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My first job ever was as a scripter on U7. Great times, and wonderful to see that there's still such an enthusiastic community

Roblox | Onsite (San Mateo, CA) | Principal Full-Stack Engineer Technical lead for the Knowledge engineering team, leading efforts such as AI tutors, personalized Learning, automat…

Roblox | Remote or Onsite (San Mateo) | Full-Time As a Principal Software Engineer on the Creator Marketplace Team team you'll have the independence, opportunity, and the end-to-en…

We're building a social video chat for workplaces. It's got games, music, and a playful UI. The idea is to stand in for the breakroom and the happy hour. https://bash.video (We're …

It's correct for me now

> "Starbucks, a major coffeehouse and outlet in worldwide, is founded in the U.S. State of Washington." That isn't it. Starbucks didn't open its sixth store until 1984. https://his…

Without DST, I either bike my kids to school in darkness at 8am, or the sun rises before 5am in summer. This is in San Francisco.

Sadly, few people are likely to pay more for a TV that doesn’t track them. There’s research on this. https://www.datainnovation.org/2019/01/national-survey-finds...

What do you think is the best way to evaluate teachers, if any?

I hope they support flash game someday.

I'd like to see a compromise on this. If there's a passenger, they should be able to use a touchscreen. For someone not used to the car, a scroll wheel is going to feel very weird.…

Well put.

The title is kind of meant to provoke that reaction (at least in my case, can't speak for the one I'm responding to.) The point is really that taking VC money requires you to try f…

It’s more realistic than becoming an astronaut, but not by much. TechCrunch says there were 23 billion dollar exits in the first eight months of 2018. Call it 35 per year. That’s a…

Unfortunately no. Edit: Emily gave a talk on it at the IGDA Summit, but unfortunately it's only available to members.

Whoops, I'm not there anymore. Emily is still CEO. The focus has shifted from being a web games platform to a mobile games publisher. I'm much more of a platform person so it made …

Look at it this way. A VC fund has a finite number of investments to make. Typically a partner gets to say yes once or twice a year. They usually take a board seat and spend lots o…

I think it’s common usage that investor is implied? I invest in tech companies at the seed stage.