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If you pay for a game it should be available as a whole.
Cheat codes used to be quite ubiquitous back in the day, today you might even have to pay for some "DLC" to unlock the game to its full potential.
There are so many reasons why full play-through videos are a good thing.

1. You can learn from them if you are stuck. (A good game should always optionally hint you to what to do next.)

2. Platform exclusive games

3. Some people just don't have the time, motivation or simply the ability[1] to acquire the reactive skills needed to progress in a game, just to unlock the next cut scene. It's simply tiresome at some point. Especially story-heavy action games suffer from this.

Basically you know you will eventually beat this sequence anyway, if you put enough dedication into it, but on the other hand the reward of advancing is just not high enough to continue playing. So you stop playing, which is bad for the game, not you.

See Spec-Ops: The Line, Max Payne 3, Alice, Batman: Arkham Asylum,
all very good games but at some point just not worth you're time if you're tired of doing the same thing over and over again (mostly shooting people) and you basically just want to enjoy the story at some point.

A good example was L.A. Noire where one could skip the action sequences, sadly the story was kind of boring.

Maybe there could be some kind of "Big Brother" mode where you just hand over the action sequence to some reflex-superior AI which does the nasty stuff for you. Until then videos are simply the best thing. People just like to be passive at times.

It's OK to withhold achievements or other bragging rights from people who progress in that way,
but this way the storytelling aspect of single player games are accessible to way more people than they are right now,
which would ultimately result in a bigger exposure of those and better games for all.

[1] http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2012/08/03/ga...
" NuoDB is often lumped in with NewSQL databases, which he finds to be an oversimplification. ”SQL is just one personality for us. We can be NoSQL or SQL, the innovation we have is much deeper,” Morris said. He prefers to compare NuoDB to BitTorrent in the way it divvies up tasks to any number of processors — avoiding bottlenecks — but somehow managing to keep all that data organized, accessible and safe."

I've been waiting for something like this. NoSQL products took a look at the limitations of SQL DBMS products and (incorrectly) assumed that SQL was the problem. SQL may be a symptom of the problem, but the deeper problem is conflating the logical and physical data model in SQL-based DBMS and also in most NoSQL products. A "record" (however you define it) doesn't need to be mapped 1-to-1 with the physical bits on storage, but for some reason (probably because it's easier) virtually every product does so.

It doesn't matter what language you use to access your data, as long as the underlying DBMS operates on solid fundamental principles of data management (ACID, logical/physical orthogonality), you can have an innovative, pleasing-to-use system.

Very interested to see what these folks come up with.
This is crazy and creepy, but during weekends, one could possibly stalk out at malls looking for people discarding receipts. Pick it up and hurry towards them. When you accost them, mention in no unclear terms "Sir/Ma'am, with this receipt I'll be able to wipe your iDevice".

May not work any more though.
This is more about how boring most modern games are to play. Plots and quests are now standard, thanks to "game design" schools. Reuse of assets is common.

Most modern games are just not very fun to play. There's no challenge, because challenge is hard and makes playtesters quit. So let's hold hands.

And then you have the tutorials. Sometimes an entire game ends up as one big game tutorial. Most hardcore players would prefer a quick rundown of controls during a loading screen and then to be let loose and make mistakes. But no, first here's a 30 minute tutorial level you can't skip.
The subways I worked at in college had the full credit card number on the store duplicate that all the clerks were required to collect. We dropped a couple dropbags full of these little receipts into the safe at the end of the day.
This is a huge deal. Historically, about.com was an excellent reference, but with the advent of wikipedia and, in my opinion, the general decline in quality of about.com authorship, it was easy to ignore them.

Hopefully Answers.com can revitalize their unique editorial model, but I'm not really holding my breath.
Sadly I am serious. It helps to explain our 150%+ turnover rate at 34 months into a 60 month contract, but high turnover is good for profits.
Is it usually that easy to do in Ubuntu (or Linux) in general? I think customization using CSS is really great. Maybe we could discuss that?
I almost do not agree with anything you say in this article, and I'm not entering the details since most of them has already been commented here, but just a point I feel like missing: software IS bound to laws of physics and chemistry, because it runs on hardware, which is bound to such laws. Most of the time, when engineering software (which is NOT the same as coding/programming) you must take into account the hardware limitations, and on last instance, test that software on some hardware and do optimizations where needed.
This looks like a great concept- but I have to question the one time purchase price.

Right now, Burner is top of mind for me, but I don't have an immediate need to use the app. If it were free, I would gladly download it right now, and simply pay for a number whenever a use case arises.

