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Hi Everyone,

I've spent the last 5 months working on this game and would love some feedback from the HN community.

It's an massively multiplayer online turn based role-playing game based on a Harry Potter like theme.

For those techies out there, it's built with the following technologies:

- PhoneGap
- MongoDB
- Asp.net MVC
- IIS
- GitHub

I would love to know what you think about the:

- Artwork
- Landing Page
- Concept
- Playability

Thanks :)
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If there's one thing Amazon could use improvement on, is it's search results. Specifically, sorting them.

Seriously, I just tried it now. My complaints:

- Why do I have to pick a department to sort? (I can kind of understand this, but it's annoying)

- Why isn't shipping taken into account when I sort?

- Why are used and new prices mixed when sorting?

While I understand that Amazon can't read my mind, there are certain product categories (cell phone cases, for example) where it's like panning for gold. You need to spend a non-trivial amount of time digging for a quality case for a good price.

I don't have a solution, but it certainly feels harder than it needs to be. Searching on newegg.com feels so much better, but I suppose they have the advantage of having a very narrow focus.
Your consumption does cause them a loss, this fallacy needs to quit being repeated. You value the content enough to consume it, so it is not 'free'. Why is it everyone thinks music is exempt from payment when value is derived from it? You don't expect to get a pair of jeans for free just because they are too expensive to afford do you?

By this standard you will happily then give me your paycheck for this coming week correct? I believe the output of your work to have zero value, therefore your work entitles you to zero compensation. This is essentially your argument. Why would an artist want to produce music if they can't afford to pay their bills because you deem it your obligation to have their work for free?
There's got to be a better way

According to this TED talk from Dec 2010, there is:
http://www.ted.com/talks/deborah_rhodes.html

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Fwiw, you were perfectly clear. Anytime someone says "Facebook/Google/Awesome-Tech-Company-of-the-decade bought them as a talent acquisition", the obvious implication (and compliment) is that the talent is really talent. Don't know where this confusion is coming from.
Liquidation prefs really help with that. Founders get screwed, but then again at this point Gowalla is effectively a fancy body shop.
There's a reasonable and pragmatic expectation that a consumer is paying for an unlimited license to listen to whatever music they want (Spotify, Rhapsody, whatever). They are dealing with legacy devices by downloading tracks that work on those devices. In practice, this doesn't match the contracts that the unlimited streaming services have with the labels, but the nuance may be lost on customers who see this as simply "the music guys are trying to double-dip by making me pay twice when I'm already paying for an unlimited usage model".

Customer perception of dishonesty and corruption on the part of the music industry is... not new, and may well serve as justification there. Customer expectation that music is free (because radio is) and that recording songs off the radio (for old farts like me who used to do that as kids) is legit also plays a part of it.

Ultimately I suspect this amounts to "a ubiquitous celestial jukebox wins the consumer wallet", but we're not quite there yet.
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Exactly. We use Prime a lot, and for Google to convince us to switch, Google's gonna have to become a completely different company.

Aside from having a lot of stuff, aside from it all being at great prices, we also know that it's backed by a company with amazing, second-to-none customer service. I've had to call up Amazon just once, for some hard-to-find solderable fuses for a special client project. The first batch I ordered shipped on time but never showed up; the client needed the machine back the day after the fuses were due to arrive. I called up Amazon to see if I could arrange overnight delivery, and not only did they do that, but they didn't charge me anything for the shipping or for the second batch of fuses. They just asked me to ship back the first batch when it finally showed up, which I did, a few days later.

Google meanwhile has a pretty rough reputation when it comes to customer service. Their attitude seems to be that "customer service doesn't scale". I think Amazon pretty handily proves that wrong. I find it difficult to believe that Google is going to be the next Amazon -- they just don't "get" people.

There are a few companies that have my undying loyalty because they've gone out of their way to be great before some competition has forced them to. Amazon is one of those.
But then you can't accept any contributions, so you lose much of the benefit of the GPL, right? If there is going to be any community around the source, it will have to be a fork, and to you it will effectively be closed source since you can't relicense their code.
I'll second that. Gowalla was in Austin in name only. Zero presence at any events, no penetration of the startup networks. They moved to Austin from Dallas, I hear, at the behest of investors.
I'm not so sure I agree. I think it is saying "if you have to think hard, and can only come up with one counterexample, there is pretty much a rule"

It isn't for things like provable facts, it is for things like "only men win best director oscars". If you gotta dig to come up with a couple counterexamples the statement is pretty much right.
A client gave me an earful just yesterday because I recommended using Google Chrome instead of Internet Explorer; she felt like Google was "too big" and didn't trust them anymore. I tried explaining that Chrome was a safe product anyway, but she wasn't having it.

