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Huge for Google nerds: delightful Craig Silverstein (really, employee #1) is departing the Goog for @KhanAcademy. http://allthingsd.com/2012020...
Space Cowboy, Larry Hosken, Alex Kapranoff and 3 other people liked this
Game Design as Cultural Practice » Blog Archive » Networked Play : Humans vs Zombies… and creepers? - http://lcc.gatech.edu/~cpearc...
Rob Shillingsburg, Dennis Jernberg and Jimminy, CoG of FF liked this
"In the player-worlds that I have visited, players often lay claims to sections of the map, defining chunks that other players may not build in or destroy – their creations become decorations and environments that other people can ogle and interact in. Similar to Dibbell’s description of an earlier phase of LambdaMOO, “wizards” exist in the form of “ops”, and players found “griefing” or otherwise causing trouble can be dealt with through their “powers” (whether containment, removal, or other such punishments). As of yet, I have not seen social structures/ranks form between players other than “citizen” and “op”, though I have seen task-based jobs such as “farmer” and “miner” form, where small groups of players split tasks and resources similar to pure Communism."
- Andy Bakun
from Bookmarklet
I was looking for an association of minecraft and Lambdamoo, came across that.
- Andy Bakun
That reminds me … I haven't logged onto LambdaMOO for a while.
- Amit Patel
What's your character name, Amit?
- Andy Bakun
I'm Amit.
- Amit Patel
Character with the alias Amit is Matt (#54865) and disconnected 12 minutes ago. Yeah, nothing is going on there.
- Andy Bakun
Well, this thread made me connect again! Nothing had changed.
- Amit Patel
Hm, I guess I went by Mat or RedBlob on LambdaMOO, and Amit on JaysHouseMOO/Waterpoint.
- Amit Patel
The Economist names Paul Buchheit its 2011 Computing and Telecommunications Innovation Award winner - http://www.economistconferences.co.uk/press-r...
April Buchheit, Jérôme, Lode Nachtergaele and 109 other people liked this
Congrats!
- Joel Kotarski
Wow! Congratulations, Paul!
- Spidra Webster
Congrats Paul!
- CW✔
Awesome!
- Stephen Mack
Congrats Paul! The Economist is a big deal.
- Just Joe
Wow, nice!
- Amit Patel
Congratulations!
- Anne Bouey
Woo hoo!
- SAM
Awesome. Congratulations.
- Tamara J.
Extremely well deserved!!
- Bo Stern
Congrats!
- Barbara R. S.
WOOHOOOOOOO!! Congratulations, that is AWESOME!
- The Real sofarsoShawn
Congrats!
- DS
Nice. Congratulations Paul!
- DJ Stevie Steve
Congratulations, Paul!
- ha3rvey (Hugs 50% off!)
Well deserved. And they were right to mention FriendFeed as a highlight.
- Bruce Lewis
Congratulations. Well deserved.
- Ashish
congrats!
- imabonehead
Wonderful news! Congratulations, Paul!
- Harold Cabezas
Congrats!
- Eric Borisch
nice !! COng'rats
- Peter Dawson
w00t!
- Angelo
I think Paul's one of the most innovative peeps. after all his legacy is gmail, adsense and "dont be evil" :)- the very fabric of the Internet ecosystem comprises of at least 2 of the former items that he invented. !!
- Peter Dawson
Congratulations, Paul!
- Brent
Love the don't be evil! Nice write up.
- amelia arapoff
A well-deserved award. Congratulations, Paul!
- Frank Jernigan
My man
- Josh Haley
congrats!
- ebru
Congratulations!
- אלף
Well deserved!
- Peter Reavy
Congratulations, Paul.
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
Congrats Paul!!
- Rachel Lea Fox
from iPhone
that's awesome, man. you changed my and many others' life, right here! I personally owe you a lot.
- Ahmet Alp Balkan
I'm training myself to never say "At the end of the day". Any sentence that uses it can do without it. It's like chrome for language.
Rob Shillingsburg liked this
Research - http://web.mac.com/krgue...
