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RUB – THE ANSWER TO FLAPPY BIRDS
Here at LPG games we have created a truly revolutionary game which is the true answer to Flappy Birds!!!

Several months ago we were having some fun in helping our friends to overcome the flappy birds obsession. The frustration with the game kept on growing and we decided to come up with a nerve-calming, easygoing, and stress relieving app. We believed that this is exactly what the people needed and have created a very simple game called RUB in order for our friend to calm down after playing the complex but nervous and frustrating games.

The idea was very simple, just rub the screen of your iPhone and try to get the highest score among peers. Hey, we were just having fun and nothing more!! But surprisingly enough, that simple idea proved to be very fun as we got more than 2500 downloads the first week. The feedback from our friends was that our RUB game was good for stress relief and had a soothing effect after playing other extremely complex and nervous games.

But, then we decided that it could be more than that, that it could not only be good for stress relief but also great fun by adding one of the most important features – global leaderboards! Yes! By adding this feature we gave users around the world to put their nicknames on the global map just by performing a simple, easy, relaxing and perhaps even stupid action – RUBBING the screen!

Yes, and as simple as it looks, it just might be as revolutionary as well! Can you think of any other game that is more simple and more fun than RU? We don’t think so!

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/rub/id697927329?mt=8

Truly Yours,

RUB Team.
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"So you're willing to do your work on a donation-only basis then?"

I don't see why anyone wouldn't be, provided the donations were sufficient. Of course, that is unfortunately unlikely to be the case with the current setup for a number of reasons.
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> There were already abundant answers to the problems that Marx was witnessing

No, there weren't then and there aren't now. And, the answers that were later adopted, in the US and the rest of the developed West, to partially mitigate the problems Marx was witnessing were, in large part, a subset of those Marx and Engels recommended in the Communist Manifesto as first steps. (And the Enlightenment preceded the development of the economic system that Marx was criticizing -- and contributed to it -- it didn't solve it.)
Apologies; I fat-fingered the down button when I meant to +1 your comment. Might someone reading along at home please help remedy that for me?
He says he doesn't like "alpha males" because he believes that code for "type of person is an inexcusable justification for being an asshole". Then he goes through with the rest of the interview and realizes "How could I just sit there and not say anything?".

An alpha male[1] would have stopped the interview right there. Expressed his displeasure that the CEO could even think such a thing, particularly since he was running a company with products for women, and further speculated on how appalled he is that the CEO would then utter such non-sense[2]. Get up and walk the heck away.

Defend your damn convictions, when the need defending. Not is some whiny blog post afterwards.

1) or an alpha female, although they wouldn't have got an interview and no one is that stupid to say those things if they did to them (right?!?)

2) my Dad's favorite saying when his sons did something foolish as youths was "I am amazed and appalled. Amazed you though up such a thing and appalled you did it."
Mozilla is working on it :)
http://mozilla.github.io/shumway/
5 GB is about one or two hours at not-unusually-high speeds. You can probably start and run the game with much less assets. Having the assets available at multiple quality levels -- chances are that's the case already -- would shave off more time. And by the sound of it, 60% of your computer is still about as fast as the just-launched console generation.

Not big issues, I think. The big issue is having a robust ecosystem for all the things like networking, input handling, sound and video.
Most games these days (with a few exceptions) are GPU bound. Battlefield, Far Cry, Assassins Creed, etc are all GPU bound. You can't get away with a completely awful CPU but you don't need a great one for these. For other games, like Starcraft, or Kerbal Space Program, the GPU isn't your limiting factor, but your CPU's performance. Skyrim, for example, will perform vastly different with the same graphics card with different CPUs. For many games the anemic CPU performance won't matter, at least not very much.
Can you please add 1000-2000wpm? 950 is too slow. Honestly, please.
They are even giving you money back. Awesome
That certainly works too, but I don't think you need to be corrupt to go that route.
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kudos man, your creativity is impressive, good work.
I think that analysis only holds for people who want the whole package and aren't in a hurry.

If you're shifting to a demand-driven system, then pieces aren't needed equally. A numerically even piece distribution isn't what the swarm most needs. Indeed, I start watching things on Netflix that I never finish, so having more people with early pieces of something would better mirror actual demand for them.

I'm sure that plenty of people in the Bittorrent community are worried about change, but plenty of people in every community are worried about change. Until I see some math or some simulations demonstrating that this can't work, I won't be persuaded that there's an actual problem beyond the (reasonable and legitimate) fear of change.
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I have family from the South that pronounce the "l". They also say "ChiCARgo" instead of Chicago.
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Maybe - I actually don't think it's very interesting, because I doubt "women" are the deciding factor. It seems more likely to me that women prefer certain types businesses, that for random chance did well in recent years (ie Social Networks vs mining or car manufacturing).

