franciscoapinto | 14 years ago | on: Humble Indie Bundle 5: pay what you want for video games
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franciscoapinto | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: What are you Building?
That is a great idea, if you can get it to work.
I think your nomenclature's wrong, though. If you are comparing via the AST, it's lexical version control.
However, on your second paragraph:
> That is, if you move a function, I can see that as a single action even if you modify the function a little bit when moving it
That already seems a bit more semantic than lexical.
franciscoapinto | 14 years ago | on: Interesting Captcha (scroll down to the comments)
Originality apart, I personally think this is a terrible idea:
- Requires Javascript.
- Makes accessibility suffer (your colorblind users are going to be _so_ mad).
franciscoapinto | 14 years ago | on: CSS-Only Clickjacking
This again?
Ah. Good old noscript.
franciscoapinto | 14 years ago | on: GM Says Facebook Ads Don't Work, Pulls $10 Million Account
> When watching TV the intent is to watch TV, not purchase soap, a car, or a soft drink.
The difference being that facebook doesn't make you watch a 10 second ad between each one of Dave's party photos.
franciscoapinto | 14 years ago | on: Fixie.js - Automatic filler content for HTML documents.
Won't work with javascript disabled, obviously. This makes it unusable for me.
franciscoapinto | 14 years ago | on: Poul-Henning Kamp: The Most Expensive One-byte Mistake
Interesting discussion on the rationale behind null-terminated strings: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4418708/whats-the-rationa...
franciscoapinto | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who are your most influential failures?
I wouldn't read an ebook but I'd certainly read a series of blogposts.
> Taught me to not do anything unless I really believe in the idea.
This can be dangerous. Sometimes you're unsure if your latest and greatest idea will work out, and that's when you should put your critical thinking at play, i.e., weigh the effort vs. the likelihood of success. The "don't launch a startup, launch an experiment" mantra is valuable.
franciscoapinto | 14 years ago | on: Designers hold on to your jobs: the computers are coming.
news.yc is both cynical AND pessimistic!
franciscoapinto | 14 years ago | on: The Underpants Project
https://panopticlick.eff.org/
You'd be surprised.
franciscoapinto | 14 years ago | on: Show HN: Startup Weekend Newcaste Hack Twilio + Insurance
Lots of: "Message recieved [sic] in wrong format. Please retry"
The topbar is really confusing.
Other than that, good work.
franciscoapinto | 14 years ago | on: Ubuntu 12.04 Review: This is the Distro you’re looking for.
Too hot gpu? If you have a ATI graphics chip on that machine, you can try one of the following:
- Installing the proprietary drivers (fglrx). https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/ATI - Properly configuring power management for the libre ones. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1569512
Disclaimer: I'm not an ubuntu user (debian here)
franciscoapinto | 14 years ago | on: It's surprisingly simple to click jack using CSS4
Ah. Good old noscript.
franciscoapinto | 14 years ago | on: Robocom: a game for programmers
It was a disappointment to check the downloads page and discover that there isn't anything other than a windows version available.
EDIT: It does seem to run on wine.
franciscoapinto | 14 years ago | on: Where $37k in Kickstarter pledges went
>Remember what you were asking for funding for - the game.
Actually, from the kickstarter page:
The funds generated from Kickstarter allow us to:
Hire extra talent for things like music, sound effects and additional platform development like Android
Promote and market to help sell the game and fund future expansions and possible sequels
Localize the game to other regions like Europe and Asiafranciscoapinto | 14 years ago | on: Where $37k in Kickstarter pledges went
Nice strawman. There was a single title suggestion -- yours. I explained why I didn't agree with it. I'm not out to get you, and I don't purposefully choose "sensationalist" headlines for my submissions. I admit that the "actually" on the headline was poorly chosen and shouldn't have been there.
FYI: There's apparently a time limit for editing a post. I can no longer change it.
franciscoapinto | 14 years ago | on: Where $37k in Kickstarter pledges went
Thank you for this. I'll retitle the HN submission.
BTW, I'm not affiliated with the kickstarter project in any way.
franciscoapinto | 14 years ago | on: Where $37k in Kickstarter pledges went
What would you title it?
franciscoapinto | 14 years ago | on: Where $37k in Kickstarter pledges went
Like I stated somewhere below, I wasn't aiming for sensationalism. Like I also stated below, suggest a better title and I'll update the submission.
"How we lost 50% of our kickstarter funds to overhead" is not a better title, since your definition of "overhead" may not be mine -- it isn't, in this case.
franciscoapinto | 14 years ago | on: Where $37k in Kickstarter pledges went
Please, suggest a better title and I'll update. It was not my intention to use a sensationalist title . I, however, think that you may be reading too much into it.
EDIT: do you mean the title here on HN or the post's actual title, on the kickstarter website?
page 1
- Amnesia is fantastic. Terrifying, yes, but fantastic.
- Limbo is gorgeous.
- Bastion is a great game.
- Haven't played the others, but I've heard good things.
A big "thank you" to the developers and humble bundle inc.