Peter Hagen
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Curious about better reading, incentives / game design, bootstrapping, and too much more. Hopeful that Sublime will be a better Twitter for ideas.
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Code wins arguments. If we tested a feature and didn’t like it, we rebuilt it until we landed on the best version. For some surfaces, like the activity feed, we rewrote it three times before we finally landed on an implementation that felt good enough.
Jesse Chen • Threads: The inside story of Meta’s newest social app
I would rate Ingenuity among the three most innovative and important things that NASA has done during the 21st century. The other two are the James Webb Space Telescope and the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services, or COTS, program.
Eric Berger • It turns out NASA’s Mars helicopter was much more revolutionary than we knew
The key to spice trade is TINA - There is no alternative - in financial terms. The largest form of investment in Middle Ages had been farmland with average ROI of c.a. 7-8 percent but no guarantee (wars, diseases, crop failure). The ROI of spice trade was 200-300 percent over similar period.
So if you wanted double you capital it was either spice... See more
So if you wanted double you capital it was either spice... See more
By becoming a PlayStation exclusive, FFXVI more or less ends up having the economic advantages of a first-party title. Sony has most likely waived most, if not all, of its platform fee for the game, so every unit sold is more profitable for Square Enix; it has also almost certainly absorbed some of the marketing costs for the game by rolling it... See more
Rob Fahey • Redaction errors reveal the economics of exclusivity | Opinion
The KIM approach starts with an extensive analysis of traffic flows and bottlenecks. At the intersection of Vrijheidslaan – Amsteldijk it turned that the bicycle flows to and from Berlagebrug turned out to be the largest. And even the busiest in Amsterdam with 24,000 cyclists per day. Especially during morning rush hour, there was far too little... See more
Amsterdam Bike City | Verkeersveiligheid Uitdagingen
The collapse of the GDR has many reasons, mostly it ran out of money during the 80s. There have been several reasons for running out of money, e.G. taking on massive credit in the 70s to produce more consumer goods and build flats (the reason Honecker was very popular after his coup against Ulbricht), which it had problems to pay back in the 80s.... See more
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What do you think the going rate for the best indie games ever made is?
Did you guess 'Free'? You're right! Go to the Epic Game Store every week and they'll hand you the best indie games, games way better than mine, for free!
That not enough? Join the Humble Monthly Bundle. For just $12/month, they'll send you 6-7 games every month, plus you can also... See more
Did you guess 'Free'? You're right! Go to the Epic Game Store every week and they'll hand you the best indie games, games way better than mine, for free!
That not enough? Join the Humble Monthly Bundle. For just $12/month, they'll send you 6-7 games every month, plus you can also... See more