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The title of the piece is actually "Short Trip" as seenin the title tag and the end of the experience. It seems the HN submitter chose "simulator."

We're on Rails 4 now for the general "Chorus" codebase (but you're right, we include a number of varied apps under the same umbrella when talking about our platform)

Hey Connor, awesome work. You would have saved us a lot of work had you created this a year ago ;)

Disclosure: I live with a benefits broker.

I'm interested in your friend's story. At 23, male, in VA I had absolutely no trouble buying an individual policy. I have some health issues, but nothing major, but I was able to secure a decent policy for just over 100$/month. MD should be even easier (if more expensive), considering there is no medical underwriting in MD.

This is a smart move by Facebook. I'm almost surprised to see them acknowledge in the initial announcement that they'll retain the ability for Instagram to interact with other social networks, although I'll be interested to see how thoroughly those features are supported as Facebook takes the reigns.

The article does have a quote using 'for.' '”They caught him and he was secretly arrested and now works for the FBI,” a unnamed source said to be close to Sabu told FoxNews.com.'

Certainly not a very credible citation, but it shows that the poster didn't generate the sensationalist title from thin air.

Drawing a star causes the video to appear.

The Double Fine Kickstarter pitch video does a pretty good job of explaining why it can't fund an Adventure game, primarily because publishers generally won't fund anything that isn't a guaranteed success. The Double Fine kickstarter projects shows a shift in power from the publisher to the developers/players.

While it would be nice to have a toggle that enables output of HTML5's new semantic tags, I don't believe that it should be the default. Internet Explorer 6-8 require a JavaScript polyfill to support these tags, which means that for IE users with JS disabled, the layout completely breaks. Here's a blog post from Trevor Davis at Viget that summarizes the argument pretty well: http://www.viget.com/inspire/html5-elements-irresponsible-ch...

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Andrew, I work for Sapient based out of Arlington. I know that we were recently looking for a web developer with python experience. The position may have been filled, but I would be happy to put your resume in. The tech recruiter is a good buddy of mine. jakelear @ gmail.

I can definitely understand how the masses would side with Mojang on this one. Big media corp vs small indie self-made studio, etc.

However, not knowing all that much about "Scrolls," I feel like Bethesda (Zenimax) has a good argument here. The only artwork I've seen from scrolls depicts Fantasy-style characters in leather and metal armor. From what I understand, it's some sort of card game, but that's not obvious from the at-a-glance view, and I think there could be some confusion among those unfamiliar with the two games in question.

Any major trademark holder has to actively protect their copyright/trademark and I feel like this, though perhaps unfortunate, is a pretty standard legal practice.

The author and the publisher are primary stakeholders in the success of the book, not Jobs.

Tens of thousands of non-programmers. A few minutes spent in the livestream chat feed was enough to drive a sane man to madness. 50% of comments were asking if the stream was minecraft 1.8, the other 50% were rude comments about Notch's marriage/weight/work ethic/etc.

An interesting, albeit not that valuable, challenge. It's a fun little question, but it's not even valuable as a black hat exercise. It's just a non-sensical hypothetical.

I totally agree. When recently searching for jobs, I found so much value in being able to investigate the company and the opportunity. However, I can understand the recruiter point of view: Many recruiters who are cold calling from recruiting firms make their money only if they are directly responsible for the placement.

It's an unfortunate side effect that it is risky for the recruiter to drop the name of the company, because the potential candidate could then bypass the recruiter, and consequently, the recruiter loses that placement commission.

I think he says clout, as in influence.

I had the great pleasure of meeting Mr. Carmack recently (here's the photo proof: http://jacoblear.com/carmack.jpg ) and was able to listen to him talk casually, as opposed to in an interview or speaking event. He doesn't turn his brilliance on and off, it's there all the time.

When I was a kid, I wanted to do 2 things, make video games and go to space. Here we have a man who is a legend in the games industry, and also started a company sending rockets into space. He's awesome.

It's probably safe to say that the most downloaded is also the most cached.