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Been premium since they gated the listen-with-screen-off feature behind it. Never looked back.

Ad free is great, and I’m happy to pay for it / support the creators. Compared to my other subscriptions, I’ll probably keep this after I cull most of the others.

Or aspirational :)

I’ve frequently found the HN comments to be more valuable than reading than the articles themselves - the context & community that’s being nurtured here is (emoji sparkles) ;)

Jag har två kompisar som söker lägenhet från Januari. Kommer du åt det här eventet?

https://www.facebook.com/events/352962604886482/

Inspired by http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=63809 (vimeo: http://vimeo.com/101814775)

Aww. I guess let me know when you're open in the UK.

I don't really think answer #2 is aimed at lurkers, but rather people who contribute edits for their own gain rather than to be helpful.

No need to get upset, move along.

It's a joke. The recently released dungeon keeper is a ridiculously pay-or-wait game. See the escapist article on the same: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/editorials/rev...

The Swedish Pirate Party definitely campaigns heavily on those issues, and less on "sharing culture". It took a few years for them to get through that phase.

I guess the UK Pirate Party is in need of more members who care about these issues?

According to Tim Rogers[1] in-app purchases are already being regulated in Japan. As far as I understand it there must be a finite number of purchases, leading to a "maximum spend" per title, which can be shown in-store.

Not sure how this ties in with that, but it seems several companies are also self-regulating by imposing a spending-limit based on the customers age[2].

[1] https://twitter.com/108/status/292004594555449345

[2] http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/169254/report_social_gami...

We did something similar and actually ended up finding a confusing hotspot. Turned out to be a ledge where people could clip through a fence and fall to their deaths.

I usually recommend supergenpass to friends for this particular reason.

Some prefer stuff like keepass that let's them store everything - i'm happier to rely on an algorithm.

Key point is to make using different passwords in different places really simple, so that people do it.

It seems like a Wii U -like device would be a great match for Windows 8. Or just a desktop-tablet combo, working together seamlessly.

Similar thing happened to a friend of mine who worked at a game development startup. A company was set up for that game, and the whole crew of developers were hired by it, while the two "founders" held the parent company. Everyone worked for low-to-no wages under the promise that they would see bonuses based on sales.

When the game released, all the sales revenue went to the parent company and the only ones receiving bonuses were the two founders.

The first step to learning something new is admitting you don't know it yet?

Yep, looks like he stopped doing inline (on-page?) references to sources past slide 13. The last page has a collection of sources, but no direct connection to the statements in the slides.

Edit: In the comments on the post there's a bit more information, not sure if the slides were ever updated:

Danc September 28, 2008 10:30 PM

Appreciate the comments on the data. I'll update this presentation so that the data sources are more clearly presented. Currently, many (though not all) of the numbers are in the reference articles (but that seems to be hard to parse)

There is some data from the games industry, which I would say applies to knowledge workers: http://www.lostgarden.com/2008/09/rules-of-productivity-pres... (blog post from 2008 with linked presentation pdf/ppt)

You really should test both, HTTP can't be trusted if DNS has been compromised.

I recall pg initiating a discussion highlighting the declining quality (S/N) of comments at HN, and struggling to find a scalable approach of tackling it. Afaik slashdots approach has been published and works for them, so maybe that would be a good place to start looking?

See http://slashdot.org/moderation.shtml and http://slashdot.org/faq/metamod.shtml

This just reads like any contemporary "fashion" writing to me. You see it in those magazines with a model on the cover and stories about if he's really that into you inside. I think you summed it up pretty well, but I don't think it's got very much to do with the subject matter.

Yep, for this "pipeline/processing" type of workflow, I've seen several good examples of visual editors. It feels like it should be possible to implement most of the standard unix commandline tools in this kind of environment. With a system like that, you'd be able to let users create essentially shellscripts, but with a lower barrier of entry.

I'd really like to see that project. Time to stop procrastinating, I guess :)

Edit: This kind of system would also facilitate having multiple inputs/outputs and typed data - stuff that's fairly complex to get right in the actual commandline.

I tend to think of him as Zed Shaw's grandfather.

This will be my takeaway tl;dr: "Crunch does not make the product ship sooner — it makes the product ready later. Crunch does not make the product better — it makes the product worse."

Far too many people in management don't get, or just choose to ignore, that.

I think I've already left a comment on a similar thread about leading a team through crunch with one of the devs still doing 6 hour days. Some more time has passed and I have to say even when the rest of the team are doing 8 hour days it still feels like there's a difference in focus, intuition and problem-solving.

Of course all that is highly subjective, but it made me think about how to measure the.. craftsmanship? Anyway, intuitively it feels like having a few more hours away from the office would give us some more time to subconciously process the problems and tasks at hand, and when we come back to work we're better prepared for it.

It can't be impossible to conduct some kind of test on this, can it?

Just start using "she" instead of he.

(not very active) member of the Swedish pirate party, I helped distribute ballots to where I was voting in the last election.

Have you looked at http://supergenpass.com/ ? Sounds similar. There's a nice chrome extension and android app available for that algorithm.

If you want more of the guy, he's been writing fiction for a long time.

If you like reading graphic novels, read the Sandman series.

If you like reading books, read American Gods.

If you have kids, read them Coraline.

One backlog for new requirements, another backlog for incidents. Track your time working on the different backlogs (or even per-tasks) and pretty soon you will have some numbers to show the boss why new stuff isn't happening snap-snap.

This.

The most important takeaway from a face-to-face interview for me has always been to gauge a candidates general problem solving ability. When developing, you'll constantly be solving problems that are new to you, in areas you may not be familiar with.

Isn't that why we have not-for-profit tax-funded public service news? At least in Sweden we do. Similar to NPR in the US? Not that it's perfect, but at least there's no advertiser bias. And any political bias is heavily regulated and scrutinized.