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https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=tron&s...

Some of them are split between "Tron" and "Tron: Legacy" so parsing this correctly isn't totally easy.

And don't you think "Star Wars" would have been talked about here at least once?

Congrats on persevering for that long but I almost think this is a case example of the downside to being a single founder...no one to rein in your feature creep time.

Maybe the article-writer thinks that Halo made FPS too mainstream? Unlike Doom/Quake, it was cleaned up enough in a pretty blockbuster-wrapper to make it the new model of gaming to follow?

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He sounds like a modern day Woz, except he was successful despite not wanting to get involved in business. (by that I mean, Woz was successful, but we don't know how he might have turned out if Steve Jobs didn't push him to cofound Apple)

How big of a market are the "zero inbox zealots"?

"I also probably should have started a fake charity. Providing veterinary services for homeless people's pets. Collecting donations for the underprivileged chimpanzees of the Congo. Raising awareness for Chapped-Lips-in-the-Winter Syndrome. Fun-runs, dance-a-thons, bake sales—as long as you're using someone else's misfortunes to try to propel yourself into the Ivy League, you're golden."

If you set up a site called "savethecongowithbongos.org", copy and pasted the correct affiliate code and HTML for Amazon.com's catalog of bongo and bongo-like instruments, posted it on your Facebook page, and then donated the meager proceeds to some Congo-related charity, why couldn't you credibly claim in an application essay:

----- "As a sophomore in high school, we learned about the great need of the impoverished in the Congo. But I felt unsatisfied about writing just reports about the problem. So I built a HTML5 website, using Twitter's latest bootstrap technology, and partnered with Amazon.com to crowdsource funding using a Kickstarter like model to Congo charities in need.

While most of my friends were at the swimming pool in the summer, my charity, Save the Congo with Bongos, received hundreds of page views, thanks to a successful viral and grassroots social media campaign, and delivered to Congo charities donations from places as varied as Tokyo, Japan to Boise, Idaho.

Since starting Save the Congo with Bongos, I've become more greatly aware of how the world is tied together through today's networks and I hope to continue to harness these amazing connections to save the Earth."

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Now this is not a bad project, maybe. but it's not even close to this-kid-could-make-the-next-facebook-in-her-dorm-room quality, and a lot less work and character-building experience than the typical teen summer job. But I bet it'd be a killer story for a application essay

http://www.epa.gov/superfund/

The costs of running a server with even 20x the expected traffic for a few weeks is more than all the time and moey it took to develop the game? This does not pass the smell test at all

Good for them for calling this out...but it's a weird statement where its vagueness just makes things weirder...either an awkward attempt to downplay a really horrific show-stopping comment, or blowing out of proportion someone's attempt at a joke.

edit// I think my problem is with the word "unfortunate" incident and "where one happened to be sitting"...as if it were unfortunate that such comments were made inadvertently where a transgendered person could hear them. Either way, "unfortunate" doesn't seem like the right adjective here when "unacceptable" seems more like it. (i.e. it's strange to describe "disparaging" remarks towards African-Americans/women/any-other-group as "unfortunate")

Just kidding. You could always do a drawing. Ask for a donated ipad. everyone who answers 100 or more catchpas correctly are eligible to be in the raffle.

maybe something like, "How many birthdays has a fourteen year old has?"

Or: how many inches of sandwich do you get if you get a half-foot long?

This was my favourite one. Easy to solve -- not at all trivial to parse mechanically.