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I do occasionally (meaning one hand holding, one hand doing the pinching and zooming. Not one finger from each hand doing the pinch-to-zoom). It's easier to do, and more accurate in my experience. I do pinch-to-zoom with one hand sometimes, but I find that I can't always get it right.

It's interesting how people are willing to shell out so much on in-app purchases for games in particular.

Not judging at all, of course. I play D&D, League of Legends, and Magic the Gathering, all three of which have (to varying extents) an illusion of being free. I've spent large amounts of money on each game and I don't even regret it!

Valve has it down with TF2 and hats. From my understanding it was somewhat of an accident (If I recall correctly, a Valve employee at a talk I attended said that they weren't expect hats to be so huge), yet it's another great example of how much potential free games have to rake in loads of cash. This is certainly the direction I'll go in if I ever plan on making games (unless I want to do a legitimately 100% free game for fun)

Yeah they have 4.97M in large bold letters and then 4.97 billion shortly after. Also in the last paragraph they do it again with the $19x and $20x figures.

It's cool that someone did it, but why should $500,000 and 5 months of jail time be involved when he didn't commit a crime?

If we jailed people for jokes made with poor taste, half or more of our comedians would be locked up.

League of Legends was made with complexity/difficulty != fun in mind.

It's easier to master mechanically, but I feel it is all around a much better made game. For one, it actually runs smoothly. This could just be my PC, but super lowest settings and custom config on DotA2 still runs sluggishly, while LoL is very responsive and satisfying to play.

Gameplay-wise, DotA is very cutthroat in that a single hero can go rambo and 1v5 the other team if he gets out of control, while LoL generally allows you to come back if you play smartly with your team. The item shop in DotA is terribly confusing, but I suppose you'll learn it if you play long enough.

The only negative things I can say about LoL is: the leveling system and runes/masteries, while helping new players ramp up to competitive level, seem to take a long time to fill out to get on par with a "normal" player. DotA 2 allows you to jump in straight away on the same level of play and with all heroes available. You have to unlock champions in LoL (it takes a while if you take the free route as most do).

TL;DR - LoL is a polished, simplified, beautiful take on the MOBA genre that DotA popularized. Hardcore DotA fans will call it easy/noob-friendly/etc, but in reality it's just different and in my (biased) opinion, better.

While this is true far too often in DOTA, LoL, and HoN, I think it's worth mentioning that there are nice players out there.

I play League of Legends, and while there's a decent chance that you'll run into a few toxic players every 3 or 4 games, most of the time if you set the tone at champion select or the start of a game with "gl hf" and, more impoartantly something like, "hey guys, how's it going?" or "let's have a good time" (as cheesy as it sounds) things end up going really smoothly. Silliness and joking helps too (such as, "Party at our nexus!" or "ey yo [champion name], what u doin later tonight?"). I've played 4 games over the past 2 days and only one person came close to raging.

The worst of the worst tend to have the lowest ratings, so if you're halfway decent (which is pretty easy to achieve) then you'll be alright, barring the occasional crazy person.

Had no idea justin.tv went through Y Combinator (then again, I'm pretty new 'round these parts)

As someone who likes following pro Starcraft and League of Legends, I really appreciate what Twitch gives us access to. I've heard people groaning about Twitch in favor of Own3d, but I never understood the negativity towards Twitch. I hope they keep it up.

I see Emma Frost twice (top-left turn to diamond, and just below the center at reading & influencing thoughts)... are there more than one? (I don't know a lot about comics)

Also, can't seem to find my boy Emplate.

edit: didnt mean to come off as critical. this chart is flippin cool.

But then he would run the risk of confusing future programmers

"Now, which comes first..."

The nav tree doesn't seem to remember which items I had expanded if I collapse the parent and then open it back up. Is this intentional?

Very cool resource, though. Thanks!

Is its function the exact same as pressing the Windows key (bringing up all the app tiles/metro UI thing)? I already do that whenever I want to start something. I tend to navigate using only my keyboard when possible, so when I open stuff up I just hit Windows key and start typing what I want ("chr" and then Enter would start Chrome, for example).

The only downside to the technique I use is that they separate Apps from Settings/Utilities (whatever word they use), so if I want control panel type stuff, I have to arrow down to that filter to see the search results that I want. I hope 8.1 consolidates that (or that there's an option to make it work that way)

Before today I was under the impression that the start button they were bringing back would be like the Windows 7 start button.

Huh... well that clears up a lot.

I've tried both and was curious as to why the "Plus" version of an extension allowed tons of ads when the regular "AdBlock" did a perfect job of never showing me ads. I guess that answers that question.

He probably just wants to read about development without 70% of the front page being about NSA stuff. I'm pretty new here, but as far as I know this isn't National Security News, it's Hacker News. Not wanting to see it on HN specifically doesn't mean you're okay with it. I know it's a big deal, but it's getting annoying to me too.

that's a yotta bytes

I would imagine the ease of sharing, searching, following, comments/discussion, pull requests, etc.

I don't have any experience with Bitbucket yet other than making an account and poking around with the interface, so I don't really have a frame of reference, but GitHub does seem to do the above things quite well in my relatively limited experience.

The Biggest Loser - play along at home! Be the "biggest loser" in [your region] to [acquire swag], etc.

Sorry, maybe I'm being a bit facetious. There's definitely a lot of cool stuff that could be done with a personal API though. But how do you get people on-board? You have to have equipment to track/update stats right? Are people willing to buy into this potential network?

Okay. That's what I sorta assumed, but I wasn't really sure. I was just wondering how their "modern CLI" handled tasks other than searching for and launching stuff (which it probably doesn't). I don't think the "modern command line" description was optimal from the perspective of someone who uses the current command prompt (Windows 7, I haven't touched 8 yet but I might soon) to do development stuff.

The search bar on the Windows 7 start menu does what they're talking about to some extent (though I'm betting not nearly as nicely, and it certainly doesn't return web results). I know I just hit Windows Key > first few letters of an application > Enter to launch several things on my Windows 7 machine already. Sounds like they're making a supercharged version of this for 8.1 that includes web results/Skydrive stuff and the like.

Search: "It is the modern version of the command line!"

While the search feature they're describing sounds cool, I'm curious as to what they mean by a "modern command line".

Great list!

Didn't see Teaching Tree on there, which is one that I visit fairly often. Perhaps something to add?

What about us water-only folk? Do we miss out on the super powers?

Makes sense. I think I glanced over the text before and after your pseudo-code too fast. You're absolutely right about the constants not affecting the Big Oh part. For some reason I initially interpreted your comment to say "these two algorithms are equally fast". My mistake :o

In your first method, you call getSponge() and getTowel() d times each, but in your second method you only call each once. That would be significant for large values of d, if I'm not mistaken.

edit: using "d" to refer to the number of dishes here. that could have caused confusion, my bad.