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HTTP animations

bukk.it

2 pointsby curiousdanniivor 13 Jahren1 comments

"Zero Hours" - working in 2023 London

medium.com

12 pointsby curiousdanniivor 13 Jahren7 comments

Duplicating house keys using a 3D Printer

flux-labs.com

4 pointsby curiousdanniivor 13 Jahren0 comments

Non-lethal rounds used to stop gunman in Queen Street mall siege

heraldsun.com.au

2 pointsby curiousdanniivor 13 Jahren0 comments

App

xkcd.com

27 pointsby curiousdanniivor 13 Jahren0 comments

Ask HN: buying Kindle Active Content outside the US

1 pointsby curiousdanniivor 14 Jahren0 comments

Ask HN: Click through licences

1 pointsby curiousdanniivor 14 Jahren3 comments

The Hobbit by Melbourne House

filfre.net

3 pointsby curiousdanniivor 14 Jahren3 comments

America: Elect! The US election as a graphic novel

guardian.co.uk

3 pointsby curiousdanniivor 14 Jahren0 comments

Funding water systems in Kenya with mobile banking

bbc.com

2 pointsby curiousdanniivor 14 Jahren0 comments

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vor 7 Jahrendiscuss

Various levels of NLP do get applied in IF, but it doesn't necessarily help much. Being able to parse input is an important step, but the game/story needs to be able to do something with those verbs and nouns. For a good player experience the author needs to communicate clearly what range of input will be acceptable, making sure all nouns mentioned in text can be interacted, any actions implied in the text or by the nouns themselves are recognised, etc. If you do that well then you can have a good player experience with a purely handcoded parser.

vor 7 Jahrendiscuss

Aside from a few of the biggest Stack Exchange sites (including Stack Overflow) most of the 170 sites don't have ads and don't make profit. The only profit is very indirect, demonstrating that Stack Overflow the company can run sites like these, something which is now in doubt. (Disclosure: I'm a mod on one of the small SE sites and helped author the letter.)

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

What about Module.instantiateWasm()? That should let you provide a pre-compiled or even pre-instantiated module.

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

It denies freedom to the software more than freedom to the person. For copyleft licences the software is most important; for permissive licences people are most important.

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

And their open source projects like Chrome do have public bug trackers, but in my experience I've either been ignored or treated with what I felt was contempt. The first is probably the same feedback problem as everywhere, the second is because the Chrome developers don't want the same kind of internet I do...

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

A word cloud of all words in all doge images. Wow.

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

This is some actual code from one of my projects (though written by another contributor):

   To transition to monster card gallery:
   	animate the gallery-transition as a reel animation targeting the transition-container at 8 fps;
   	wait for main menu input until all animations are complete;
   	pause for 1000 milliseconds, accepting input;
   	now the image-ID of the transition-container is the image-ID of the card-container.

The language is Inform 7, and it's using the Glimmr library. https://github.com/i7/kerkerkruip http://inform7.com/ http://glimmr.wordpress.com/

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

That moment when you realise you actually don't so much touch type as four-finger type. :/

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

For fewer layers (and faster playing) you can use Parchment: http://iplayif.com/?story=http://www.batmantis.com/zorks/zor...

Though the status line doesn't work... I should fix that.

And if you like Zork, try these modern classics:

Lost pig: http://iplayif.com/?story=http://mirror.ifarchive.org/if-arc...

Spider and Web: http://iplayif.com/?story=http://mirror.ifarchive.org/if-arc...

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

"How many children/pigs/dogs are in the house? Did we forget any?"

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

What differences will this make now?

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

But unlike most other media there's no other way to purchase them. I can't buy DVDs of Kindle active content, I can't get it off ebay.

I guess they mustn't consider the international market worth the trouble of solving whatever legal issue is stopping them from selling them to other countries.

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

So the Disney Vault is an actual physical vault with human security guards? Wow! I thought it was just a scheme for introducing artificial scarcity.

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

Or any active content! Why would Amazon sell apps in only North America?!

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

The best thing in this article is the list of things-that-turned-out-to-be-bad-ideas!

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

Because otherwise everyone using "password" as their password would have to share an account!

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

I would say that the GPL is instead primarily concerned with the freedom of the software, not the authors or users. GPL software can never be taken hostage, even if that inconveniences every human who might want to use it. It's appropriate for some things, but not for everything.

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

Which commercial?

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

"Ideating"? Really? Yes I know it's not a new word, but really?

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

True, but more people are likely to think of the subtitle as being canonical due to repeated watchings on VHS or DVD than theatre reruns.