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Pkeod··on Programming Is Not for Everybody
To complain. He could change his life. He could code fun games. It's his own choice to code things uninspiring. Many people work in careers not right for them. Why is he doing something he doesn't enjoy when there is so much other opportunity for him to enjoy his life.

Making things come to life through code is a joyful delight. Writing an entire complex programming at once in a rush, compiling it, running it, and it actually works... first few times, hundredth, thousandth time sometimes it's still amazing. And I'm no expert programmer. I mostly paint.

Based on his writing, I believe this Smith is at risk for burnout.

Pkeod··on How Ink Is Made
Different Coloring Agents - Paints and inks have different coloring agents. Paints are made up of tiny bits of colored minerals like clays or talc suspended in a colorless matrix such as polyester or vinyl. A chemical union of tannic acid and iron sulfate dissolved in water or alcohol forms the coloring agent of some inks. Others use such dyes as aniline.

Different Coloring Procedures - Ink soaks into the surface that it colors, but paints do not soak in -- they cover the surface with a coating. In fact, a primer is usually applied to the surface before painting so that the paint won't soak in. For this reason, paint sometimes chips off the surface that it covers, but this never happens in the case of ink.

Surface Protection - Paint not only colors a surface, but also provides the surface with a protective covering that will keep it from deteriorating when assailed by such agents as wind and rain. Ink offers no such protection.

http://www.ehow.com/facts_7225030_difference-between-ink-pai...

Pkeod··on It’s the Sugar, Folks
Uh, sorry, what exactly did I say? I said mostly giving up sugars, which is why I mentioned keto.
Pkeod··on It’s the Sugar, Folks
There is no mention of it in this thread so far, so here: http://reddit.com/r/keto Check the sidebar out.

See the transformations which happen to people when they (mostly) give up consuming sugars: http://www.reddit.com/r/keto/search?q=progress&sort=top&...

Pkeod··on Dash-cams: Russia’s Last Hope For Civility And Survival On The Road (2012)
So they don't steal your mail?
Pkeod··on Stop Working More than 40 Hours a Week
Someone I know all they do is draw/paint until their hand hurts every day. It's all work related for them. Yes... some people do work for real long hours and are not wasting most of their time. I think it's more the people who are not doing work chasing rewards but doing the work because they genuinely love it.

Use https://www.rescuetime.com/ and you can track your time spent working and easily block distractions so you can focus.

Pkeod··on Google under fire for sending users' information to developers
https://plus.google.com/106557483623231970995/posts/Bed6WUJp...

"With apple's app store you buy the apps from apple. With google play you buy the apps from the developer. If you are the merchant of record you need to know the address to correctly compute sales tax.

This is documented on http://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/bin/a...

Google cannot give tax advice, so we have to give you the data to make the determination yourself"

Pkeod··on Massive Google Play Privacy Issue
https://plus.google.com/106557483623231970995/posts/Bed6WUJp...

"With apple's app store you buy the apps from apple. With google play you buy the apps from the developer. If you are the merchant of record you need to know the address to correctly compute sales tax.

This is documented on http://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/bin/a....

Google cannot give tax advice, so we have to give you the data to make the determination yourself"

Pkeod··on Remote: the new book by 37signals, coming fall 2013
Offices are not required, but are still useful for certain things which demand a physical location somewhere. Have or work at an awesome company with an awesome office as a home base but still be able to be nomadic or just live and work elsewhere for most of the time? That's awesome.
Pkeod··on 'Artificial' earthquake detected in North Korea may be nuclear test
Some nations having nukes stops industrial scale war. There is no way to go to before there were nukes... it's necessary for enough of the power players to have control of them but not all of the players.

The adults are the non-nationalist people who see the world as a global community. These people are rare in politics it seems.

Pkeod··on Netflix's Culture Document (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc

High enough salary + great benefits to the point where needs are met are ideal. "Rockstars" may be able to negotiate with companies who want to hire those kinds of people, but if you are hiring only the best people and not the best people for your company then your culture will suffer. I like the way Valve does things. No rockstar culture like WallSt or Hollywood has. Everyone gets even footing and credit. You can earn more if your peers agree that you deserve it - people there are not chasing rewards - they are doing what they love well and being rewarded for it. It seems to work very well for them and other co-op like companies.

Pkeod··on Newell reveals major PC flaw, the future business of games, and fear of Apple
>I'm surprised people paid for it in the first place. :)

Based on this, as a developer, I wouldn't take your opinion that you hate F2P games seriously, and I would never want to make games for the audience you belong to. TF2 is one of the best games available to play and my second favorite game ever made. Haters gonna hate.

Pkeod··on There's No Evidence Online Dating Is Threatening Commitment or Marriage
If anyone has not been exposed to Girl Writes What I highly recommend her. A video by her on the marriage topic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlvMAS_20K4
Pkeod··on US Birth Rate Hits New Low – A Nation of Singles
I wouldn't count on it. Even if it were possible the genetic pool is too vast for single traits to really have an impact. Plus consider that most (if not all?) homosexuals have heterosexual parents - that is more influenced by number children, but it shows that there is more involved than just people who have the traits being selected out. Most of the biggest advocates against religion were born in religious families. Most parents regret having kids, most couples who have kids are less happy than couples who don't have kids. People wanting to be child free is here to stay and it will grow before it has any chance of being bred out. Choosing to be child free is the rational thing to do if you want to be happy. I welcome people to join more people avoiding having kids here: http://reddit.com/r/childfree
Pkeod··on Losers exist. Don’t hire them
Liking solitaire doesn't make someone a loser.
Pkeod··on Command & Conquer in HTML5 with multiplayer
I like this video with the song more: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=096hnKDw5tc
Pkeod··on Disassembling the Woolworths Facebook scam
Ugly designs can convert better in some situations, and the people making these sites are very likely tuning their sites to convert the best. Also, by making things unattractive to you, the scammers can filter for the people more likely to fall into their trap.
Pkeod··on Human Ancestors Made Deadly Stone-Tipped Spears 500,000 Years Ago
Many animals use and make tools. Modern humans (people like you and me) are biologically only 20,000 years old or so.

