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PixelRobot

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You can't win me, I can't be beat I won't hurt you unless you cheat You can't see me behind the screen I'm half human and half machine

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pico-8.com 11y ago

Pico-8 fantasy game console

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www.kongregate.com 12y ago

Show HN: I made an HTML5 game (not anoter 2048 clone)

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www.forbes.com 13y ago

The world's most innovative companies list according to Forbes

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penny-arcade.com 13y ago

How an app with 200,000 downloads led to developer homelessness

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www.thekickbackmachine.com 13y ago

The KickBack Machine - Learn how to get your Kickstarter project funded

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slatest.slate.com 14y ago

Nigerian Spam Email: Why spam email is so obvious

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www.washingtonpost.com 14y ago

Does Apple prove that R&D is overrated?

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marketingland.com 14y ago

How Apple Made Twitter The Poster Child Of Android's Tablet Failure

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blog.speculist.com 14y ago

In the Future Everything Will Be A Coffee Shop

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scripting.com 14y ago

Hackathons are nonsense

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www.wired.co.uk 14y ago

Retro design is crippling innovation

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www.adityaravishankar.com 14y ago

Command and Conquer – Programming an RTS game in HTML5 and Javascript

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www.guardian.co.uk 14y ago

US pressured Spain to implement online piracy law, leaked files shows

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www.brianmadden.com 14y ago

Why it will be hard for Microsoft to "win" the future desktop/tablet/Win8 race

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blog.semisecretsoftware.com 14y ago

Open-Sourcing Your Game While It's Still Popular

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oldgreader.appspot.com 14y ago

Show HN: my weekend project, Good Old Google Reader

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www.economist.com 14y ago

Internet companies: Attack of the clones

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www.cbsnews.com 15y ago

From Cuba, Venezuela's Chavez governs via Twitter

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www.readwriteweb.com 15y ago

JavaScript Creator Says the Language Wasn't Just Dumb Luck

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www.theatlantic.com 15y ago

Infographic: Are We in the Middle of Another Tech Bubble?

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www.readwriteweb.com 15y ago

E-Books on Haskell

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www.readwriteweb.com 15y ago

Silverlight Has the Exact Same Vulnerability That WebGL Does

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codingconduct.cc 15y ago

Don't Play Games With Me! Promises and Pitfalls of Gameful Design

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www.slate.com 15y ago

Do knockoff Prada bags hurt Prada or help the company sell more?

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www.wired.co.uk 15y ago

Business plans never mention ethics

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www.slate.com 15y ago

Why does Europe suck at technological innovation?

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www.evernote.com 15y ago

Evernote Developer Competition

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www.networkworld.com 15y ago

Vatican publication rehabilitates hackers

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www.guardian.co.uk 15y ago

Microsoft co-founder lays bare his battles with Bill Gates

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www.slate.com 15y ago

Gamification: Ditching reality for a game isn't as fun as it sounds

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If you outlaw hacking tools only criminals will have hacking tools.

This would make the EU less safe, since security experts will not be able to know what they're facing or check the security of their own systems against real attacks until they're really being attacked. Another clueless law that does the opposite of what it's supposed to do. Either that or it will be completely ignored.

I thought some people would be interested in a way to get the data out of all those ugly JSON files where Google put all your old social data from Google Reader, so here's Good Old Google Reader. Still alpha, but this is what I've got so far. Any thoughts? I made most of it yesterday, so there's still a lot of room for improvement.

FaqMe? FaqYou 15 years ago

Hey, I was working on something similar as a side project. I was even using a similar name for it.

The approach is different though. Well, FAQ it, I think I'll keep on working on it.

I've noticed that most extroverts think like this. People who are extroverted usually have problems understanding what being introverted is like, and usually just see it as a different label to give social anxiety a more socially acceptable image, since it seems it's easier to understand for them. They assume everybody is an extrovert, just like them, but some people just feel social anxiety and call themselves extroverts. What you call "the traditional use" seems to me like the traditional misconception about introverts.

