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Daniel (HN staff) asked me to repost it. Said they were trying something out. There were a couple of big changes in the game since I posted that, though.

I don't think it's going to anywhere as popular as 2048. zero's "oh crap I clicked the wrong number ruining my 30+ chain just because I wasn't paying attention for a second" is muc…

I found that the easiest consistent strategy is to play it like Minesweeper: start with randomly clicking (to gain time) until you find it too risky, then start with the easy porti…

wbhart got the gist of it. Here's an even longer version of the rules: Click/tap numbers to connect them to a chain. You can only connect numbers that are at the left, right, top, …

It's in the "Rules" part that shows up when you click "Start Game". I've also expanded the RPS in the navbar to make it even more explicit.

> I think PHP is the perfect language for beginning web development for two reasons: "Direct HTML embedding" and "Straightforward file organization" After thinking about it a bit, …

And considering Hacker News is based off Reddit...

Er.. that's because there's nothing malicious an attacker can do with the mass-assignment vulnerability in the "Hello Rails" app? Being able to change the :id or timestamps of the …

If it's a simple mass-assignment vulnerability, the Rails team has nothing to do with it given that mass-assignment is a feature and the vulnerability is well documented: http://ed…

Been there done that. Wait a couple of years and those people from the second company will start dropping like flies. They either get a personal life and move to a company that all…

Yup. While it is true that allowing others to modify my work will probably bite me in the ass in the future, there are also some arguments for allowing this. For one, the book is t…

1. Maybe. I have no plans to teach Rails 3.1 for the rest of the year, but on the other hand writing about 3.1 will get me up to speed on the new features faster than simply writin…

Thanks! Will update the document tomorrow to use that in case no one makes a better suggestion.

While I agree to some of your points (i.e. I'll go WTF?!? if someone would sell my crappy book), there's no need to go off the hook ;D