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Brutally honest, great read, great article.

The site for Archmage Rises (the upcoming PC game) makes me a little nervous. This is a very ambitious project for a small dev group.

From the Google translated version of the article it looks like it's only dangerous when burned.

Blizzard's made me laugh. I think the Google Pokemon map was funny. The celebrity photobombs on the front page of Google. These are nerds making these not standup comedians. Pretty much every internet April Fools gag is funnier than SNL these days...

"I have a sense of humor. Really I do."

Are you sure? I think you're taking yourself and the internet a little too seriously. If the jokes aren't funny don't laugh and don't click. If it really bugs you go ahead and spend a day without reading news on the internet, you'll survive, I promise.

April Fools is interesting on the internet because attention is rewarded and that encourages companies to put real effort into silliness. It's okay to be silly sometimes, it's actually important. The fact of that a company like Google still has a sense of humor about itself renews my faith in them a little bit.

Look at Blizzard's April fools:

http://eu.blizzard.com/en-gb/games/outcasts/

The credit card slots in the controller to make for easier microtransactions. With the new business models they're using for Hearthstone and Heroes of the Storm it's actually pretty funny. The fact that they're acknowledging it softens me to them even just a little bit.

Some of us look forward to April Fools on the internet, maybe the jokes are lame but the effort makes the event interesting.

This can't be good for Unity...

This is disappointing to me. I see it as Greenwald using his new found publicity for a better deal. After reading the recent Guardian profile in the New Yorker it's hard not to root for them.

It's also upsetting that this will dilute and interrupt the NSA reporting, something Snowden has worked so hard to avoid.

I for one look forward to Judgement Day...

Networking. A friend of a friend needed a website. When you're freelancing everyone is a potential customer. Early freelancing projects are not that hard to get, it's much more difficult to turn a small portfolio into a reliable revenue stream.

Universities are who's really going to take the hit here. When the free money dries up so will the number of students able to pay current prices for degrees. The effect on Academia and as a result research, innovation, etc. are still up in the air.

Actually it is. Easy credit and the sentiment that any degree will pay off in the long run have inflated tuition prices to the point where they are not necessarily worth the investment. Similar to the house that was worth 600k and is now worth 300k the degree that costs 200k doesn't meet that value. It could potentially be worse than the housing market because there is no asset, just a piece of paper. Just like you said you can't buy and sell college degrees.

The point here is that banks are starting to get it. Just because you can't walk away from student loan debt doesn't mean you have to pay it. Sometimes the numbers just don't work out. The odds of someone with 400k in student loans from a PhD in Philosophy paying them off in a lifetime with their job is a barista are very low.

Looks like the sysadmin has some math to do... Mirror?

Everyone is one word.

Prison is a prison and damaging our kids...

The name is awful, sorry. Too hard to pronounce / understand and certainly not worth the trouble since it doesn't convey meaning.

The color scheme is ugly. I like the gradual change over the name on mouseover but purple to yellow through brown is not the most appealing... That being said the layout is good.

I'm not sure I understand the value. Friends of friends are the easiest people to meet / hookup with already. The purpose of online dating sites is to meet strangers you don't already have an in with. Is there really a problem there that needs solving?

The passive cute / not cute thing sounds interesting. Maybe make that the focus? That's something that isn't already built into Facebook and would definitely solve the problem of some awkwardness.

I think people are missing a big point here, in the age internet pornography a lot of us can be exposed to some pretty weird shit potentially at some really young ages. We don't get a chance to talk about those things rationally and reasonably because of societal pressures and psychologically that's not a great thing.

This is an incredibly well written and useful article and it's a travesty the site is down. Definitely don't discount it because it doesn't load at first.

Any legitimacy to this? Would be fantastic...

Don't underestimate the importance of aesthetics...

I'm sure it's great software but the color scheme for that site is so bad I don't even want to read about it.

Simple, well written, and useful. I think these apply to everyone (with or without kids, startup or not).

+1

I don't think Bennett would approve of the tl;dr's lol.

Not only should you take the time to read it, you should be spending another 45 minutes reflecting.

So If I outfit my home with these lights, (which are also functional for lighting?) I can leverage them to locate what? Anything with a camera?

The site is strong so I'm intrigued but I have no idea what a practical application of this would be. I take it you guys don't either? :p

Can we get a link to the whole script?

Can we talk about bytelight? What the heck does that thing do?

This is cool and all but a lot easier said than done. The author is in college where free time is in abundance. I'm not disparaging the principles but working a full time job, getting 8 hours of sleep, and exercising an hour every day isn't always possible...

FYI these are mostly product overviews and don't really teach you how to do anything.

Great read, makes me want to quit my job and start building a rocketship...

I love that this brilliant guy is talking about interplanetary space travel as the obvious future.

This is awesome, but isn't it a copyright nightmare waiting to happen?

He definitely forgot to check his privilege, big mistake...

Really well written and really depressing.