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Yes, I've thought that the SNES, and to some degree, the Genesis, is where you can go back and find a lot of stuff in the "normal" line to play that holds up pretty well. I've gotten my kids (7 & 5) to respond to some SNES stuff, but anything earlier they find uncompelling.

I can't entirely disagree.

For context, my first console was an Intellivision, so, no, this is not because my first console was a SNES. I did own one for a while... in the early 21st century, long after the PS2 was established.

I think some of it is just that the limitations of the medium were just so shocking prior to that. The Atari era basically couldn't have text; every text you see on the 2600 is freakishly expensive. The Nintendo era was still counting every letter. The SNES era may still be terribly constrained by modern standards, but at least you could make pictures that were recognizable, play recognizable sounds, use text without too much fear, include more variations in play without too much effort, etc. There's a handful of games prior to that that work miracles with the resources they have (Super Mario 3 isn't "just" a classic, it's legitimately amazing for the hardware).

I'd point out that even the people putatively writing Indie games with "old school aesthetics" almost never hold themselves to the limitations of the Nintendo era or before. There are some games that come reasonably close to SNES aesthetics, though.
Is this augmented reality a public space or specific to an app? I'm thinking that will be one determinate.
...in a typical GCC based system, you can for example use "-fstack-usage" and "-fcallgraph-info" to determine a worst case.

(tho that takes a bit of analysis, there are tools around that can automate this).
This video talks about the different approaches that existing mini-retrogame systems have used. Some use emulation, some actually have the NES hardware on a chip.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esQNEvcHVuM
This reminds me of the Pepsi challenge. They blindfold you and have you take a sip of Pepsi then a sip of Coke. The results usually have Pepsi wiping the floor with Coke, despite Coke outselling them everywhere. It turns out the reason for the disparity it that they only test the initial sip. Pepsi is sweeter than Coke which seems better to most people when just sipping rather than drinking a whole can.
Chances are, if Ingress was anything to go by, the lifetime of the game is too short for any of these strategies to make sense. After a month or two of killing your battery life whilst collecting GPS data for google, most seem to move on or lose interest.

(I've not installed Go, and don't intend to, so it may have some actual game in there beyond collecting and tagging locations. Everything I've read seems to indicate it's as shallow as Ingress with a graphics change).

By the time they have a strategy and have included locations the moment will have probably passed. I also wonder how non-playing folks at a sponsored gym (say) will feel about the foyer or cafe being full of kids playing phone games. At least some attempts will carry negative as well as positive consequences.
I can't imagine any good reason to create an NES game today. Even if you want to go for that aesthetic, there are far, far easier ways to make games.
Would it be so bad if for once ads and marketing didn't jump on a trend? Is letting people play Pokemon and not trying to sell them something unrelated really such a bad thing?

I'm finding it increasingly difficult to accept business that needs to "latch on" to trends and product of others. If you can't sell your product and services on their own merits, then maybe the existence of your business isn't exactly justified.
The NeoGeo was always much more of a niche system than the NES. The sales method (collections of games on memory cards) and initial piracy holes (you could load up all the ROMs onto an SD card and never have to buy any collections.

Also, the hardware was crap. Even though the games were made for 4:3 monitors, the system shipped with a 16:9 phone screen (likely because 4:3 screens are harder to source cheaply nowadays).
Ok, then perhaps Amazon or Cloud9 should have fixed this. It should not be too difficult, as it probably requires just some batch scripting.

But I see no justification for creating a complete development platform in the cloud.
Yes, there are a bunch of ways to play emulated NES games. Retropie is great. A PSP and emulator is great if you want portable, or "8 bit video game consoles" are available for less than $10 with many games. (And varying build quality of the devices).

But this is official, with licenced legit games from Nintendo, so some people prefer that.
what? How? it's an anecdote of potential positive benefits of a video game. I think it's interesting. The game has had a clear impact on this kid's life. Interested to see studies on the long term impact on children with autism playing this game. If there is any lasting impact on socialization.
Still problematic. What does it mean to have "poor" taste?

I'll throw in the epistemic problem too: if I have poor musical taste, how will I know it?
That may have been true back in the 20th century, but not anymore--Apple and Walmart have market caps on the same order of magnitude, but one employs far more employees than the other. Besides, if you have more $ per employee, that just means each violation will cost more money/damage.
According to the article they really did prefer modern instruments.

>The results revealed the two most-preferred instruments to be modern, while in third place was a violin from Stradivari’s ‘golden period’. At the opposite end of the scale a Stradivari drew the poorest result and a modern instrument was placed second-last.