I don't think this is a widespread problem, but it might not be too far away.
The discussion was interesting especially when the founders of KISSmetrics & Mixpanel were in the startup hall at the same time.
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What settings do you use for:
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Do you tune them dynamically or just set and forget?
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How do you guys think about social commerce? There are several startups trying in this field. I personally think it would be something substantial but people just haven't found the right model and catalyst yet. Some of them seem good but they are just like small experiments not something substantial (like gangaroo.com and stucck.com, they are just some small tweaks from traditional reviews that every online shopping site has, and also what would the monetizing strategy be for these site?).
The good thing is, I don't wake up in a cold sweat not knowing if I'll get Techcrunch coverage today. I wake up knowing I've built a profitable business that can be big (probably not enormous) and more than provide for myself, my team, and our investors. The "lifestyle" business has somehow gotten a bad rap, but there's honestly nothing wrong with creating a sustainable company that makes everyone involved (users included) very happy.
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Investor sentiment is accurately reflected in the stock price. If investors were incorrectly letting short term thinking dominate their buy/sell activity, then a long term investor should be able to make higher-than-market investment returns by betting against those incorrect short term thinkers.

I don't see this happening, hence I don't buy the idea that investor sentiment is incorrectly biased towards short term thinking.

Consider Amazon again - its stock zoomed for many years after its IPO and despite losing vast sums every quarter and many predictions that it would never climb out of those losses. Obviously, investors were pricing the stock based on a very long term outlook (and were amply rewarded for their prescience).
Agree completely re: Newegg, and yet their lack of Prime and CA sales tax mean I never ever ever shop there anymore. The tax thing makes it a really unfair playing field and should be fixed.
I just try not to have odd nights... so far, the worst I did was going to bed at 0:30 - at that time after working 15 hours I was so tired, that I wasn't productive at all anyway, so I decided to call it a day
Not quite what you asked for, but related: StackParts.

http://stackparts.com/

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2993371
In this case, the "exception" is not an exception to the rule. It's an exception of the object to which the rule applies.

Let's say we have a rule that is said to be valid for all mammals. To prove the rule ("make it more likely" to be strict) we should check it for exceptional mammals like the whale (a huge mammal that lives in the water). When the rule applies for these cases, the rule is more likely to be true cause people that make rules tend to overlook exceptional/extreme cases.
I would appreciate if the person who voted this down could at least explain why this answer deserved it.
From what i understand ,in this effort , google only plans to be a search engine for companies who offer one-day shipping e-commerce.

I wonder if this is just google saying "get of my lawn" to amazon with regards to android.
I have a Kindle Touch, and honestly, every day I wish I got the non-touch.

Touch does not go well with e-Ink. The delayed responses are far more intuitively compatible with hardware keys. You can press, let go, and know what's going to happen. The tactile feedback makes up for the delayed UI response.

But with the Kindle Touch, I press.... and then I don't know if it registered or if it's just slow, so I press again and again. I think a lot of it has to do with the general sluggishness of the Touch models that the blog author mentioned - it's very, very noticeable. But the other part is just that at the end of the day, feedback is important. Either immediate visual feedback (a la iPhone, not Android - referring to how iPhone is programmed to "slide" on first touch whereas Android is programmed to give some room before switching screens) or immediate tactile feedback.
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I'm really excited for these things. Growing up (5-12yrs old), I had an old Commodore 64, hooked up to a small TV to play around with (so I wouldn't mess up something on the fancy 486 machine my dad used). The simplicity and lack of distractions (like flashy games) that machine had, made it easy for me to experiment and eventually learn how to program.

RasPi seems like that same 'old c64' experience I had, only better. I could give one of these things, with a keyboard and mouse to one of my younger relatives to play around with. They can tinker around with it all they want, without their parents worrying about them breaking something or loosing important files.
Loved the original article and the expansion in this post made it even better. Would you guys recommend any good books that cover JEE6 web services thoroughly? I'm an experienced java guy but have not dealt much with web services.
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Just curious to know, I am normal person or a mere mortal as you described.

How do I get hired without the normal Resume, Recruiter, HR, Interview process?
Probably you never talked to real finance technology guys.
More likely that human rights are more important than making money. GNU/Linux and its ecosystem has demonstrated that innovation is orthogonal.
I've noticed in the past that Google has special provisions for: Navigation, Autonomous Vehicle Control, or Enterprise Applications in the terms of use - http://code.google.com/apis/maps/terms.html - 10.2c.

Google has all the data to know the exact steps between the location of the product in inventory and the location of the doorstep of the customer. I could see them reducing cost of delivery in the following ways:

1. Using automated routing tools to allocate delivery resources in real-time. Currently, a human dispatcher can account for up to 35% of the cost of a same-day local delivery. Straight from an algorithm to a mobile phone is cheaper.

2. Using delivery contractors to collect video data to help build in the direction of an even richer google maps street view.

3. Eventually using autonomous vehicles to replace the human driver. I'm not saying this will happen any time soon, but I could see certain sections of city roads being approved for autonomous vehicle use in the next 3-5 years. Especially if google is pushing it while demonstrating safety. Paying a human driver can account for up to 60% of the cost of a same-day local delivery.

Also, there are some intangible aspects of having the relationship with a customer at their doorstep. Creates some advertising opportunities and gives nice contextual data about the customer.

