That isn't exactly the same thing as I thought. The version I envisioned had advertisements embedded. The money used to help the poor comes from advertisers. Maybe they can add advertisers later so more rice could be donated with each question.

1) Vote for candidate you don't want to win 2) Candidate wins, and you're unhappy.

I'm a Christian and I don't think I'm better than others. We're all sinners in need of a savior. I just love everyone and hope people love me back. Even if people don't love me back, I still try to keep on loving them.

I for one welcome our "Woodpeckers from Space" overlords.

Has anyone ever thought of making a website where you watch nothing but advertisements with the knowledge that the money made for the website goes directly to feeding the poor?

If you're not all out altruistic, you could say 1/2 the money goes to the poor.

All you would need to do is throw in occasional captcha like mechanisms to make sure they're still watching behind their computer.

People would get a running tally of how much money they earned for the poor.

Not only does typing speed help, but once you realize long variable names slows your coding down, you can even optimize for that. Conventional wisdom says to write long variable names to aid with documentation, and I agree, but there is a trade off between speed of typing and long variable names also. The faster you type, and the faster your compiler, the quicker you can revise and test code. It does matter, but it isn't the biggest factor in coding.

My bots were for Asheron's Call 1 and DOAC. Bots are fun because you find something that is boring in the game, then you automate it, come back when you wake up and move on to the next automatable place. Sometimes bots are fun to watch like screen savers.

For those of you who don't know. God is real. Jesus is Lord. Merry Christmas. Here's my present to you: Try a game I wrote last year.

Yes. There are discounted used games, and free indie games. The market says if you can get a substitute good for a lot less, you might go with it.

When there was nothing that compared to Super Mario Bros 1, people were willing to pay 50$ for it. If Super Mario Bros 1 debuted in 2011, it wouldn't make as much money as it did in 1985. People expect more now for less money. It is just how the market works.

I'm a video game developer myself, and I don't see anything wrong with this. I think it is a good thing. If all the games from 5+ years are available for free, the only thing people would buy would be sequels(games with more scope), or new and creative things. If the market saturates, it makes developers have to get more creative to find new genres and such.

I just discovered a puzzle game I wrote in Flash last year, and I'm letting people know it's there in case they want to play. I originally wrote this in C/C++, but then ported to Flash in order to learn the Flash language. Turns out Flash is almost identical to C/C++ except Flash is actually easier to code in. If you were wondering if you ever wanted to pick up Flash to do webgames and you know C/C++, do it!

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Is there really any cost difference between rail and paved roads?

One reason cars took off and rail remained the solution for freight is that cars can drive to different locations. What if someone made a rail network where the switches to different rails was done completely by computer? You get in your mini rail car, program your destination... Then the computer routes you to your destination... Everyone talks about the self driving car, but that technology is at least 10 years down the road. We could technologically roll out robo-rail in a year or two. We have all the technologies for robo-rail. The problem is the infrastructure is all set up for cars. So you need to be creative on the roll out, maybe wire up a community with them so you park outside the city, but in the city, it is all robo-rail taxis.

My question is: Why isn't the tech community talking about Robo-Rail a lot? All you hear about is self driving cars.

With the advent of factories and outsourcing, it isn't a question of "Why work?" it is more of a question of "Why can't I get a job?"