I dug up one of those papers, by Credit Suisse, and it was exactly as I thought: counting from 2006 onwards women led companies performed better than others. But if women were the factor, why didn't that effect show before 2006? (Not sure if it was exactly 2006, but some recent year). It's well known that if you are allowed to pick the time frame, you can make any investment look good ("if you bought stock x in year y, you would have tripled your investment in 10 years" - but you would have lost everything in year 11...).
Thanks for explaining to me the error of my ways.
believe it or not, 'jk' is actually faster as you don't wait for the 'j' key to travel back up. You get so used to it though, you get upset when it's not there by default. I find it's one of the first things I do when I open vim on another machine.
Oh, my argument is that corruption (by other people) causes innocent/good people to be poor, and then other people who are self-interested (at least) and potentially altruistic can help those poor people.

Although generally my preferred form of helping would involve the corrupt people and some rope; much more efficient.
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> Imagine a society in which the state doesn't feel the urge to "structure society" at all...

Sounds great! So, who is going to build the roads, schools, hospitals, water sanitation, power plants, transportation, and ensure their upkeep and performance without conflicts of interest? Who is going to decide whether you can hire private armies to enforce your will or not? Who is going to make sure that those with power are held accountable to those without?

Please share your thoughts.
The minute you take away the natural freedom of the big strong man to beat the nerd to death and take all his stuff, you're "structuring" society. After that, you're just arguing about what sort of structure you prefer.

As one of those nerds, I'm happy for the state to structure society in a way where my ability to do things with my brain matters than my ability to fight or lead people in fighting. But its foolish to believe that this structure is the natural order of things.
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If you look at the browser makers who primarily target operating systems other than their own (Safari doesn't count, as Safari for Windows is mainly a developer tool, not a product; and Opera doesn't count, as it's now based on Chrome, rather than being its own), they're pushing heavily for the browser to be the userspace, both in terms of shipping an OS based around their browsers (ChromeOS/FirefoxOS) and shipping apps to current OSes using their browsers rather than native code.

This demo may focus on the high-end graphics, but I doubt that's the reason anyone is investing effort into this. Mozilla wants cross-platform mobile games on Firefox OS, and Epic (I'm guessing) wants to be able to run games on Firefox OS/Chrome OS/Sailfish/Tizen/Ubuntu Touch/flavor-of-the-month that supports HTML 5, as a long-term hedging of bets. Not all of those explicitly support asm.js, but Chrome is going to get better at supporting asm.js even if it never gets to feature parity with Firefox, and the non-iOS world is likely to be running a derivative of Chrome or Firefox.
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I’m the creator of Acceleread, which is a reading trainer app for iOS. http://www.acceleread.com

Your point about comprehension is super important and often gets overlooked, so I wanted to add my 2 cents.

While the RSVP method seems to being used as a proxy for all things speed reading, it’s really only one part of the picture. RSVP is definitely faster (because eye movements take time) and particularly good for people with learning disabilities like dyslexia (because the tool isolate words), but there are trade-offs.

For one, saccades (the normal eye movements you make while reading) give your mind time to process the information. You need that. Secondly, RSVP tends to lead to repetition blindness, so you can miss repeated words, which changes your understanding. Also, people tend to zone out after a while of staring at one point. All of these aspects underpin overall comprehension and show where RSVP falls short. Where RSVP shines is for short bursts of text (as the article states) and also for learning to read words in groups rather than individually, which is really really useful.

But back to my original point, speed reading isn’t just RSVP. It’s a collection of techniques that together help you read more effectively. Honestly, it probably shouldn’t be called “speed reading” at all - it’s what naturally strong readers already do. You solve for speed, comprehension and retention.

You start with the mechanics (learning to read words in groups, strengthening eye muscles, improving concentration etc) so that you aren’t getting hung up on bad habits, and then assess how well you understand and remember content. In fact, when you learn to read in this way, you don’t even need the tools like RSVP and moving highlighters. Yes, they are useful training wheels, but you’ll already read that way anyway. You also won’t be tied to one service or medium.

Believe me, I find the hyped-up, late-night infomercial, eat-cake-get-thin approach really off-putting too, in fact it’s one of the reasons I made Acceleread in the first place, but don’t throw the baby out with the bath water.
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What 'bout making it simpler and instead of colorizing nouns you colorize a horizontal gradient like http://www.beelinereader.com/
"I am sorry '2048' users, 22 hours from now, I will take '2048' down. I cannot take this anymore."