Private Sanjeev, Rob Shillingsburg and Thomas Page liked this
"The traditional design is based on a number of unspoken, and unnecessary, assumptions. Why, for example, must cross aisles meet picking aisles at right angles? Or why do picking aisles have to be parallel? The answer, of course, is that they do not, and our research shows that adhering to these assumptions could result in a significant penalty in labor costs."
- Amit Patel
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I'd love to build a game around warehouse design. It's on my "someday, maybe" list.
- Amit Patel
Starpires - Updated of the class BBS game SRE - AtariAge Forums - http://www.atariage.com/forums...
David Vasileff, Rob Shillingsburg, Private Sanjeev and Todd Hoff liked this
"Back in the early 90's I was totally addicted to an empire building/resource management, BBS game called Solar Realms Elite (SRE). I spent the last several months working on an updated web based version of the game which I just launched several days ago called Starpires. Really looking to get feedback on the game and hopefully it brings back some memories for the retro gamers out there. Even though its heavily updated graphics wise, the underlying game is nearly identical."
- Amit Patel
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(I haven't tried it yet, as I'd have to sign up for Facebook)
- Amit Patel
522 - Calling America: Phone Zones as Alternate States | Strange Maps | Big Think - http://bigthink.com/ideas...
Tudor Bosman, Larry Hosken, Anne Bouey and 2 other people liked this
What would happen if you used anonymized phone call data to decide where state boundaries should be?
- Amit Patel
from Bookmarklet
Texas remains Texas. :-) California splits into northern and southern. Las Vegas joins southern California. North and South Carolina merge.
- Amit Patel
Also see http://senseable.mit.edu/csa... , where you can put in any county and find out which other counties are called or texted.
- Amit Patel
NorCal gets Tahoe/Reno, though :)
- Private Sanjeev
Of course we do! Who else would go to Tahoe? :) Southern California gets Las Vegas.
- Amit Patel
No Matter How Hard You Try, It Is Impossible To Fax A Cat #shareit
Ahmet Yükseltürk, selimovski, Joan Miro and 739 other people liked this
LOL!
- Kol Tregaskes
That poor cat looks so confused.
- Georgie Bestie
but it's so warm on top of the scanner!
- DJF
Time for a cat scan!
- Jemm
Iz I the right way up for printing?
- Vicky
This is clearly not my cat. If this was my cat he's have one arm shoved down into the printer trying to tear up all the internal whirling bits with his bare claws.
- Soup in a TARDIS
LOL, Soup!
- Kol Tregaskes
that is one adorable kitten!
- Anna Lynn M.
<3
- Furkan Tunalı
Too Funny! Reminds me of the San Mateo Cat Shelter where one of the cats loves to sleep on top of the laster printer where the paper comes out...
- Greg Lato
Kitty!!!!
- Janice
keep trying!
- Morgan
FEED ME A CAT
- tehKenny
Kol, it is NOT impossible. And that's all I'm saying.
- Steven Perez
Push harder
- Josh Haley
LOL@Jemm
- AJ Batac :)
آخی
- یک بابک
Hehe, Steven. I won't ask. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Gosh, just noticed this post has nearly 150 likes! :-D
- Kol Tregaskes
1 closer....hilarious!
- Jeffrey Marsh
There we go 150 likes. :-D
- Kol Tregaskes
I'm in ur faxx masheen -- sendin de faxxez....
- Stephanie Segel
thanks, i needed a laugh
- chaz2b
FAXCAT IS NOT AMUSED
- Karl Knechtel
iz dat some copycat?
- bora "head" basman
LOL, now nearly 200 likes! :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Thats no fax machine, thats my new patented kitty juicer!
- Threepwood
Just one more like... please. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
it's over two huuunddreeeed
- bora "head" basman
MOAR!
- Pat Hawks
I need 9 copies please !
- Faraz Mullick
A cute cat :)
- Mohammad Abdurraafay
Haha, Faráz.
- Kol Tregaskes
Next target, 250 likes. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Friendfeed loev faxcat :o
- Karl Knechtel
;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Pussy by fax. What will they think of next?
- Mattb4rd
X))
- Neya
OMGosh, next up is the 300 likes mark. Anyone care to join in? ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Honestly, i'm not generally a fan of the Cat memes... But that is classic.