But they couldn't distinguish which instruments were which reliably. Suggesting that even if there is a preference, it's very weak and probably doesn't matter very much.
That's exactly it - we notice and respond to differences. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-noticeable_difference

Once those differences have been normalised we stop feeling the same way about them, and become attracted to other things just because they are novel. This is why it's often better to call a mix 'done' before you start believing it's completely wrong and tearing it apart again, only to prefer the old version.
Sega tried something similar with mixed results [1], the two main differences being that:

1- Sega went for a "clone" rather than emulation (even accepts Genesis cartridges)

2- Nintendo's IP in the classic gaming space is unmatched

[1] http://www.gamestop.com/genesis/consoles/sega-genesis-classi...
The lesson learnt from this fiasco is that CF can't trust its upstream ISPs, so tunneling traffic over to another ISP in a different geo adds additional overhead without actually solving the problem.

The right approach to fix upstream MITM is to drop http+https mix and match mode.
I do agree that very likely there is no intent to prefer their own properties.

But if such an intent exists, it is very likely that an email trail would prove it and it might surface during disclosure in a trial.
What do you mean by nested routes? You can definitely have an API which looks like this: /api/people/morgante/comments/3000/
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This is legal way to play all those games if that's any consolation. And it's got a nice aesthetic
We are hiring. For the APAC market we are selling through partners at this time. However we are a remote only company and if we find the right people that can do the job, their location does not matter. I encourage you to apply at https://about.gitlab.com/jobs/account-executive/.
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Inside

I can access the mcdonald's website when I am inside a burguer king.

I can phone a friend and get a suggestion to buy a Xbox when I am evaluating footage from a PS4.

I can be at home, access the starbucks website and get a pop-up from hangouts where a friend might ask me to have coffee... in his house!

What do you mean inside?
Yeah that ending is a bit mysterious. In the end, Romeo decided not to move forward. It wasn't price; just not a great fit. The experience did prompt us to change our back-end from a heavy reliance on AWS services to more standard big data technology: http://www.astronomer.io/blog/sneak-peak-at-our-new-backend
I wanna buy only to help nintendo make this stuff a success, so maybe they can replicate with snes...
Wow, they now have a new GTK+ builtin theme! This will sure crush Photoshop.
My personal experience is rather different. I really do not care for the mainstream radio, as such I didn't know music I cared for until later in my life. It's only when I actively started looking I was able to find music I like.
To this day, music I don't care about, just goes straight through me as background noise.
It's almost as if they priced it so every 35-ish year old in the USA would buy one instantly. I know I'm in that camp.
I really regret buying into the Nest Cam ecosystem. I have 3 now. Sure, it's convenient to view things remotely, but I also run a NAS and I hate not having the option to record locally or serve the camera streams myself instead of relying on Nest's service or paying an outrageous price for recording.

The only reason I went with them in the first place is that they have a very good picture and viewing range.
In case you hadn't noticed, you can click the "web" click below the title, that will normally, via Google, let you access the articles.

I only learned that a month or two ago, it's quite handy.
I'm afraid I don't see that Gimp is any more suitable. Far less, actually.
Does Pokemon Go Have to Comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act?
Get yourself a Pi3[0] + nes30 controller[1]. If you're really going for an authentic look you can get a NES-style case for the Pi too[2]. Pi3 even has built in-bluetooth so it should work wirelessly with the Nes30 controller out of the box.

[0]https://www.pi-supply.com/product/raspberry-pi-3-model-b-new...

[1]http://www.nes30.com/

[2]https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/lego-nespi-case/
Wow, this is going on my christmas list :) I REALLY hope they expand on this by offering game packs in the future. Such a good idea. $30 game packs full of games, would sell like crazy.
I would imagine a large central park with many pokespots and multiple gyms would continue to stay busy for weeks at least.

And the developer should really have come up with a marketing strategy BEFORE releasing the game.
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I am not sure how actively limiting access to part of the game catalog would be added value.
And, perhaps with a tinge of cynicism, I will watch and see how many try to jump on the bandwagon, fail, and are run over by it.
Those video flaws are not important, as proven by the existence of the PlayChoice-10, an arcade machine which played NES games with high quality RGB video.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayChoice-10
I'm not sure complicated reporting is how banks are maintaining margins. They're diverting billions into complying with these requirements, for very little gain.
And that range dips down into the valley of crap.

