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Post by deanCommie »

wil421 wrote: post #29
djhworld wrote: post #11

I really liked this video, it highlights that a lot of software we write is ephemeral and will one day either be retired or stop working. The frequently updating title thing is cute, it'll be interesting to see what dies first - YouTube pulling the "title update API" or Tom's script running wherever he's put it

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?

Forget kids, I'm an adult that's missing some early adulthood games.

Flash, man.

iOS and Android have been dominating for a decade - i bet there will absolutely be ROMs out there.

The flash games I played as a teenager at the turn of the century are about to be completely gone, like tears in the rain.

* https://www.kongregate.com/games/scarybug/chronotron * https://www.acno.tv/acno/

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Post by smcl »

Lammy wrote: post #101
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…

> I also abused the hell out of Yahoo Pipes - I would run RSS feeds through like 15 different languages with Babelfish before back to English, just for kicks. For a while it was common to find SEO-spam sites composed entirely of posts generated this way. They would translate from a source language back to it in a roundabout way and end up with an article that was "different enough" to count as unique content to Googl…

A British MP (I cannot for the life of me remember who) came under fire for owning a company made its money doing this - take existing content, shuffle the language round a bit and publish it with loads of ads.

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Post by smcl »

jinushaun wrote: post #57
stickfigure wrote: post #50

The voice, oratorical flourishes, and narrative style really remind me of James Burke's Connections. "And that's why I chose to film this here..." Delightful!

You should watch his other videos. He often comes up as recommended for me. I think it's the accent and the cadence of his speech that is so appealing.

I don't know if it's accidental or learned but he's really nailed the speech style of typical BBC documentary programming. Either way, his videos are generally very good and entertaining

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Post by speps »

deanCommie wrote: post #131
wil421 wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Forget kids, I'm an adult that's missing some early adulthood games. Flash, man. iOS and Android have been dominating for a decade - i bet there will absolutely be ROMs out there. The flash games I played as a teenager at the turn of the century are about to be completely gone, like tears in the rain. * https://www.kongregate.com/games/scarybug/chronotron * https://www.acno.tv/acno/

You might be happy to know about Flashpoint, the Flash games conservation project: https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/

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Post by onion2k »

wil421 wrote: post #29
djhworld wrote: post #11

I really liked this video, it highlights that a lot of software we write is ephemeral and will one day either be retired or stop working. The frequently updating title thing is cute, it'll be interesting to see what dies first - YouTube pulling the "title update API" or Tom's script running wherever he's put it

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?

Will they ever have an iOS or Android equivalent of ROMs?

Yes. Torrent sites are littered with archives full of apk files already.

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Post by adrianN »

joshspankit wrote: post #93
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…

It surprises me that we don’t have crypto-based API micro-transactions yet. Even if you had to pay 1 satoshi for 10 queries, it would go a long way towards making APIs viable long-term.

What's the transaction rate for bitcoin these days? Is it still a handful of transactions per hour? What are the transaction costs?

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Post by diggan »

r-w wrote: post #86
diggan wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So, the requirements of open-source + have entity with paid hosting are both equally important. First one to ensure I can continue using whatever I setup on the hosting, in case the entity behind it cannot. And the paid hosting is important because it gives better odds towards the service actually sticking around. What I likes with Yahoo Pipes compared to NodeRED (at least as far as I looked at NodeRED, I might be wr…

I don’t think those requirements will be met until people like us who miss it put our money where our mouth is ;)

I think people like us (at least me) miss a lot of things, some more important than others, and we have to carefully choose what we spend out time on :)

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Post by akavel »

diggan wrote: post #25
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…

> I also abused the hell out of Yahoo Pipes - I would run RSS feeds through like 15 different languages with Babelfish before back to English, just for kicks. Yahoo Pipes was one of the greatest services I used, just when I started getting into programming. Maybe it was so cool because I was naive, but I really miss being able to pipe services together in the same way. Anyone know of any similar attempts that is open…

I believe https://luna-lang.org has plans like this, though they're kinda definitely not hurrying things...

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Post by PudgePacket »

weinzierl wrote: post #10

Despite that the video starts with "The title of this video won't be exactly right. [..] If it's actually a 100% spot on it's a miracle" the title was exactly right when I saw it the first time. I even screenshotted it. I also wondered if it would work on HN. Is there a limit on the number of times you can edit a title on HN? Obviously there isn't on Youtube, which I find quite surprising.

Pretty sure only hn admins can edit a title.
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