- Alistair (alpinefolk)
You know this is the 7th most liked entry on FriendFeed ever: http://beta.friendfeed.com/search... !!!
- Kol Tregaskes
Kol, this thread is pure genius.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
But only almost 50 comments.. :)
- Simon Wicks
Simon, there's not much to comment regarding the picture :) But meta-comments are more than appropriate!
- Ivan Zuzak
Simon, yeah we need 1500+ comments now, who wants to start? ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
there we go then for the 1500+!!
- Jaap Willem
1600+ to beat the FFundercats live chat thread. I think with this real time now on all threads we're going to see some truly epic comment numbers.
- Simon Wicks
Ivan, no the picture speaks for itself. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
OK, now it's the 4th: http://beta.friendfeed.com/search... - it's gonna take a huge effort to break the record of 452+ likes here: http://beta.friendfeed.com/imified...
- Kol Tregaskes
OK, now this is the 3rd most liked entry: http://beta.friendfeed.com/search... :-D Crazy!
- Kol Tregaskes
Too bad I am fresh out of likes of I would do it again.
- Jason (not an Argonaut)
I'm using this photo in the latest chapter of can haz murder
- anna sauce
Hehe, Anna. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
One more for 350 likes, LOL. This is mental! :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Come on, 350 cats for a cat getting crushed? You guys are mean. :-P
- Richard A.
I'd like again if I could :-)
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
bump
- Simon Wicks
Richard, LOL!
- Kol Tregaskes
Awesomely funny!
- Martha
Next target: 400 likes? ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
theres one more for you Kol
- Toby Graham
Toby, you're very kind. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Cute *_*
- Sybelle
Hehe.
- Kol Tregaskes
Just 6 more likes for the 400 then I'll leave you alone. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
can you spare a cat 6 likes?
- Jason (not an Argonaut)
sweet
- Eric Hofmann
Haha, Jason, wow 406 likes, madness! :-D
- Kol Tregaskes
Madness? THIS. IS. FAX CAT.
- Mike Nayyar
Well 452 likes is the record, hmm I think that is pushing it. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Awesome.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
this is underfaksink at its worzt
- pb:
Petr, I have no idea what you mean, but thank you. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
@Kol .. :] that, partially, might have been the purpose.... I don't know it exactly either. :] .. was I reflecting on a cat under the fax, and that it is hard to fax that way ... /?:] ... "underfaxing at its worst" ..
- pb:
Ah, OK, Petr. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
there ya have me ! :] .... see, to be honest with you, i saw this pic couple days ago, but i let it go, without posting it ..... what does that make me? :]
- pb:
:-)
- Kol Tregaskes
OMGosh, just 23 more likes to beat this: http://beta.friendfeed.com/imified... ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
433 Like ! Wow !
- Like
Freemor, yes very cute! :-D
- Kol Tregaskes
cute~
- Chan Pen
that's why is called a cat scan and not a cat fax.
- Phil Maxwell
oh ... a scan. not fax?! .... it looked to me like she was faxink
- pb:
Just 5 more likes needed. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Fax, Petr. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
even a flat cat... faxes just can't handle the hair. You'd have to shave the cat first, else the hair will burn and stick to the drum... a mess! (I am extrapolating from transparencies, mind, i don't have access to a cat to test)
- Iphigenie
Hehe, Joelle. This is now tied for the 'likes' top stop. One more then, hehe. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Hehe, Greg. Blimey! Erm, is that not far from 500 likes now? ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Bloody marvelous, Kol. Wish I could like it again... too cute (and help u to 500 likes).
- Roberto Bonini
I couldn't believe it when I logged on from the morning over posting it and saw it was at something 200 likes! You all have a strange fetish with cats and fax machines, hehe. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Am I the only one who saw this and their first thought was - My goodness did someone break that cats neck? It still freaks me out a little
- SteVe C
Steve, it does look a little out of place, but cats are pretty bendy. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
They fax much better if you flatten them first. What?
- The original Kevin
LOL, Kevin.
