tablethnuser

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by tablethnuser 6y ago
Please don't make your team work on a U.S. holiday weekend for this. Just don't hit the deploy button on this change and now there's no deadline and no need for crunch.
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by tablethnuser 6y ago
Nintendo was late to dip their toes into f2p game economies and it shows with the poorly balanced bell economy in (farmville-like) Animal Crossing. Turnips are a terrible way to make bells in the single-player game. You have to buy a stack
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by tablethnuser 6y ago
This seems like an issue with semver. Its idealism is not compatible with actual human behavior. The package devs clearly violated semver guidelines and npm puts a lot of faith in individual packages to take semver seriously. By default it
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by tablethnuser 6y ago
There's many different kinds of players with an equally rich spectrum of player motivations. Animal Crossing is a phenomenon for some players because games like it are released pretty rarely. For others, it's "not even a game
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by tablethnuser 6y ago
I keep a log for each project and write down the problem I'm trying to solve followed by the idea I think solves it. If I hit a roadblock, I write that down as the new problem. Now I have to solve that before I can pop the stack and ge
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by tablethnuser 6y ago
Slack is surprisingly anti remote work. They only offer it to incredibly senior roles. Everyone else has to jump through hoops and get approvals from many layers of middle management - it's one of those ask Mom / ask Dad policies
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by tablethnuser 7y ago
You have little control over businesses transmitting purchase data to Facebook or other data aggregators. Best you can do is withhold information at time of purchase. Use cash, don't give your email, phone number, etc. Some businesses
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by tablethnuser 7y ago
I'm always surprised that npm, a for-profit company with a lame business model, is graciously serving redundant package requests millions of times per day to everyone's CI/CD flows. One day this is going to happen for real an
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by tablethnuser 7y ago
Because a bunch of college kids and bootcampers only learned React and are afraid of the job market spotlight moving on from where they're standing. Popularity is not a useful metric when evaluating frameworks. Community engagement and
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by tablethnuser 7y ago
Good points. Based on my experience with whales in f2p games you will get outsized income from 0.1% of whale users, reliable income from 20% of hobby users, and one-off spend here and there from the rest. When I think of someone paying me $
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by tablethnuser 7y ago
On Firefox mobile the site navigation doesn't appear so the link literally leads to a single picture of three old naked men fighting over bread and that's it. Maybe try giving people the benefit of the doubt. And spend an extra se
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by tablethnuser 7y ago
I had bought into the Firefox ecosystem down to their password manager and would have paid for premium services. Remove the ability to adblock on mobile and I'm pulling out of the entire ecosystem. What a betrayal. They don't even
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by tablethnuser 7y ago
I'm the one who switched my whole family to Chrome back in the day to get them off IE. I have no problem doing it again this holiday season. Firefox for everyone. No idea what Google is thinking. In one short decade they've become
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by tablethnuser 7y ago
I may revisit Apple devices once they're done with their headphone jack fiasco. I like their recent privacy focus. I had used them in the past and even tried to take them into their third and fourth years, but they felt sluggish and ha
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by tablethnuser 7y ago
I've probably taken under 50 photos this year so I am not a good reference point for camera features. I haven't been disappointed with the photos but I also probably have no idea what I'm missing.
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by tablethnuser 7y ago
I've been using the budget Moto G+ line for the past four years. I can upgrade my phone every year around Black Friday and get the latest model for sub $200. The older phones still work well and get handed down to my less tech savvy fa
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by tablethnuser 7y ago
Remember when loot boxes promising valuable rookie cards of baseball players captured America's youth and squandered the nation's fortune back in the 20th century? Or the countless families devastated by beanie baby addiction? Me
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by tablethnuser 7y ago
Sorry, I meant 3d printing in the abstract sense of making digital thoughts into real items; not as in I'm buying 3d printed goods on Etsy. I updated my original comment to remove the confusing analogy
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by tablethnuser 7y ago
Etsy is my go-to for counterfeit licensed merchandise. Need some video game themed dish towels? Cuff links inspired by your favorite book series? It's all there. Etsy is the genie lamp you get when you cross image search with artists&#
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by tablethnuser 7y ago
Most general advice I can give is to make sure your games have engaging core loops at three different temporal scales: moment to moment, minute to minute, and session to session. Moment to moment is the really gamefeel stuff like how it fee
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by tablethnuser 7y ago
The rule of thumb I use is to ask: if someone had shouted this in a supermarket or bank line, what would happen? Internet communities should aspire to be more like local communities. If you're a jerk in real life, people will show you
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by tablethnuser 7y ago
I think all these privacy protection rulings are a step in the right direction, in that we are seeing governments respond to dark patterns similar to how they respond to spam and telemarketing. The loose thread now is in how the companies a
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by tablethnuser 7y ago
You will get automated emails alerting you to ppl trying to access your account even if they don't have the credentials. E.g. they got my PSN info from a breach and tried to use it to log into steam or battle.net. Sometimes they will e
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by tablethnuser 7y ago
I stopped doing this recently because it makes password breaches devastating and online tracking easier. Now the only stable screen name I use is for my professional persona. Everything else I sign up with whatever random screen name is in
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by tablethnuser 7y ago
I uninstalled this software yesterday and it's not going back on my machine. I have the same criticisms as others do about a company like Zoom that only responds to security issues after they wait-and-see if it will impact the bottom l
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by tablethnuser 7y ago
In these gaming use cases the bots can be appropriately disclosed without getting in the way of the game. A couple decades ago there was an ARG about government conspiracies which called your house to give you clues from in-game characters
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by tablethnuser 7y ago
If there's anything the modern internet has taught me it's that the Good Old Days were doing some things right! We don't know how to scale trust to internet-sized communities yet so a little tribalism may be warranted. The wa
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by tablethnuser 7y ago
One way to replace search is to return to curation by trusted parties. Rather than anyone putting a web page up and then a passive crawler finding it and telling everyone about it, (why should I trust any search engine crawler,) we could &q
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by tablethnuser 7y ago
Sales people don't need special access to write a fake review that they know will slip past the filters. Since they work with the people who design the filter rules and know them better than the public.
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by tablethnuser 7y ago
You might like Boundless, it's a voxel builder in an MMO world. A little light on the MMO content but delivers otherwise

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