As it stands now, I probably won't download the app, and when a potential use case does arise, who knows if I'll remember (and be able to download on the fly) this app.

Great concept, and love the rest of the pricing model built on Twilio. I just think the Burner team might be missing out on potential additional distribution.
I really hope square improves their reader. Practically every time I've used this system, as a customer, it seems to take a couple of tries before it actually recognizes the card. This may be okay for lower volume businesses, but for starbucks I could see this backing up lines.
It mattered for Microsoft. Once it had 90% market share, every other OS/platform became almost irrelevant in the consumer space.
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This involves a pretty dangerous assumption, which is that the current methods of monetizing phones are the only ones that matter -- and it sounds as though you're trying to make an even more unpleasant assumption, which is that wealthy people are the only people that matter.

This is Hacker News -- a site for people who set out to build things that don't exist yet. the ability to target 68% of the world's smartphone-using population seems pretty interesting to me. For example, consider an education platform, as Nicholas Negroponte attempted to with the OLPC project. Whether there's monetization or not, there might be an interesting opportunity there.

Open your mind a little. Not everything is about the profit-making horserace.
It's not unconscious. Win 8 first run has a separate step just about DNT. It is very much opt-in. The DNT step is ridiculously huge part (it's own screen and everything) of running Windows 8 for the first time. It's not a typical 'keep hitting next' experience.
I think you just made his point for him.

What makes games interesting as a storytelling medium is the degree of interactivity. If a game is heavily story-based but I can get all (or most) of the game's value just by watching a youtube video, is there really any benefit to it being a game, as opposed to a movie or TV miniseries or whatever?

Why not just use the game's engine to tell your story and release it as a made-for-youtube movie? Maybe with some clever narration a la the best let's play creators? I have no idea how the margins would be compared to a game, but if your game is going to bomb because everyone gets all the value just by watching some guy record himself playing it, you might as well be that guy.
Ahhh yes, tablizer. He is still around I see.
Agreed. Also, they missed the worst class of designer - the one who lives in Photoshop and doesn't do any build at all.

The biggest problem with these people tends to be irrational demands for pixel perfection, and the remedy (usually) is to explain that no real user will be comparing the site side-by-side in 3 different browsers.

Project managers often suffer from the same "where's the drop shadow?" problem.
I suspect he might change it again to spite his American tormentors. We might see "Kim LOL USA SUX" or "Kim Vote-Pirate-Party" in the news.
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I've just read a story recently about an American shooting a sales agent for "tresspassing"...so yeah.
That was my first thought on reading the description, but the screenshots give a very different impression.

It seems as though any game with crafting in it will bring on a Minecraft comparison.

The homepage is worth checking out for the Annoying Cockroach Edition - good way of potentially turning some pirates in to customers.
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> Reverse-sexism undermines and hurts the anti-sexist and female-friendly atmosphere that most of the tech community would like to foster.

It may be that the tech community would like to foster anti-sexism, but reality shows that it does anything but that. Also, reverse-sexism isn't a thing, there is just sexism (which men, as a gender, are largely not affected by).

> Gender discrimination and sexism need to be called out and stopped everywhere, but "crying wolf", without reason, weakens the very moral ground we purport to defend.

Soghoian's original paragraph about Norton's tweets are sexist as they don't add anything to his original blog post except to taint Norton as someone who is biased against men, which Norton's tweets don't even support. Soghoian knows his audience is primarily men and even if he didn't intend to show Norton in that light he sure did.
I get the content even with (or perhaps because of) noscript and ghostery in Firefox. I also get it in Private Mode on IE9.

Then again, I only access my gmail from it's own dedicated VM and noscript prevents GoogleApis and Analytics by default.

Do you think it possible that Google is requiring you to log in because it can identify you via typical tracking mechanisms?
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I wouldn't be surprised if the whole operation used a movie director (seeing how it was done on behalf of MPAA) as a "consultant" on how to make the biggest PR impact.
Google have their own problems with Youtube's aggressive Content ID system and pulling down of public domain NASA videos on the grounds of (wtf?) copyright infringement.
Interesting and ugly.
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I loved Starflight... is there a newer version or did you get the original? Where did you get it?

I think I have the original lying around (with the code wheel and everything.. I feel old).
I can't take designers seriously when they use a font with that such an unreadable "I", and input boxes big enough to park a truck in. Get the basics right when you make proposals that are supposed to represent your skills and vision. There are too many cute ideas in this redesign like the upside-down "w" for "meta" and the LSD spiderweb logo.

Do the colours indicate language or specific wiki? Can't have both, sorry.

The designers have huge problems with proportion both typographically and in their whitespace. Even if they are just mock-ups, they can use some more care.
Kim Nohollywood?

