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Beautiful, polished, fun! Contrary to most people here, I actually like the comments between levels, and the "no instructions" policy just made it better. I wish more games were like this.

Nicely done, I have no negative comments to make. I'd totally pay for this.

I have wanted this for a few years now. This would definitely put things in perspective and make lots of people (and me!) understand history much better.

Too bad I am not competent enough to actually build something like this. I would definitely be up for helping out, though.

I think he meant mIRC (the shareware software) is the official IRC client of the military.

If I may add, they also seem to KILL foreign people without asking anyone for permission/consent/support/whatever. Of course, Osama Bin Laden is an extreme case, but still...

That makes a lot of sense.

What I was thinking about was just how many times I gave up on an app because it made me "sign up" for something just to create simple documents, play a game (sometimes even ones that should work offline!), or take notes.

But, obviously, in your case it seems having more control clearly outweights these small problem-user cases. ;)

Congrats on shipping, good luck!

EDIT: Also, making syncing optional, as I just read you saying you would, makes this problem go away.

Genuinely interested in why you guys decided to roll your own cloud sync service instead of using something like dropbox or the like.

I recently started using YNAB (youneedabudget.com) for OSX and iPhone, and one of the things I liked the most is how they used dropbox to sync flawlessly between devices.

It's probably hard enough doing sync right even with the help of dropbox API, but it just seems to me that rolling your own makes it two problems instead of one.

Care to share your reasoning? Thanks!

Heh, when you hover over Uruguay it says Uganda! :)

Hah, I HATE these, but actually like parent's idea to have a key be a small track pad. Would have to know when to turn it off, of course, unless you want to click some random thing everytime you type 'j'...

I was wondering how he thought of that. Even though we don't know, this explanation is beautiful and makes a lot of sense. Thanks!

Google has acknowledged that their vision of where this is going is, at best, partial: "While we may believe we know where this technology will take us, history suggests we that should be humble in our predictions. We are excited to see the effort take shape with each step forward."

I liked this part.

Brazilian here. We get, by law, 30 days every year. We get 1+1/3 normal pay on those days.

You can choose to "sell" 10 of those 30 days and work (getting paid your normal wage plus the vacation money), but you HAVE to take the other 20 days off.

If you choose to take the 30 days, you can split them in two periods. If you split them in 12 and 18 days, you can put your vacation days between weekends and effectively get 5 weeks off.

Of course, that's for regularly employed (meaning "working for someone else") people. If you have your own business or work as a freelancer, there's no regulation.

Went there in a rush, only to find out that "starting today Rdio is free IN THE US on the web" (emphasis mine). Bummer.

   You're right - I'm making assumptions when imagining the situations described in my head and jumping to unfair conclusions about your point.

Holy crap, it might be that recognizing mistakes this clearly happens a lot and I just haven't seen it, but I must say this is the first time I've seen it happen so clearly like this on... Well, on the internet!

Kudos for this.

Brazilian here, fortunate enough to have walked alongside the protesters yesterday in Rio de Janeiro (while it was still peaceful).

It does seem like a massive flashmob, but my guess is that it comes from all the time we've been numb and asleep and removed from all the crap that's been happening. I know that, in order to get objective results, we need to have objective... well, objectives. :) But if a giant "occupy Brazil"-style flashmob is what it takes for us to understand what's going on and the power we have, then I'm all for it.

There's obviously that, good point. I also think we can't forget the price point.

I buy my iPhone games for $5 at most. Steam usually has a lot of promotions and discounts, so I get lots of games for under, say, 15 bucks. Physical media games are usually way above these prices.

That is a great side project and one that has helped me already. Kudos for linking to the first-hand info. Now, I just found some info that you currently don't have on the site. I'll contact you via email with the link, but maybe you want to have a form for that?

Came to my mind as well, both on iOS and OSX.

The article does mention it, though, in the "Various applications and services offer save for later functionality" part, along with other software and services.

> How do you attain the skills required to do this while not also learning not to?

Upvoted for being one of the greatest ways I've ever seen to put what is a VERY common problem. I will quote this mercilessly in the future, if I may. Thanks.

Update: We got in touch via email and Kevin and the others sorted out what was wrong. Brazilians can now officially activate their numbers and use Twilio.

Props on the great work, guys!

Holy crap, that was a fast response! :) Also, thanks for contacting me on twitter.

Unfortunately, I'm still unable to verify my (mobile) phone number. :/

Was very excited to try this since they now support Brazil.

Unfortunately, they can't verify my phone number because... It's in Brazil. Is it supposed to be that way, or am I overlooking something?

Working for BigCo here in Brazil, and the latter holds true for me and lots of other people in our company. Seems like a great way to put it.

Thanks for the clarification. I thought you were implying that BEING called an American was offensive, instead of the other way around. I understand now.

I also didn't see the implication of being "not really American" if you don't say it that way, but I see what you mean.

Funny story about the girl in Germany, though. :P

Non-American here, and I failed to see how "an American would say" is offensive. It seems to me that it's just pointing out the differences, which doesn't ring as offensive at all. Would you care to explain? (I am genuinely asking this question out of curiosity, not criticizing)

Also, +1 on "wanker". It is indeed a good word.

I guess this is something along those lines: http://outgrow.me/

Yes, that might well be a good move for Apple. We're talking "market share" and "control of infrastructure" and all that. That makes sense.

One problem, though: It sucks that, in order to make a move that makes economic sense, you have to break stuff for your users. And not just break. REALLY break.

Gruber talks about the options Apple had, and one is "wait one more year having less features than their competitors". Well, that sounds exactly like what Apple would do in the past, in order to have a better user experience. You know, the infamous "customers don't want this or that" that Jobs would always say when they didn't have something ready.

Love the idea and implementation, thanks a lot for this!

Though more granularity, as it has been said, would be nice, this is good enough for me and lots of people as it is right now.

What I REALLY would like to see (and I know this is not really a feature request for this, but just an idea I'm throwing out there) is this made for other Amazon AWS services as well.

Common scenarios, like "I would like to run a wordpress site on an EC2 instance serving a couple thousand hits per month", or "I'd like to store a 1 TB backup of my personal computer on Glacier and retrieve it when my computer crashes (say in 1 year)".

The point is, like you said yourself, if you're spending a lot of money, you shouldn't trust anyone else, but having these "ballpark figures" would be really useful for people that are considering these services.

"The stickers and t-shirts are meant as a way to help the project while still getting something in return - think of it as a donation with a perk."

I feel that's how we should think of most stuff we back on Kickstarter. Since at some levels the "reward" is the product itself, though, it gets harder to think like that.

That's why when you pledge to donate on Kickstarter you're called a "backer" instead of a "customer", I think. You're a customer AFTER you get the product, but till then you're a someone that believes in that project and wants to help.

This makes sense. If you're very interested, it doesn't feel like an obligation, so a longer school year is like "more time doing what you like".

The problem is, like someone has already pointed out, schools fail to do this. So you end up with what we have here in Brazil. We've been making the school year longer every few years. When I was a kid, I used to have 3 months of vacation in summer and 1 month in the winter. Kids now have about a month in summer and 2 weeks in the winter, and education has never been worse here. Longer school years, by themselves, do absolutely NOTHING.

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This is awesome work, thanks!

Just throwing this out there, I know a bit about the difficulties this would entail, but: Is it plausible to have something like this running in production mode?

I mean, if I had a production Rack app running and could have pry-rescue (somehow) save its state and bubble the exception up normally, and later connect to the process and inspect what went wrong. Would something like this be feasible?