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The Colossal Order team, in my opinion was very lucky! There were three games - 1. SimCity 4 with the statistical simulation model, big maps (region-wise) and plenty of features. 2. SimCity 5 with a pure agent-based simulation model (it had flaws though, especially traffic), but again the series pioneered a new way of creating games in this genre. And, 3. Cities XL having a HUGE map, few unique features like bus routing, etc and amazing graphics!

All these games had flaws in their respective models but worked well nonetheless. SimCity 5 is a success IMO; for venturing into a much realistic simulation that you could connect with. Though we all love to complain about the map size.

Cities: Skylines had the advantage of picking up the good pieces of each of these games! On the other hand, the last good game was SimCity 4 in 2003, more than a decade! We badly needed Cities: Skylines.

It's also very elating to see the support the team is giving to us! The Map Editor, the Asset Editor, the water dynamics, a mixture of agent and other simulation models (as they call it - "complex"). Though this game has its own share of flaws, they're quite tiny; except for the traffic (which is being fixed)!

All that one needs to do is ask for permission, at least while setting the phone up. Google does that once you connect your Android phone with your Google account. As simple as that - a one time permission.

You can learn a LOT from HN itself.

HN is heavily moderated and the best part is a lot of people collectively do it and everyone accepts it. That's how the quality is maintained. You need to enforce this from the beginning. Quora did it and has quality. Yahoo! Answers didn't, and doesn't have that professionalism that Quora has. Also, HN has quite a complex rating algo in place for upvotes. You might want to be inspired with that too.

Are you planning to give rating to users based on a voting strategy? It usually attracts people to be more interactive and get more visibility on a platform.

From my own experiences in managing a community/platform, concentrate more on the quality and quantity will increase gradually. Getting a lot of people joining initially itself can open roads for destruction in the future, which you might not be able to see now.

> I wish I knew what changed from the last time this was posted 2 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7637278

Reposts may not be encouraged but it gives the chance for new followers and those who missed seeing this post before. Not to mention the added karma for the poster.

On the other hand, for the sake of others, who don't know, please visit http://hn.algolia.com to check if something's already been posted!

Nice tricks! The most relevant for me however would be the idea of categorizing _posts and _data folder, never knew about that! Neat. Thanks!

Considering this situation where the developers don't want to take a stand against Quento Lite, what if, Quento developers add a couple of features to the original game release it as "Quento 2"? How would the reaction be like? More downloads, because of the new version? Would people ditch Quento Lite then?

Is this supposed to be okay? I mean, even though they are public keys, its not like I really want them to be _that_ public!

Include "minted" and make that 10! XeLaTeX with minted is a very neat combination.

XeLaTeX allows you to use TTF fonts in your LaTeX document and minted allows you to syntax highlight code. For books/articles, especially by those in the software industry, it'll certainly come in handy!

It affects the performance of the system! By "smooth", I referred to KDE's UX, which is more or less smooth. But the overall system performance reduces due to less resource when you run some heavyweight tasks.

Its not speed I'm bothered about. KDE is more or less very smooth at that. Its the resources it takes! The CPU is always nearly being utilized on a small-medium scale, and nearly 700mb is taken away at boot-time and gathers upto 2gb upon usage. That's too high, at least I think so.

Would KDE actually require so much for all the features it gives or can that actually come down?

I like KDE a lot for its UI/UX. KDE actually has the potential to intuitively replace Windows in many households with shared systems and also in educational institutions. But the only major problem with KDE is that its very heavy and takes a lot of resources.

Does the next generation workspace just change the UI/UX or optimize stuff too? The post doesn't talk much about that.

On a side note, Linux Multimedia Studio (LMMS) is an open source clone of FL Studio. Although its not on par with FL Studio's experience and features, its pretty neat and has all the essentials in place!

True, combating fraud is very hard! And PayPal has used a very clever strategy there.

PayPal is changing now, a LOT. After David Marcus and Bill Scott, things are now in motion for the better! I'm sure in an year or two, we'll see PayPal in a much different way than what it is now.

JetBrains have, by far, some of the best IDE out there. I'm personally a huge fan of IntelliJ. I just hope they roll out the C++ IDE for free, unlike WebStorm!

That's nice, a piano command!

But its always better to roll out music that really fits than one that actually misses out the point. Now so many won't know the music came form that! You can maybe update the kickstarter page to include that.

On a side note, music is something that's universal to everyone. Something that we can use to connect with any other person on this earth! Have something really good or inspirational with less actual content in the video, it could still be a success! But if the background music isn't appealing enough, nor the product in the video no matter how great it is! (This is, of course, not the case with all!)

Here's the github url for those who don't find the kickstarter helpful - https://github.com/trogdoro/xiki

Xiki has been there for a couple of years at least, because I remember trying it out more than a year back, had to install a lot of dependencies! Nevertheless, its an interesting project!

There's also the mate version - http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2627

You know, its good when says "On a side note, the website's font and layout are not optimized for the mobile. If the author's seeing this, please do something about it". It's even better to comment on the blog post, the author can see it!

But not when someone wants to start discussing about it. It's been a headache to many since months now. Responsive websites are not always perfect. And HN's not the right place to discuss about it.

Won't this logic be open source then? In some cases, business rely on such logic and would want to hide it. How would writefully handle that?

This doesn't use Github pages isn't it? The title kind of misled me.

Smart! Didn't observe that.

They do have a video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUjBdMz1q8I

Weren't the project list, mentors and students out long back?

It might also be worth mentioning the numbers here. The BJP, party to which Mr. Narendra Modi belongs to, alone has got more than 50% of the seats in the Indian Parliament and nearly 60% with allies.

The INC (Indian National Congress) has suffered a historic defeat with not even 10% of the seats. Which also brings the interesting fact that the NDA will not have a Leader of Opposition as none of the other parties hold more than 10% of the seats.

Haven't played the game myself, but I have heard about it! Have to give it a go one day.

Not working in Bangalore, India

Genghis Khan's conquest is really impressive to watch here, starting form 1207!

Oh, its the "calories" ! The things that people are ready to do to size down, stay healthy and look better; you won't believe it!

> If this is the gay-rights movement today, a bunch of extremist Social Justice Warriors, I want no part of it.

Partially true. This episode has been disturbing, yes, but at the same time, it has held strong by the community and the public. And it'll only get stronger till there is equality. It is the frustration of people, friends and family which makes episodes like these escalate. Only a strong movement can bring an impact.

So are they a bunch of "extremists"? No. Are they moderators then? No, again. Its somewhere in the middle.

Here's a start - http://www.linuxforu.com/2010/11/understanding-linux-device-...