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MichaelJWon I know none of my passwords

I haven't used 1Password before, but I know LastPass offers multifactor authentication via your mobile app of choice[0], which comes to essentially the same thing.

Once you've set it up, you require two passwords to log in: one you memorise; the other you read off your mobile app, and is regenerated every 30 seconds.

[0]: https://helpdesk.lastpass.com/security-options/#Multifactor+...

MichaelJWon An iPhone lover’s confession: I switched to the Nexus 4

Thanks :)

MichaelJWon An iPhone lover’s confession: I switched to the Nexus 4

What is that widget? It looks great!

MichaelJWon Try R — A new online course, for free

Take a look here: http://www.universalsubtitles.org/en/teams/coursera/?project...

Credit: http://www.aiqus.com/questions/38783/download-upcoming-cours...

Edit: Is this like posting a pirate link?

MichaelJWon What they don't tell you about being a game developer

You may enjoy this animation of a dramatic reading of a bad review: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/558516

MichaelJWon Facebook has 1 billion monthly active users

As I recall, in 2006 only students were allowed on it, and many of them would add seemingly everyone on campus as a friend.

It's possible that today, students still do that, but other people don't, bringing the average down.

MichaelJWon Google Glasses Make Their Questionable Debut at (New York Fashion Week)

Here's another (mock-up?) photo of Google Glass attached to regular glasses, this time from Google I/O: http://imgur.com/q4tDX

MichaelJWon The 2 Biggest Mistakes I Made When Learning to Code

That point reminds me of Kathy Sierra's distinction between just-in-time learning and just-in-case learning: http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2005/0...

MichaelJWon AMA with Barack Obama

Ah, gotcha. Did you catch what the downvotes were for each question?

MichaelJWon AMA with Barack Obama

http://blog.reddit.com/2009/10/reddits-new-comment-sorting-s...

MichaelJWon AMA with Barack Obama

Check out http://reddit.com/r/tabled. Only useful after the AMA is over, admittedly.

MichaelJWon How Eduardo Saverin Sold Facebook Ads in 2004

https://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=405727117130

"Closing the Gift Shop may disappoint many of the people who have given millions of gifts, but we made the decision after careful thought about where we need to focus our product development efforts."

"We'll be able to focus more on improving and enhancing products and features that people use every day, such as Photos, News Feed, Inbox, games, comments, the "Like" button and the Wall."

MichaelJWon What Ouya Isn't

I think you misunderstand vibrunazo's point about some games being "Ouya ready". You can already plug an Android into a TV and connect it to a controller, so some games already offer proper, non-touch gamepad support, designed to work on a big screen.

Here's a video of Sonic 4 Episode 2 that demonstrates this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fUP6mh3aOg

Plus, touchscreen games don't all require you to tap specific points on the screen (as in your Reversi example). Look at Temple Run: you duck and jump by swiping down or up, from anywhere on the screen, rather than tapping on-screen Duck and Jump buttons.

MichaelJWon Samsung Launches Galaxy Note 10.1 With Impressive Features

It's also identical to the 5.3" Galaxy Note phone.

MichaelJWon Yes, I was hacked. Hard.

You can print out ten one-use codes at a time, and generate a new list of ten at any point.

MichaelJWon Weavrs - autonomous Twitter bots

Getting a generic 500 Server Error when I try to sign up or sign in, FYI.

MichaelJWon Show HN: (my first webapp) An HTML5 platform game stage design community

Also check out Steve Swink's Principles of Virtual Sensation[1]. (Ctrl-F for [Mario].)

[1]: http://www.steveswink.com/principles-of-virtual-sensation/

MichaelJWon Rbutr: a browser extension that finds rebuttals to web pages you're reading

One of the developers posted this on Reddit, in response to someone asking whether there's a registration-free version[1]:

I'm afraid not at this point. The system is set up to be connected to the user account (to make sure the votes and the links are attributed to an account).

However, it does make sense that some people might want a "Viewer only" version which doesn't add or vote, but just displays. We might look in to this....?

[1]: http://www.reddit.com/r/skeptic/comments/u8q8a/new_tool_to_h...

MichaelJWon Skillshare, Codecademy and the gamification of education

Rock Band 3.

MichaelJWon Skinny fat founder strips for launch of startup

A change to Google's ranking algorithm that was rolled out last year: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Panda

MichaelJWon Why I hate search

It looks like Google are working on it. Here's what I see when I search for [regular expression], as I often do to double-check syntax: http://screencast.com/t/A9DoZXes6

Edit: It used to be the case that if you bookmarked the result (and had your bookmarks synced with Google), it'd star the result as well. Seems this feature has gone, though.

MichaelJWon Instagram for Android — Available Now.

Another alternative is to install Darktremor Apps2SD[1] on top of another ROM such as CM7. This will let you partition some of your SD card as extra "internal" space.

[1]: https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=158809660835039

MichaelJWon Google's new "batshit crazy" UX

Remind's me of Fitts's Law: http://particletree.com/features/visualizing-fittss-law/

MichaelJWon Minecraft Physics

There's the Sonic Physics Guide (http://info.sonicretro.org/Sonic_Physics_Guide), though that's more about implementing the physics of the original Sonic games in code, rather than explaining real-world physics through playing Sonic games.

MichaelJWon Handwriting to LaTeX maths

Their Web Shape demo (http://webdemo.visionobjects.com/shape.html?locale=default#) lets you "scratch out" objects - perhaps they could implement that here? It's what I usually do when writing equations quickly, anyway.

MichaelJWon Spielberg’s The River hits UK iTunes 24-hours after US TV debut

As I recall, the Lost finale was broadcast simultaneously in the UK and the US, so people actually did do this. Obviously that's a special case though.

One issue to bear in mind is spoilers; if something big and exciting and story-based aired last night in the US, chances are I'm going to see someone spoil some aspect of the plot on Twitter this morning.

MichaelJWon The Noun Project: Icons for everything

I found it when searching for something that wasn't in the list.

MichaelJWon Avenger controller company pisses off gaming community with bad customer support

Apologies, I did not mean to misrepresent him.

MichaelJWon Avenger controller company pisses off gaming community with bad customer support

New update from Gabe: http://penny-arcade.com/2011/12/26/an-update1

"When these assholes threaten me or Penny Arcade I just laugh. I will personally burn everything I’ve made to the fucking ground if I think I can catch them in the flames."