The smartphone software that came with the camera will frequently lock up, so it's nearly impossible to tell whether our baby is actually sleeping quietly or the image has just frozen. Ditto for the browser-based cloud garbage. I've resorted to just accessing the feed directly (via http://192.168.1.xx/video.cgi, which is a streaming jpeg) but that tends to lock up as well.
Those are usually rolled into the hardware clones in various ways. e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C64_Direct-to-TV (single chip ASIC C64)

It could be software emulation, but that's slightly less reliable, and has a boot time which may not be negligible.
The Virtual Console version (which I assume this device runs too) contains the letter in the manual. See this video on how it works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_g_u4KUlW9A
If you access the article from a Google search results page, the paywall disappears. Just search for the title of the article in Google and click on the top result.
hah, i was wondering the same :)
I have learned to trust my observations. If one day was raining and the next nice, I could understand, but there were both lovely days in the middle of the week.
I think I can shed some light on this issue -

"good musical taste" == "liking the music that I like"
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What if this is Nintendo's "Android" device that has been rumored
I understand your point of the "best of the past" still holding up to the best now, but considering that the violin is a "classical instrument", are contemporary violin manufacturers trying to replicate the past because that's the template to follow?

If it was possible for a violin to objectively sound better than a Strad, would listeners interpret necessarily it as better?
Piracy like the kind I admitted to doing in the past - yes, it is personal profit and it's bad in my books. Piracy like SciHub does is literally propelling humanity forward.
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I have used Knockout to create some pretty complex pages.

Without knowing how many pages or use cases for your large app, it would be hard to say.

I have mixed Knockout and JQuery together to handle the AJAX queries in some cases. I have also utilized the animation aspects of JQuery withing Knockout.

I would tell you, a few days to a week for a pretty complex page including testing if you are fairly well versed in Knockout.
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I have the $200 old regular indoor Nest camera.

It's so horrible, in more ways than I would have imagined that a camera could possibly suck, that it's completely redefined my understanding of awful.

It's caused me to rethink many other purchases way outside of the category, from blenders to TVs to cars.

Absolutely don't ever buy a Nest product, unless your aim is to do experimental anitmaterialism therapy.
I mean, in my opinion a package manager creates as many problems as it solves. Look at pip or npm, both of them are huge, messy, buggy monstrosities that only further complicate packaging in their respective platforms.

Maybe Go would be well served by a well written package manager. Maybe. But I've never seen one that makes the process unequivocally better. go get really is good enough for the simple case, which is, 99% of the time, what people want.

For me, huge complex dependency graphs are a big code smell. I get concerned whenever I see a program that pulls in lots of very large dependencies using a very fragile mechanism (example: Pip/setup tools) it bothers me.

My question is, what would "fix" the situation for you? A pip-style package manager? Because go get has all the important features (in my opinion) without all the pain that comes from such a complex tool. I admit that a lack of semantic versioning is a major pain point right now, but that's only because the go community hasn't found a good solution, in my opinion. But I've actually been working on that particular problem and I think I've nearly solved it. It's just a matter of time before someone figures it out.
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I think it's a who cares problem. What percentage of the people in a casino are going to be focused on some AR game? Of those people, how many are going to be anything but annoyed by ads?
Of course it's loose and pulled out of thin air. My point is that I think the "some" crashes which present an ethical challenge will be extremely rare. One in a million is pulled from my ass, but I think it's in the right ballpark.

It's true that it's not proven that self-driving cars will lower fatality rates, but I'm perfectly comfortable with assuming they will. For one thing, nobody is going to put them in service until they're at least as safe as humans, so it's pretty much a tautology that they'll be safer; the relevant question is actually whether they'll ever be put in service. And considering how bad human drivers are, and how easily preventible many traffic fatalities are (about a third of traffic deaths in the US involve alcohol, another 10% or so involve distractions, and many others are due to something ridiculous like driving on the wrong side of the road), the bar is not really all that high. As long as self-driving cars don't get drunk, don't take their eyes off the road to text, and can reliably follow basic rules of the road, they'll already have a huge leg up.
I think this is overthought, though it's interesting insofar as the likely natural conclusion is you buy Augmented Reality Ad_Space to avoid this very thing.

In my mind, you can look at this two ways:

1. You can't tell people what they can and cannot look at on their technology just because they've entered your "space". Maybe sometime down the road competitive geo-blocking will be a thing (i.e., different companies will auction off parts of cities and let businesses buy up ad-relevancy based on location), but right now there's no such case. I think legally, this is the equivalent of someone walking into McDonalds and a Burger King happens to play on Spotify or there's a banner ad in an app for Wendy's.

2. The advertisement, despite using real world GPS coordinates, is occuring within the application, not an actual advertisement inside the store.

