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They're constantly requesting a JSON file about once a second. Example contents, formatted: http://pastebin.com/uMv7d8xS
Seems like excessive transfers. I achieved a "real time" counter by having requests return a start value and a rate of change per second. The GUI would then update every second with the estimated values. My AJAX requests would happen much less often and update the start and rate of change.
The way that they preselect an amount $1 above average is extremely clever. It appeals to people's need to see themselves as above average without costing them anything substantial. Screenshot: http://screensnapr.com/v/QciSbr.png
and looks like they're a/b testing it; http://i.imgur.com/NsjwG.png
I'd be curious to know which version was the most effective in the end.
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Who's got the time though?
I view it similarly to any other varied hobby. If you like to cook you can either choose to cook American food all the time or you can branch out and try different styles. Although, the difference is that hunger and food are pretty constant in relation to each other where as there are just masses of video games. But I think the principle is close enough :)
The way that they preselect an amount $1 above average is extremely clever. It appeals to people's need to see themselves as above average without costing them anything substantial. Screenshot: http://screensnapr.com/v/QciSbr.png
I'd love to be a fly on the wall for the A/B test, but I still think something a wee closer to http://images1.bingocardcreator.com/blog-images/hn/deep-disc... would kill both the A/B tested options. Bringing in people's psychological need to be above average is great, but I might do that by putting a nice 37Signals style yellow highlight on one of the expensive options (for some value of expensive which would pay for…
Interesting stats. There appear to be as many Mac users as Linux users, and Linux users pay 2x more than Mac users. I guess Mac users spend all their money on OS upgrades :)
This is a really interesting statistic actually. I got the last 2 bundles and I'm a Mac user. I am definitely pro-Mac OS. Seeing those stats made me pay a little more. I am also an iOS dev and try and keep up on trends. I'd wager most Mac users are also iOS users. And current stats indicate that most iOS users are willing to spend money on software. So why the stinginess here!?
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I'd love to be a fly on the wall for the A/B test, but I still think something a wee closer to http://images1.bingocardcreator.com/blog-images/hn/deep-disc... would kill both the A/B tested options. Bringing in people's psychological need to be above average is great, but I might do that by putting a nice 37Signals style yellow highlight on one of the expensive options (for some value of expensive which would pay for…
If you don't mind me asking, what did you use to make that mockup image?
A commenter on habrahabr.ru+ noticed ( http://habrahabr.ru/blogs/gdev/124990/#comment_4110999 ) that there are Russian black marketers buying bundles for $ 0.01 and reselling for around 50 rubles ($1.50) that, unfortunately, may drive the average price down. Supposedly, people who can't be bothered to get a credit card or Webmoney account buy from them. I'm worried how the pay-what-you-want model accommodates this be…
Orders under $1 must authenticate with reCAPTCHA to help cut down on costly abuse.Linux version pays the best average amount. Is there any message?
That has been the case in every bundle. Linux pays more than Mac pays more than Windows. I would suggest that Windows users cover the entire range of users, including a lot of minors. It's the most accessible and prevalent OS, and therefore people with the least amount of money are most likely to be using Windows. For Mac users: Macs are without a doubt more expensive than WinPCs. Serious question: can you get a new…
For low values of desktop and ignoring hackintoshes, yes: http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_mac/family/mac_mi...
> For Linux users... I don't know. I would posit that Linux users tend to be more educated than the average person (based on personal experience), and that more education correlates with more income (this I can actually cite: http://www.bls.gov/emp/ep_chart_001.htm).
I'd think more of "games starved" and "want to entice game developers".
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I just bought it and I'm trying to run Crayon Physics Deluxe on Arch Linux $ ./crayon ./crayon: error while loading shared libraries: libjpeg.so.62: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Sigh. Edit: for anyone who cares, the (undocumented) dependencies are at least: * nas from the repos * libjpeg6 , libtiff4 , libpng12 , libssl098 from AUR
Also libssl098 from AUR. If anyone is not doing it already, install yaourt and/or aurget, they make AUR packages much easier to install. Note that most of these problems come from a closed-source application A) being linked against old versions of stuff and B) not using statically-linked libraries. I know that statically-linked libs are widely hated but at least where you know newer versions break compatibility, you…