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I made a cooperative team incremental game about software testing that has silly trivia questions. It won't waste your team's whole day because the story plays out in exactly 20 mi…

Even if California adds housing, how can it possibly add enough water, roads, schools, parks, etc? It's just trading one crisis for another. The coastal regions are already over-cr…

I wanted players to think about choosing the right option rather than just submitting every choice like trial-and-error. If you get it wrong, you can try again, it just burns a lit…

https://www.tabletopunglued.com/ This is a collection of original papercraft designs for helping people have fun playing D&D. It's a way for me to get some hobby time away from the…

After reading on Hacker News about Universal Paperclips and seeing someone post that their whole team wasted a day playing it, I thought I would try to create an idle game that was…

> You'd be setting off a real firestorm Nah, lot of Trump supporters have moved on already. Indict away.

TIL: I am 5 years ahead.

I see a lot of possible root causes being mentioned, e.g., blind bidding, zoning, foreign buyers, corporate buyers, and the vested interests of existing home owners. Here's two mor…

Yeah, it's tempting to take a small bit of credit for the existence of the new generation of project hosting services. Google Code showed that there was room for new players, so it…

TIP: If you enable "Developer options" in the settings app (by "About" tapping 7 times), there are options to eliminate, speed up, or slow down the transition animations. I set min…

> The settings app requires some sort of double swipe down that's just plain awkward. TIP: Pull down with two fingers to go straight to the quick settings shade.

I see it as basically Malthusian: people will keep driving until it is so unpleasant that they don't want to do it any more. The tipping point for most people is around 45 minutes.…

The thing that I found interesting is that this is much much easier than 2048. This algorithm does very well: while not game over: while these moves do anything: mash a, z, and x a…

I have that issue, it's my favorite!

If you're going to be a pro athlete, you need to love to practice, drill, and train, not just play. If you're going to be a race car driver, you have to love to hear the sound of t…

John, it's great that you want to learn more about those topics. But, don't misunderstand. Earning a PhD is like 10% learning about the topic, and 90% learning the process of resea…

Trends come and go. Even the strongest software engineering trends seem to last about 10 years. More than 10 years ago, I worked on a tool called ArgoUML. Years later, check out wh…

My CS PhD took 6 years. I liked it OK, despite the hardships and uncertainty. My main response to the article is that those people who are right for a PhD program will know it: the…

I would gladly pay more tax, it just has to be fair (meaning that people earning more then me also pay more).

The problem with most template sets is that they make the user still do a ton of work. Not just understanding the details of their own project, but a ton of writing work. And, to b…

This article is 1000% true! California is a terrible, horrible, no good state and it is getting worse with the passing of every perfect day. Everybody run for Texas (of all God for…

You want tech, diversity, ideas, women? Come to LA! The startup culture in Southern California is very strong now.