Kim Unamerican?
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This statement makes no sense to me. "Being sexist" encompases an absolutely huge range of behaviors. It could mean something as small as making a dumb assumption about what type of aesthetic preferences someone has, to something as large as making hiring decisions that can permanently stunt someone's career growth. It could even mean promulgating laws that legitimize violence against people.

Sexism is thus a category of bad behaviors, some of which are worse than anything I could imagine stemming from being accused of sexism. I am not saying that being falsely accused of sexism is nothing. It certainly would make me angry and frustrated to be so attacked. I just think false accusation of sexism is worse than the least severe forms of sexist behavior, and better than the most severe forms of sexists behavior.

Asserting that false accusations of sexism are always worse than sexism seems obviously false.
Given how long it had been since an iGoogle refresh, it's probably fair to say that other than someone keeping the lights on, there is no iGoogle team.
It'd be interesting if this was VOIP. Then you'd be able to get a temporary (or pseudo-permanent) U.S. number from outside the U.S.
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The reason people say silly things like this is that "software design" is used for slightly the wrong thing. What is called a "design" in software is much closer to a relatively low level specification in physical manufacturing, while a completed mechanical design can just be handed to a factory for production, and is much closer to source code for software.
I'm not sure these pages really offer evidence one way or the other, but I do agree my anecdote shouldn't be taken as gospel.

Regarding your second link specifically I know lots of folks who stick to using LTE on their Android devices instead of their wifi because LTE is often faster than their home internet, so I'm not sure that showing Android phones are less likely to use WiFi really means anything.
just to show off the power of customization in Ubuntu (or Linux in general)?

The GNOME-shell can be customized to behave like GNOME-2 to an extent. It might be interesting to see how far can we go...
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it presented “excessive perspiration” as an embarrassing medical ailment in need of a remedy.

I think the condition of "halitosis" was similarly invented.
I thought about this as soon as I saw the keynote for Google Now. The visual elements of Google Now would really work well in a multicolumn layout in the browser. That would be one of the best home page experiences imaginable.

The only thing I'm wondering about is how aware could it be as far as location/traffic goes. I wonder if it would have to pull from the data collected on an Android phone or tablet to be truly predictive.
I'm taking to calling it W8 -- pronounced "wait". Whether that is until service pack 1, or Windows 9, we'll have to see.
Ah, then they have no idea if what they are describing is even remotely possible given the constraints imposed by Wikimedia.
Making a theme/skin for Wikimedia is quite a task, actually.
Here's why the comments from any post are almost always negative. People generally read posts with a judgmental/critical eye, like they are better than the poster/author, which they are not. (will someone from the comments come up with a design that's better than the original post? NO, NOBODY WILL because the people critiquing aren't better, they are just pontificating for ego boosts)

They are looking for flaws purposely to devalue the post. This boosts their ego and convinces them that they actually have some design skill. It feeds their insecurity. There is no humility here. Everyone comes from a place of either jealousy or egotism. But this is american culture. In Asian cultures, people are much more humble. Here people are insecure so when they see something that threatens them to evaluate their skills, they attack.
Sorry but is that an exaggeration, or is it really possible to have that many tabs open in firefox at the same time?
At first this sounds a little like indentured servitude. That too, solved some problems of its time. A little weird though, the concept.
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I love it when the creators of complex systems use common and well-understood formats for configuration. The use of CSS for styling your window manager is genius and really speaks to their dedication to the project.
Smartphones made technology a ubiquitous part of our lives. Google glass will make them part of our body. This is the next step.
You're right, that's description fail right there. I had a few characters left over, so how about:

You land on a deserted island. Survive the elements, build shelter, craft tools, explore the environment. Find your way home. Not Minecraft.
the customization is ugly?
I felt it was the complete opposite. The wiki redesigners were showing an incredible amount of arrogance and know-it-allism with their redesign. I was just dripping out of their poorly thought out, americentric, hover-over design. Just look at the way they designed for I's.
So according to the story's only named sources, the co-founders of Fluent, the reason Fluent failed was because it was so breathtakingly ambitious that it scared lily-livered investors away; but don't worry, kids, the founders had so much integrity they turned away multiple acqui-hire offers from "other red-hot Valley startups." (Which aren't named, but trust them, they were red hot.)

Note to journalists: it makes a better story if you also talk to people other than the subjects of the story before hitting Publish.
"Does this mean that drawing blueprints for the bridge is not engineering? What about working a crane? Laying brick? Sealing pavement? Sweeping the bridge?"