In a way, I guess the question really is "do you have a right to your GPS coordinates?", and I don't think you do. What people do with the coordinates elsewhere may be subject to some laws, but nothing in terms of commerce.
These are the SDKs Pokemon Go uses to build a hit game
Probably a lot more actually. Tons more hardware for all the interfaces, (including a disk reader). And much beefier hardware to emulate a GameCube.
Lawyer here. I wrote a pretty lengthy analysis on implications of AR application intersecting with real property:

http://associatesmind.com/2016/07/11/is-pokemongo-illegal/

It's a novel issue of first impression. There is no controlling statute or case law. The most we can do is make informed speculation at this point.

My guess is that at some point a court will find that property rights will extend to geo-spatial, virtual property boundaries. That is, you retain control of how your property appears in 'cyberspace.'
Actually not a bad idea. Given that a journalist voluntarily underwent water boarding (Hitchens [0]) I have no doubt that in a real life ticking bomb scenario there would at least be one person willing to undergo water boarding in order to do it to the suspect terrorist.

It would also prevent the sliding slope into the real nasty stuff as it is less likely someone would be willing to undergo the torture that permanently maim you.

0. http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2008/08/hitchens200808
Hopefully those who have done it, know why its a fucking terrible idea to use this as your default MO.

There are exceptions to every rule, that doesn't mean you should make shitting all over the rule your own new rule.
I've been wondering: can Facebook prevent news media from rebroadcasting their Facebook Live videos? It seems that currently news outlets can rebroadcast as they like, but if this could changed legally, it seems FB could extract subscription fees from news networks to use their video. This type of scenario would cement FBL as a core service for TV news and could be a nice recurring revenue stream for FB--at least until traditional TV news disappears completely (no tears shed here).
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There are lots of inexpensive ip cameras on the market. I use several to watch my animals from work.

There's a specification called ONVIF that most of them more-or-less implement that allows applications to discover cameras features like how to get the video stream and PTZ.

I use a Foscam 8921, which is a pan-tilt 720p camera and a Crenova something which is a 720 fixed dome. The Crenova is flaky, dropping frames but that may be because of the cable.

The foscam was ~$70 and the crenova was ~$40.

The 8921 is technically a indoor-only camera but it's lived in my chicken coop for over a year without an issue. It's away from rain but not hot and cold temperatures and dust. So it would probably work on a sheltered porch.

As far as software goes you can use an android app called "Onvifer" that discovers onvif cameras and let you view and control them. Or you can use zoneminder if you have lots of free time ;). I wasn't too happy with what I could find so I put together some hacks with ffmpeg, a setup that is slowly evolving into a custom video surveillance system.

I keep my cameras on a separate network without internet access. They all run linux and have open telnet ports. I treat them as hostile outsiders and only allow access from one machine that sucks video out of them but it's up to how paranoid you want to be.

Anyway in conclusion there are definitely low-cost options that don't involve the cloud.

EDIT: Also amazon sucks. You have no idea what you're getting when order from them with these types of products. Be prepared to return things.
I have never heard about the distinction anywhere in mathematics. Is this specific to programming?
The documentation is great, but navigating it is a pain. Class names, methods and modules really should be links to where they are documented (because they are almost always documented). Search could also stand to improve, a lot.
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> How's that a personal attack?

Context:

> Secondly, are you seriously comparing a game that had 10 installments or so and sold in millions of copies with somebody's fan hobby project?

> Could reasonable person confuse the two? Could reasonable person claim that one is substitute for the other?

Emphasis mine. This discussion is now devolving into adhod and moving targets. All I did was present facts and evidence. I'm very much done here.
You can also use the include(x.urls) feature to really simulate nested routes.
Does a cloud IDE work well with a flaky network connection?

Any time I see a network-always-on browser-based service, I'm only interested in it if I can run offline and synchronize my state in the background.

Which is exactly what I do. I use a local editor on different machines. I sync my projects (git). I get builds and tests farmed out for me automatically (CI).

I'm just not dead in the water if I'm on a train, or a plane, or in a car, or my network dies, etc.
The technology suite available today makes a big difference even for a largely by-hand process. Things like temperature and humidity control, digital micrometers, strain gauges, magnifying imagery. And having reliable supply chains for reproducably formulated lacquers, varnishes, glues, etc. There is a ton of technology helping in the background even if it isn't front and center.
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Sure. You know about reciprocity?
I don't think that's a valid complaint given the number of languages that can already be compiled to JS. Including COBOL ... https://github.com/ajlopez/CobolScript

It's a long list: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/list-of-langu...

Also, ultimately, there will be code that you can't maintain because you don't understand it. That might be because it's written in a language you don't know, but it might also be because it's written in a style you don't understand, or with a framework you've never used, or because it's about a topic that you haven't spent time with. That's OK. You don't need to be able to do everything.