What happened? Enough technology and development compounded to make more modern civilization possible. Various technologies may have been developed/invented in the far distant past, but were lost for various reasons.

Pkeod··on Glitch Is Closing
I really like the concept and I also liked the changes and direction it was going. Sad to see it go. :(

>Why don't you give the game away or make it open source or let player volunteers run it?

So will it be lost forever in the ether? Please, Glitch owners, preserve it in some meaningful way.

Pkeod··on New Google play developer console
Can we get promo codes now? That and the ability to turn free apps back to paid.
Pkeod··on Key set available for $150 on eBay provides an all-access pass to NYC
I remember in my teens picking old locks simply with two paperclips. All locks sold in normal stores can be picked with very basic tools. Any house lock can be very quickly unlocked by a professional. There are plenty of videos on YouTube showing just how much of a joke most all locks are. Deadbolts can be picked with household items. Those sliding locks with chains can be defeated with just a rubber band.
Pkeod··on To Encourage Biking, Cities Lose the Helmets
Related TED talk "Why We Shouldn't Bike with a Helmet": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07o-TASvIxY
Pkeod··on Dave The Incredible Mindreader – How Does He Do It?
How is that comparison anything related to hatred of women?

A well dressed man with zero confidence is not an attractive man. A man can learn things, change his behavior, and become more confident. It is changing a pre-state to something more desirable to others. Dressing up increasing desirability as well, but behavior is by far more important than looks for how attractive men are.

Is it fair to say that some women dress up to increase their attractiveness?

Pkeod··on Fog of World
It could, but that doesn't mean it will. It's a cool enough thing that people will talk about it.

I have done pricing experiments. For apps which are not ranked, and have no ads driving extra traffic, 99cents vs even $6.99 usually equals the same number of sales. Lower prices don't matter as much as people think they do. When you talk about risk, do you mean that you do not believe your social circle will find this interesting enough to even know about it? If you did then price wouldn't matter... have you ever recommended anything higher than 99cents to anyone? That 99cents is a popular price for "apps" does not matter. Devs should still charge more when it makes sense to.

Pkeod··on Fog of World
Whenever I see comments like this my first instinct is that their own products, if they have any, are priced too low.

The difference between 99cents and a higher price making the same profit is a significant difference in number of sales. Maybe if they get featured it would be worth it to lower the price to ensure it stays in the charts, but if it's not ranked it does not make sense to have a lower price.

People say what they wish for and then do another thing. People complain about prices, and then buy anyway if the product is right for them. And if the product is exactly made for them they will sense the value and know that the price is great. $5.49 for something you will potentially use for years? I have no trouble seeing the value. Though I only use Android devices.

Pkeod··on Bill Nye warns: Creation views threaten US science
Emotions are not in conflict with rational behavior; they cause rational behavior.

It hurts because it is not just one man out there who is willfully ignorant about reality. There are a very large number of people in the US who believe that the world is only 6,000 years old, that everything is going to end any day now, that the environment isn't really worth protecting because of that, and by extension that it's not really worth doing anything meaningful. The religious people still vote, and their votes shape our policy. If their churches tell them to vote one way, and they do, the authority of the religiously fueled motivations highly define the results.

Pkeod··on Kaspersky researcher cracks Flame malware password
Small size required (1-10 length, a-z, 0-9, Symbol 14 !@#$%^&*()-_+=) for a rainbow table needed for the hash would be around 438TB.
Pkeod··on With More Than 20M Gamers Tuning In, Twitch Raises $15M
People can only spend their limited time in only so many ways. Let's Plays dominate the front page of YouTube every day, with many videos getting 1m+ views in a few days only. Many people doing it are really entertaining and funny.

YOGSCAST has 2.4m subscribers. Wait until all of the kids watching LPs now grow up, have their own kids, raise them on the same stuff they enjoyed, and then sit around to watch and listen to their favorites.

Pkeod··on Full quote of what Mark Zuckerberg actually said about HTML5
> I have a confidence HTML5 will fail in the end.

When is the end? What will replace it in the browser? Will people stop using browsers? Why do you have confidence other than things are not perfect now?

>optimistic

Being optimistic makes people want to solve problems. Being pessimistic makes people think defeat is 100% likely so they never try to solve anything.

Our games already work very well in HTML5. They "work" on an iPad 3, but we still make native versions because the technology we use, Monkey, allows us to very painlessly do so.

On desktop, Chrome, Firefox, and IE all run the games perfectly on a now 4 year old computer build.

I'm not betting everything on HTML5 but to me it already is succeeding and I am confident that consumers will drive demand for it, vendors will produce and release devices which support it. Even if Apple, or the other big sellers don't support it there will be those who do and the great support will sell units and make anyone who doesn't support it well look bad.

Pkeod··on Amazon Officially Announces The New Kindle Paperwhite
You instantly get their products top of mind if you ever use Amazon.com - I think most people who are both Apple and Amazon customers go to Amazon.com more than Apple.com.
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