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by walru 14y ago
I've wondered this for a long time.. Facebook is another one I've wondered about. It was common practice for anyone I knew who was playing Zynga games that they'd create second, third, and fourth FB accounts, as you received perks for havin
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by walru 14y ago
I've heard it's $40k to submit a patch. I've also heard you get your first patch free. There's more info in the following thread on neogaf. ( http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=483071 )
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by walru 14y ago
Of course we're the ones with the power. However, I think more often than not people lack the ability to see how their small action can add up to something big. The vote with your wallet analogy being the greatest of all. If the hive-mind w
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by walru 14y ago
Big ideas can get you burned, just ask Bruno or Galileo. Of course nobody is going to be so prosecuted today, but I think we as a society tend to sequester those with radical views from voicing them. So I do think there are some 'Big Minds'
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by walru 14y ago
Well the way it's supposed to be set is by averaging out what the '16' banks are charging each other, or more specifically by throwing out the top 4 and bottom 4 rates then averaging out the 8 remaining. When you look at how everything eve
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by walru 14y ago
I like the Economist and was glad to see them report on the facts as they currently stand and not offer an opinion nor get overly passionate on the matter, like some news reports in the States tend to do. That said, as someone who was caugh
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by walru 14y ago
The segway started as technology for wheelchairs ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBOT ). Dean Kamen was looking for a way to give those who were chair bound the ability to 'be taller' so they could reach items on shelves. It also allowed the
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by walru 14y ago
I'd be happy with a pair of heated long johns.
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by walru 14y ago
I agree with everything you've written, but I couldn't disagree more. Once the page loads it draws you in to wanting to visit nearly any of those places they've listed. Every shot looks like it was staged by an expert. Or to put it another
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by walru 14y ago
Adversely. Twitter being down causes a stir, which gets people talking even more. They quickly make up for the lost revenue as a result. There is no such thing as bad publicity.
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by walru 14y ago
What's even more bizarre is that they've been heavily discounting their iOS catalogue on a routine basis. For example, the last two holidays they've lowered nearly every app to 99 cents in order to take over the majority of the top 25 best
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by walru 14y ago
I seem to remember most people taking issue with Origin's TOS/'Spyware', Customer Service, and itchy ban trigger if you should ever venture into their forums. Not the actual program itself.
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by walru 14y ago
From this vantage point they look like the next Blackberry. A company with so much going for it you'll look back and wonder how they threw it all away.
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by walru 14y ago
This is slightly off topic, but did anyone else have a completely different idea of what they thought this company did based on their name? Never-the-less, it's an interesting concept. With in regardless to their TOS, I would imagine it's b
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by walru 14y ago
What's funny is, not having this feature is one of the main reasons I moved over from myspace. Having your every message now visibly tracked is not a good way to entice new people, who are worried about their privacy, to stick around. Does
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by walru 14y ago
As the phrase goes, a fool and his money are soon parted. Along the same mindset are people who want to wait for a split to get in. I always chuckle a little inside when I hear that and then try to educate on why that's not necessarily a go
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by walru 15y ago
You can spend the rest of the day thinking of practical and non-practical uses for technology such as this. I'm more interested in this tech as I see it as humanity's next, and perhaps biggest, step towards the singularity. The introduction
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by walru 15y ago
I'd be hard pressed to blame the CEO for the all of the ills that plague Best Buy, though I have to give the man credit for knowing when to step aside. After 28 years with the company I'd say he deserves a rest. The problems that exist with
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by walru 15y ago
If someone asked, I would say this is what I've spent the last 15 years educating myself to learn. It might all seem simple, but take none of this for granted. If your work adheres to the concepts they've laid out, you will begin to make th
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by walru 15y ago
"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it." --Thomas Paine
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by walru 15y ago
GRPN was a always a short sellers dream come true. Next up, ZNGA.
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by walru 15y ago
Education is the way to fix things. Not abstinence. Take a look at teen pregnancy numbers in Texas after they stopped teaching sex education in schools. http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/article/2011/10/19/govenor-per...
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by walru 15y ago
I think this is a community that likes to see things in a variety of data formats. Having a poll now and again isn't so bad.
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by walru 15y ago
I hate to be so disparaging, but this has to be one of the worst ideas I've seen thrown around here. Anonymity is part of the reason you have such intelligent and verbose conversations. At the end of the day it's up to the reader to assert
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by walru 15y ago
If you have any pride in your work then there's always a clock. Whether it measures money, time, progress, or self-worth. The clock is always ticking. For people who don't care about the outcome. The clock doesn't exist.
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by walru 15y ago
I agree with your statement whole heartily, and have a some experience in the field to back those comments as well. Even with the weighted nature of the App Store there are still a good number of new concepts making it through to the top ea
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by walru 15y ago
In a market where hardcore gamers know how to circumvent paying, it's difficult to get 'gamer' games to recoup the resources that went into making them. Coincidentally, hardcore gamers are the types who are generally more open to new gamepl
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by walru 15y ago
"What if the widely perceived differences between the parties was just an illusion?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fZliGQROqU
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by walru 15y ago
The call to action here seems rather weak to those who've been following it for a while, but this is the best we can hope for when reaching out to the broader base. The more you try to educate, the more joe public will push back.
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by walru 15y ago
Good grief. Have we gone back to third grade? Funnily enough, this is the same attitude GoDaddy copped just as the shit started to hit the fan. Tomorrow should prove to be fun.

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