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Questions to help yourself take games more seriously

It's a suggestion. She is sharing an opinion. Nowhere does she cast judgement on how or why you're enjoying your games. She's proposing a way to get a little more intellectual stimulation from games, and you can take it or leave it. While I personally think the specific questions are a bit too broad and shallow, there's no reason for the possibility of an alternative mode of thought to be offend me.

Because somebody says "try doing X," does not mean she says "you are bad for not doing X."
All of that paperwork involves other parties and is not strictly necessary.

Your secured loan paperwork is just between you and the lender. The state has nothing to do with it. It might not exist.

Refund/credit after the sale? Like a warranty? I've never considered offering or requesting such a thing, but it would be ancillary to the sale, not required.

There's a federal (FHA) form to enumerate all of the costs, which is a required part of the paperwork. Numbers come from seller, lender, local tax authorities, etc.

All(?) states have disclosure requirements, though they vary greatly. I've seen four-inch thick binders of disclosure in San Francisco, to a few boilerplate sheets with checkboxes and initials in Boston (maybe the federal minimum?)

I agree that there is a lot of variation in the transaction process, mostly variable by state law. But that's a problem many businesses on the web have to navigate. It's a challenge, but not The Roadblock to modernization of the industry.
the 6% is for both sides (buyer/seller), so it's only 3% for the buyer's agent that you're talking about.

Still ridiculous.
Sorry to hear it didn't work out. I might just share two thoughts that occurred to me:

1. The site's tagline is "Sell your $h!t with Social Sales!" which I would think is kind of off-putting in the context of a vendor relationship

2. Your sales model appears to be in contrast to how supply and demand work. Your model is that as more buyers sign up, the per-unit price goes down. I understand your theory is this causes people to share it with their friends. But, people who are buying indie music not only don't want to screw the artist -- they're also not going to bother talking their friends into something just to save a nickel.

3. I think this would have made more sense for the artist if the price went up (slightly, like from $4 to $5) as sales went up, with the early people locking in their price.
Just put up a post that gives a complete breakdown of what went into it — https://creativemarket.com/blog/2013/04/12/how-we-built-a-ph...
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These forks are not caused by powerful miners. They are caused by miners mining 2 blocks almost at the same time. And the fork of March 14 was caused by a bug.
Hmm, that's a very interesting thought! It made me think: do you think judging literary vs. cognitive challenges could depend on the genre of the game? I would be pretty sad if Portal, for example, was judged only as a puzzle game. That was the idea that turned me off originally when someone described it to me. As soon as I got the story, though, I became interested, because I like to analyze.

Could it be possible that some games should be judged primarily by cognitive challenges, and others by both?

Or, could it be possible that we don't need to judge games at all? o_O

Sounds weird, but this is what I mean. I'm actually in the article never once talking about evaluating the merit of a game on an objective level. It's not about judging games so much as judging how we interact with them. I'm talking about on a personal level, how the game interacts with you, and whether you find value out of it. If you find value only through area MT, that's a thing, I guess. But what if we find other ways of connecting our brains to a game--since the game is affecting those other areas already? On some level, who really cares about the "literary" or "cognitive" value of the game? On some level, you and I don't really give a velociraptor's feathers either way what some arbitrary standard says about a game. We care about how the game affects us.

What do you think? I dunno, you're very societally-minded here, and that takes the article beyond what I'd originally intended. Neat! I'm not sure how we should "judge games," I guess! Just interested in how it gets my brain. ^_^
For tenure and societal benefit, yes. Was so for teaching though undergrad research can be a good experience.
Nowhere in the article (unless my reading skills have gone to pot...which is possible) did Rackspace propose destroying the patent system. They are talking about invalidating a particular patent, thereby de-clawing a particular troll.

It's also interesting that, in my nearly 20 years in the industry, I've never met anybody who actively bragged about their patents. I think there might be a little agism coming through in your comment...
The 12 year old I mentioned, always misused pronouns. Teachers, friends, and coworkers always approached him differently once he let out this trait. It became a worry/burden of curiosity to understand why this teenager would use incorrect pronouns. All the time, thought, and effort wasted on attempting to correct, blame, and criticize just because of "Me/We" instead of "I". What a waste. The teachers, friends and coworkers were all naturally abstract, but when something falls outside of the model of normal, then the child is breaking a concrete law that must be corrected immediately. Until then, no discourse cannot continue past the misuse of pronouns. They knew what the child was trying to communicate. /rant
There are already people who want control over their online lives today. What makes you think that slice of the population will grow significantly?

