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hugoahlbergon Ask HN: What books to read on developing mental models and increasing cognition?

I'm currently enjoying the recently released 'You Are Not So Smart' by David McRaney: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0052RE5MU?ie=UTF8&tag=...

I will never trust my brain again.

hugoahlbergon Gruber on Readability's App Store rejection

"Spot on"

hugoahlbergon Instapaper's backup method

Marco has now updated his system with automatic S3 backup: http://www.marco.org/1630412230

hugoahlbergon Rumpetroll - a new Websockets/HTML5/CSS3/JS experiment

Thanks to everyone how liked/shared/voted for http://rumpetroll.com ! 10,000+ hits in less than a day & still growing strong! Team Rumpetroll ♥ you all!

hugoahlbergon Rumpetroll - a new Websockets/HTML5/CSS3/JS experiment

glad to hear that! we are planning to release the code, can't wait to see what you guys come up with :)

hugoahlbergon Rumpetroll - a new Websockets/HTML5/CSS3/JS experiment

haha. yeah, when I first moved to Norway I couldn't believe it either :)

hugoahlbergon Rumpetroll - a new Websockets/HTML5/CSS3/JS experiment

As @DanielMahal wrote below, he plans to release the code tomorrow.. I can't wait to see what you guys can come up with! :)

hugoahlbergon Rumpetroll - a new Websockets/HTML5/CSS3/JS experiment

Firefox 4 works! or so I've been told. Text rendering only looks good on Mac I've heard. Daniel is looking into that soon though..

hugoahlbergon Rumpetroll - a new Websockets/HTML5/CSS3/JS experiment

It crossed my mind, I have no idea if this engine could be used for it but I can ask the programmers tomorrow. I would love the ability to turn ANY website into a multiplayer game — that would be awesome.

hugoahlbergon Rumpetroll - a new Websockets/HTML5/CSS3/JS experiment

the server is overloaded. we were not expecting this kind of traffic.. we are working on it now (we should be sleeping, midnight in scandinavia! :)

/hugo ahlberg

hugoahlbergon Rumpetroll - a new Websockets/HTML5/CSS3/JS experiment

Ha. Nice try. We don't have any table called users :)

..but if anyone knows why it sometimes freeze, please let us know. We were not excepting this kind of traffic.

hugoahlbergon Rumpetroll - a new Websockets/HTML5/CSS3/JS experiment

Thanks, it's hard to follow up on everyone. Especially since it's way over midnight here in Sweden :)

hugoahlbergon Rumpetroll - a new Websockets/HTML5/CSS3/JS experiment

It's actually true, in norwegian 'rumpetroll' means tadpole http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumpetroll

but the literal translation is "ass troll", yes, seriously. that's why it's extra fun! especially if you are swedish like me ;)

hugoahlbergon Rumpetroll - a new Websockets/HTML5/CSS3/JS experiment

thanks! Based on your name I guess you know what it means? :)

hugoahlbergon Rumpetroll - a new Websockets/HTML5/CSS3/JS experiment

Not at this time. For now it's just a tech demo that we made for fun. We are planning some more features and maybe a layer of "gamification"

hugoahlbergon Rumpetroll - a new Websockets/HTML5/CSS3/JS experiment

We are experiencing some heavy load on the servers. Please bare with us and don't hesitate to leave any feedback!

Site credits:

http://twitter.com/danielmahal - frontend

http://twitter.com/hpeikemo - server

http://twitter.com/hugoahlberg - design