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This is a really good suggestion. I need to remember this when I'm in my poor-working moments.

Thank you so much, that's enough for me to sink my teeth into for now. I appreciate the feedback.

Could you implement some sort of agent-based programming model to win this game?

We need to treat the cause and not the symptom. Because really, if Google won this suit, they would most likely be trying the same tactics.

I really like the visualization component of this analysis. It's really neat, but I wish I could search by school.

I'm most frustrated by the Android application. There are alphabetic icons left of each mail item, and I don't understand why. They have the first initial of the sender... ???. I also don't like the way mail loads, and it seems to take longer. And I can't get notifications to work properly, all on a Nexus 4.

By following the advice in this blog, aren't we letting the big corporations hold all the legal cards and potentially put smaller operations in very uncomfortable positions? That isn't right.

The title of this article, as posted to Hacker News, is "Google is changing its logo." The title of the article linked to by this post is "Is Google revamping its logo?".

This is a significant difference.

Nice page. I wish I didn't need to hit the back button as many times as I did to escape.

No clamshell? Fuck that.

What were they thinking? Am I the only person perplexed by this?

From their page, I offer a suggestion: Things to Try: Increase the maximum path length.

Jeez.

Actually, I found it here. Pretty interesting issue, I recommend the read. I'll summarize the paper here:

Java implementations primarily used on lightweight mobile platforms have a method called SecureRandom which generates pseudo random numbers for cryptographic operations. The integrated seed generator on some platforms provides a systematic means of determining the seed value and predicting seemingly secure outputs.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/131955288/Randomly-Failed-The-Stat...

Can anyone reference me to an article that explores a technical analysis of how their random number generator was exploited? Did it not have full coverage (read: RANDU style error) or otherwise?

http://www.pnas.org/content/61/1/25.full.pdf+html

This is pretty neat. I will definitely share this idea with my company. We might be able to overcome some of our security issues with this!

I Google'd. From wikipedia: "Graham presided over the Post at a crucial time in its history. The Post played an integral role in unveiling the Watergate conspiracy and ultimately led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon.

Graham and editor Bradlee first experienced challenges when they published the content of the Pentagon Papers. When Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein brought the Watergate story to Bradlee, Graham supported their investigative reporting and Bradlee ran stories about Watergate when few other news outlets were reporting on the matter.

In conjunction with the Watergate scandal, Graham was the subject of one of the best-known threats in American journalistic history. It occurred in 1972, when Nixon's attorney general, John Mitchell, warned reporter Carl Bernstein about a forthcoming article: "Katie Graham's gonna get her tit caught in a big fat wringer if that's published." The two words "her tit" were cut on publication."

Anyone know what he means by this? "While I hope no one ever threatens to put one of my body parts through a wringer, if they do, thanks to Mrs. Graham’s example, I’ll be ready."

This is awesome.

It also contains hardly any emotion (I argue that the rhetoric used in the letter indirectly appeals to Edward). I was shocked by this.

From a network centrality metrics perspective, is there such a thing as "organic search"? Is the premise flawed or is the Page Rank metric considered organic?

Thanks everyone. This is a lot of good advice. After iterating through the design process with a few products, I think I fall on the mockup side in the mocking up vs. prototyping debate. Since I have a tool that works well and permits prototyping if needed, I think this may be best for me for the time being.

Thanks for the reply. I'm not fixated about the cross-platform functionality of any game I develop yet, because I am sure I will need to iterate through the design process a few times (and it might be easier to start over once I better conceptualize my idea).

I'll keep this in mind.

Thank you for this feedback. I will make sure before I start a game I have a strong direction of what I would like to develop and make sure it is not too ambitious.

Thanks, this looks like a promising starting point. Have you used this product? Am I sacrificing learning anything by using this SDK?

Hi Larry,

Thank you, this is great advice. I know I need to start small and progress slowly so your recommendations are great places for me to begin and improve.

I like all sorts of games, but I wanted to start with something 2D. I was thinking a puzzle game to start, which could expose me to some of the event-like structure of programming a game without the complexity of the physics engine (for now). I could recreate a game like Tetris, for example, but that doesn't really seem very interesting to me.

I have thought about 'modding' a SNES game or downloading an open source gaming project to poke around and understand how the code / architecture works, rather than starting from scratch myself. I generally learn much faster this way, and would love to find someone willing to help me with this approach.

Does that help?

I'm pretty sure I broke it.

This is awesome.

Why is this on Hacker News?

My name is Myles. I read this and felt like I was looking into a crystal ball. Fortunately, my work doesn't require I interact with the production database (yet). Gulp.

Spoiler: The first dungeon is awesome; you have to save princess Zelda before you get the wooden sword. That means pots are your only weapons!

I really thought this was the coolest thing ever and I'm disappointed no one else did. :(