Breaking the fourth wall with Minecraft • Hacker News Board

Re: Breaking the fourth wall with Minecraft

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Post by ganeumann » Mon, Nov 23, 2015, 11:36 PM UTC

staunch wrote: post #52

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…

Feynman thought tinkering had value :P https://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~kilcup/262/feynman.html

"Among the redeeming qualities of our species is that we play. Indeed, we surround ourselves with toys, and we remain preoccupied with them throughout life… We display almost inconceivable creativity as we tinker with our playthings. The force of imagination and the passion for experimenting propel us toward outrageous designs and technological achievements."

From Henk Tennekes' _The Simple Science of Flight_

Re: Breaking the fourth wall with Minecraft

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Post by kator » Tue, Nov 24, 2015, 1:55 AM UTC

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…

All I can say is when you work at your passion you don't work a day of your life.

I love hacking tech even on the weekends and after hours. If you don't then you might want to consider a new career.

I think a big part of why 30 years into my career I'm still learning is because to me this is my "fun". I don't want to watch 30 hours of reality TV. I'd rather build a cat feeder that uses OpenCV to identify which cat is eating and when the cat's feeding bowl is empty.

Recently my job shifted yet again to more management and my wife suggested I "take vacation and work on that iPhone app you were playing with a couple months ago". She knows I'm a much more enjoyable guy to be around when I have had a couple really nice zoned out hours pounding a keyboard to beg a computer to do something stupid I've come up with.

PS: When my wife saw this first thing she asked was if I could interface something like that to the cat feeder. :-)

Re: Breaking the fourth wall with Minecraft

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Post by EvanPlaice » Tue, Nov 24, 2015, 3:55 AM UTC

Finally, 'Hackers' the movie style 3D interfaces for managing networking infrastructure.

In all seriousness. As networking structures become more modular, it might not be a bad idea to have systems where the architecture can be modeled and monitored visually.

I have come across presentations of some custom/proprietary systems that provide interesting visualizations of networking interactions. It would be awesome to see a generalized platform implementation.

Re: Breaking the fourth wall with Minecraft

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Post by abrookewood » Tue, Nov 24, 2015, 5:26 AM UTC

phirschybar wrote: post #39

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…

I hear you. But my kids would FLIP if they could control lights in our house from a Minecraft world :)

Agreed! My son would completely lose his shit if I showed him how to do this. I'm putting those globes on the xmas list.