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Honestly, chess fits your description perfectly. Easy to learn the rules, rich gameplay, and easy to play on the go.

True micropayments integrated in browser would be amazing. Imagine instead of ads or subscriptions, you could pay a few pennies for an article. It would revolutionize online conten…

I looked at the book reviews yesterday. Tons of one star review, but if you sorted by verified purchases the vast majority of them disappeared. Honestly, to minimize gaming Amazon …

As another Oracle anecdote, a family member worked for IBM (this was about 15 years ago) as a software engineer and then as (what is now called) a sales engineer/technical consulta…

If you're interested in free food, I recommend checking out www.freefoodguy.com. He's a blogger who's sole mission in life seems to be finding free food deals and sharing them via …

I'm a web developer who doesn't know Javascript. Yes, that's a bit shameful to say, since Javascript is the language of the web. I've basically managed thus far with just backend l…

How was Dropbox mean?

My family signed up for Amazon Prime fairly early on. We all knew that, given Amazon's reputation as a loss-leader, one day the price would rise. It certainly wasn't sustainable--i…

Do you think learning web development in its current form is a good idea? The scenario I'm concerned about is spending a few years learning web dev only to discover my skills are o…

I have limited experience with both Android development and web development. In a previous Ask HN I mentioned my plan to rapidly improve my web dev skills. But I wonder, is web dev…

Thanks, this is good advice. I'd consider an internship, but I'm concerned that most of the good ones wouldn't accept me since I'm still lacking in several areas. I'm willing to pu…

I'm a CS student, but the fact that I've made so little progress with the confines of the classroom is what made me contemplate this idea in the first place. I could try for an int…

I started programming as a freshman in college. I'm currently a junior and I've been very dissatisfied with my progress. I've noticed a lot of coding "bootcamps" arise in the last …