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Re:Lost Laughs in Leisure Suit Larry
on Saturday October 07, 2017 @07:42AM (#15423395)
A subset of "Interactive Fiction".
The latest in language: http://inform7.com/
"Inform is a design system for interactive fiction based on natural language. It is a radical reinvention of the way interactive fiction is designed, guided by contemporary work in semantics and by the practical experience of some of the world's best-known writers of IF."
Re:Manifold Garden (Escheresque Puzzle Game) Teaser
on Sunday August 06, 2017 @09:59AM (#14941349)
"Inception like" gravity inside rooms - switching gravity between different walls to move puzzle elements around + taking advantage of wraparound to move between levels on the map (the "outside")
Puzzle gameplay demo: https://youtu.be/InqcFGj51y8?t=12s
Re:Supreme Court Should Block Printer Company’s Ploy to Undermine Cons...
on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @10:00AM (#13471787)
https://www.eff.org/pages/list-printers-which-do-or-do-not-d...
Lots of printing companies undermine privacy by including serial number tracking dots.
Re:Updates to our Google Voice apps
on Monday January 23, 2017 @10:04PM (#13468483)
Bug: (where do I report this?)
Number A, Number B.
A receives text. "B" is set as my default but I see A's message in my inbox. I reply. The reply is sent from "B".
Re:Star Citizen and Squadron 42 are using Amazon’s Lumberyard game engine
on Saturday December 24, 2016 @11:36AM (#13250407)
So if you don't update, then you can still hold them accountable? Do you know of people who are watching (maybe you didn't update?)
Re:Welcome to the World of Software Defined Radio
on Monday December 05, 2016 @10:43AM (#13106088)
So are you referring to American arrests? Because you make it sound like the Brazillians don't get arrested.
A reply comment says that truckers are using it - what's their legal status?
Re:How Eve unifies your entire programming stack
on Tuesday November 22, 2016 @01:05AM (#13011978)
I'm impressed with the abstractions! What are recommended "Learn Eve" tutorials?
Re:Nude pics as IOU: a new, risky online loan among Chinese university...
on Monday November 21, 2016 @02:10PM (#13008184)
Connection refused (USA)
Re:DeepMind and Blizzard to release StarCraft II as an AI research env...
on Friday November 04, 2016 @11:17PM (#12877960)
In previous years I've seen a lot of AI tech for action-games -- not neccessiarly FPS but shooter in a flat world with obstacles. Eg. marking objects for cover, marking positions to defend from etc.
Doesn't quite apply to a mario style game
Re:DeepMind and Blizzard to release StarCraft II as an AI research env...
on Friday November 04, 2016 @11:14PM (#12877953)
humans have tried this -- 6 pooling to grandmasters: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/sc2-strategy/283755-grandmas...
Re:DeepMind and Blizzard to release StarCraft II as an AI research env...
on Friday November 04, 2016 @11:14PM (#12877949)
I thought units attacked instantneously, there was end-lag but no startup?
Re:How the Presidential Transition Works in the Social Media Age
on Monday October 31, 2016 @10:52PM (#12842998)
Hi I want to point out that a while back "Barack Obama" created a github account.. press releases went out "Obama learns to code" ... but then the github account went down and was replaced by a similarly named one like presidentobama_bot or something like that. Sorry I don't remember the exact string but it was odd.
Re:Wikileaks: Julian Assange's internet access 'cut'
on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @02:59PM (#12737581)
Are those the only choices? Or could the nation undergo a transformation about how money & politics are entwined and rethink the presidential elections?
Re:Really Bad Chess makes chess fun even if you’re really bad
on Thursday October 13, 2016 @04:54PM (#12703949)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess960 - by Bobby Fischer
Re:Really Bad Chess makes chess fun even if you’re really bad
on Thursday October 13, 2016 @04:52PM (#12703935)
Kung Fu Chess was fantastic!
