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Just a few reasons today's Web trumps anything from the 'Technorati' (seriously?) era: Open API's that reply in JSON, Cloud VPS's at $0.02 per hour, 10 Gb ethernet, 54 Mb fiber in my house, multicore computers in everyones pocket, GPS at everyones fingertips, web frameworks like Sinatra (yes, it took more than three lines of code and two bash commands to publish 'Hello World!' to the web back then), caching solutions like Redis, data crunching pipelines like hadoop, payment processing like Dwolla...need I go on? There will always be folks hankering for the glory days of alt.religion.kibology and compuserve. Ignore them. Create something game-changing instead.

That the Brubeck obit is a Top 10 HN story puts a smile on my face ;)

If you're in a jazzy mood tonite, I can strongly recommend the recent Shinichiro Watanbe anime "Kids on the Slope" (坂道のアポロン Sakamichi no Apollon).

http://www.crunchyroll.com/kids-on-the-slope

Video of moxie at BlackHat 2012 for deep essential background on the subject:

SSL and the Future of Authenticity

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7Wl2FW2TcA

What's the status of the Convergence SSL alternatives that were going to be built into Chrome/FF?

http://convergence.io/

Gods they must be cray

Lyrics over HTTP?

What would Kool Herc say?

Venture valuation

Drifting to the perihelion

Maboo with the Bently scout

Now Marissa's got her checkbook out

Annotations the new cream

Even writin up your daydreams

Like Cobb with one last job

Wakin up before you scream

A Venn diagram intersection

"Seems like a bad idea"

"No really is a good idea"

Priceless like a loan rejection

Copyright in Fringe mint

Walter Bishop eating Thin Mints

Don't require six senses

To see text bubbles everywhere

Maybe time to give up the ghost

Or upgrade to a $7 sponsored post

Uncanny. I can claim in true honesty that I had a remarkably similar vision for a comprehensive life 'experience quotient' app not even 2-3 weeks ago. The travel portion looked very similar: GPS enabled tracing of a global map space with percent coverage. But travel would be but one table in a comprehensive database of life experience: financial, relationships, science, arts, drugs, sex and everything else worth living for. An algorithm would tally a grand 'statistic'. It's the stuff of Borges' wildest fantasies, n'est-ce pas?

Indeed, this cogent essay has been a long time coming and should be a pre-requisite for anyone thinking of getting in the game. "A barbershop isn't designed to grow fast. Whereas a search engine, for example, is." Brilliant.

Both the app and the team made a strong impression on me. There is some real heat here. 3x3 is soo much better than double dating. And the 'bathroom intercourse' metrics are certainly a unique measure of 'penetration'.

Interested to hear what mechanics they are considering adopting to drive long term engagement. After all, who wants to bear the mark of having the reputation about town of being a 'serial grouperizer'.

Also, how do they plan to make money? Revenue share on the pre-paid date?

Congrats, Kurt! An entire generation of game devs bestow their most humble appreciation for showing us the path to enlightenment. Hopefully the new content will reflect the changing state of the field, for example: OpenGL ES 2.0 hacks for smartphones and WebGL.

While the author of the linked article expiates the hit coding performance can take when fasting I have personally observed an interesting phenomena during my observation of Ramadan. Namely, I can experience moments of acute lucidity and penetrating insight into a problem at hand.

Usually this occurs when I am in the midst of something that requires a good bit of effort such as tackling a thorny algorithmic conundrum or analyzing a particularly complex call stack. If I attune my mind to repress the pangs of bodily need I occasionally feel as if the external world melts away and I slip into an almost mystical state of oneness with the task at hand. Needless to say, I have been surprised immensely by this development.

One theory I have is that the blood flow that would normally be assigned by my body to the act of digestion is now free'd up to be reallocated to the ole cranium. Plausible? Unsure, but am certainly enjoying these life experiments!

Side note: for those observing the fast I have also noticed that my immune system is closely linked with the gut and my self-imposed starvations can lead to immune system compromise. Make sure you supplement your Iftar goodies with some replenishing nutrients such as pro-biotic yogurt smoothies rich in vitamin C and home-cooked chicken consomme.

'Cambridge Seed' sounds like a reality TV show about a sperm bank that only accepts donors from elite universities ;)

Congrats to everyone who has ever applied and the YC team! You have changed the rules of the game for the better...

Not sure current technology is capable of yielding real creativity. Perhaps as we enter the era of quantum computing. But fun level design and infinite gameplay generated using AI/ML techniques are a welcome addition to casual games.

Congrats! Looking forward to amazong browser centric gaming.

Question: Does GameClosure have any plans to use WebGL?

Also wanted to give you a heads up re: Art Hack Weekend SF http://www.gaffta.org/2012/02/13/art-hack-weekend-sf-a-webgl... See you there, perhaps?