I don't predict the percentage of "technical" people (or rather, people with strong feelings about the issues behind the technologies they use) to ever really change. Most people are simply and unchangeably uninterested in DRM or locked bootloaders or data mining or closed source or how much technical privacy they have.
Indeed, they're quite wonderful and I'm very lucky :-)
Huge pain point!!!! Waste to much time resizing images.
Bitcoins Are Digital Collectibles, Not Real Money
Yes, exactly. This nails the fundamental problem with the street in my view: unlimited upside, limited downside. You risk everything and have a great year you are rolling in cash. You aim high and fail miserably you probably get fired and maybe even picked up at another bank. This doesn't even get started on the lack of criminal enforcement for fraud, etc. Right on.
Same here, and I plan to use it for my next technical presentation on Ruby DSLs.

Example: http://thirdtruck.org/everyday
imgur for videos? you get satisfaction in just a few seconds unlike every youtube link ever. wish people would send me reel surfer clips instead of nine minute youtube videos...
I used pine and alpine for a year or so, I liked it a lot.
First good link of the day, thanks.
Always interested in meeting smart people like you. Shoot me an email. I'm very into securities analysis.
Participate in the International Space Apps Challenge from Low Earth Orbit
You don't need to build more hardware than everyone else if you combine a denial of service attack at the same time. The block chain has already had issues, perhaps it will never happen again but don't assume it's impossible.
>Google’s job is to make sure the top results are the best results possible.

So all that AppGratis had to do was make sure the apps they promoted were not crappy. Review the submitted apps and factor in (genuine) votes by end-users. This way they would have added value to the ecosystem.

If Apple/Google banned such an app from their appstore, I would have been pissed.

But I understand. It is their marketplace. They make the rules. There is no free market and no democracy. Those were just ideals, long forgotten and never to be seen again.

I would continue typing and go into a rant on how the Appstore is a monopoly. But I know it isn't. And even an oligopoly doesn't make me happy.

(I haven't used AppGratis.)
"This location is on an active orbiting space station. Transportation costs are the responsibility of the participant unless you are an active-duty astronaut currently on-board the International Space Station." :-)
As an additional point to this, something I often don't see acknowledged is that ASICs have to be produced by chip fabs, which due to their nature are capital intensive and centralized, and hence relatively easy to bring under government control.

I guess that as a result, it'll always be possible for governments to get majority hashing power, by taking control of where the ASICs are produced.
Wow, just wow. Life hack for the win.
As for female vs male shoppers I'd disagree with that women make better shoppers. What I would agree on is that in America there are more women doing grocery shopping which means your odds of having a women deliverer do better is good. However I'd argue that in this case Exec just provides a more thorough service hence the extra cost.
My wife classically falls victim to marketing ploys and fancy packaging rather than getting the best deal. She often doesn't remember what supplies we already have at the house so I end up with a new bag of powdered sugar every holiday season.
Fast upload previews aka. yak shave #645
Lol that's why they're intended for before or after, or during conversation with friends. ^_^ During is a bit over the top. I think if I tried writing a paper during Supersmash my husband might reconsider our gaming relationship.

Although in Portal and Braid, the game's slow enough to allow for some thinking time...
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I remember a friend who was telling me that only reason this wall street thing works is because there are enough not-well-informed people who will continue to feed money into the market for other well informed people to profit from. It is about people being in a market that they know very little about in a hope of making some riches.
It's not about being lost, it's about not being able to read bigger threads.

The answer is no-thread.

I have yet to look at the features you provide, in detail; however, am I the only one who thinks that the word "moot" is the opposite of what you're trying to achieve? Why would anyone moot anything if they're trying to converse?

Also, your embedding option looks lot more similar to branch.com which I think is strugglig to make a space.
My sons often note that most people touting their "social skills" are not social like me. They are social in a competitive "Mean Girls" kind of way. The point is pecking order, not connection. A lot of that crap just royally pisses me off so much.
> I do wish more young smart people were focused on making things

Yep, I'm with you! Thanks for writing the article, I enjoyed reading it. We may have even walked by each other on the third floor at 745 7th ave at some point. Ha.
SSO is coming for you to be able to integrate into your authentication system.
The problem is looking at this case study in a vacum, ie. Pepsi spend millions on a social marketing campaign and it did not produce the expected ROI - so what? That is no more determinative of social media than say a company that runs a TV commercial that does not produce the expected ROI - in a vacuum no one would say that TV advertising is worthless.

We all know there are successful social marketing campaigns - so why shift the blame on social media and not those responsible for the failed Pepsi campaign?