- Kol Tregaskes
i can also imagine the cat going there cause it is snug and warm
- Iphigenie
Ey, it would be a tad warm on there, especially after a long working day. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Caption which needs to be said aloud: Uh Ohz, I'm totally FAXED!
- The Real sofarsoShawn
Hehe, Shawn. 10 more for the big 5-0-0. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Countdown! 8 more now!
- Mike Nayyar
bump for more likes
- Josh Haley
bump
- Roberto Bonini
One more!! :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
I took mine away, too much pressure.
- SteVe C
Wow, there we go, 500 likes!! Thank you all!! :-D
- Kol Tregaskes
I think Fax Kitty deserves a prize for that.
- Georgie Bestie
меня, признаться, подзаебал этот кот
- Парадокс Смейла
Kendra, absolutely. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
So we can put this post to rest now. :-) 505 likes final count, wow! :-D Good night all!
- Kol Tregaskes
did 3 people really un-like this? now at 506. wtf (edit: uh, oh, yeah, me and 2 + 506 others makes 509. dammit, jim, i'm an artist, not a mathematician)
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
wish I could double like!
- metalerik
Wish I could just like it at all. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
This is also still on the Best of page. That must be the longest running best of post? :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
But it's a cat being crushed...
- Richard A.
برای چی این همه لایک خورده؟؟؟؟؟
- نصرآبادی
Hehe, Richard.
- Kol Tregaskes
copy cat
- gibilix
518 like! most liked post?
- Lu Tao
ay yerim yaa çok tatlı kedicikk :))
- Arzu
Lu, yeah but a long way now. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
*bump*
- Andre
Blew past 500 likes - LIKE!!!!!
- Roberto Bonini
OMGosh, nearly heading to 550!!
- Kol Tregaskes
So we know how many people use this site.
- Richard A.
So that's what Paws Printing means.
- Jack&Cleo
Richard, we getting there. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Jack, hehe.
- Kol Tregaskes
this thread is making history.
- vijay
Indeed .. this is a most epic thread
- Mattb4rd
Hehe. 9 more for 550!
- Kol Tregaskes
8...
- The Real sofarsoShawn
7. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Actually only 5...cuz "You, Earl E Morningwood, yasin ghasemi and... 542 liked this"
- The Real sofarsoShawn
Who wants to bet how many likes this thead is going to get???
- Roberto Bonini
Gosh, no idea.
- Kol Tregaskes
take some bets then come back in a year to check?
- Iphigenie
:)
- SokooteDel
Holy smokes .. this pussy cat is approaching 600 likes!
- Mattb4rd
552 now, so there are some unlikes going on, hehe, oh well. Still an amazing amount of likes. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
560!
- The Real sofarsoShawn
And back down to 559. Hehe.
- Kol Tregaskes
And how could anyone not love kitties after seeing this photo?
- Susan Beebe
I liked it without reading this discussion - evidentially we have a lot of people who like the idea of faxing a cat!
- Rich
Rich, yes, worrying, hehe. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
564!
- The Real sofarsoShawn
I think we'll have to recruit more ffeeps before this record will ever be broken
- Jason (not an Argonaut)
maybe a good way to clone cats :)
- Roberto
Hehe, Roberto.
- Kol Tregaskes
This surely couldn't hit 600 likes, could it!?
- Kol Tregaskes
It could! Keep bumping it up!
- imabonehead
It will :)
- Roberto Bonini
My next cat post: http://beta.friendfeed.com/the-fun...
- Kol Tregaskes
Wow, not even 600 Likes? Feh. ;-)
- j1m
No yet. Close though. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Stuck on 581.
- Kol Tregaskes
One of the best funny cat pictures I've seen! :-)
- John Collis
Kristian, it appears to be. Hehe, John.