Note: shameless parody plagarism, (original: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7386459), but this thread has 20x points.
No disrespect to you, but I'm gonna have to go with Seeless on this one. I don't see any added value to what already exists. There's really no friction to finding topic-driven conversations on Twitter. If you want to jump into a topic just search for relevant hashtags.

I applaud the effort, but I think this is an example of fixing a problem that doesn't exist. Keep trying though!
Why is your blog in all caps. Too hard to read -_-
Were our ancestors' lives miserable because they didn't have Snapchat and gadgets?

Now I have to admit to owning some gadgets myself, but few of these would I consider crucial to my existence, emotional or not. Very very few of them have any impact on my daily life. And if I could choose to have fewer gadgets but more free time (with less spent on doing things I consider meaningless), I would do so. It would be nicer still if the people around me could make the same choice.

I would argue that our emotional existence could improve if it wasn't a necessity to sell it to each other. It's a cultural and social thing, something you can do in your free time.
I literally LOL'd at the "yeeeeaahhh" upon level completion.
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That's what I meant. I've done open source work on a donation-only basis before. I ended up with stuff that was used by tens of thousands of people and ended up earning the cost of a pizza and a six pack. You can't make a living in sub-Saharan Africa off that kind of economics.

There have been artists that have made money off donations before -- Trent Reznor and Radiohead come to mind -- but these are huge artists. If they release something on a donation basis and 0.00001% of people donate, they do pretty well. Only a tiny fraction of the top 1% of artists can do this.
I believe that clear and well understood problems with expensive failures actually exist, but are rare enough that the lessons there aren't really instructive for the vast majority of professional software developers.

Some people have to do underwater welding, but the methodologies there aren't appropriate for building cabinets, even though they are both types of construction.
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> It's a privilege granted by the government.

Property is a privilege protected by government to exclude other people from some set of actions with regard to some particular subject matter. Sure, that's true of copyright and other intellectual property, and intangible personal property more generally, but its equally true of tangible personal property and real property, as well.

> Without the government close by, individuals or businesses would not have the power to enforce whatever it is they're trying to protect.

That's true of pretty much all property but the smallest stores of tangible personal property.

> In a truly free market, copyright would not exist.

The definition of a "truly free market" is generally underspecified and seems to adapt to whatever is convenient to a "free market" advocates current argumentative position.
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Last month, they published a New User's Guide: http://blog.beeminder.com/newbees/ .
This is really an argument against higher-level languages in general. A complex program written in a lower-level language will certainly be more explicit, and because of that many individual lines will be easier to read. "INC EAX" is as readable as it gets, by that standard. But what you correctly call the gestalt of the system is precisely what won't be easier to see, because you have so much more code to work through. The idea that a system becomes easier to understand when its codebase is much larger is absurd. One major reason for making a system smaller is that its design becomes more accessible, and so in turn does the meaning of its parts.

In my experience, the kind of language hacking that goes on in Lisp systems is not as you describe it. Rather, it's akin to what any programmer does when extracting duplicate code into a function. A better word for this than "DSL" is "factoring"; Lisp's strength is that it offers a simple and powerful way of factoring that is harder in other languages.

I can't comment on Smalltalk, except to say that the way you've lumped it in with Lisp makes your argument weaker. Those two languages achieve their flexibility in such different ways.
Economic theory would suggest a limit on this effect with regards to hiring.
This sounds like snark but I'm being honest, I imagine large groups of people working to structure societies.
Why is there no Harry Potter MMO yet?
... I mean anyone can see the awesome story would lead to an awesome game, why is it not done yet?
What does it mean when a project publishes it's source but doesn't list a license? Does that mean that it is essentially copy-write of the owner completely? Is there an implied license by sharing the source on GitHub?
I'm completely comfortable having a set of conversational values different from yours. I want people to engage critically with the meanings of people's utterances, whereas you are content to let them proceed rhetorically by exploiting on equivocations of the definitions of the words in the sentences.

Also, it seems to me that you're only against explicit shaming, as your closing remarks, situating my behavior as worse than the disease, is obviously, if impotently, meant to shame me implicitly. I hear your criticism, and I want to make very clear to you that I reject it on its schoolmarmy face.

That said, I hope your involvement in discussion on HN develops into something that interests me and other interesting people here, despite the lack of promise shown so far. Thank you for the downvote!
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>because you cannot change your genes by reading the writings of religious leaders.

