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by kosei 3y ago
It was a different time: “Condor plans to spend one year in the development of Diablo. Personnel will consist of: one designer, one chief programmer, 2 junior programmer, 2 art director/artists, 1 illustrator/sculptor, 3 pixel art
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by kosei 3y ago
I wonder how long it takes to go from “those who live near Google offices” to “all employees”. Once 80-90% of employees are back at work regularly it’s not a stretch to believe that those few people who are always remote will be seen as les
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by kosei 5y ago
Though I applaud the effort to get age right and protect players, I'm not sure I'll ever be comfortable having me or my child scan our photo ID and selfie to upload it as part of a login flow to an application.
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Introducing Age Verification(blog.roblox.com)
125 points by kosei 5y ago|147 comments
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AppLovin to Buy Mobile Measurement Startup Adjust for $1B(adexchanger.com)
1 points by kosei 6y ago|0 comments
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by kosei 6y ago
Pretty wild. May be buying Adjust for a low price here, but the vertical integration of Applovin (a game developer/ad tech platform) owning Adjust (the biggest mobile attribution platform) and its data and all the data of its game deve
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AppLovin Said to Acquire Berlin’s Adjust in $1B Deal(bloomberg.com)
1 points by kosei 6y ago|1 comments
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by kosei 6y ago
I love this letter. This is exactly the type of direction and freedom to come up with solutions that I would expect from a strong CEO or leader. Not prescriptive, but clear on which problems are critical to solve.
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Letter to New Science Advisor Eric Lander from President-Elect Biden [pdf](buildbackbetter.gov)
3 points by kosei 6y ago|1 comments
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Microsoft criticizes Apple’s new App Store rules for streaming game services(9to5mac.com)
3 points by kosei 6y ago|0 comments
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by kosei 6y ago
Holy cow, if that doesn’t come off as biased, I don’t know what does.
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It was once valued at $12.7B. Now Luckin Coffee isn’t even a unicorn(fortune.com)
22 points by kosei 6y ago|4 comments
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by kosei 6y ago
As someone who works in the video games industry, I can guarantee it is the lockdown. Stay at home orders align really closely with significant lifts in new players, increased hours played, and many other core metrics across the industry. A
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Nintendo Leak Reportedly Includes Wii Source Code, Dev Materials, N64 Test ROMs(kotaku.com)
2 points by kosei 6y ago|0 comments
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by kosei 7y ago
> "Dougherty said that despite rain, Maker Faire’s big Bay Area event last week met its ticket sales target." Why would you set a target so low that meeting it still results in bankruptcy?
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by kosei 7y ago
And this is happening the same day they show off their brand new Stadia product? Oops.
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by kosei 7y ago
Curious whether VC funding anticipated this long a timeline for autonomous driving and VR or if they all got swept along with the hype too. Countless billions invested with a very long time horizon.
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The Long and Lucrative Mirage of the Driverless Car(theringer.com)
1 points by kosei 7y ago|1 comments
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by kosei 7y ago
True. The comment I responded to specifically referred to Senior Data Analyst.
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by kosei 7y ago
Really? $125k doesn't seem low to me based on experience. Also, just looked on Payscale and it says Senior Data Analyst (with 6 years experience) salary range was $63-113k.
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by kosei 7y ago
Title seems pretty click baity. She acknowledges that her side passions (creative/design/art) may not be what will pay the bills and that she is happy in the role for now.
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by kosei 7y ago
Is this really more slimy than targeted ads? At least this is based on the content, not the person's information who is browsing it.
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by kosei 7y ago
As a parent, this was always fascinating to me. Cool to see the science behind diapers. > Given the strong chemical attraction of sodium for water and the strong molecular structure of the polymer, you can no more squeeze the urine out o
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How Diapers Work (1996)(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by kosei 7y ago|1 comments
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by kosei 7y ago
Only read part of the article because I got sucked into reading about Mike Myers and his comeback...
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Cisco Talos: Facebook continuing to host dozens of spam/hacking groups for years(blog.talosintelligence.com)
3 points by kosei 7y ago|0 comments
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by kosei 7y ago
Love this line: > Put simply, what looks attractive in prospect does not necessarily look good in practice. Consumers often become frustrated and dissatisfied with the very cornucopia of features they originally desired and chose. This e
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Defeating Feature Fatigue (2006)(hbr.org)
71 points by kosei 7y ago|39 comments
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by kosei 7y ago
Some of the writing here came out really petty. Made it difficult to read and take the article seriously. > It seems the socially-awkward Low had a thing for rich, mildly attractive, blonde daughters of famous American families. > [Lo
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by kosei 7y ago
Sort of reminds me of the website SpinSpotter. Great idea, but had trouble finding a real audience for its product. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpinSpotter

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