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One problem for me is opening more interesting links than I have time to get to. Bookmarks don't really solve the core problem of not properly managing my time. When I used to use …

There have been plenty of games with over 1 million in sales being labelled as roguelike in the past decade or so, for example: FTL, Binding of Isaac, Slay the Spire, Dead Cells. Y…

Generally images in emails are linked, and not actually sent with the email. So any time the email is opened, the email client makes a request to the image host, and this request c…

There are certainly companies doing this already. The only advantage of a tracking pixel is if your email content doesn't have any images already. And I guess it sounds scarier for…

I'm curious how they're doing it. Without having used their product, I gather that they're blocking certain known trackers and/or checking for tracking pixels directly. But it's no…

Gmail can do their own tracking on what emails a user opens. If they find that a user is leaving a lot of mail from a domain unread, they might decide to start shifting that mail i…

They don't, but they also don't share that information with the sender. Gmail wants senders to be proactive and auto-unsubscribe disengaged recipients, which requires tracking open…

And on top of that, some mail providers like Gmail won't even tell you this is happening. I understand why they don't but it's really difficult if you're a small time newsletter tr…

Tracking pixels are the closest we have to determining whether somebody opens (& hopefully reads) the email. Click rate is the next best thing but unless you are an incredible mark…

He doesn't have a Wikipedia page, but Cleveland Blakemore certainly fits the Usenet gamedev troll profile.

It's just a censor.

They're referring to the number of times to subtract 35 from 350. Do it 10 times and you end up with 0, there is nothing more to divide and so 10 is the answer.

Your point on time limits reminds me of XCOM 2, where Firaxis added turn limits to most missions to combat this same problem. They ended up doubling back a bit in the expansion by …

Reminds me of: "No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame."

While that was my first thought on reading the headline, consider this scenario: Man makes a drug to help people in pain. Turns out this comes with some nasty side effects. Feeling…

It amazes me how difficult it is (relative to the drink complexity) to order a regular black coffee at a Starbucks or Dunkin Donuts.

Yes, digraphs involving z are quite common in Polish so it's not as bad as it looks. Still, English would never have a string of them like "szcz" ("shch" in English orthography).

I think it could have been interesting if it was somehow based around the contrast of what Jack thinks he's doing and what's actually going on. But from skimming the article it see…

The constant +-25 is just a consequence of the matchmaking enforcing balanced MMR matchups. It's not like chess where you're more likely to have some kind of imbalance. That's why …

They still teach Animal Farm. Remember: Russians are Bad.

I'd rather be a replacable cog than a crucial lynchpin. I prefer to look at my job in the same way. It's much less stressful that way.

Same thing. The time is the investment. There are always projects with better RoI so a rewrite is constantly at the bottom of the pile. "We'll get to it someday."

I tend to do the same, picking at uneven feeling bits. What sucks is how it turns into a vicious cycle. If I can somehow keep away long enough for the skin to heal, I can usually s…

It always surprises me to hear that people enjoy carbonated water. Different strokes. The only way I can stand carbonation is with some flavor. Tap water is just fine to me.