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by zipdog 16y ago
I've worked at two companies where the bonuses worked well, and both of them tied their bonuses to events: either getting code past a milestone, or sales of a product reachign a certain level (though this one was a little too delayed from t
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by zipdog 16y ago
Perhaps the idea is that the Google employees will suddenly feel compelled to get all their family and friends to use the social stuff, and they'll in turn bring in their friends, and that will be enough to tip it into mainstream usage
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by zipdog 16y ago
Yeah, Dwight really doesn't look good on that chart I hadn't considered color-blindness. That's something I'll have to look into. Thanks for your feedback :). I think you're right about the onmouseover... I've wondered whether a dropdown me
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by zipdog 16y ago
This is the first version of the site :). We're planning to redevelop to add more datasets, more sports, and different visualizations. If anyone has any suggestions, that would be greatly appreciated.
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Show HN: visualizing sports statistics(statseer.com)
5 points by zipdog 16y ago|3 comments
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by zipdog 16y ago
Before the internet, people were comfortable releasing small amounts of personal data - and so they still release small amounts of personal data (to a florist, into the garbage). One of the issues here is that a few of these pieces of data
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by zipdog 16y ago
This is a nice benefit of two companies competing asynchronously (each has a different core competency). The open source community gets the non-core competency of both. Now if only there was a company whose non-core competency was Google-st
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by zipdog 16y ago
I think the most crucial slide is #15: Growing through social. The integration of social pressures into the core game mechanic is a vital part (IMHO) of the growth of Zynga. If the Zynga games were stand-alone, their reach would be a tiny f
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by zipdog 16y ago
This link shows the Qs and Reed's responses: http://www.quora.com/Reed-Hastings I've always been impressed with Netflix's approach, doubly so after seeing their employee culture presentation: http://www.slideshare.net/reed2001/culture-17
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by zipdog 16y ago
It could be a clue about symbolic thinking, or it might be the result of the approach used. I've seen an approach where letter-shaped toys are handed out as toys, which provides a concrete object to associate to the letter. Children using t
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by zipdog 16y ago
That's rather close to a smbc comic: http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1777#c... (it was previously on Hacker News: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1093703 )
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by zipdog 16y ago
Is that the right link - it looks like a completely different issue
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Instant Messenger chats can modify legal contracts(techdirt.com)
1 points by zipdog 16y ago|3 comments
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by zipdog 16y ago
It looks nice. A couple of issues occur when using Opera 11 on Vista. The pieces are not centered on the square, they're about 5px up and left. And when pieces move they leave blue or green backing square artefacts for the next turn.
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by zipdog 16y ago
These examples might also be due to collaborative pressure. On Star Wars, Lucas worked with a great editor who could say no to him. Same for script on Empire. For the Star Wars films 1-3 Lucas had total control over everything.
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by zipdog 16y ago
> One day he proposed an idea to his boss When I was reading up on Twitter's history, I think Evan Williams had actually told all the staff to take some time (a day?) to come up with ideas for a new direction, and Dorsey suggested Twitt
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by zipdog 16y ago
I used to be Regularly, then went to Never for six months (taking too much time, decline in quality of links, annoying comments) but lately I check it for an hour on the weekend, which is long enough to get a vibe for the good links and tre
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by zipdog 16y ago
You're right, its more about landlord-tenant power imbalance, although the mechanic allows players to be in both roles at once
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by zipdog 16y ago
Maybe not attention but just trying to add a gizmo to sell the same lemon every year. It seems like every six months they bring out a new Monopoly :there was one with sewerage and skyscrapers recently, before that the ATM, and that's not in
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by zipdog 16y ago
In Settlers the catch-up mechanism is meant to be provided by the other players stopping trade with the leader. In the two-player version this is somewhat explicit (there's a trading cost to be winning)
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by zipdog 16y ago
I found that after a few games the group works out who is good at lying and just lynches them first no matter what - it's too risky having a good liar alive. Otherwise it's a great game.
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by zipdog 16y ago
Pandemic - co-operative yet challenging board game about trying to cure disease on a Risk-like board Scribblish - it's like pictionary but it doesn't matter how badly you draw and everyone is always involved Carcassonne (if the 'farmers' ru
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by zipdog 16y ago
An hour to acquire? The only properties that matter are closest to Free Parking or on the sides touching Free Parking. In the first few circles of the board, whoever gets a set there (or closest to it) has essentially won.
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by zipdog 16y ago
> I think you're probably reading to much into this. It's just a game. I don't think it's particularly promoting anything. The original game was purposefully designed to be anti-capitalist and in particular an attack on landlords who ex
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by zipdog 16y ago
If you're not motivated to provide suuport and it's not your dream project, I'd treat the opportunity more like a contract position: you're likely to be paid around $2k for doing a certain amount of work. If that's worth it for your time, t
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by zipdog 16y ago
Is this why Google developed BigTable? Have other companies developed their own BigTable-like solutions?
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by zipdog 16y ago
If the online game market that Zynga dominates continues to grow this shouldn't be surprising. EA and Activision are just not maneuverable enough to carve out the share that their IP and experience could potentially open to them. Chances ar
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by zipdog 16y ago
Watson's strength seems to emerge from using multiple contextual clue to find related information (from a large database of known info). So it might be really good at targeted advertising.
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by zipdog 16y ago
Too few high-ranking bureaucrats have a real understanding of technology. Until they learn or cede power to those that do this sort of news will become more commonplace. The problem is that the incentive just isn't there: a company with sen
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by zipdog 16y ago
This reminds me of the post about avoiding Ramen and Pizza while getting Ramen-profitable - take care of your body to keep your mind at its best

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