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If you're a Canadian merchant, you can add a USD bank account to avoid the 2% currency conversion fee. This bank account can either be with a Canadian bank, or a US bank. Source: I…

I disagree that Airbnb is not one of the causes of the shortage. As of 2011 there were 306,105 renter-occupied units in Metro Vancouver ( http://www.metrovancouver.org/services/reg…

As David said, there are things you can pay for in the game. But anything can be unlocked by playing for free, so you aren't forced to pay for anything, and we don't grind you to f…

Thanks, David! Happy to hear you're enjoying it :)

I think to be fair, a bunch of those insertions/deletions were from checking in node_modules early in the dev cycle. But the 5k commits is accurate :) And for schedule, it was vast…

Thanks! I'm more of the "launch early and iterate" philosophy, but unfortunately with games you need to be much more polished than a web/SaaS app.

I can't believe Braid isn't on that list. SUCH a great game. Also, Portal is a must-play if you haven't already.

From the article: "5 out of the 8 founders and executive team are from Digital Chocolate, the makers of Galaxy Life". So it's a pretty large mis-representation to say they copied a…

Having a suggested $3/month subscription for having the PDF mailed to you but ALSO having the PDF available for free on the website could be the best of both worlds. Those who can …

This reminds me of the famous poem "Desiderata" by Max Ehrmann. Same sort of philosophy. http://www.fleurdelis.com/desiderata.htm "Avoid loud and aggressive persons; they are vexat…

Lawnchair ( http://brianleroux.github.com/lawnchair/ ) is similar to this, but you have to pick an adapter (see http://github.com/brianleroux/lawnchair for browser list).