michaelone

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by michaelone 10y ago
There is a really cool 360 video of this actually by Discovery VR. Just watched it a couple days ago in my headset and learned about synesthesia. Is this what you have maybe? Seems like a pretty cool super power! ;) https://www.
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by michaelone 11y ago
It's interesting how we're basically seeing networks reborn in a new way. It'll be especially funny if Apple, Google or some startup is able to bundle different streaming services together for a discounted rate and we're
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The killer gaming apps for Apple Watch…might not be games at all(medium.com)
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by michaelone 11y ago
I did the same at UBC and nobody should go in expecting it will be valuable no matter what just by signing up (depends so much on what you end up doing and what you personally enjoy and are good at), but I think there is a lot of value in d
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by michaelone 11y ago
I met a really interesting Lyft driver who drives 2 hours to San Francisco every weekend to drive 3 days of 12 hour shifts and then returns to her hometown to be a stay-at-home mom for the rest of the week days. Her husband also drives for
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by michaelone 12y ago
Agreed, and it's shocking that this Washington Post article does not raise these points at all, or consult an "expert" that is not repeating the same PR rhetoric. For normal people to understand the issue and take a stance on
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by michaelone 13y ago
Web developers have been claiming forever that the web will take over and nobody will need apps or software outside of a browser, but is not close to becoming true yet on mobile. If you're considering making a poor web app or a poor na
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Cuff Blends Jewelry With a Wearable Alert System(techcrunch.com)
1 points by michaelone 13y ago|0 comments
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by michaelone 13y ago
PewDiePie posted the video to his YouTube channel on January 27th, but Flappy Bird was already #1 as of January 17th. By the time it went viral with all this word of mouth and news coverage it was already #1. So the most fascinating part (e
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by michaelone 13y ago
Outliers is a fun book about this type of stuff. It's not that the creator "hacked" the system for Flappy Bird -- all signs point to him being a super authentic game designer who just made his game, and for lack of a better w
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by michaelone 13y ago
Interesting, do you have data on Flappy Bird itself? Apple might normalize their data for those kinds of anomalies like Modern War's blip, but your Magic Piano example does show a rise in ranking both of the times they had an upswing i
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by michaelone 13y ago
Definitely: I think the only real solution for the industry at this point is finding better ways to monetize with IAP that don't mix so heavily with the gameplay. And League of Legends is a great example of keeping the gameplay separat