- Kol Tregaskes
ای بابا این پیشول بی خیال نمی شود، بابا پاشو برو دنبال یه بازی دیگه ، از هفته پیش تا حالا تو فکس ولو شدی حوصله ات سر نرفته، پاشو اقلا بپر رو کیبوردی چیزی
- Maryaminaa
11 more to 600. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
داداش كوتاه بيا، مي خواي ركورد بزني!؟
- Exir
هستم بره این کامنتتو ترجمه کنه اکسیر ! :))) داره از فضولی میمیره الان ! :D
- Shayan
Hehe, 6 more likes. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Need 1 more like, by my calculation, to get to 600
- Josh Haley
Another unlike then, back down to 598. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
it's 598+3, at the moment ;-)
- Andre
There we go, 601!! Wow, can't believe it. :-D Thanks everyone!!
- Kol Tregaskes
3 people un liked :(
- Roberto Bonini
I think there have been made unlikes over the last week, oh well.
- Kol Tregaskes
too many likes, the kitteh is burning up..stop the madness...;)
- Jason (not an Argonaut)
Haha, Jason.
- Kol Tregaskes
614!!!!!
- The Real sofarsoShawn
Whoa! :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
man! ..Kol is gaining ... and I saw that pic one day before Kol posted it :X ..and i let it go! :[)]
- pb:
Petr, who's he?
- Kol Tregaskes
omg, this post passed 600 likes!
- imabonehead
@Kol ..well the man .. Mr Photographer .. ok .. let me go there ..
- pb:
I see. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
631 likes, amazing stuff. :-D
- Kol Tregaskes
Day 11 and this thing's still going!
- Phil Maxwell
Why fax yourself when you can get famous via FriendFeed? :-)
- Willem (@wim66) ☠
whereas a cat *scan* is totally feasible
- Megan Craig
Kol, congratulations, you won the Friendfeed Award for the most likes entry!
- Jérôme
Kol is this from your rival: Squashy Cat Photography?
- The Real sofarsoShawn
Haha, Shawn. Have you really bumped this one again? ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
LOL I was actually looking at best of month and I thought I'm going to be clever :-)
- The Real sofarsoShawn
this makes me laugh every darn time I see it
- Stephanie•CogSciLibrarian
Who is this NShawnFW? ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
kitties do like to find new spots to nap :)
- Maryam
LOL, now over 650 likes.
- Kol Tregaskes
این هنوز در نیومده از لای این دستگاه؟
- Maryaminaa
Wow. this is good..... pleased, Kol?
- Roberto Bonini
Pleased? About the number of likes? I'm happy regardless. :-D
- Kol Tregaskes
So do we think it will go to 700 likes? ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
what do you mean by "it" ? say "he" or "she". :)
- Maryaminaa
Haha, I was referring to the entry. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
lol
- Maryaminaa
I see someone already posted 'Copy Cat' !! LOL Great picture
- Kevin J Hatton
:-)
- Kol Tregaskes
O HAI! I IZ WATIN FR COOPONZ, KTHXBYE.
- WYRD 101
Neksnapper 3000 Kitten Eradicator - Kills Kittehs Dead
- Mattb4rd
Hehe.
- Kol Tregaskes
10 more likes for 700! :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
7 more by my count!
- Bec Rowe @d0tski
Oops, yes you're right, Bec. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Isn't it illegal to fax a pussy?
- aerobroken
It's really only social convention which regards it as inappropriate, same with Xeroxing it, like one does with their b__tocks. Wait are we still talking about cats cats here or...
- The Real sofarsoShawn
OMGosh 700+ likes now!! LOL. Thank you all 702 of you. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Wow, not so bad huh? \u)
- Zu from AOD
Before faxing it, you have to flatten it out a bit. You're going at it all wrong! :-)
- Rick Cogley
Must try this at home!
- Anthony K. Valley ©
Bumping some old great posts. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Now THAT is a classic!
- Allan Besselink
you have to flatten it first!!! ;)
- Neda S.
This is very good humor!
- TrafficBug
Hey, we've hit the 700-like mark. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
just a couple thousand to go
- Jason (not an Argonaut)
LOL
- Smeerch
__awesome__
- scotu ._.,
and it got resurrected once again!
- Iphigenie
I managed to do it once, but I don't think I'm going to do it again. The results were a little fuzzy.
- Seth Greenblatt
Bump.
- Kol Tregaskes
ahahahahaha salaaa baaaaaakkkkkk
- missipipi
I'm so glad this thread has been revived. The cat in the fax machine never fails to delight.