I'm an introvert myself, and I don't feel social anxiety. I grew up thinking I was shy, since my introversion seemed to be traditionally and socially identified with shyness, but at one point I realized I didn't feel social anxiety at all. It actually seemed to me that extrovert were much more worried about social situations and how they were perceived socially than me.

I don't try to explain my introversion to extroverts because I've noticed most of them don't get it. This makes it hard to use as an excuse, or even as a reasonable reason for your behaviour. I get dragged to social situations sometimes because extroverted people just assume I'll have fun if I just relax a bit, and sometimes I accept because I don't want to be rude. The result is I don't feel anxious or anything like that, I just get bored fast and want to go home soon. If I were actually interested in some activity being an introvert wouldn't get in the way, because being interested in it would keep my interest. It's just that social activities don't usually keep my interest for too long. They just feel like a boring waste of time to me, not something that makes me anxious.

This doesn't mean I don't enjoy social situations sometimes. I enjoy parties and concerts and stuff like that. I'm just the kind of guy who leaves the party early with some kind of excuse, not because of social anxiety, but because I'm starting to get tired and bored with the whole thing. I don't ever use "I'm an introvert" as an excuse, since I know people will not get it. I don't use it and I don't see other people use it to explain why they do certain things or don't do other things.

The title is not true.

I watched the press conference the police gave and they didn't mention Sony at all until a journalist asked about the Sony hack and the police officer answered the arrested could be related to it, maybe, but that they didn't know if they were, and that they weren't going to charge them with anything related to it unless they found out they were involved. So no, they didn't get "arrested over Sony Hack".

This three guys were arrested because they were the administrators of a chat Anonymous used for their online meetings. They could be related to some DDoS attacks in Spain, though it's not clear how, and that's why they got arrested. They're not being charged with data stealing so far, just regular DDoS attacks against banks, political parties, foreign governments and similar organizations. Not confirmed relation with the Sony hack so far.

I do it whenever it feels like my brain needs a reboot, that is, when my mental processes seem to be frozen and don't flow properly. That's like a pair of times every day. Some days more, some other less.

Nothing fancy, I just sit there breathing and take everything else out of my mind.

Since I do it when I feel I need it doesn't feel like a waste of time or anything like that. I know I'll be more focused after meditating and will do a better job.

I think there is little wrong with assuming that the probability of appearance of life given right condition and time to develop is one

Fair enough. It's a bit like the infinite monkeys in infinite typewriters scenario. Given enough time, sure, you'll have life. It's a question of how much time. Still, assuming all Eart-like planets will actually develop life given the time lapse of the existence of the Milky Way does still seems like a bold assumption.

I assume "Earth like" in this context means planets that resemble the only planet known to hold life at least enough to be capable of holding life themselves. The problem is we don't even know what that means exactly. It's also assuming that life can only exist in "Earth like" conditions.

Also, if Fraction of Earth‐like planets that develop life = 1 and Mars is an "Earth like" planet, are they assuming life evolved in Mars too or something?

I think the author is taking Spanish too literally here. Just because the literal translation doesn't imply blame or seems to take it away for an English speaker doesn't mean that Spanish speakers don't see it there.

"Se han perdido las llaves" is not going to make you look less guilty than "I lost the keys" when used in context.

Well, you're more likely to know the sociable people with Asperger's than the antisocial ones, right? What you describe is not the case with all the people who have Asperger's. Some avoid social interaction because they know they don't understand the norms and prefer to avoid potential conflicts. You can't make a generalization there.

Shyness is all about anxiety about social interaction. Oversensitivity to social norms can cause it, yes, but also bad experiences or low self-esteem.

Introversion/Extroversion is about where you focus your mind. Introverted people are more focused on their own thoughts and mental processes, and extroverted people are more focused on interacting with the mental processes of other people. If something, introversion would imply caring less about social interaction and social norms, not oversensitivity. That doesn't mean introverted people don't care or follow social norms, or that they're not sociable. They just need more time with their own thoughts and feel less stimulated by petty social interaction like small talk. That doesn't mean introverted people are not sociable. Some introverts are very sociable and good at conversations, because they try to make their conversations interesting and stimulating. Some other are not interested in being sociable at all.