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amichail
18,811karma·7,884submissions·February 20, 2007
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I'm an indie game developer.
My previous games include DropZap and DropZap 2 for iOS.
My latest game is DropZap World. Check it out: https://apps.apple.com/app/id1072858930
https://bsky.app/profile/dropzapworld.bsky.social https://x.com/DropZapWorld https://www.threads.net/@dropzapworld
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Even if Microsoft does not intentionally break IE, what incentive would it have to improve support for AJAX apps? For example, what incentive would it have to support an offline mode for AJAX apps?
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Startups are the ones with fresh ideas because larger companies don't want to take the risks. Larger companies could later acquire those cutting-edge startups when it is more apparent that their idea…
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I think the situation is somewhat unpredictable since Microsoft could try to break AJAX apps by introducing all sorts of problems in IE. Unreliable AJAX apps under IE would discourage users from using…
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It might be interesting to build a "first impressions" service where people would give you their first impressions on all sorts of things including startups and ads. To encourage people to do this, yo…
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The random page could also take into account the link score so that links with higher scores have a better chance of ranking more highly.
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Do you think this variation on reddit would be interesting? - the front page would be like reddit's top - instead of a new page, there's a random page that shows links in completely random order (each…
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With Adobe Reader, you can jump to a page like this: http://reports-archive.adm.cs.cmu.edu/anon/2005/CMU-CS-05-193.pdf#page=69 Is there a way to do this using Scribd?…
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"...imagine you wake up one morning with your
head full of a complete proof of the Riemann
hypothesis. (This is arguably the greatest
open problem in mathematics, and is a deep
statement about the dis…
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I suspect that casual writers have an even greater need for such a service than professional ones.
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Try something like http://listengame.org but with ads instead of music.
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Somewhat related: http://www.tubesnow.com/
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It seems we are beginning to see people use social news services as a complement to their email so they don't receive so much email from people they don't know. SearchMob and Y Combinator Startup News…
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Why not build a first-impressions games for web 2.0 startups? See for example http://listengame.org and http://espgame.org for ideas on how this could be done.
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This would not be a research lab. The goal is to create something that makes money not publications necessarily. You can try to do something really novel just as long as it ends up making money.
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Do you have resource and IP sharing among startups?
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You might have a better chance of succeeding within a company though, particularly a company with massive computational resources and accumulated IP. Scalability would be much easier to deal with. Th…
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This is different from pursuing a startup because you are allowed to make use of massive resources and whatever IP the company has accumulated.