Yes. None of these items, strictly speaking, qualify as Engineering work for purposes of licensing. If you are applying for an Engineering license, you will need to subtract these hours from your Engineering experience, and if a large portion of your day-to-day work consists of these tasks, then it may take you significantly longer to obtain your license.

It took me six years rather than the usual four to get my license as a result. Lunch doesn't count. Facebook doesn't count. Filling out expense reports doesn't count. Re-filling the paper in the printer doesn't count. Soldering doesn't count. There are a large amount of necessary non-Engineering distractions in any career, and none of these count.
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I have a G+ account. I don't surf "logged in." A login is not required for me to view the content. I suspect this is because surfing "not logged in" is not the starting point for improving my surfing experiences. The starting point is noscript.
They had grounds to destroy Megaupload properly, law enforcement agencies (and governments) loose a lot of credibility when they ignore the law, especially when they are not doing anything time-critical.
Indeed, iGoogle is on its way out, another "more wood/fewer arrows" casualty:
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2012/07/igoogle-will-be-dis...
LOVE this idea. actually thought of something like this a few months back, but never got around to doing anything on this.
you should post what the costs are for numbers etc.
This is a brilliant idea. I had this exact same one myself a few months ago and never moved forward with it because I had no clue how to execute it properly. Without having installed the app, from the way it's described it sounds like Burner nailed it. Well done guys. I really hope this gets ported to Android so I can use it myself.
I'm in a city without LTE yet for this carrier, so that isn't it. Haven't installed any apps that should be background intensive either. I used to stream music all day from the iTunes match and still have more battery than what I have just listening to previously downloaded music.
do this in germany and you go to prison. usa still has the most liberal freedom of speech laws.
I hate to plug a book that I'm only 20% of the way in, but everyone here who is designing/selling a product would get a real kick out of Charles Duhigg's "The Power of Habit"

http://www.amazon.com/The-Power-Habit-Business-ebook/dp/B005...

(Duhigg is a NYT writer and that piece about how Target knew that a girl was pregnant before her father did was an excerpt from this book)

When I saw the HN headline I thought it might be referring to Febreze, a product that Duhigg devotes a chapter to. The sales strategy wasn't about convincing people that they stunk, but pitching Febreze as a product that you used after you cleaned a room, to associate it with the "reward" of a clean room.

Duhigg's book also touches on how Pepsodent became a breakthrough product partly because an ad-man convinced Americans they needed to battle the film that naturally covers their teeth.
I dont always use linux, but when i do i want it to look like something from the matrix
So the metric that matters in the web server market is that Microsoft is killing Apache, Nginx by taking a huge percentage of the profits with IIS? It's funny how pereception can be manipulated when you have a bunch of influential bloggers pushing an agenda and talking about statistics that fit their slant.
You had me riveted the entire time, and I was so disappointed at the end to realize that this was just a concept.

To any brilliant developers out there with some free time: I would pay $5 for this firefox plugin.
This is akin to a philosophy professor walking into a hospital and saying "I'm a doctor."

The actuality; the professor is correct. The circumstances of the situation just make for misunderstanding and an apparent disrespect for the medical doctors walking around, from the perspective of the medical doctors.

edit: changed the wording
My perspective:

It's $2.00. I'll probably use it at some near-future unpredictable time. Between now and then I'll probably also spend $50 at Starbucks and $100 at the bar.

$2.00 is not a considered purchase.
> Instead, most people’s solution to body odor was to wash regularly and then to overwhelm any emerging stink with perfume.

Doesn't sound like they had to convince anyone they smelled bad, just that there was a new, more effective way to prevent it.

edit: My bad, read on and actually to an extent the headline is correct, so I withdraw my complaint.
I hope you can think of better examples.

I hadn't seen the post you mentioned, but the whole thing was so dripping in arrogance and a complete disdain for Wikipedia and its international users and contributors it is begging to get panned.

Basically, it is the original post that is not constructive to the point of being hostile. There is very little "polite" about it.

Maybe it should have been ignored rather than reacted to, but this kind of thing would provoke a negative response anywhere.

Also, I suspect the whole scenario of arrogant designers presenting a design that completely ignores the needs and identity of the client and the audience, interspersed with arrogant statement declaring their own superiority is not entirely unfamiliar to many here. At least my first reaction was "oh great, that again".

This is not a way to start an friendly open discussion or get constructive criticism. It's a provocation, which is also a perfectly valid way to start a debate, but it does set the tone.
Really sad about this. It's such a slippery slope.
How did you design for this?

I thought you might be using caller ID, so the number is only relevant to people with a specified phone number. (Similar to how Rebtel works.) But it doesn't seem to be the case here, as I think numbers can be shown publicly.
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