GotAnyMegadeth

Rather than Real Time Strategy games, maybe consider Turn Based Strategy games.

I often play Advance Wars Dual Strike on an emulator on my phone with one hand when standing on public transport.

> Moore’s law is now approaching the end of its working life.

That has been said many times before...

> When I pressed my 6th grade science teacher on this question, he just got mad, denied that planes could fly inverted and tried to continue his lecture.

During my time at school I had two teachers that when I started asking questions they didn't know the answer to they'd say something like "Wow, that's an interesting question, I'll try and find out the answer". All the rest were terrible teachers.

This looks really cool, will give it a go when I get home

The reason this virus is dangerous if because it didn't co-evolve with humans (it is a bat disease I think). Coughing and sneezing are mechanisms that humans have evolved in order to deal with various problems, not something that viruses have managed to program us to do.

> why didn't chips suddenly jump from 100um to 100nm scale?

Another point is that Moore's Law is at least partially self fulfilling. If you are a Chip Fabrication company you need to spend money to make new technologies, the smaller you want things to be the more money you have to spend. You could spend a comparatively huge amount of money and leap ahead of all of the competition, but then you'd have to charge more than the competition for your services. All of your customers are expecting things to progress according to Moore's law, so they won't be prepared to spend the extra money. I suppose ideally you want to be just ahead of the competition, not way ahead. I hope that makes sense, I found that hard to articulate.

I wonder which will cause a greater net suffering to mankind?

One year a swarm of bees moved into the chimney in our house. My bed was right next to the boarded up fireplace, it was great to wake up to the sound of bees at work every morning in the summer.

For anyone wondering, Google says:

"late Middle English: via Latin from Greek Amazōn, explained by the Greeks as ‘without a breast’ (as if from a- ‘without’ + mazos ‘breast’), referring to the fable that the Amazons cut off the right breast so as not to interfere with the use of a bow, but probably a folk etymology of an unknown foreign word."

Thanks! I haven't looked into Chromecast yet, but I agree it would be a good idea.

Don't tell anyone, but at the moment you can pick the party URL by changing the id parameter in the URL after clicking start party... Though it is definitely something I'm considering adding official support for.

Wow, that looks great, I'll have to give it a go. Where were all these similar apps a year ago?

Side comment: There is a site called https://www.thisismyjam.com/ might get confusing, not sure who was first though. It's pretty hard finding a unique name in this space, took me AGES to come up with Playlistful.

I think that is something where my music taste has directed how it works. I would never dream of fading a metal or classic piece of music into another one, but I bet that it would be great for other genres of music. Perhaps I could include an option when the party is started up. I know that there are programs specifically to do this kind of thing aren't there? Anyone know of any good examples? I suspect you'd need to match the beats up somehow.

Thanks for suggesting it, I hadn't even heard of it! I'll take a look. It would certainly make sense to use more than one source for the music so that the whole thing doesn't go down when YouTube change their mind on who can use what.

Thanks! I tried to make it as simple to use as possible. I might do a blog post or two if people are interested in how it was made and the design process. In short: Python using Flask on Google App Engine; YouTube API V3; GIMP for images and logo; Notepad++ for coding; And then loads of battling CSS.

Thanks! That's a really interesting suggestion that I hadn't thought of... Maybe make it have a printable option of something so you can stick it around your house before the party starts.

Thanks! At the moment it randomly selects a user with one or more songs queued up, and then picks their top song. I think that I will refine this though as sometimes someone gets picked 6 times in a row and everyone complains. Especially if that someone is me, it looks suspicious...

Cool, I'll check that out. How long ago did you release it? I've been looking for something like this for ages.

Thanks a lot! Yes, the ability to either stop long songs getting added, or to skip the end of them is the next thing I'm going to add. The first test run I did, inevitably, someone added 10 hours of trololol man straight away.

Your second point is a good idea, I had considered having a pop up that is visible for a few seconds, or maybe even the whole song, but that sounds like it might be better.

Also, thanks for the heads up, yeah it's just a s/$name/you/ replace. I'll look into that. Thanks

Good point, thanks. It just searches YouTube at the moment, though I am considering how best to add other sources.

Also, the FAQ is a bit bare as I haven't had many Qs yet! I'll start working on that

Hello, I made Playlistful because I like hosting parties where everyone gets to contribute to the music, but hated people skipping each others songs, accidentally deleting the whole playlist, and queuing up 3000 songs so that no one else gets a turn.

This is the first web app I have ever made, and my first time using any of the languages/tools involved.

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated! Thanks a lot

Sickeningly me and a few friends each played the Game Cube incarnation of PSO I & II for over 100 hours offline

Wow, that's a lot. In Bristol UK I can get a taxi from a taxi rank to home, which is just over 5 miles and takes about 20 mins, at 4am, for £10 max. Not tried Uber

It should show you the correct answer if you get it wrong.

You could argue that he missed out on a lot of the amazing things about modern life, you could argue that we are missing out on many of the things of a solitary life in the forest. Either way, I'm glad that he didn't miss out on one of the most important things about modern life: Pokémon.

When I first started programming every single bug was caused by something that couldn't possibly be related to the problem...

That's a shame as that would be where most of my music came from.

If I hadn't already spent countless hours battling the Spotify API I'd attempt to help...

Hello,

I have ticked the box that says use the Spotify service, but when I do a search, it doesn't find anything from Spotify. Am I missing something? Thanks

EDIT: Using Windows 7

It will probably just end up with Google, Apple, Amazon and Microsoft owning 90% of the pop music industry.

That would mean they made $1.5bn from that game alone [0]. Perhaps you meant $10k which would be closer to their today average [1]?

[0] https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%24100000*(24*(60%2F35))*3...

[1] http://thinkgaming.com/app-sales-data/2/candy-crush-saga/

Although I know what you mean, Bulgaria is not a Third World Country. I think a better term would be Developing Country [0]. Third world means that it wasn't allied with either the USA/UK (First World) or Russia/China (Second World) during the Cold War [1]. Bulgaria was part of the Eastern Bloc [2].

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developing_country

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_World

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Bloc#Bulgaria

Don't drink it directly out of the container...