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This is why I like using Fiverr as a buyer... Occasionally you find someone doing something cool for an absurdly low cost as an experiment or an exercise. Those are the good deals,…

Exactly what I was thinking. "Credits" feel like a huge ripoff.

One of my problems with conceptualizing "consciousness" and ideas such as "attention" or "unconscious processes" is that I have such a fondness for analogies that I am forever tryi…

"bike shedding," AKA "Parkinson's law of triviality": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law_of_triviality "Parkinson observed and illustrated that a committee whose job is…

Another good example of this approach is indie 2D platformer Spelunky. Here's an illustration of the method: http://tinysubversions.com/spelunkyGen/

This might do what you're looking for: http://eyed3.nicfit.net/

The game is deliberately using wordplay in Chinese. In the word "色狼" (which does indeed mean "pervert"), "色" refers to sex, but in this case it's being used to mean "color" (which …

This is amazing, and it has truly revolutionary implications for learners of scripts like Chinese, which are still truly indecipherable to learners when embedded in images. I was r…

So in "Super Planet Crash" the planets can't actually collide? I pumped 11 super-Earths into essentially the same orbit (in the habitable zone), and they seemed to just overlap and…

Getting rich?

I had the exact same thoughts as thomasbk, although I have to admit that it does sound kind of cool. No way I would pay $2 or even $1 per day for it, though. Roughly $10 per month …

I immediately tried to input Chinese, and it stopped working.

I'd consider portability. My favorite cheat sheets are images or PDFs (one page only). Adding an element of graphic design can really upgrade a cheat sheet. (Do some searches for c…

Cool idea! I would try it if I had an Android phone. Seems a little weird to me to make the lock screen interactive, though. If there are all sorts of things you can do on the lock…

Question: how do you define cheat sheet? I like cheat sheets (regex, vim, Gmail hotkeys, etc.), but I wouldn't include the article on "Python Shortcuts for the Python Beginner" in …

I think there are only two ways to deal with regret: (1) accept that you can't change the past, and (2) make sure that you learned something from your mistake(s). Not learning from…

Not everything worth doing makes money though...

A nod to the Forever War? :) (Great book! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Forever_War )