Social media for businesses is not simply about marketing but offering people a way to directly interact with their favorite brands - which really has never been available until social media. For example, and in my opinion one of the most successful companies at using social media is the UFC, who first uses social media to interact with fans of the brand (they have bonuses for fighters who use twitter), second as a form of customer service (when people tweet their PPV went out, UFC responds in real-time sending service people out to fix the PPV); and lastly marketing/promotion is an after thought (don't miss tonight's fights #UFC) - probably not a whole lot of measurable ROI but no arguing it is immeasurably increasing brand loyalty.
This is why social media types say don't measure ROI, which is strange because online ROI is much easier to measure than traditional media advertising.
How is "regulation makes us less competitive" a straw man argument? If your Singaporean or European competitors operate under a set of different and less stringent rules, that wouldn't increase your costs to doing business (and in effect making you less competitive relative to foreign competitors)? Even the regulators know about the costs of Dodd-Frank.
The FORCE will get you funded and more
So what does the launderer gain for the risk of taking the loss/blame for the theft? Surely he must impose a healthy fee? Surely this fee would be negotiable based on the good provenance of the coins.

This currency is a money-tracker's dream.
It's true that you pay them and they send out a push message advertising your app as their daily deal to their users. I'm not sure if that's black hat, though. It's pretty standard marketing. You can pay amazon similarly to be on the front page of the amazon app store. I do think it is against app store guidelines all the same. Those are pretty clear you can't use push messages to promote other apps.
I feel like a lot of these points are more about just having tests rather than writing tests first. Also, I think some of these points only make sense if you already have a pretty good idea of what you are going to write. More specifically:

1. This may be the case but I don't think this requires that you write your tests up front just that you don't leave all of your testing until the very end

2. This is just about having tests

3. I don't really see why writing your tests up front would make them more complete unless you already know exactly what you want to build. I find that I often come up with most of my edge cases while I am writing the code.

4. In many cases, if you tests before you still don't know if your tests pass because of your code is good or because the test is bad. Many tests, up front, fail for very obvious reasons (such as the function you are testing simply doesn't exist yet). Just because they fail in the beginning doesn't mean they are good tests. What you actually want is mutation testing [1]. Testing up front is just a really crude version of this. I usually do mutation testing manually by removing the code I am trying to test, at the end, to ensure that my test fails if it is not there.

5. Again, just about having tests

Ultimately I think you want interactive testing development. Write some code, write some tests, repeat. The actual ordering of the first 2 steps needs to be decided on a case by case basis. Writing all of your tests up front can be awkward. Writing all of your tests at the end is sometimes nearly impossible.

[1] http://dev.theladders.com/2013/02/mutation-testing-with-pit-...
And fwiw, the percentage is at the seller's discretion, and the selling agent decides how to share it with the buyers agent (generally with agreement from the seller).

Both agents split the commission with their agency, so by the time it all percolates out, the agents get between 1 and 1.5% of the sale price. With that income, they pay for their local association membership, marketing, etc.

On some transactions, they do well for their time and money invested. On others, they do not.

Picky buyers will starve any agent. Seems like it'd be a smart move to only represent sellers.
Avalon didn't take 12 months to ship, and I know someone who claims to have one of them making money, so they appear to work. Why butterfly labs is so late, I dunno.

If someone with money wanted to build asics for a 51% attack, it's possible. I'm just not sure anyone with money wants to do it right now.
Man Steals iPhone...with CHOPSTICKS
>Why should retirement accounts get invested in anything but government bonds and index funds?

Step 1: Pension return rates get "set" during boom time highs.

Step 2: Boom times end, the pension fund is grossly under funded, and the manager needs to find ways to get excess return beyond what the typical fixed income and equity products can offer.

Step 3: Pension Managers reach for "alternative investments", hoping for higher returns that can offset lackluster market returns.
I have, but they're also 25. They're slightly sheepish about the number of patents that they hold, but only to a degree. It is still a point of pride as well.

I've also worked for a large telecom that had each and every patent granted at each office up on the wall so that you could see it as you walked in.
Sorry to submit yet another Bitcoin article, but this one turned out to be somewhat of a revelation for me. Thinking of bitcoins as digital collectibles seems a much better metaphor than thinking of them as money. Collectibles have a fixed supply, and their value depends on some concept that people are interested in. Consider e.g. Nazi memorabilia from WW2: fewer and fewer are discovered each year, the total supply is fixed, their value depends a lot on hobbyists' varying interest in WW2. Bitcoin is also unusual for a digital good in that it has a fixed supply, and its value depends a lot on enthusiasts who are interested in cryptocurrencies, fixed money supply etc.
As far as I am aware, there is no compulsory license in the United States patent system, so while patents aren't more restrictive of the _spread_ of technical knowledge, they certainly could prevent the _use_ of technical knowledge. So, like, what's the point? Seems like a lacking solution to the problem you propose.

Also, I am skeptical that guilds were historically the major impediment to the spread of technical knowledge. After all, once ideas are lodged in your mind, nobody can unlodge them, whether by force or persuasion, not even your own self.

I would look instead to the historically enormously high cost of travel and book printing. Since people and books are the carriers of ideas (historically, at least; now we have the Internet), this seems like a more direct explanation.
Does your company provide a managed OS to employees?
Does your company provide a managed OS to employees?
> But with CDN Connect’s automatic image re-encoding, this 52kb PNG shrunk to a 11kb WebP image. That’s a 78% size reduction! Just imagine this image was referenced on every page of your site, and you had handfuls of similar images to download. The potential bandwidth savings and performance improvements are enormous.

