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by zach 15y ago
So basically, Steve got a new Mercedes more often than I get new shoes. Now that's what I expect out of a multibillionaire. Good to see he at least kept himself in new-car smell on a regular basis, and certainly kept a local dealer quite ha
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by zach 15y ago
Users are delighted that Apple creates these little flourishes, the tiny details that add character and engagement to things like the iPhone. Many have noted and appreciated the focus that lead Steve Jobs and Jony Ive to spend ages designin
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by zach 15y ago
I think that's a very apt comparison. It's hard to overestimate how deeply personal Cars and Cars 2 are to John, but it's also hard to overstate how tricky they were to pull off. Sure, you can criticize Cars 2 for having a story that
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by zach 15y ago
Wow! Are we going to see a Cardpool machine at Safeway sometime in the near future?
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By comparison, John Lasseter has more power than anyone at Pixar. I think the situation could be similar. Now, sure, he has to commit to budgets and timeframes but if he really wants something you have to figure it's going to happen. And
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by zach 15y ago
One time when I was working at Luxoflux, the pizza guy remarked it must be great to work as a game developer and "play games all day." I had to hold my tongue or I would have replied that it must be great to work at a pizza place and eat pi
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by zach 15y ago
Here's a cached version since the Wordpress database has gone south: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:melanie... Just as true here as elsewhere: if you're not a customer, you're probably the product. Being someone els
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by zach 15y ago
So, let's say we have a turbine system that can be repeatedly deflated, moved, inflated and re-anchored. The next question is, can that process be done semi-autonomously? The big question would seem to be battery or power transmission tech
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by zach 15y ago
Wow, so cool. I made a cardboard video game when I was six so this gives me a warm feeling. It was based on the cocktail version of Galaga. I cut a hole in the top of a similar box and put two ships and an "explosion" on popsicle sticks.
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by zach 15y ago
When I worked at Sega in the console era, I found out that every console game was open to inspection by other developers in this way. Because they were all in assembly, if you were ever curious about how a character moved or how a graphics
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by zach 15y ago
The first thing to know about the crazy limitations of Atari 2600 development is this number: 128. That's how much RAM there was. That's 128 bytes. The entire in-memory program state was one eighth of a kilobyte. Then imagine everything
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by zach 15y ago
Man, this is an awesome contribution. ASCII art in the comments and everything. You clearly put a lot of work into this, dude. I gotta shake your hand, let me see, uh... Dirty McDingus? You know what, on second thought I'll just post a com
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by zach 15y ago
Siriously.com was also available the day of the announcement but now even the .net has been taken!
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by zach 15y ago
Although this makes his comments only viewable by comment-necrophiliacs like us and are unchallengeable by reply. It's like alnayyir is a zombie gadfly. Creepy.
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by zach 15y ago
A similarly fascinating and influential book for me (at age 10, mind you) was Out of the Inner Circle , a book whose cover featured the "computer intruder" author with a black box over his eyes. So as you might guess, it was very much fol
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by zach 15y ago
I was pretty happy with anywhere.fm myself. Great user interface for four years ago, they let me upload my entire music library and listen socially with others. I had fun checking out TLB's extensive music collection and finding other peo
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by zach 15y ago
410 Gone (but alive/annoyed) is the new 200 OK.
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by zach 15y ago
I am a huge fan of this line of thinking. I love your astronaut example which I hadn't heard before. Nor had I heard of Jones in the Fast Lane which is exactly the kind of game rarely seen today. I'm a career game programmer and web dev
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by zach 15y ago
A "let's gain empathy by playing being poor" game seems like a horrible idea overall. If it was a decent game and let you learn and succeed by smart choices, it would only give you a feeling of superiority to poor folks. If (as it does) it
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by zach 15y ago
It seems tautologous to say that innovation happens in innovative areas, but that seems to be the substance of the problem expressed in the premise. Not only does disruptive innovation not happen where we expect it to, it usually refuses to
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by zach 15y ago
Bug report: I somehow created a post which does not appear on my threads page: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3053559
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by zach 15y ago
Yikes, this was the original version of my post above (I love to re-edit) and now it's too late to delete it. HN was having some problems when I was posting it, which must be why it's not on my threads page. If an editor can delete it, tha
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by zach 15y ago
Startup rule #313: If you have to ask a reseller how much it costs, you can't afford it.
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by zach 15y ago
Thanks for bringing this topic up. This is a real and serious issue that isn't talked about much. But I should mention one more thing in greater detail, because it's crazy important. If there's one warning I would give to every potential
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by zach 15y ago
I see three contributing factors here. - Startup founders almost by definition have unreasonable ambition – a level of interest, motivation and excitement that exceeds their actual capacity. - The best people to work with on a project are v
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by zach 15y ago
- Startup founders almost by definition have unreasonable ambition -- a level of interest that exceeds their actual capacity. - The best people to work with on a project are very dedicated to their commitments and are placed in positions wh
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by zach 15y ago
- Small Kindle: $109 = £69.71 (without the US-only "special offers") - 20% VAT: £13.94 -------------- - Grand total: £83.65 - UK Amazon price: £89 Seems reasonable. I suppose 6.5% headroom is more than strictly necessary for exchange rate f
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Latest Video of Boston Dynamics' Dynamically Balancing Bipedal Robot, Petman(youtube.com)
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by zach 15y ago
Maybe 40 years from now we will know why eradicating something as obviously harmful as a mosquito can be problematic too. Well sure, we'll know why when the aliens feel free to blow up our planet after we kill all the mosquitoes they put
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by zach 15y ago
I think this was referring only to physical DVDs. That's where the recommendation system is most prominent due to the high opportunity cost in the movie-by-mail system. The Netflix Prize, awarded just two years ago, is so irrelevant to Netf

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