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by ingonealan3 3y ago
I am starting to believe that this is, most likely, the best way out of a lot of the mess we find ourselves in, in the modern digital world. We, the laypeople, are under scrutiny in so many ways, our lives being recorded all the time. The b
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by ingonealan3 3y ago
For someone who's completely out of the loop, what changes are the Unity peeps doing to their business model?
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by ingonealan3 3y ago
Could this be ported to a simple smartphone app, if it works only by listening? I'm sure many people would find it useful in that form as well.
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by ingonealan3 3y ago
I'm really glad that we (the startup I am part of) decided to migrate away from Twilio about two months ago, in favor of a smaller, more local SMS provider. Now if I could only find a decent alternative to SendGrid, I could maybe argue
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by ingonealan3 4y ago
To take the point further: nothing, ultimately, has any inherent value.
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by ingonealan3 4y ago
I'm more curious to watch and see how they're gonna kick out the assholes from government. If anybody stands a chance to set a good example in that direction, it'll likely be them.
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by ingonealan3 4y ago
Oh shush, and just go type "lynx" into your beloved green glowing terminal /jk
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by ingonealan3 4y ago
Speaking of keys, I vaguely remember there being a key which, when held down and a direction key pressed along with it, would make the digger dig on the square adjacent in that direction. If the target tile was soil or diamonds, it would di
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by ingonealan3 4y ago
Yes, as far as I can remember.
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by ingonealan3 4y ago
To point 3), it's not that difficult. Even in this space, you don't necessarily have to reinvent the wheel: there are quite a few embeddable languages to choose from. Lua, microPython, GNU Guile, Janet, and plenty of others. It is
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by ingonealan3 4y ago
Most games don't allow you to script them because you wouldn't be playing them as intended, for better or worse. Secondly, if we're talking about games with a multiplayer element, it would allow you to gain an advantage again
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by ingonealan3 4y ago
Am I missing something about modern backend development, or does this article assume that all backends are built using a microservice architecture (and this implies some form of inter-service communication, for which message queues are a go
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by ingonealan3 5y ago
I see a fundamental problem in the following general attitude: "make games a much more mindless/regular part of players' day vs. depending on users to actively seek out their game". Why do this? Why not just put the game
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by ingonealan3 5y ago
As a technical demonstration, this little project is really interesting. There's only one aspect I'd like to poke at a bit: "Mobile gaming is more interesting than PC/web clients to me. If nothing it means developers can
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JetBrains launches cross-platform UI framework for Kotlin(infoworld.com)
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