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Breaking the fourth wall with Minecraft

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Re: Breaking the fourth wall with Minecraft

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Post by andrewmcwatters »

marpstar wrote: post #50
andrewmcwatters wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep, I feel the same way. I don't really like tinkering, though. I don't like the mindset of tinkerers, either. Every tinkerer I've come across has never finished anything of substantial size, and every one I've met had terrible programming habits, or such strongly opinionated views, you couldn't work with them or discuss something you liked because it wasn't inline with their holy views of writing god-awful code. Wh…

what do you do for fun? it is okay that people do pointless shit in the name of fun, right?

I make games and software to help others make games, ironically enough.

Re: Breaking the fourth wall with Minecraft

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Post by staunch »

andrewmcwatters wrote: post #48
kohanz wrote: post #30

> I have a couple of WiFi-enabled bulbs near me, wouldn't it be nice to be able to control them using Minecraft? I mean nothing against the author and like-minded individuals and I have the utmost respect for people with such a "tinkerer" mindset, but often reading things like this on Hacker News makes me feel like a bit of a fraud, because my internal answer to the question above is basically "No, not really". I'm w…

Yep, I feel the same way. I don't really like tinkering, though. I don't like the mindset of tinkerers, either. Every tinkerer I've come across has never finished anything of substantial size, and every one I've met had terrible programming habits, or such strongly opinionated views, you couldn't work with them or discuss something you liked because it wasn't inline with their holy views of writing god-awful code. Wh…

Feynman thought tinkering had value :P

https://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~kilcup/262/feynman.html

Re: Breaking the fourth wall with Minecraft

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Post by DonHopkins »

kohanz wrote: post #30

> I have a couple of WiFi-enabled bulbs near me, wouldn't it be nice to be able to control them using Minecraft? I mean nothing against the author and like-minded individuals and I have the utmost respect for people with such a "tinkerer" mindset, but often reading things like this on Hacker News makes me feel like a bit of a fraud, because my internal answer to the question above is basically "No, not really". I'm w…

The epitome of the fad of integrating two seemingly unrelated things that somebody else made in order to create a unique hack was the ProgrammableWeb: Mashup Matrix [1].

It had all known web services along each edge, so people without any original ideas or will to write their own code could check if "It's like X for Y" had been taken yet, in order to impress their investors that their unique snowflake of an gimmick to effortlessly combine two other company's hard work together was a viable unicorn seed.

Eventually there were so many web services that it became like checking the Million Dollar Home Page [2] to see if one particular pixel was already taken.

But we've moved far beyond that, fortunately. Why stop at two dimensional matrices? Are there actually any practical mashups left that limit themselves to using only two other web services, these days?

Web 2.0 is to "It's like X for Y!" as Web 3.0 is to "It's like X for Y with Z!"

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20100829232918/http://www.progra...

[2] http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/

Re: Breaking the fourth wall with Minecraft

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Post by soared »

ccvannorman wrote: post #14

This is what Code Hero, which I helped develop [1] tries to be. I hope this will have some success as well! With the right spark, there is a ton of creative fuel that can be channeled from excited kids into computer programming. [1] http://primerlabs.com/codehero

Poking around the website it looks like an awesome project. I'm going to give it a try! But, the site needs a marketing person or someone gifted with visuals + words. Also, codehero.org has a redirect loop and most of the pages are access denied.

Re: Breaking the fourth wall with Minecraft

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Post by mh- »

frandroid wrote: post #33
542458 wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm also a little weary of cheap Chinese products that connect to my network... I'm always a little worried that they'll be doing something malicious, and I don't have the network know-how to prevent that. That said, I'm not entirely sure the risk is that much greater with off-brand Chinese products than "American" (designed, programmed and made in China) ones.

Since we can't install firewalls on cheap Wi-Fi IoT devices, it would be interesting to have a Wi-Fi router that handles that for you, isolating every device on the network by default. Just have every device have a web control interface so that you don't have nasty surprises from devices starting to communicate on ports they aren't expected to be operating on. Or just close all outbound ports from devices by default,…

this would be really useful. I think with a nice UX it could be rather popular.

Re: Breaking the fourth wall with Minecraft

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Post by emerongi »

lucaspiller wrote: post #4
kator wrote: post #2

Reminds me of dockercraft, discussed recently at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10584956 I have a raspberry pi controlled cat feeder I built and have been playing around with the last couple of weeks as a side project. I showed this to my wife and she said "Oh so can you make it so I can feed that cats while playing minecraft?" LOL

Next up: Order pizza and laundry through Minecraft

Next up: Live your whole life through Minecraft.

Wait... is this what VR is going to evolve to?

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