If you're looking for a modern strategy game, Check out Arimma - designed to be difficult for computers, easy for humans
Re:“What Went Right and What Went Wrong”: Analysis of 155 Postmortems ...
on Saturday March 26, 2016 @06:37PM (#11367786)
Maybe you would say that most webapps, no matter the complexity of business logic are "not hard", but I've seen TDD work quite well and practiced by senior (10+ years) programmers to great success.
Your second paragraph... that does not apply to grocery stores here in the US.
They fill the center with junk and the fresh food, eggs & milk along the sides. Often eggs & milk (commonly used together) are on OPPOSITE halves of the store!
Re:Apple Is Said to Be Working on an iPhone Even It Can’t Hack
on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @07:16PM (#11171373)
I upvoted because I think you are absolutely correct.
Better security could be had with a two-factor system -- plug the phone into a cryptobox to decrypt. Having everything in one place is vulnerable.
Re:Zcash, an untraceable Bitcoin alternative, launches in alpha
on Tuesday January 26, 2016 @08:43AM (#10973312)
Can someone explain how these "Zero Knowledge Proofs" are "untraceable"?
Re:Zcash, an untraceable Bitcoin alternative, launches in alpha
on Tuesday January 26, 2016 @08:41AM (#10973308)
Why do you say it makes you "powerless"? If you can buy goods with it, that's power.
Re:Stack Overflow to require attribution for code samples
on Friday January 15, 2016 @08:48AM (#10909243)
Seriously? Who's coding that doesn't know about SO?
I've done this occasionally (link to the SO post) on tricky code, but I'm not going to paste a link everytime I grab some code from SO.
What if I just rewrote, anyways?
This is unenforceable and therefore, pointless.
Re:Cisco Must Be Held Accountable for Aiding China’s Human Rights Abuses
on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @12:52AM (#10892532)
I talked with a Chinese person who told me why. His explanation:
Falun Gong exercises (Tai-Chi like) improved the health of their practicioners. The communist party supported Falun Gong practice because it lowered their healthcare costs.
Until there were more members of Falun Gong than Communist party officials. So the latter began hunting the former.
Some Chinese fled China, and that's how the West know about Falun Gong.
Very sad state of affairs.
Re:Unethical Growth Hacking from YayView
on Sunday January 10, 2016 @08:42AM (#10875258)
Well, that's what happen when you use Facebook..
Re:Sneak Peek at Bitcoin's Upcoming Killer App – Open Bazaar
on Friday January 08, 2016 @08:18AM (#10864613)
" and the always-active Slack room for the community is packed with about 1,200 users on their 41 channels, each of which is a topic-specific, skype-like chat room."
Chat rooms are skype-like now?
I suppose if you're talking about closed source.. :)
Re:Microsoft reveals details of Windows 10 usage tracking
on Friday January 08, 2016 @08:17AM (#10864606)
Your options for "send details to M$oft" are "Basic, Enhanced or Full (Recommended)." Enhanced is selected by default. How thoughtful of them.
No explanation. This is hostile computing.
Re:FBI's 'Unprecedented' Hacking Campaign Targeted Over a Thousand Com...
on Friday January 08, 2016 @08:14AM (#10864594)
Don't forget about the teenager who was charged simultaneously with being a producer & victim of child porn due to hostile courts Virginia, I believe. An 18 & 17 year old (or close to it) couple texting each other.
Re:Lenovo Is Making the First Google Project Tango Phone
on Friday January 08, 2016 @08:10AM (#10864572)
Which is a reminder to us all that the Certificate "Authority" system is broken..
Re:North Korea Announces That It Has Detonated First Hydrogen Bomb
on Wednesday January 06, 2016 @08:31AM (#10850364)
Where do I sign up for these North Korean press releases?
Re:Show HN: ZapBear
on Sunday August 09, 2015 @04:27PM (#10031456)
Simple reaction game. Inspired by the Thunder Plane sequence in a Final Fantasy game. Screen flashes, tap to dodge lightning.