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frankienwafili

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frankienwafili··on A Different Way to Write
Hey dragonwriter. I think that I did a poor job of explaining what I meant by 'traditional writing'. I consider the traditional writing process to be a mashup of writing and editing, whereas piece writing allows you to focus on just writing.

Agreed.. But I read somewhere that the occasional all caps in an iTunes description can help people figure out what your app actually does, so I broke convention :p

frankienwafili··on A Different Way to Write
Ah thanks for that find. Must have overlooked that when I quickly put it up this morning. Ty!
frankienwafili··on Ask HN: How would you improve this app description to increase sales?
I should have done a better job of proofreading before asking for advice. Thank you very much I'll fix that.
frankienwafili··on [dead]
Great stuff. Ended up reading through a few of them. Wish the site was mobile friendly.
frankienwafili··on Show HN: Untrusted, a JavaScript adventure game you play by modifying its source
In order to fix that short delay before movement when you hold down a movement direction you should make pressing the arrow keys set a corresponding movement boolean to true. Then just move whenever the boolean is true.

Great game!

frankienwafili··on Amazon cuts cloud storage prices, Microsoft immediately follows suit
Looks like amazon might be afraid that Dropbox has plans to potentially build their own server infrastructure.
frankienwafili··on What Young People Don't Know
I don't think that any of those 5 things are particularly restricted to or more commonly found amongst young people.
frankienwafili··on Show HN: Access new kinds of meta data about any web page
You'll be able to see (quantitatively) things such as how controversial an article is, how useful a tutorial/how-to is, how funny or boring or (a bunch of other things) an essay is, and more information of this nature. Right now it is a standalone system, but we're working on integrating it with google search through extensions.
frankienwafili··on Oculus Rift: Step Into the Game
I think another possibility is that he is not turning to kickstarter because he cannot raise money otherwise, but instead because he realizes that it is an incredible marketing tool. Case and point, we're all discussing the device right now, and I'm sure the majority of us heard about it through this post.
frankienwafili··on Facebook sinks to record low, 43% below IPO price, as doubts grow
Well you have to remember that the stock price already takes all of this into account. The problem with Facebook's price is that it's based on expectations far higher than what it seems like Facebook will be able to achieve in the near future.
frankienwafili··on Facebook sinks to record low, 43% below IPO price, as doubts grow
It should have been a red-flag to everyone when Facebook was trading at (if I recall correctly) over 100x earnings at one point. I mean sure it has a lot of potential and what not, but even for goliath that is Facebook, the valuation was pretty unreasonable.