- Michelle Jones
aha! 700 kişi zorla kapağın altına tepilen kediyi beğenmiş
- Siminya
I've heard of cheap paper but this is ridiculous!!
- Neda S.
Copy the cat
- Alyn William
And there I was thinking this was the most liked post on FriendFeed. Darn, just 3rd. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Just 100 more likes to go. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Missed this the first time around.
- John (bird whisperer)
:-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Wow, over 700 likes. :-D
- Kol Tregaskes
715 likes and counting.
- Kol Tregaskes
Fax Yeah!
- Playing Well with Others
:-)
- Kol Tregaskes
who revived that one?
- Iphigenie
Me, sorry.
- Kol Tregaskes
Just 40 more likes. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
all right let's do it...
- Iphigenie
Love this one!
- Fossil Huntress
:-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Free-to-play MMO Realm of the Mad God a maddening, retro take on Diablo - http://arstechnica.com/gaming...
Private Sanjeev and Rob Shillingsburg liked this
"Described as a "co-op fantasy MMO shooter," it's a free-to-play browser game with an emphasis on loot. You wander around a pixelated landscape with dozens of other players, fighting evil snakes, pirates, and cubes, all in the hopes of meeting the Mad God himself. It's frantic and messy, but with its multiple classes to unlock, plentiful gear to collect, and perma-death, it's also a tense and addictive experience."
- Amit Patel
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PhotoSketch: Internet Image Montage « Ming-Ming Cheng （程明明） - http://cg.cs.tsinghua.edu.cn:8080/cmm...
kartik vaithyanathan, Lisa L. Seifert | FHG™, qub and 18 other people liked this
Graphics research is amazing. This project: sketch and label something you want a photo of, then the system finds photos on the web, cuts out the parts that it wants, and composes everything together. Watch the video too.
- Amit Patel
from Bookmarklet
Graphics programmers have the best demos. Hands down.
- no name
The site is down at the moment, but here's a direct link to the video: http://vimeo.com/6496886
- Ben Darnell
This made me wonder once more how things spread through the social web. When I posted this the site was up! Then it got on gizmodo, reddit, etc. and the site went down. :(
- Amit Patel
Ming-Ming Cheng just received a Google China Fellowship:http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010...
- Jenny Zhou
it's amazing
- Yicong Liang
crazy good!
- Private Sanjeev
I downloaded the client, but it doesn't appear to work and has an expiration date of "1 Jan 2011" :(.
- Private Sanjeev
A Note From Our New Pals At PopCap - EA News - http://www.ea.com/news...
Rob Shillingsburg, Private Sanjeev and Suresh S liked this
Electronic Arts buys PopCap games. Whee!
- Amit Patel
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Complete Terraria Newbie FAQ (spoilers) - Steam Users' Forums - http://forums.steampowered.com/forums...
Rob Shillingsburg liked this
Amit disagrees, but I feel that you shouldn't have to read this -- it should be in the game, and obvious.
- Rob Shillingsburg
I don't necessarily disagree; I just think it's an interesting tradeoff. I think it's bad for individual players in the short term, which makes them more likely to join a community, and the benefit of communities might or might not offset the cost of the worse initial experience.
- Amit Patel
BLDGBLOG: Underground - http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2011...
Rob Shillingsburg liked this
Tales of the underground. I never knew moats were used to prevent people from digging tunnels underneath your walls!
- Amit Patel
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Play Terrarria and feel the pain of mining into water accidentally
- Rob Shillingsburg
I've felt that pain playing Dwarf Fortress! :) I had built an underwater farming area (protected from invaders) and had tried building an irrigation system that involved controlled draining of the lake above. Unfortunately I got it wrong, accidentally dug into the surface level, and the entire lake emptied into the 2nd level under my fortress, flooding everything until I hurriedly built a wall to block off part of the area.
- Amit Patel
Was that Lake Peigneur? ;-) The first image in the Mine/Countermine section of that article looks like St Andrews Castle. The mine was rediscovered relatively recently when someone was renovating a basement in a house across the street. Now you can explore most of the tunnel from the castle side.
