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sourthyme

103 karma · joined September 17, 2012

Game Developer at Big Viking Games.
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sourthyme··on Microsoft blocks EdgeDeflector to force Windows 11 users into Edge
Is there a way to disable the searchbar from accessing the internet entirely?
sourthyme··on Architect Resigns in Protest over UCSB Mega-Dorm
It is scary how far this made it. All because of money, and the thought of losing it.
sourthyme··on Man can change his pupil size on command
I can do this too, but never thought to ask if anyone else could. How rare are we talking about?
sourthyme··on Bill Gates advocates for stopping end-to-end encryption
I don't believe there is a way to stop end-to-end encryption. You can easily make data look non-encrypted but actually contain something encrypted underneath.
sourthyme··on Bulk Data Structures C++
Our Machinery has a lot of great resources and recommend reading when you have time.
sourthyme··on Google unlocks 33% of publisher paywalls on July 30
Do I want sites to know I'm in private mode? Probably not. So paywalls will have to find a different way.
sourthyme··on Let's make them pay for using our personal data
I feel like this is a bit superfluous fear mongering. We are somewhat in control of ourselves, and should be expected to take responsibility for our actions. And this is just another way of using ads to attempt to manipulate us. Overtime we will learn to adjust the influence of ads, just as we have done before. I don't trust the government to fix this entirely, so I think its more important to learn to identify these persuasions, so they don't influence our actions.
sourthyme··on Stadia Founder's Edition
To me this seems like xCloud is in response to Stadia. Google has the infrastructure and Microsoft and Sony need to work together to compete. This would be similar to how Microsoft and Sony responded to the Nintendo Wii.
sourthyme··on FTC Brings First Case Challenging Fake Paid Reviews on an Indie Retail Website
There's a solution to this. Reviewers are anonymous to the sellers. Sellers should not be able to link a review to a purchase.
sourthyme··on Steganography Based Ad Payload That Drops Shlayer Trojan on Mac Users
Why aren't these ad scripts sandboxed? I thought you can't have arbitrary code from cross site domains have access.
sourthyme··on Steganography Based Ad Payload That Drops Shlayer Trojan on Mac Users
Maybe I'm missing something, but why is Apple fonts required here?
sourthyme··on Show HN: Lunar lander-type game with computational fluid dynamics
You might be surprised that a lot of phones can run this at a decent frame rate. Adding mobile touch support could be good. It runs the start screen well on my Nexus 6P.
sourthyme··on The Trouble with Leaving Facebook Is That We Like Facebook
I don't know how people can compare eating fast-food to using a social network. Is it really bad for you if you use a social network?
sourthyme··on Handmade Hero – A complete game live-coded from scratch
Not too bad, Casey does a good job of separating the platform code from his game code. Also he's using emacs.
sourthyme··on Google is building an anti-Amazon alliance, and Target is the latest to join
I think we need a good competitor in this space, and can't think of another company that could help to leverage retailers enough. To me this is like google vs apple. Only good can come out of this for the consumer.
sourthyme··on Dark Patterns – User Interfaces Designed to Trick People [video]
What about an organization that helps consumers to cancel or opt out of deals instantly. From the talk if a dark pattern gets a consumer to accept a deal, it is very difficult to leave, so going to help for this could work especially if the help can cancel hassle free very quickly.
sourthyme··on Project Soli – touchless gesture interactions by Google
The video suggests that using radar they can more accurately track hand motions than using a camera.
sourthyme··on Facebook’s Piracy Problem
It seems like it would be easy for Facebook to support takedowns since it could remove the video from feeds.
sourthyme··on Google's XSS game
Use the text input instead of the url.
sourthyme··on How Gamers Nearly Killed My Business
Do you need help? I feel that blocking all "gamers" might be a hard decision. Maybe there are better solutions, especially if your service is to advertise to a large audience.
sourthyme··on Google I/O Event Easter Egg
00101010 gives you outer space
sourthyme··on Ask HN: Percent of time spent developing internal tools?
For new projects or existing projects that desperately need tools, %80-%90 percent is good. The rest can be used for small changes that have visually large results to keep the uppers happy. After you have a basic tools stated %20 or one day of the week to work on tools is good.
sourthyme··on Is Facebook down?
They are trying to roll out IPv6, but it's not going well.
sourthyme··on PlainTasks - opinionated todo-list plugin for Sublime Text 2
Nice. I've been making my own tasks in sublime for awhile.
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