Well, you most certainly can change your mind by reading writings, and that is the most important aspect of every human being, worth investigating further .. at all costs.
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ya, let's have some software gather data about every single detail of your life. Nobody is going to take advantage of that information, right?

I don't know about you, but the way I understand more about my life is by reflecting and thinking, not by knowing how many steps I climbed or tracks of music I played.
And I'd love to hear your thoughts. Do you think this is better than shoving everything into the view controller?
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meh, I think you generalize a lot here. There are people who are very comfortably reading at 1000wpm and beyond and keep all of the story in the mind. Some people can even accurately repeat the sped read texts. There are more people who can do that, than you may think.

Personally I would NOT YET read a real book this way, for one reason: I cannot keep a person's name in memory well enough and would mix up roles and who said what. Even though I very rarely read romans (mostly publications) you can imagine how often you hear names in a text. But that's maybe just me, idk.

I guess you would feel embarrassed, if you couldn't like me keep persons names in association with their faces well enough. Example: 100-200 persons you meet every day and you remember 50names at most and that's only because you know them very well. You have to say 'hi' to all the others you just can't remember the name of. Luckily I don't mix up faces that much up anymore. Recently I met a girl whose name I simply couldn't recall although I've seen her 100s of times. Anyway she reminded me that I already have her in my phone-book, so yeah I'll try to keep it memorized.
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I tried using it on a github wiki page, and it broke because github wouldn't load the external javascript. So I copied the text and made a local html file. That didn't work because of these errors:

Failed to load resource: net::ERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND file://www.squirt.io/bm/font-awesome.css
Failed to load resource: net::ERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND file://www.squirt.io/bm/squirt.css
62 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'style' of null squirt.js:10
48 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'style' of null
I think he made some really good and instructive points though, these are really relevant if you want to get better at game design. But I also agree that you have to look at this game as a demo and not expect it to be perfect in any way besides being a nice showcase of what you can achieve in just a week.

I'm impressed by what I've seen on lessmilk up to now by the way. Not in terms of coding (all of these games are almost trivial to implement), but all the more by the thoughtful game design that went in of them. Literally all of the 9 games so far have been fun to play, if only for a few minutes. I think it's much harder to come up with a new game concept every week, no matter how simple it is, and executing on it, than it is to actually do the coding to implement it. So thumbs up for that!
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Thanks for posting `sehrattracktive`. Funny name btw..

I also want to thank everyone who checked it out and gave some thoughts on it.

Here are some invites for you guys: http://chilledlime.com/url/e.php?inv=80505e
Only the blog title should be in caps. Are you seeing the whole thing in caps?
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Did you stop reading the comment at 'I stopped reading this when X ...'?

Meta irony!
So if I understand this correctly, it is more of a convenient way to copy (and update) another repository into another one, instead of being a reference to another repository.

To respond to the comment about this being useful for private keys: if this is the case, does this also mean unauthorized users will not be able to checkout the submodule at all? Or will they just get a copy of the files (which would not make sense with private keys).
I do not think government can take away citizen's liberties just because it wants to make government's life simple. This is even more applicable to the weaker sections of the society because they are far more vulnerable. I am sure government can be more creative to come up with better enforceable laws in these cases. It is not in the interest of both tenant and landlord to frequently find themselves visiting a court. They are likely to come up with their own settlement in most cases.

Also there is an opportunity cost involved here. How much resources are spent directly or indirectly by both city administration and other citizens for homeless people and any problems they create ? How much potential revenue in taxes is City losing because such units are not legal ?
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How about making the entire text a single line, that scrolls right to left, like a marquee.

With a red marker, like here to mark a single fixed position on screen that the marquee text slides through to guide the eye.

This method would allow processing of local words for context rather than flashing single words.
I can't find the exchange rate they use. It always makes me nervous when that isn't clearly shown.
Mt. Gox died, yet Bitcoin didn't.
It occurred to me just now that Mt. Gox would have probably been classified by a government as "too big to fail" and been issued a bailout. Yet Mt. Gox was given no bailout, and they fell, along with everyone's money.

And... nothing really happened. Bitcoin still exists, the price didn't fluctuate too much, and life goes on.

It makes me wonder what would've happened if the banks weren't issued any bailouts. Would the world economy have been in serious trouble? Was it a good thing that the banks were bailed out? Or has it just delayed an inevitable "collapse day" that will occur at some point? Are collapses taken too seriously in general? Or was Mt. Gox, as large as it was, still incredibly small, and hence didn't matter that much?
I love seeing Tptacek being proven wrong as much as the rest of us; but this is just weak.