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MichaelJW

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I'm an editor and data analyst at Envato.

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hackeducation.com 11y ago

Data and Diplomas: On LinkedIn%27s Acquisition of Lynda.com

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www.hahabird.com 13y ago

Pumpktris: Playable Tetris game embedded in a jack-o'-lantern

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checkthis.com 13y ago

Twistory is now history

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store.steampowered.com 13y ago

Big Picture: Steam for your TV and game controller

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websites.psychology.uwa.edu.au 13y ago

NASA faked the moon landing--Therefore (Climate) Science is a Hoax

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www.imore.com 13y ago

Why might Apple make a 4 inch, 16:9 iPhone?

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www.kernelmag.com 13y ago

How To Be a Tech Blogger

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googleblog.blogspot.gr 13y ago

Google Handwrite: Handwriting recognition built in to Google.com on mobile

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rbutr.com 14y ago

Rbutr: a browser extension that finds rebuttals to web pages you're reading

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katebachus.com 14y ago

Legos, spaceships, breasts.

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www.businessinsider.com 14y ago

How Apple Decided To Screw Over Amazon And Consumers Over E-Books

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investor.google.com 14y ago

Larry Page's 2012 CEO Update

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plus.google.com 14y ago

Why Instagram for Android dooms Android to second-class app status [Scoble]

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edition.cnn.com 14y ago

What's really wrong with Goldman Sachs (by Lawrence Lessig)

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jessefreeman.com 14y ago

Four Days With Microsoft and Win 8

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dcurt.is 14y ago

Google's new "batshit crazy" UX

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blog.mrmeyer.com 14y ago

Why Algebra Matters And How Technology Can Help

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gskinner.com 14y ago

The Evolution of (Web) Development Tools

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As I recall, in 2006 only students were allowed on it, and many of them would add seemingly everyone on campus as a friend.

It's possible that today, students still do that, but other people don't, bringing the average down.

https://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=405727117130

"Closing the Gift Shop may disappoint many of the people who have given millions of gifts, but we made the decision after careful thought about where we need to focus our product development efforts."

"We'll be able to focus more on improving and enhancing products and features that people use every day, such as Photos, News Feed, Inbox, games, comments, the "Like" button and the Wall."

What Ouya Isn't 14 years ago

I think you misunderstand vibrunazo's point about some games being "Ouya ready". You can already plug an Android into a TV and connect it to a controller, so some games already offer proper, non-touch gamepad support, designed to work on a big screen.

Here's a video of Sonic 4 Episode 2 that demonstrates this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fUP6mh3aOg

Plus, touchscreen games don't all require you to tap specific points on the screen (as in your Reversi example). Look at Temple Run: you duck and jump by swiping down or up, from anywhere on the screen, rather than tapping on-screen Duck and Jump buttons.

One of the developers posted this on Reddit, in response to someone asking whether there's a registration-free version[1]:

I'm afraid not at this point. The system is set up to be connected to the user account (to make sure the votes and the links are attributed to an account).

However, it does make sense that some people might want a "Viewer only" version which doesn't add or vote, but just displays. We might look in to this....?

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/skeptic/comments/u8q8a/new_tool_to_h...

Why I hate search 14 years ago

It looks like Google are working on it. Here's what I see when I search for [regular expression], as I often do to double-check syntax: http://screencast.com/t/A9DoZXes6

Edit: It used to be the case that if you bookmarked the result (and had your bookmarks synced with Google), it'd star the result as well. Seems this feature has gone, though.

As I recall, the Lost finale was broadcast simultaneously in the UK and the US, so people actually did do this. Obviously that's a special case though.

One issue to bear in mind is spoilers; if something big and exciting and story-based aired last night in the US, chances are I'm going to see someone spoil some aspect of the plot on Twitter this morning.