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by ja2ke 12y ago
It is absolutely not a Common Core hit piece! The teacher talks about how providing context (teaching!) allowed Common Core material to provide a very worthwhile lesson. "If we are to truly make progress in getting our students to unde
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by ja2ke 12y ago
Twitch.tv has offered this service for ages, but maybe it started offering it after splitting from the Justin codebase?
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by ja2ke 13y ago
Third announcement has got to be a controller of some type. The O + O probably = dual analog sticks and a d pad, or some other dual-thumb input controls. There's no way Valve is going to announce a living room platform and then give aw
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by ja2ke 13y ago
I think the issue here is that off-duty police officers speed aggressively with the knowledge that, if caught, they will be almost certainly let off the hook due to their job. That makes the situation completely different than people with a
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by ja2ke 13y ago
It's usually what makes the game actually feel good to play. I've heard looking at the first person movement code for Valve's games will make you wish for your own death, but stripping out the weird stuff which looks ideologically wrong jus
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by ja2ke 14y ago
The word "tweet" to refer to a post. A bird as the logo! Twitter started as barely more than a faceless service, and most of what is "Twitter" as a brand came from its users and developers. Not that there isn't precedent for their model. I
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by ja2ke 14y ago
I think we're just going to see a rise in more "architectural" styled development renderings, over fully polished marketing-style imagery. I welcome that.
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by ja2ke 14y ago
It's brand diluting all the same, though. I guess they (probably correctly) see that they are doing a lot of things right with online purchases/downloads that other places aren't, but part of what I think they are doing right is having and
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by ja2ke 14y ago
This will dilute the hell out of what I actually use Steam for -- video games. The Steam front page, though it may seem a little sloppy or insane, is extremely successful at pointing me to games I am interested in, at a cheap price. It's go
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by ja2ke 14y ago
"Dropbox Pro now comes in flavors of 100 and 200 GB, but at the price of the original 50 and 100 GB plans." I don't know what's complicated about this. It reads like new pricing = old pricing with 2x the storage. Am I missing something, too
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by ja2ke 14y ago
Yep, most "consumer-level" end users would prefer to not be asked. I'm probably a bad nerd, but it's even true of me. When I go to my parents house for some holiday or another, I used to meticulously check everything on my mom's computer to
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by ja2ke 14y ago
They've always been at least "Applications" on the Mac, which is probably where the NeXTSTEP team got the file extension. On DOS/Windows it was and still is "Executable," though people are starting to casually use "App" everywhere.
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by ja2ke 14y ago
Amnesia is fantastic example of using gameplay mechanics and rules to create mood. Amnesia wants to use its interlocking game systems to make you feel afraid: You stay sane longer in the light. You have a limited amount of lamp oil with whi
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by ja2ke 14y ago
If you are starting a new Kickstarter campaign http://www.kicktraq.com/ may be a useful research tool. They're fairly new so their data doesn't go back too far but what's there is a good resource.
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by ja2ke 14y ago
True. I'd also not be drinking water, using a parking space, or any of the other office facilities, and if I shut down my PC I'd be using less electricity. I'd of course still be receiving benefits and taking up space on the mail server, an
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by ja2ke 14y ago
Same. I think about that too often.
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by ja2ke 14y ago
If I could just set my "Friends" circle to be the default function of the Home button (something I've wanted dating back to my first 5 minutes using the service) I would probably actually use Google+. "Home" being "EVERYTHING" is just a dis
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by ja2ke 15y ago
I love Sol Food and eat there all the time. It's one of my favorite restaurants in the bay area. I would give it 5 stars in a second. That's the other problem with this whole thing, I guess. Yelp's content is basicallu 100% subjective.
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by ja2ke 15y ago
Four friends and I were using free basecamp to track a personal free-time project we are working to turn into something more. That's five people on free Basecamp, not making any money (in fact spending out of pocket), but it's at times been
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Fountain, open source plaintext screenplay formatting(johnaugust.com)
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by ja2ke 15y ago
I only have meetings like that when working somewhere which has a discrete marketing department.
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by ja2ke 15y ago
Same. I don't like each and every proposed solution that all the recent email clients have, but I live a life which, like it or not, involves a hell of a lot of email. So against all odds, seeing people trying to seriously tackle email from
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by ja2ke 15y ago
Given that there's no smugness in Portland, that makes sense.
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by ja2ke 15y ago
I read somewhere that the writers rooms of Daily Show and Colbert rarely cross, at least day to day. I believe they deliberately keep them separate to keep them tonally unique, even though it sometimes results in both shows covering the sam
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by ja2ke 15y ago
I don't think the unique input methods brought on by a multitouch glass display has limited the desirability to game developers... 3-4 years ago that could have been a concern, but the huge iOS games market has shown that to not be the case
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by ja2ke 15y ago
Theaters which "do it right" (bright projection, good sound, more varied programming, anti-talking/texting policies) also tend to show fewer ads before a screening. The problem across the board really seems to boil down to "megaplex chains
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by ja2ke 15y ago
The parent post was about journalists, not about journalistic entities, unless I did miss something. I think the Internet revealed that the common denominator is not where you work (a newsroom, your bedroom) but that you're good at your job
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by ja2ke 15y ago
I hope that was sarcasm. The Internet has shown that people don't have to work in a newsroom to be a journalist, but it's also highlighted the fact that being a journalist of any note or quality requires the same combination of skill and tr
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by ja2ke 15y ago
If the encyclopedia world's equivalent of Linus Torvalds was vetting Wikipedia entries I don't think there would be as much of an issue.
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by ja2ke 15y ago
If college or Canadian football started doing it and fans responded extremely positively and started asking for/expecting it elsewhere, that could force the NFL's hand a bit. The XFL's crazy wire camera rigs almost immediately made their wa

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