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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 reinven…

"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 …

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.

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".

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?)

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 st…

I'm impressed with the abstractions! What are recommended "Learn Eve" tutorials?

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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 t…

humans have tried this -- 6 pooling to grandmasters: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/sc2-strategy/283755-grandmas...

I thought units attacked instantneously, there was end-lag but no startup?

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 …

Are those the only choices? Or could the nation undergo a transformation about how money & politics are entwined and rethink the presidential elections?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess960 - by Bobby Fischer

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

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 …

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 (co…

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 …

Can someone explain how these "Zero Knowledge Proofs" are "untraceable"?

Why do you say it makes you "powerless"? If you can buy goods with it, that's power.

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 f…

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…

Well, that's what happen when you use Facebook..

" 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…