jim-greer

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CJEU Ruling may invalidate DSA protections for platfroms(bsky.app)
3 points by jim-greer 10mo ago|0 comments
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by jim-greer 10mo ago
My first job ever was as a scripter on U7. Great times, and wonderful to see that there's still such an enthusiastic community
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by jim-greer 2y ago
Roblox | Onsite (San Mateo, CA) | Principal Full-Stack Engineer Technical lead for the Knowledge engineering team, leading efforts such as AI tutors, personalized Learning, automated documentation pipelines, and social learning https:&#x2F
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by jim-greer 5y ago
Roblox | Remote or Onsite (San Mateo) | Full-Time As a Principal Software Engineer on the Creator Marketplace Team team you'll have the independence, opportunity, and the end-to-end responsibility for challenging, complex, important se
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by jim-greer 6y ago
We're building a social video chat for workplaces. It's got games, music, and a playful UI. The idea is to stand in for the breakroom and the happy hour. https://bash.video (We're all ex-Kongregate - I was CEO).
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by jim-greer 6y ago
It's correct for me now
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by jim-greer 6y ago
> "Starbucks, a major coffeehouse and outlet in worldwide, is founded in the U.S. State of Washington." That isn't it. Starbucks didn't open its sixth store until 1984. https://historylink.org/File&#x2
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by jim-greer 6y ago
Without DST, I either bike my kids to school in darkness at 8am, or the sun rises before 5am in summer. This is in San Francisco.
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by jim-greer 7y ago
Sadly, few people are likely to pay more for a TV that doesn’t track them. There’s research on this. https://www.datainnovation.org/2019/01/national-survey-finds...
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by jim-greer 7y ago
What do you think is the best way to evaluate teachers, if any?
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by jim-greer 7y ago
I hope they support flash game someday.
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by jim-greer 7y ago
I'd like to see a compromise on this. If there's a passenger, they should be able to use a touchscreen. For someone not used to the car, a scroll wheel is going to feel very weird. And obviously safety isn't much of an issue
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by jim-greer 8y ago
Well put.
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by jim-greer 8y ago
The title is kind of meant to provoke that reaction (at least in my case, can't speak for the one I'm responding to.) The point is really that taking VC money requires you to try for a billion dollar company. Founders should think
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by jim-greer 8y ago
It’s more realistic than becoming an astronaut, but not by much. TechCrunch says there were 23 billion dollar exits in the first eight months of 2018. Call it 35 per year. That’s about as likely as being on a Superbowl-winning football team
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by jim-greer 8y ago
Unfortunately no. Edit: Emily gave a talk on it at the IGDA Summit, but unfortunately it's only available to members.
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by jim-greer 8y ago
Whoops, I'm not there anymore. Emily is still CEO. The focus has shifted from being a web games platform to a mobile games publisher. I'm much more of a platform person so it made sense to transition it. She's doing a great j
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We Also Failed to Build a Billion Dollar Company(medium.com)
132 points by jim-greer 8y ago|40 comments
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by jim-greer 8y ago
Look at it this way. A VC fund has a finite number of investments to make. Typically a partner gets to say yes once or twice a year. They usually take a board seat and spend lots of time helping the company. Knowing that many of those inv
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by jim-greer 8y ago
I think it’s common usage that investor is implied? I invest in tech companies at the seed stage.
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by jim-greer 8y ago
My experience with Kongregate was different, but I did feel some of the same things. We became a vehicle for many indie game creators to make a living, which I'm very proud of. In our case we also had a sale that was very profitable fo
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by jim-greer 8y ago
> You can still visit the Bay Model in that Sausalito warehouse, but today it’s just a tourist attraction: big plans for the future have become archaic curiosities. The Bay Model is well worth visiting. While the Reber Plan to dam up the
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by jim-greer 8y ago
+1 for heat fitted boots. If you find that your feet are hurting, fit is key.
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by jim-greer 8y ago
In the US a plantiff must prove negligence or malicious intent to win a libel case. That's a very high bar.
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by jim-greer 8y ago
It wouldn't be one engineer. Bloomberg says that they have three senior sources inside Apple.
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by jim-greer 8y ago
> Isn't copyright a bound on distribution? No, it covers any reproduction in a tangible medium, whether or not you distribute. I believe a court has ruled that RAM copies count. I'm not finding the case now though. I think the
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by jim-greer 8y ago
I'm considering a filter that looks for emails from my parents with the words "computer" and "problem" and auto-replies "Did you try rebooting?"
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by jim-greer 8y ago
Ok, she didn't have job options. That doesn't excuse her from not doing her job and getting someone killed.
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by jim-greer 9y ago
Got hit zero times in twenty. But yeah it’s intimidating. My wife pretty much won’t ride with me. You do develop a kind of situational awareness over time.
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by jim-greer 9y ago
You might consider an electric bike, both for reducing the time and making the uphill return less onerous.

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