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One of the very basic ideas behind good music is that […] restatement is valuable and repetition is not.
rndm thghts
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… but I also want a video game that I can teach my son, and we can play our whole lives.
— Frank Lantz
¡Cómo bajó el dólar!
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the design of Facebook Games has abandoned the old-school approach of trying to design a great game experience for players and instead is trying to design an engine to optimize revenues from the players.
Capitalism never solves it’s crisis problems, it moves them arround geographically.
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Even if it is a single player game, you still talk about it with your friends; it becomes part of your social framework for relating and empathizing with other people.
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Professors nowadays seem to have become professional fundraisers who do a little research on the side.
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In social games, friends aren’t really friends; they are mere resources.
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kids desire increasingly immersive content experiences, better integration of digital technology into physical objects, spaces and activities, and more intuitive interfaces. (…) It’ll be a shift from smartphones that can go anywhere to The Internet of Things which is everywhere.
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As we multitask online, we are “training our brains to pay attention to the crap.
Why We Built Readability | Arc90 Blog
The notion of tethering content delivery to a particular proprietary platform or hardware device is admitting defeat. Content is effectively locked up. It’s un-shareable, un-index-able, inaccessible and un-linkable. It’s a glorified form of paper.
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I personally find myself clicking on Readability on sites that have no ads at all and are relatively well-designed. It isn’t just about removing stuff, it’s about imposing a consistent experience across the Web.
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Neither is this a mere matter of historical origins that can be brushed away as inconsequential: neither states nor markets can exist without the constant threat of force.
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… the iPhone is the first computer in a long time that doesn’t make people afraid.
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