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by bobbylox 6mo ago
Try it with this! https://www.dewalt.com/en-us/product/dwp611pk/dewalt-1-14-hp...
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Bobby's Rules for Brainstorming(bobbylox.com)
2 points by bobbylox 7mo ago|1 comments
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by bobbylox 7mo ago
These rules have been very helpful to me the last few years. I had to cobble them together the hard way—with lots of frustration, hurt feelings, and sub-par solutions left in my wake. I hope you can avoid all that and, along with a group yo
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Too Many Walts and not enough Roys(bobbylox.com)
19 points by bobbylox 8mo ago|3 comments
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by bobbylox 8mo ago
Roy O. Disney was just as much a part of Disney's success as Walt, but while many people have molded themselves in Walt's image, the Roys are few and far between.
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by bobbylox 1y ago
But they wouldn't have wanted this particular thing if the AI hadn't told them to.
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Tech takes the Pareto principle too far(bobbylox.com)
258 points by bobbylox 2y ago|119 comments
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by bobbylox 2y ago
Weird timing to be praising Elon Musk's propensity to care deeply (for future internet readers, he recently gave a nazi salute during a Donald Trump rally).
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by bobbylox 2y ago
There are many artists whose work was 'objectively' (that is, by consensus) bad until later when it became objectively good.
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by bobbylox 3y ago
My wife and I built our own Laser Maze for our front yard so kids could try it out on Halloween. https://www.tiktok.com/@bobbylox/video/7163380326008425770
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by bobbylox 5y ago
brb submitting the "Diving Suppository" to YC
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by bobbylox 7y ago
I used it to make a game about High-Fiving, and I got to show it at GDC! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RGjEkkfuwA
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by bobbylox 8y ago
A miserable pile of organic molecules. But enough talk...Have at you!
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by bobbylox 9y ago
Obama was the 44th (really 43rd if you count by people instead of presidencies) President.
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by bobbylox 10y ago
Great Christopher Alexander Reference
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by bobbylox 10y ago
Netflix IPs would make some great worlds for larger games, actually. I can imagine a Telltale-style narrative adventure set in the Womens Prison of 'Orange is the New Black' or an action horror game where you play as Eleven, trap
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by bobbylox 10y ago
As someone making an educational game to teach programming ( http://codemancergame.com ) I say the more the merrier! A rising tide lifts all boats.
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by bobbylox 10y ago
But they did get jobs. They got jobs at a humorous cereal box company they founded.
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by bobbylox 10y ago
I think there needs to be a moratorium on that AirBnB political cereal box story. "The most important thing to do is to focus on your business, but also it's cool if you spend time on a random side business," is a big mixed m
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by bobbylox 10y ago
Thank you!
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by bobbylox 10y ago
Yes, in a roundabout way -- feeding arguments sets the variables on that page.
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by bobbylox 10y ago
Yes, I find that to be the case more often than not: boys don't care about the gender of their avatar. Girls do. Codemancer has variables and conditionals, and uses them for various things. Some of the game is very tactical, so condi
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by bobbylox 10y ago
If you find this essay compelling, you might be interested in the game I'm working on, Codemancer ( http://codemancergame.com/ ). A game that teaches programming, with a compelling story about a girl on a journey to r
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by bobbylox 10y ago
Here's a relevant article that just came up in my twitter feed: http://www.eschoolnews.com/2016/02/15/what-does-research-rea...
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by bobbylox 10y ago
If the author is here, there's a typo: "catastrophy" should be "catastrophe."
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by bobbylox 10y ago
The author doesn't seem to realize that electric power produced by even the dirtiest coal power plant is far less harmful (in terms of CO2 and particulates) than a gasoline engine per mile travelled .
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by bobbylox 10y ago
From an end-user perspective, what advantage do you feel decentralization provides?
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by bobbylox 10y ago
It seems as though you know that hyperlocal businesses have not done well in the past. What is the unique thing you bring to the table that might save you from their fate?
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by bobbylox 10y ago
I'm not sure the TSA app is weighted 50/50
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by bobbylox 11y ago
I've thought about writing an "Another World"-style game engine many times myself.

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