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by dyates 10y ago
Snake oil packaged with flashy videos, badly edited copy and laughable technobabble, probably inspired by the Sever kickstarter[1] from about a year ago. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if the same people were involved in this. [1] ht
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by dyates 11y ago
I remember being greatly annoyed at a version of Google Hangouts that would pop up a message about certain phone numbers being too long whenever I opened SMSs from them, and then flat-out refuse to let me reply to them. In South Africa, we
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by dyates 11y ago
I don't like the idea of basing too much of the price on hours of playtime: if you've got something really inventive and different with a short enough playtime to not overstay its welcome, that's undervalued. Many games with
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by dyates 11y ago
One of my favourite short stories. Impossibly visionary and also quite terrifying. There was a decent black and white British television adaptation that might still be somewhere on Youtube.
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by dyates 11y ago
OP here: was afraid this would happen (good old HN hug of death). Unfortunately this isn't mine, just something I found, so I don't know if/when it'll be usable. Basically it's a multiplayer text game with strong cr
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Paradise(paradise.xxiivv.com)
16 points by dyates 11y ago|13 comments
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Paradise(paradise.xxiivv.com)
1 points by dyates 11y ago|0 comments
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by dyates 11y ago
And now your password strength is a function of the length of the site's name. Great! EDIT: This seems like much more effort than just using a password manager, or even just a stronger, memorable passphrase or two.
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by dyates 11y ago
If you're interested in a system that sandboxes everything, take a look at Qubes OS.[1] [1]: https://www.qubes-os.org/
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by dyates 11y ago
Based on the name and URL, I initially thought this was a website where you could buy jewellery or maybe statuettes featuring random distorted characters. I was a bit disappointed.
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by dyates 11y ago
I taken to writing up tutorials for tasks that take me a non-trivial amount of effort to accomplish and are obscure enough to not have decent existing writeups on the first page of Google searches. Little things about [automating file uploa
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by dyates 11y ago
Glad you enjoyed it! If you'd like to read a few more, here are some links: #2 The Problem with RPGs: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9bAMoEXM_uObEJUUlFfcXdvWk0... #3 God Games https://drive.goog
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by dyates 11y ago
There's a long article [here]( https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9bAMoEXM_uOSF8tRnFTMTc0Uzg... ) (from page 24) about this game from a game design perspective. MC Kids was quite unusual for a McDonald's ti
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by dyates 11y ago
I highly recommend Jimmy Maher's Digital Antiquarian blog at http://www.filfre.net/ The focus is mainly on computer games from the late 70s (and currently up to the late 80s), but that includes general posts about pers
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by dyates 11y ago
Since I've got a keyboard with blank keycaps, I've found my typing's improved because I look at the keyboard less (and when I do it doesn't really help). With this, I imagine you'd look at the keyboard more as time
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by dyates 11y ago
Even for following blogposts, what better alternatives exist? Genuinely curious here -- I read about how RSS/Atom is obsolete all the time but I still use them with feedly to follow blogs and news sites and don't see a better alte
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by dyates 11y ago
This post has some valuable tips (I'm probably going to try out <Space> as a leader), but one or two near the start rub me the wrong way in terms of how I use vim and how it's my impression that it's intended to be used
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by dyates 11y ago
The MS Office suite in general is incredibly overcomplicated for what the average person is actually going to need or even use. The ribbon interface I think helped (mainly because it removed/hid Clipart and Wordart), but not enough. Ma
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by dyates 11y ago
Jane McGonigal's book on gamification, Reality is Broken , includes quite a bit of detail about this similarity between work and games. The basic idea is that humans enjoy work if certain conditions are met, and games are designed to