February 2012
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September 2011
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Facebook social graph is messy; needs community...
I noticed an interesting trend in my Facebook feed over the last couple days, coworkers have been adding id Software to their employment history… well, readding, since all of these coworkers already had id Software listed as an element of their Facebook profile.
I found out the source today, when I received a request for verification that a coworker works with me here at id. They do, so I...
July 2011
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June 2011
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May 2011
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March 2011
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What Online Chat Should Be
I’ve spent a surprising amount of time recently, fighting to find some sort of sweet spot in the technology landscape for online chat. As a long time net denizen, online chat has always been an important part of my life, even as that part has drifted from forums and Internet Relay Chat (IRC) to ICQ to MSN and AIM and then to XMPP (jabber). Most recently experiments with Google Wave and...
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Rock on, IE9
At first I was disappointed that Internet Explorer 9 seems to be such a good browser. “Now it will be even more difficult to move everyone off of it to Chrome or Firefox,” I thought.
But then I realized that a web where we don’t have to care what browser anyone is using is exactly the web we want to live in.
So rock on, IE9. I hope you’re amazing.
February 2011
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September 2010
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WatchOne of my favorite uses of the iPad so far. Highlights to look for:
After hammering the ivories for a bit, Teagan manages to pull out the simulated electric guitar. This requires a transition to full-bodied slams. Having given the guitar the licking it deserves, Big T transitions effortlessly into the drum machine to lay down some phat beats. Then he returns to the keys and cools it down for the...
August 2010
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Dedicated Servers... Really Not That Big of a Deal
There’s been quite a bit of attention lately over the future of “dedicated servers” for PC gaming titles, particularly first person shooters. I even noticed a thread erupt on the QuakeCon forums about the topic after it was addressed during Carmack’s keynote presentation.
Quite a few gamers seem very sensitive to the subject, but for the most part it seems that the...
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IRC Moderation at QuakeCon; Sorry...
With an event as large and complex as QuakeCon, it’s very often that the full picture of the event doesn’t become clear until after the event is over. Stories are shared, post-mortem reports come in, and I work to assimilate a wide variety of perspectives of the event into a cohesive understanding of how things went.
One aspect of the event that has emerged as a complete and total...
WatchSome great log visualizations from the launch of QUAKE LIVE.
June 2010
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April 2010
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Switching from Foursquare to Gowalla
It’s been a lot of fun lately experimenting with location based applications. With awesome platforms like Foursquare and Gowalla, it’s interesting to see what location aware social services are capable of.
The technology and the ideas are new enough that there are pretty significantly different takes on what makes a great location base service, and with my initial survey of the...
March 2010
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Google Wave's Project Manager + Twitter = Ultimate...
Travis Bradshaw: @twephanie I NEED a way to unbind esc in Wave. I'm a VIM user and casual Esc presses are losing me hours of work. :( Instant cancel, no undo
Travis Bradshaw: @twephanie esc even breaks the playback. Blip creation and deletion events are in the timeline, but the creation event has no content. :(
Steph Hannon: @tbradshaw Ag! Esc was meant to delete an accidentally created blank blip. Temp fix: it will (soon) do nothing if content in a blip.
Travis Bradshaw: @twephanie Do you have an address I can send flowers?
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Universal Medical Insurance is Not the Answer
It’s not a hedge against expense, it’s a hedge against risk. Increasing insurance coverage cannot solve for skyrocketing health care costs, and it seems like the majority of the people participating in the conversation misunderstand what insurance is and what insurance does.
Creating a simple insurance plan is trivial. Let’s say that ten of our close family and friends decide...
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