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Post by aidenn0 » Wed, Apr 08, 2020, 3:19 AM UTC

slg wrote: post #53

wil421 wrote: post #29

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I can go find NES games and Gameboy games in my parents basement. If the NES worked I could play it or find a knock off on Amazon. Pretty sure I have a Doom floppy. Kids these days will be lucky to remember their favorite mobile games. Let alone be able to play them. Will they ever have an iOS or Android equivalent of ROMs?

Some of those NES and Gameboy games might not work as originally intended. Lots of them had internal batteries in order to save information and those batteries are starting to die. Floppies from that era and early CDs are also at the age in which they are likely to degrade. So while some of this old tech might have a longer shelf life than tech today, as the video says, entropy will get us all in the end.

Most of my floppies are dead, but most NES games did not have batteries, and it's really easy to replace the batteries in the ones that did (it's usually just a CR2032).

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Post by azemetre » Wed, Apr 08, 2020, 3:22 AM UTC

hugs wrote: post #39

As the founder of one of the screen-scraping tools he alluded to in the video (Selenium), I just want to say the video has one of the best explanations for the difference between automating a process through a user interface vs an API. In the end, entropy always gets you, but you can push it off a little bit longer if there's an API.

I got my first job in software writing selenium code, your library literally changed my and my family's life.

Your work has had a huge impact in my career and life.

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Post by EGreg » Wed, Apr 08, 2020, 3:24 AM UTC

dylan604 wrote: post #69

donatj wrote: post #7

I was telling a friend recently about how there was this "golden age" when you could access all sorts of free APIs, and how I still long for this time. I remember the public Netflix API, Twitter APIs and Flickr API with particular fondness. My personal site was a big mashup of all of my data. I also abused the hell out of Yahoo Pipes - I would run RSS feeds through like 15 different languages with Babelfish before ba…

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Actually it’s MORE valuable if you add up everyone using it

Just less money to be made by those with the power to restrict it

Private property is just a monopoly right to exclude others from the use of something. If they could have used it, it would have been another instance of adding to the value. But someone has to pop up and demand rents and restrict them from doing so. Doesn’t that overall reduce the value of the information?

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Post by ganstyles » Wed, Apr 08, 2020, 3:40 AM UTC

iso947 wrote: post #74

dheera wrote: post #9

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Yeah unfortunately Youtube doesn't let you edit videos, which sucks for creators who want to fix minor mistakes after a video has gone viral. You can, however, add and edit "cards" on top of the video. On another note, it would be noteworthy if the title on Hacker News also included the counter.

It’s sucks for them (and their viewers). It doesn’t suck for viewers who want to see the thing that went viral - not some new video with product placement etc.

Like Reddit comments with a thousand edits after they become popular.

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Post by cryptonector » Wed, Apr 08, 2020, 4:03 AM UTC

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Post by Sargos » Wed, Apr 08, 2020, 4:03 AM UTC

This "open APIs" feeling where you can build and mash up all kinds of services together to build cool things is how writing apps on Ethereum feels right now. All of the data and functions of other people's contracts are on chain and available to you for use in whatever way you want to use it. It's very powerful and makes developing fun again for me.

As an example there is a project called Maker which produces a stablecoin called Dai which is pegged to $1. Another project called Compound took Dai and used it without asking anyone at Maker to create automatic loans where you can put in money and get interest automatically. A third project, Pool Together, started using Compound, again without asking, to pool everyone's funds together for a month and give the interest earned to one winner as a "no-loss lottery". I bet in a few months something will be built on top of Pool Together as well.

None of these teams needed to work together or ask permission. They just built cool things. An added bonus is that these projects can't be turned off by anyone which means Pool Together can trust that their app will work next year just fine, which isn't really something you can rely on in Web 2.0. It's a very exciting time for composability and neat experiments and I'm looking forward to what else will be built.

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Post by sneak » Wed, Apr 08, 2020, 4:04 AM UTC

solarkraft wrote: post #24

travisjungroth wrote: post #19

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All the software we write is ephemeral and will one day either be retired or stop working.

Like ourselves and the rest of the universe.

I think that thinking this way is a coping mechanism in response to the massive loss of control we experience being subject to the whims of giant corporate platforms deciding what we can and cannot run on our own devices.

The alternative is to face how insanely unfair and belittling it is to have bought an app and a device and due to circumstances out of your control arbitrarily no longer be permitted to run “your” app on “your” device.

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Post by joshfraser » Wed, Apr 08, 2020, 4:20 AM UTC

hugs wrote: post #39

As the founder of one of the screen-scraping tools he alluded to in the video (Selenium), I just want to say the video has one of the best explanations for the difference between automating a process through a user interface vs an API. In the end, entropy always gets you, but you can push it off a little bit longer if there's an API.

I love and use Selenium all the time. Thank you!

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Post by jakear » Wed, Apr 08, 2020, 4:24 AM UTC

anchpop wrote: post #98

function_seven wrote: post #67

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Sorry for self-reply , but hopefully someone out there can point me to some similar tower-defense games? Everything I see on the app store now is bloated with graphics or IAP and shitty gameplay. If you're familiar with the GeoDefense games[0], you know what I'm talking about. [0] http://www.criticalthoughtgames.com/geodefense.html

Mindustry and Infinitode are both lots of fun

+1 for Mindustry. Factorio with more tower defense emphasis. And FOSS!

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Post by marcocampana » Wed, Apr 08, 2020, 4:28 AM UTC

donatj wrote: post #7

I was telling a friend recently about how there was this "golden age" when you could access all sorts of free APIs, and how I still long for this time. I remember the public Netflix API, Twitter APIs and Flickr API with particular fondness. My personal site was a big mashup of all of my data. I also abused the hell out of Yahoo Pipes - I would run RSS feeds through like 15 different languages with Babelfish before ba…

Those times were absolutely great. It's only human to look at the past with a feeling of melancholy and forget how great is the present and the long way we came. Today you can actually build your own APIs with very little knowledge and effort: easy to get started frameworks, free or inexpensive hosting in the cloud, lots of freely available data. That's pretty awesome too.