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by kenpratt 6y ago
If you're a Canadian merchant, you can add a USD bank account to avoid the 2% currency conversion fee. This bank account can either be with a Canadian bank, or a US bank. Source: I work at Stripe, but in addition to that, previously st
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by kenpratt 9y ago
I disagree that Airbnb is not one of the causes of the shortage. As of 2011 there were 306,105 renter-occupied units in Metro Vancouver ( http://www.metrovancouver.org/services/regional-planning/Pla... ) As of April
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Programmer Tooling Beyond Plain Text(joelburget.com)
109 points by kenpratt 11y ago|69 comments
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Code Words: Issue Two(codewords.recurse.com)
2 points by kenpratt 11y ago|0 comments
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Coding Like a Girl(medium.com)
65 points by kenpratt 12y ago|21 comments
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The MODE-B Imperative (iOS PDP-8 emulator by Uncle Bob)(blog.cleancoder.com)
1 points by kenpratt 12y ago|0 comments
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by kenpratt 13y ago
As David said, there are things you can pay for in the game. But anything can be unlocked by playing for free, so you aren't forced to pay for anything, and we don't grind you to frustrate you into paying. We're probably erri
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by kenpratt 13y ago
Thanks, David! Happy to hear you're enjoying it :)
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It's Hard To Sell Free(blog.atomicbrawl.com)
20 points by kenpratt 13y ago|6 comments
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by kenpratt 13y ago
I think to be fair, a bunch of those insertions/deletions were from checking in node_modules early in the dev cycle. But the 5k commits is accurate :) And for schedule, it was vast underestimation of the scope of a digital CCG combined
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by kenpratt 13y ago
Thanks! I'm more of the "launch early and iterate" philosophy, but unfortunately with games you need to be much more polished than a web/SaaS app.
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This Post Took 3 Years to Write(brawl.in)
160 points by kenpratt 13y ago|61 comments
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by kenpratt 14y ago
I can't believe Braid isn't on that list. SUCH a great game. Also, Portal is a must-play if you haven't already.
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Show HN: A better Dropbox API (with fine-grained control over what/when to sync)(github.com)
3 points by kenpratt 14y ago|0 comments
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by kenpratt 14y ago
From the article: "5 out of the 8 founders and executive team are from Digital Chocolate, the makers of Galaxy Life". So it's a pretty large mis-representation to say they copied another game, as they were on the team who built said game (g
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Capturing the first sounds of deep sea creatures(petridish.org)
2 points by kenpratt 15y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: My Git-like Dropbox client that gives you control over syncs(github.com)
3 points by kenpratt 15y ago|0 comments
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by kenpratt 16y ago
Having a suggested $3/month subscription for having the PDF mailed to you but ALSO having the PDF available for free on the website could be the best of both worlds. Those who can afford to pay, do so, but you can still link to the free ver
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by kenpratt 16y ago
This reminds me of the famous poem "Desiderata" by Max Ehrmann. Same sort of philosophy. http://www.fleurdelis.com/desiderata.htm "Avoid loud and aggressive persons; they are vexatious to the spirit." is a good method of keeping overly dr
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by kenpratt 16y ago
Lawnchair ( http://brianleroux.github.com/lawnchair/ ) is similar to this, but you have to pick an adapter (see http://github.com/brianleroux/lawnchair for browser list).
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Data Interaction Patterns (A comparison of caching strategies)(blog.dossot.net)
1 points by kenpratt 16y ago|0 comments
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Car Steered with Driver's Eyes (fu-berlin.de)
2 points by kenpratt 16y ago|1 comments
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Dotfiles.org is back online(dotfiles.org)
2 points by kenpratt 16y ago|0 comments