Re:New YC Company 8aweek To Help You Kick That Internet Time...
by yters on Saturday February 16, 2008 @11:00AM
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That's a neat idea. If it is true that humans are better at solving certain problems than computers, maybe games could represent problems that the computer can't solve easily. Just think if the WoW fanbase were really number crunching!
Re:New YC Company 8aweek To Help You Kick That Internet Time...
by curi on Saturday February 16, 2008 @02:07PM
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you gotta watch this:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8246463980976635143...
about using games to get people to do useful computation
Re:New YC Company 8aweek To Help You Kick That Internet Time...
by yters on Sunday February 17, 2008 @02:40PM
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So that's where the image labeling game came from! Nice find.
Re:New YC Company 8aweek To Help You Kick That Internet Time...
by mechanical_fish on Saturday February 16, 2008 @10:27AM
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instead of blocking people from playing games all day, you should just turn their daily work into a game.
Isn't that the whole point of RescueTime and 8aweek? Although I admit that the game is probably less fun if your boss is grading the high-score table.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=114401
I've certainly started visiting Programming Reddit more since visiting news.YC less. OTOH, I don't think it makes up for the full difference, and my startup has gotten the balance of that time. That could be because the startup is more mature and hence more fun to work on now, though.
I had the crazy idea (since my startup is all about casual games) that instead of blocking people from playing games all day, you should just turn their daily work into a game. Carrot, instead of stick. Don't really know how the specifics would work, but it's something I'd like to play with as our game-creation software gets more mature.