Anyhow, being fairly familiar with the space I think Amazon and Google moving in this direction will really evolve online retail. More shipping options on products; more goods being shipped locally (for cheaper); more control over the delivery chain; visibility of exactly where your package is on the way to your house. That is the kind of innovation we can expect to see if google finds a way to leverage its data towards lower delivery cost.
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This seems to be true. Can anyone explain the downvotes?

According to Alexa, Digg is the 190th most popular site in the world. It shows traffic holding steady for the past few months. And clicking on the pageviews tab shows that pageviews have dropped over the last year+ but not extradramatically.
If the software is to have many users there tends to be a collective action problem in paying for it.
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Interestingly, when I was in college, 30 years ago, the writing and communications classes were well segregated from the literature classes. They were very hands on and you could pick your own topics or choose from a selection the teachers provided; I usually wrote on topics from my field of study. The courses were rigorous, often touching on linguistic theory in addition to grammar.

I had one teacher that was very clear that authors not only could, but should be willing to break any rule of grammar or style as needed. We'd often get assignments that included breaking rules that we'd previously studied.

The one bit of literature that I remember creeping in, other than a few of the other student's essays (we read our assignments out loud in front of the class every day), were a couple of Max Shulman short stories. The teacher had us read them because they both concerned logic, presentation, and literary writing styles. They were also funny as hell and I became a lifelong Shulman fan. I can't remember the titles, but they were both Dobie Gillis stories.

Later, when I took some of the literature courses, I was surprised by the lower quality of the teaching and the coursework. Totally different teaching staff and curriculum.

Edit: FWIW, in my high school, the literary classes and grammar/writing classes were also separate; although the same teachers taught both types of classes. I remember writing essays in the literature classes, but the writing classes usually had assigned topics that were not about literature. The literature essays were definitely more concerned with the topic of the stories we were reading, and not about learning to write.

This was all in the mid southern U.S., in the late '70s.
Really? Truly fascinating that he had that foresight, then.
Kyle, honest question, and feel free to ping me off HN with thoughts, but you raised some money from a few investors if I recall. How do you square knowing your business will "probably not be enormous" with expectations from your investors? I wondered at this when I heard Forrst took investment. I'm a huge fan of niche online communities, but don't see how they could be deserving of investment due to growth limitations.
Um, the 1-2 days for interviews (at least for google) were not contiguous.
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Companies don't tend to polish them, though. Sure we have a few polished/polishing games for their genres: Half Life, Team Fortress, League of Legends, WoW; but, many companies just rehash sequels to make more and more of the same game.
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For awhile there was this general sense that Google was doing a little bit of everything and getting involved in everyone else's business (the root of the "what if Google decided to enter this market" question).

However, lately they've been making the news for the products they're no longer focusing on (Wave, other Labs, etc.). Could it be that with things like the UI refresh, Google+ and a shipping service (and a host of other initiatives), they're attempting to connect more with people and put out a "human touch"?
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I don't use it, and prefer to host my own content. And because of that, my (non-techie) wife, who does read the posts that are conveniently collected and displayed to her in G+, doesn't read my blog.

You can talk about Reader and how she needs to set up another app and copy various URLs into it, but she's busy and lacking patience. G+ is a big red light on her Google search page; it's hard to not read.
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There are no even prime numbers, except for 2.
I love these, but I'm a bit crushed that there's no WiFi.

I notice that that's a reoccurring thing with hobby electronics. It has taken Arduino's a long time to get boards that support WiFi and they are quite expensive. (comparatively)

So I'm guessing there is some fundamental reason.. anybody know why? Does it have to do with getting licensed by the FCC or somesuch? Are the chips crazy expensive? It seems like the technology has been around long enough that it wouldn't be more than a dollar or two by now, but apparently that's not the case.

ECEs, spare a clue?
Using AWS is not just for its instances. S3 is a big factor. It's hard to replicate the S3 functionality in your own hosting without much more effort and cost. Granted that the AWS instances can be used more efficiently.
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You're able to apply via email if you don't wish to be logged in to the site. Each job has a unique email address such as careers+a2KA0000000LhWnMAK@facebook.com which is for tools engineering in New York.
I read somewhere that Jeff Bezos considers it a bug in Amazon's customer service system when a customer has to get in contact with them.

My impression of Google is that they feel the same way, but haven't figured out how to gracefully handle the errors those bugs cause, while Amazon has.

I've never needed Google or Amazon's customer service, though, so I'm basing my opinion on what I've heard from others.
And 2 is very odd.
Maybe all these companies have no other choice but to compete. If they had they would have found some way to prevent too much competition.

But the core of amazon, google and facebook is: gather all the consumers and their data , and market or sell them stuff.

And the other half of the business is: build marketplaces for vendors , be it books, physical products , ads , etc.But that's relatively easy[1], once you have the consumer side.

[1]for digital products, it's easy: if you have buyers, sellers will flock to your door and infrastructure is relatively easy.

For physical products you can build your own(amazon), you can partner with providers(current google effort) and you can partner with logistics provider(ebay). So even for physical products , it's not that difficult.
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I agree with you, but with so little facts up front, and with seeing the story was so twisted in the media, it's just the reality of how things happen in today's world. Buckle up and hold on, innocent later.