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by waxpancake 13y ago
Sometimes, it seems like most of the people declaring the Ouya a disaster have never touched one. My son and I play it more than Xbox 360 and Wii U combined. It's a perfect little party console for quirky indie titles.
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by waxpancake 13y ago
I OCRed the Inform 7 code and added it to Playfic: http://playfic.com/games/waxpancake/sacred-clowns-by-why-the...
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by waxpancake 14y ago
Author here. Except for a moment where they shut off invites entirely, it's stayed consistent at a linear 800/hour for the last two weeks. At some point, presumably, they'll increase that but they haven't yet. The prediction on caniusemailb
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How long would the Mailbox app line be in real-life?(waxy.org)
28 points by waxpancake 14y ago|31 comments
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by waxpancake 14y ago
A unique database of facts absolutely can be copyrighted. The Billboard charts and SoundScan are a great example, upheld in court. More here: http://www.bitlaw.com/copyright/database.html
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Can't wait for iOS 6? Renegade Apple devs trading access for cash(waxy.org)
2 points by waxpancake 14y ago|0 comments
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by waxpancake 15y ago
Well, hello! First off, Yahoo's never initiated a lawsuit with Google. It was Overture that sued Google in 2002, when they refused to license their patent for search ads. Yahoo acquired Overture a year later, and it settled out of court. Su
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by waxpancake 15y ago
Definitely, this is at the top of my todo list.
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by waxpancake 15y ago
Hey, I made this! It's a community for writing, sharing, and playing interactive fiction games (aka "text adventures") entirely from your browser, using a "natural language"-inspired language called Inform 7. Inform 7, if you're not familia
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by waxpancake 15y ago
Hey, I did the analysis. The nominations came out two days ago, so that's just shorthand for "at press time." I don't actually track that metric in the spreadsheet... I keep the data updated until the Oscar ceremony on February 26.
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by waxpancake 15y ago
We're glad you got out too. :)
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by waxpancake 15y ago
Hey, I wrote this! Let me know if you have any questions about it.
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by waxpancake 16y ago
I built Upcoming.org on the side from my day job just for fun, and I didn't quit my day job until it was acquired by Yahoo two years later. It was never a big revenue generator before acquisition, but ads covered server expenses and then so
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by waxpancake 16y ago
NYT wrote about exactly that earlier this month: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/03/technology/03youtube.html
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by waxpancake 16y ago
The film's endorsed by Brokep himself: http://twitter.com/brokep/status/22381871767
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by waxpancake 16y ago
Looks heavily inspired by This Is The Only Level. http://www.kongregate.com/games/ArmorGames/this-is-the-only-...
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by waxpancake 16y ago
Pinboard's a pretty amazing Delicious alternative. One-time signup fee of $6, but very much worth it. http://pinboard.in/
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by waxpancake 16y ago
I wasn't sure if he was joking or not, so interviewed him back in 2008. Here's the complete text of the interview. (I should've used the VERBOSE command.) Q: I'm fascinated with a message I read about how you read the web with a wget demon
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by waxpancake 17y ago
Kickstarter's looking for a talented Rails developer in NYC (or willing to move). More about the job: http://blog.kickstarter.com/post/466172121/kickstarter-is-hi... We're a crowdfunding startup that's changing how people fund creative p
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by waxpancake 17y ago
I wonder how this impacts Flickr's relationship with Picnik as the community's photo editing app.
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by waxpancake 17y ago
The promoted review is clearly marked, with both messages that say "This business is a Yelp Sponsor" and "One of the Business' Favorite Reviews." If it was unmarked, this would be a problem, but there's absolutely nothing deceptive about i
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by waxpancake 17y ago
This is the best timezone converter I've ever seen. Nice work. Though really, I'm surprised Google hasn't added timezone conversion to their various measurement converters. I really just want a single text field that takes input in the for
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by waxpancake 17y ago
The levels are randomly generated, so don't bother memorizing them.
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by waxpancake 17y ago
Maybe! Email me.
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by waxpancake 17y ago
Kickstarter ( http://kickstarter.com/ ) is a crowdfunding startup focused on changing the way people raise money for creative projects. We're looking for two people, a full-time Rails developer and a visual designer/developer in NYC: http
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by waxpancake 17y ago
Related: BravoNation http://bravo.yahoo.com/ -- an experimental site launched by a very small team at Yahoo! in 2007. I wrote about it on Waxy, describing it as "a web-native equivalent of XBox Live's achievement system, abstracted to wor
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by waxpancake 18y ago
The talk was called Worst Website Ever, a competition between eight very smart people trying to invent their worst possible startup idea: http://waxy.org/2008/03/worst_website_e_1/ Needless to say, it was a blast. And thanks for the comp