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alnis··on Game Theory: How 70,000 Pokemon Players Sabotage Themselves
The voting interval made the game too slow to be enjoyable, so players rebelled by spamming the start button until the creator rolled back the change.
alnis··on 62% of 16-24s prefer books as physical products
http://www.colourtime.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Domtar-...

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alnis··on How the .0001% Made Its Money
From the article:

> Kaplan and Rauh find that America’s wealthiest are no longer a collection of Rockefellers and Carnegies. During the period the researchers investigated, the number of individuals on the Forbes 400 who were the first in their family to run a business rose from 40% to 69%. Sixty percent of individuals on the list grew up wealthy in 1982 while only 32% did in 2011.

> Although being born into wealth is less and less necessary for admission to the club of America’s wealthiest individuals, ...

alnis··on Ask HN: The Ludum Dare 27 Entries of HNers
Sorry, *10 Second Roguelike.

My brain hasn't fully recovered from LD27 yet.

alnis··on Ask HN: The Ludum Dare 27 Entries of HNers
10 Second Platformer: http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview...

Built in JavaScript using rot.js.

alnis··on _why's site updated again
The new file has the message: "This thing will open in two days. Which means it isn't open right now. Sorry, it just isn't."
alnis··on Ask HN: Best Programming Language For a Text-Graphics Game
If you're ok with using JavaScript as a first programming language, ROT.js (http://ondras.github.io/rot.js/manual/) is a neat library for making roguelikes. It's not a framework so much as a set of utilities for simplifying tasks like rendering the display, generating maps, etc.

Some examples of small games made with it are http://ondras.github.io/star-wars/ and http://ondras.zarovi.cz/games/trw/ . I'm currently working on a silly project of my own using ROT.js: http://alex.nisnevich.com/untrusted/

alnis··on It's Gibberish, But Italian Pop Song Still Means Something
You're thinking of "Skwerl": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt4Dfa4fOEY
alnis··on C-based Virtual Machine for Notch's DCPU-16
Not quite as fancy as an emulator, but I've put together a JavaScript assembler: https://github.com/AlexNisnevich/dcpu16-assembler
alnis··on Show HN: A Lisp-based in-browser toy operating system
These are both great ideas. Unfortunately I don't have time to work on this myself, but I'd love to see them implemented (especialy #2). I encourage you to submit them as issues on github so that they're not forgotten.
alnis··on Show HN: A Lisp-based in-browser toy operating system
Update: Ok, looks like I fixed it. Firefox wasn't liking $('body').css('display', 'none'), as it turns out.
alnis··on Show HN: A Lisp-based in-browser toy operating system
Hmm, you're right - I should have done more cross-browser testing. It does work fine in the latest Chrome, Opera, Safari, and IE 8+.

Unfortunately, I haven't worked with Firefox enough to be able to figure out what the problem is. I'll keep looking into it, but if anybody can figure this out, I will be much indebted to them.

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