What utter garbage. Does CDN Connect want us to believe browsers don't cache images? Sure, that's a savings.. of about 41kb total. Not 41kb per page, just 41kb overall, because my browser's only going to download the image once.
Information you can't trust because the source is suspect is significantly less valuable. See: spamming on Yelp and Amazon reviews.
Ease Into Browser Based Design
Twitter Music Is Here Today, and You Can’t Use It
AppGratis sponsored content was marked as Sponsored on the screen advertising the app, or by being called "Discovery App of the Day" (vs. Deal).
o_O This made me think. I def don't know if I agree with everything about mind-slavery (doesn't literature manipulate our emotional selves, too?), but the concentration-studies idea really intrigues me. I have family with ADD, and as a distracted, impressionable person myself, I believe it would be nice for us all to be able to be more aware of the choices we make as gamers. I do think that's going to be more of a personal decision than a facet of the game, but the idea of a game that supports that kind of thinking--wow, you blew my mind!
I think saying that "your brain actively practices killing" is overstating it. It sure sounds good, but it's not even close to reality.

When you see visual stimulus, it causes your brain to simulate that in your mind but it's not true that your brain is "practicing" that behavior. When you see or hear someone playing guitar, the same effect is happening in your brain. That doesn't mean that you can watch Stevie Ray Vaughan play "Rude Mood" 20 times and then play it yourself. Likewise you aren't going to turn into a killer no matter how many hours you spend playing GTA4.

On top of that, I think approaching the issue by telling people "think before you play games" is condescending and ineffective. It's like articles that say "think before you eat." Nobody reads that and says "Oh you're right! I was a mindless eating machine before and now I'm going to be more thoughtful." They think "Who's this jerk telling me what to do? I'm getting a KFC Sadness Bowl with extra bacon!"

You are obviously free to write whatever articles you want, I just found this one a bit condescending and also based on a false premise. It was clearly well intentioned and thoughtful, so I'm not trying to insult you or make you feel bad just express my reaction.

EDIT:

Also I don't play multiplayer FPS of any kind much these days but when I fire up TF2 once in a while I usually play the Soldier because it's most like the old Quake 1 days of rocket battles.
Oracle doesn't sell software. They sell risk reduction. Someone to sue or blame.

Interesting. I've heard the exact same description for Red Hat.
You are absolutely right hence these forums are going to constantly suffer, or they'd be taken in by marketers trying to make a buck over filthy Ads. I don't think people can have serious discussions on such forum platforms who try to appeal to everyone equally.
I'm just wondering why you would allow a game to send notifications in the first place; you were given the choice on first run.
Really it just streamlines things and eliminates paperwork shuffles. If you have something they should see and they know you aren't a crank you just say hey, I have this event. If you are interested, send me admin subpoena. If they care, they do.

The entity handling this stuff seems to be DHS or FBI, not NSA, but they are all part of IC so the info should, in theory, be shared around.

My wild speculation is they are trying to gather logs to make a sort of national IDS to be more proactive in detecting APT.
If you are interested in reading further about BSP (Binary Space Partitioning) [1], check out the following chapters from Michael Abrash's Graphics Programming Black Book:

Chapter 59: The Idea of BSP Trees

http://downloads.gamedev.net/pdf/gpbb/gpbb59.pdf

Chapter 60: Compiling BSP Trees

http://downloads.gamedev.net/pdf/gpbb/gpbb60.pdf

Chapter 62: One Story, Two Rules, and a BSP Renderer

http://downloads.gamedev.net/pdf/gpbb/gpbb62.pdf

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_space_partitioning
I did, almost twice.

First time it was a home-grown layer on top of the DBMS (MS SQL Server at the time). After an investment we've got a requirement to switch to Oracle. We anticipated that (or something like it) when designing the system, so it went smoothly.

Second time it was using MySQL from Sun workstations, with the idea of eventually switching to Oracle. That's why "almost" - we knew about the requirement in advance, so we didn't create hard dependencies on MySQL. Yet we didn't constantly test our system vs. Oracle either.

Admittedly the latest of these happened more than 10 years ago.
You mean that guy that bought at $12?
I'm curious to see what obstacles are in the way of going full out into browser based design. Have you tried it?
Your use of "vandalize" is certainly too strong and calling people names generally shows a lack or argument. Yet (somewhat unexpectedly) you raise an interesting question, in your first two sentences: if you disagree with something (law/HN poll/etc) how far can you go before it becomes unacceptable? Your view would rule out all kinds of protests that interfere with the process that is being protested.

I think that is too wide a definition of unacceptable.