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Nice to see Xamarin buying into the student software model. Will this be available to UK students?

The article links on the left and the info panel (containing author, "Open in HN" link, and the points) on the right are not aligned. I'm not sure if you designed it that way but personally I would prefer them aligned.

Other than that, good job! Congrats.

The clip showing the water interacting with breaking glass blew my mind. It may well be a while before we see anything close to that level of realism being incorporated into games though.

Agreed. It is just not clear what guarantees my privacy. This wouldn't strictly keep me from using it - perhaps in working environment - but I certainly would not use it in conjunction with personal aspects of my life.

Does this not raise privacy concerns similar to Google Glass? Is it not possible that people may be recorded without their knowing and without their permission?

> What people need to do is make a crowdsourcing app for the next time this happens to better focus all that willpower in the right direction.

we have an app-like thing for that, it is called a browser. I think the larger issue is that regardless of which medium being used, if the people are using it irresponsibly then there will always ALWAYS be the same witch-hunt.

There was a great comment on one of the few Boston bomber threads that I remember seeing on the front page (I'm browsing on my phone and will link to it when I get home). The crux of the commentor's thoughts were that if the internet community doesn't take responsibility for its actions then all it does is enhance the argument for tightening regulations in relation to the internet. how long does the government wait before censoring reddit and other message boards naming names?

When someone is wrongly accused and is arrested by citizens on a crusade?

When someone is wrongly accused and is lynched by citizens on a crusade?

all any of us can do is play our own part. Don't take part in witch hunting and call out those who do.

The site design is decent but design comments is the only feedback you are going to get as that is all anyone can determine from your site. Some examples would be nice. How about the difference between standard personalised hashtagging and highly personalised hashtagging? A sentence or two about your technology stack?

If this is simply a test balloon to gather reaction for some potential software then great, it's an interesting notion but not one that warrants my email address.

Also, you may want to think about adding a middle tier option for occasional tweeters at a reduced price. There are a lot of people that send more than 5 tweets per day (but not much more) and will perhaps feel 5 euro per month is too pricey.

> But if I had to pick one that idea laser-focused itself directly into my brain, it would be from “The Late Philip J. Fry”.

This is the first episode I watched start to finish. I never really got into Futurama from just passively watching it but this episode also stuck in my mind, it was fantastic. Although the author's book may have been used, the influence of the episode was Poul Andreson's Flight to Forever[1].

[1]http://theinfosphere.org/The_Late_Philip_J._Fry

> Please steal any good ideas you see here. I’d rather have them benefit the world than die in obscurity.

Class.

I've checked back to this site a few times since the OP first put it on HN, I think it's coming along nicely, well done. It looks like you have listened to the feedback you received and the design is really appealing.

One question - Do you have a release date for the algorithms group yet?

Not sure if it is HN-worthy but a warning in the title due to the graphic nature of the image would probably be appropriate.

Thanks for the fun read, it made me smile on the bus and anything that distracts my mind from the unfortunate souls I share this carriage with is a welcome relief.

"A guy took offence because he thought the robot had looked at his girlfriend’s tits basically and tried to attack it."

Finally proof that there are in fact robots smarter than some humans.

Interesting. I have been developing an educational game for well over a year now and was supposed to be released a few months ago. We got to 4 weeks before the deadline and the boss came in and had a one-to-one with myself to explain we needed to put the date back, he just wasn't happy with the product. As frustrating as that was, the game is now in much better shape, far closer to how we had imagined it from the start. One point I would make, as a very small company (only two full time guys, myself and our artists) we had to create short term contracts to help out at various times. The rate of pay for them was ridiculously low (as was ours), and we truly got what we paid for. If you pay peanuts be prepared to get monkeys.