Excellent writeup! I'm amazed people signed up to play their test game. Does anyone know if the points you get translate to any sort of other reward, or is a place on the leaderboard more than enough of an incentive to keep playing?

Personally though, I think the linked article about on-the-fly resizing[0] was a more interesting "technical" read.

[0] http://code.flickr.net/2015/06/25/real-time-resizing-of-flic...