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Board Games, Video Games, Music, Golang, and OKRs
Miles Davis and the Recording of a Jazz Masterpiece - Kind of Blue
The full Take 3 was nine minutes and thirty-five seconds of musical transcendence. Miles’s solo, an impromptu composition in itself, would gain its own immortality: generations of musicians would memorize it note for note.
The game magazine that spent two years taunting a Final Fantasy VIII hater
“If you are going to put the same screen shot up again and again, at least put up a good one. Still, I know you will probably put it up again just to tick me off.”
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GameNOW obliged.
The Case for Infant Outreach in Effective Altruism
To our knowledge, there are currently no large EA outreach efforts directed at infants. In the OpenPhil EA/LT survey of 217 longtermists, just 0% of respondents heard about EA or EA-adjacent ideas before age 2.
Pranking via Targeted Facebook Ads
It began innocently enough with me snagging the email address he had listed on his Facebook profile, adding it into an Excel worksheet, and exporting it as a .CSV file. I then used the Audiences tool in Power Editor to upload the file to Facebook as a Custom Audience labeled ‘My Roommate.’
The Hunt for the Missing Data Type
All of this means that if you have graph problems you want to solve, you need a lot of control over the specifics of your data representation and algorithm. You simply cannot afford to leave performance on the table.
The One Billion Row Challenge in Go: from 1m45s to 4s in nine solutions
My third solution is where things get a bit more hard-core: parse the temperature using custom code instead of strconv.ParseFloat. The standard library function handles a ton of edge cases we don’t need to support for the simple temperatures our input has: 2 or 3 digits in the format 1.2 or 34.5 (and some with a minus sign in front).
Never own a printer again with the HP All‐In Plan
At HP, we've heard from some customers that setting up and managing a printer can sometimes feel like a never-ending struggle, but everyone at some point needs to print. We've all been there, desperately needing to print that crucial return label or our kids' homework – when you need it, you really need it. Well, we hear you, and we have a solution. Say goodbye to your tech troubles and hello to hassle-free printing without ever having to buy a printer or cartridge again.
The unreasonable effectiveness of i3, or: ten years of a boring desktop environment
Being boring with tools is great. It gives you the freedom to be revolutionary in areas where you actually want to make a difference.
Do you know what happens after you tell them the whole story behind your termination? Virtually everyone I’ve had drinks with tells a similar story about the time they got fired. Seemingly everyone’s got stories of being stuck under shit managers, or dealing the fallout from things out of their control.
Ace of Aces: or, why you should Do Maths as a game designer
What sets Ace of Aces apart is the ingenious interface: you play with a pair of picture books, one for the German pilot, one for the Allied pilot. Each page of the book shows you the view of your enemy given your current position.
It may seem obvious now that it’s more cost-effective (for publishers and customers) to ship rewards to fulfillment centers in each major region, but it simply wasn’t done back then. We tried it, and it not only worked well for us–it became the norm for most creators.
From the beginning of AC, some players have complained about unbelievably bad luck. When the swarm of Lugians spawn in the citadel, they will go after certain players--every time. The player's level doesn't seem to matter, nor does the number of other players in the room. What does seem to matter is that this player is cursed with that most unfortunate of distinctions: the Wi Flag.
Board Game Manufacturing Resources
Here at Panda, we’re dedicated to improving the process of making games. We think the more we share our manufacturing knowledge and experience with you, the better your game will be. Great tools and information can help you understand your options and obligations and it helps us make the best game possible for you.
If you’re wondering how real OKR processes get so messed-up, the answers vary. But if your objective were to make OKR’s as useless as possible, I might suggest: make OKR’s all about the time-boxed solution, so that you can get people focused on “what can we get done by a certain date” rather than on “what milestones will actually create value for this project.”