- Seth
Markets better handle processes that follow a normal distribution; governments better handle processes that follow power law distributions. Normal distributions are predictable, manageable, with few outliers. It's possible to make a service & a profit. Good example is car insurance. How many NGOs can send an aircraft carrier to Haiti in a moment?
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The number of accidents is pretty well known in advance so rates can be set profitably. Even if they are wrong they aren't usually so wrong that the company will be wiped out. Not so with processes governed by power law distributions. Power laws are not predictable and have huge outliers that will wipe out even highly capitalized companies. Good examples are earthquakes and stock markets. Notice you'll see the government is the guarantor of last resort in almost all these situations. When markets themselves try to hedge the risk, because of the connectedness of the markets, when the outlier happens they all cascade in failure. If you want to destabilize something figure out where it lies on normal distribution thinking and then figure out how to make into power law dominated process.
- Todd Hoff
Was thinking of defining stealing as any entity that reduces my possibility space. Probability is calculated by figuring out how many times something happens over how many ways it could happen. The how many ways is a possibility space. If you reduce my possibility space you've stolen an option from me and that has a value. This doesn't really work, but the current notions of value that...
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- Todd Hoff
If you want to destabilize something find out where it assumes a normal distribution and make it a power law.
- Todd Hoff
Government as platform: GPS, Roads, Legal System
- Todd Hoff
Damn, Todd, that's huge
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Why is that Alex?
- Todd Hoff
I found it to be very profound and novel, that is that I had never heard it put this way before. *mind blown*
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
I look forward to your startup ideas :-) And unfortunately it's not original with me, I just thought it worked really well in the context of this post, which I do think is somewhat original. For more info: http://opengovernment.labs.oreilly.com/, http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive..., http://www.businessweek.com/blogs...
- Todd Hoff
Thomas Jefferson Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom (http://www.stephenjaygould.org/ctrl...) more than just freedom of religion, but freedom of thought as an opportunity amplifier.
- Todd Hoff
Iguassu Falls, Argentina - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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San Francisco: The Embarcadero Freeway - http://www.slate.com/id...
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"It took an earthquake—the 7.1 magnitude 1989 Loma Prieta event—to do what government could not: Show that cities could successfully remove urban highways without disastrous consequences. San Francisco's Embarcadero Freeway was an elevated, 1.2-mile stretch of highway built (not without opposition) in 1958, originally envisioned as part of a larger network of proposed "trafficways" crisscrossing the city (the majority of which were rejected by the burgeoning and noisome "freeway revolts")."
- Amit Patel
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Wow. I had no idea there was ever a freeway there. Keep in mind, my first visit to that area was in '03. Knowing that, now the landscape in certain areas make more sense. Those bits I saw were leftover freeway parts.
- Anika
IMO, having that eyesore come down was one of the true blessings of the '89 quake.
- vicster
vicster is correct. That freeway was an eyesore. Both for those on it and those located nearby. And what has happened since (both at Embarcadero and over at Octavia St.) is a vast improvement. Although you will still find people who bitch about there not being a freeway...
- Spidra Webster
And the waterfront and SOMA have improved so much, since the freeway went away.
- vicster
too bad people had to pay for it with their lives.
- Joe The Sausage
AFAIK, no one died on the Embarcadero Fwy or the Central Fwy. It was the 880 in Oakland that killed 42 people. It took 11 years to rebuild it on a new alignment, this time eschewing the double deck design
- Victor Ganata
i sit orthopaedically!
- Joe The Sausage
I once read about the original plans for the SF Freeway system--it was pretty crazy. The Central Fwy was supposed to connect with the Golden Gate, the 80 was supposed to go all the way to the Sunset District, there was supposed to be a second bridge connecting Candlestick to Alameda, and the Embarcadero Fwy was supposed to run offshore to the Golden Gate. And I thought the freeway plans in L.A. were ambitious.
- Victor Ganata
I'd visit San Francisco and surrounding areas much more if there were a freeway. However the Embarcadero Freeway was in an awful place. I really like what they've done with that area now. I'd prefer the freeways to be underground, but I have to wait three more decades before the robotic tunnel digging machines become cheap enough for this to happen.
