog.alexmaccaw.com)
130 points by teej 13y ago|67 comments
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by teej 13y ago
> FooCorp made numerous attempts to improve their business relationship with Bob, despite the risk of annoying Bob. They can justify this by pointing to observable evidence that, if they mail 100 Bobs, statistically Bobs actually do st
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by teej 13y ago
An employee with specialized skills who runs a profit center in an organization makes the most money? Color me surprised.
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by teej 13y ago
Interestingly enough, Stripe and WePay are not named while Balanced and Square are. Can anyone comment on why?
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by teej 13y ago
There's this lingering myth about app store charts. The myth pertains to a magical "line", some sort of tipping point, over which all your download problems go away. This myth is patently false. From what I've seen with apps ranked anywher
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by teej 13y ago
If you're in the 0.15% of the population who have DSPD, it's not your fault. The people reading these articles, in all likelihood, do not have DSPD.
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by teej 14y ago
This is kind of silly. Doing street level market research is not a new idea and approaching people directly isn't some huge revelation. There aren't so many entrepreneurs in the world testing ideas that you would ever be affected by this
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by teej 14y ago
Supercell is one of hundreds of developers on the App Store trying to make freemium mobile games. They're doing well because they picked a winning business model for their games and then they went on to make great games . Clash of Clans w
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Ad-blockers, the games press, and why sexy cosplay leads to better reporting(penny-arcade.com)
2 points by teej 14y ago|0 comments
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by teej 14y ago
I expected most of the services to screw up on the avocado, that's why I made it part of the order. When the Postmate got it right we speculated over why. The answer we came to is that women are more likely to closely evaluate produce. A
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by teej 14y ago
The "Apple Dollars" you have in your iTunes account from gift cards are no more "real" than Amazon Coins.
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by teej 14y ago
App store rank to download volume follows a power curve almost exactly, I think it's safe to assume similar here. I was going to make the same recommendation as beambot.
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You Can’t Afford to Work More Than 40 Hours(yayitsandrew.com)
2 points by teej 14y ago|0 comments
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by teej 14y ago
You do realize that Google pays Firefox $300M a year, making them at least somewhat aligned to the business of Google?
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by teej 14y ago
This ranking under-states mobile companies quite a bit. I'm not sure the best way to improve it, but I guarantee you that Bump and any TinyCo game has broader reach than App.net or Viki.
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by teej 14y ago
> The only way to make money from games is what Disney have done, license the IP to other companies and get them to pay for it. I think it's worth noting that Disney Interactive has posted a loss every single year of it's 18 years in ex

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