- Amit Patel
Tunneling through the San Andreas Fault? I think it's going to take a *long* time to perfect that kind of technology
- Victor Ganata
There are fault lines, and then there are continental plate boundaries moving in opposite directions at almost 2 inches a year.
- Victor Ganata
If I remember correctly, the San Andreas fault is entirely west of San Francisco, and the Hayward fault is entirely east of San Francisco. Are there any major faults running through the city?
- Amit Patel
True, the San Andreas runs just south and west of the city http://pubs.usgs.gov/of... and the Hayward fault is on the other side of the Bay, but the problem is that a lot of the city is built on soil that has a high risk of liquifaction http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... -- I would think tunneling through that would be almost as risky as actually going through a plate boundary
- Victor Ganata
We need to solidify the soft areas: http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2009...
- Amit Patel
Farmer Makes Submerged Ricefield Productive by Planting Sub 1 Rice « Agriculture Business Week - http://www.agribusinessweek.com/farmer-...
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"IR64-Sub1 is the popular rice variety IR64 inserted with the submergence tolerance gene or Sub 1, which IRRI and the University of California-Davis have discovered from an Indiah variety FR13A. IRA64-Sub 1, says Dcsamero, is a non-genetically engineered rice plant that can survive, grow, and develop even after 10 days of complete submergence."
- Amit Patel
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I could be wrong about this, but it sounds like to avoid the “genetic engineering” label they went through a convoluted time consuming process that ended up with the same results but with a process they can call “not genetically engineered”.
- Amit Patel
It turns out they first used genetic engineering, with bacteria transferring genes into the rice, to figure out what genes they needed. Then, because people wouldn't eat genetically engineered rice, they reproduced the same rice using traditional slow techniques.
- Amit Patel
"Usage is like oxygen for ideas" - Matt Mullenweg - http://ma.tt/2010...
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That's the clue: "if you’re not embarrassed when you ship your first version you waited too long."
- Devrim Demirel
Users of anything 1.0 are beta-testers anyway, aren't they.
- 9000
I've beta tested Windows for 15 years, and finally they have the product.
- Devrim Demirel
RT @paulg: The New Funding Landscape: http://paulgraham.com/superan...
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From Reddit: "If you really want to shut down WikiLeaks, just have Yahoo! acquire them."
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Cool use of new technology! @Yokum explains Option Pricing to a Founder: http://www.xtranormal.com/watch... 5 minutes worth watching
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Weekend project: generating tiny tree graphics.
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These are 30x30 but for my current project I need something a little smaller, so I'll end up losing this nice detail. That's ok. Nobody's going to be staring at the trees (I hope). They look even cooler at 48x48 (see third screenshot) but my goal is 24x24.
- Amit Patel
These are awesome! Friendfeed needs a 'love' button. Or maybe a 'DO WANT'.
- Rob Shillingsburg
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Voronoi / Worley Noise Knowlege Dump - GameDev.Net Discussion Forums - http://www.gamedev.net/communi...
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"Well in the simplest sense, it is a different representation of points in space, but rather than showing the points themselves they are visualized by the pixels around them. So, as you will see in the pictures below the further the pixel is away from the point the brighter it will be. This of course can be inverted. With this gradients can be formed from the point going outwards in all directions . "
- Amit Patel
I no longer call cities by their name but their airport code. So long EWR, hello SEA.
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Cataclysm map comparison - WoWWiki - Your guide to the World of Warcraft - http://www.wowwiki.com/Catacly...
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For the World of Warcraft expansion they've updated some of the maps. More interesting to me though is that they've redrawn most of the maps to be more abstract, easier to read, better contrast, and more labels on named areas.
- Amit Patel
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DesignFoo: Improving Visual Cues in Chrome’s Tabs « fox @ fury - http://fury.com/2010...
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Kevin's on a blogging frenzy!
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Why Wesabe Lost to Mint - http://blog.precipice.org/why-wes...
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Amazing analysis of how a couple of product mistakes at a startup can hurt growth
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Troy Polamalu Superman (Flying) Tackle! - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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