NY Times Critic Pans Show After Accidentally Watching First Two Episodes Out of Order
▻http://www.mediaite.com/print/ny-times-critic-pans-show-after-accidentally-watching-first-two-episodes-o
Heinz Rutishauser
▻https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz_Rutishauser
Among other contributions, he introduced a number of basic syntactic features to programming, notably the keyword for for a for loop, first as the German für in Superplan, next via its English translation “for” in ALGOL 58.
My experience as a virtual war photographer in Battlefield 1
▻https://killscreen.com/articles/corpography-battlefield-1-beta
Fantasy RPGs always felt like a desk job anyway
▻https://killscreen.com/articles/kingsway-will-turn-fantasy-rpg-desk-job
There’s a lot to manage in a role-playing game. It can almost feeling like having a desk job—managing inventory, grinding work, looming bosses. Add with crafting, foraging, and upgrading gear on top of that it’s no wonder I keep asking myself why I repeatedly subject myself to RPG work. Not everyone loves crafting, after all.
Andrew Morrish’s upcoming Kingsway is a fantasy RPG that riffs on the idea that the game is like a desk job, “pointing out the similarities between managing an RPG and daily tasks on a computer,” Morrish said. Players will have to rifle through a Windows 95–inspired operating system to navigate a slew of fantasy adventures. Part of the fun—and the challenge—is “being able to move things around on screen to get as much information as you can handle, while trying not to lose important items in the background,” Morrish added. Kingsway is a game for the multi-tasker in all of us.
Image Synthesis from Yahoo’s open_nsfw
►https://open_nsfw.gitlab.io
Comment Apple a changé la langue pour faire briller son nom
▻http://www.numerama.com/pop-culture/191786-apple-a-dynamite-linguistique-faire-reluir-nom.html
Seeing Like a State How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
▻http://politicalscience.yale.edu/publications/seeing-state-how-certain-schemes-improve-human-condition-have
Ça a l’air top, quelqu’un l’a lu ?
In this wide-ranging and original book, James C. Scott analyzes failed cases of large-scale authoritarian plans in a variety of fields. Centrally managed social plans misfire, Scott argues, when they impose schematic visions that do violence to complex interdependencies that are not—and cannot—be fully understood. Further, the success of designs for social organization depends upon the recognition that local, practical knowledge is as important as formal, epistemic knowledge. The author builds a persuasive case against “development theory” and imperialistic state planning that disregards the values, desires, and objections of its subjects. He identifies and discusses four conditions common to all planning disasters: administrative ordering of nature and society by the state; a “high-modernist ideology” that places confidence in the ability of science to improve every aspect of human life; a willingness to use authoritarian state power to effect large- scale interventions; and a prostrate civil society that cannot effectively resist such plans.
The neglected history of videogames for the blind
▻https://killscreen.com/articles/real-sound-audiogames-blindness-shadow-history-gaming
Man Leaves Ghost-Pepper Eating Contest With Hole In His Esophagus
▻https://consumerist.com/2016/10/19/man-leaves-ghost-pepper-eating-contest-with-hole-in-his-esophagus
Très intéressant extrait du livre « How Not to Network a Nation : The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet », racontant les malheurs de Viktor Glushkov en essayant de convaincre le Politburo de faire de l’URSS une nation connectée.
▻https://aeon.co/essays/how-the-soviets-invented-the-internet-and-why-it-didn-t-work
There is an irony to this. The first global computer networks took root in the US thanks to well-regulated state funding and collaborative research environments, while the contemporary (and notably independent) national network efforts in the USSR floundered due to unregulated competition and institutional infighting among Soviet administrators. The first global computer network emerged thanks to capitalists behaving like cooperative socialists, not socialists behaving like competitive capitalists.
Les deux faces d’une même pièce
Finding Ourselves in Play: A New Database of Games on Sexuality, Gender and Relationships by The Editor & Alayna Cole
▻https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/finding-ourselves-in-play-a-new-database-of-games-on-sexuality-gen
Une série de très bonnes études sur le design de jeux vidéos : FF6 et 7, Half Life, Chrono Trigger et Super Mario World
▻http://thegamedesignforum.com/features/featureshome.html
Callisto, a New App That Makes It Easier to Report Campus Sexual Assault
▻http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/09/can-game-theory-prevent-rape/405607
Decades-Old Mystery Put To Rest: Why Are There X’s In The Desert?
▻http://www.npr.org/2016/10/11/496567104/decades-old-mystery-put-to-rest-why-are-there-xs-in-the-desert
Hausse phénoménale du nombre de réfugiés au Japon - La Centrale à idées
▻http://la-centrale-a-idees.over-blog.com/2016/01/hausse-phenomenale-du-nombre-de-refugies-au-japon.htm
Découvert ce blog très intéressant et ses petits billets à peine moqueurs...
Le nombre de réfugiés acceptés par le pays du Soleil Levant a bondi de 250% en 2015.
Ce ne sont pas moins de 27 heureux élus qu’a acceptés l’archipel nippon sur son sol, contre 11 en 2014. Selon le ministère de la Justice japonais, 7586 demandes d’asile avaient été déposées. Déposer une demande d’asile au Japon, c’est aussi hasardeux que de jouer au pachinko ou s’essayer à la bourse en ligne, on a 99% de chances de finir bredouilles.
dans le genre ça me rappelle cela :)
►https://seenthis.net/messages/438669
Japan has accepted only six Syrian refugees. Meet one of them.
TOKYO — It sounds like a sadly familiar story. A plan for the family to stick out the war in Syria while the children finish their education — but then a missile strikes their home.
MySQL 8.0: The end of MyISAM
▻https://www.percona.com/blog/2016/10/11/mysql-8-0-end-myisam
The remarkable thing that happens to poor kids when you help their parents with rent
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/10/12/the-remarkable-thing-that-happens-to-poor-kids-when-you-help-their-p
Netflix Now Only Has 31 Movies from IMDB’s Top 250 List
▻http://www.streamingobserver.com/netflix-now-31-movies-imdbs-top-250-list
English man spends 11 hours trying to make cup of tea with Wi-Fi kettle
▻https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/oct/12/english-man-spends-11-hours-trying-to-make-cup-of-tea-with-wi-fi-kettle
How do you remove caffeine from coffee?
▻http://www.avclub.com/article/how-do-you-remove-caffeine-coffee-243327
Decaffeination dates back to 1903, when a German coffee merchant, Ludwig Roselius, began experimenting with ways to remove its energizing component. As to why Roselius would be inspired to mess with what was arguably his product’s chief selling point, legend says it was out of personal vendetta. He believed too much caffeine played a role in the early death of his father, a professional coffee taster, and sought to exact revenge against the murderous chemical. The “Roselius process,” as it became known, involved steaming coffee beans in a brine solution, before using benzene to extract the stimulant.
Here’s some women who make videogames you should follow
▻https://killscreen.com/articles/heres-women-make-videogames-follow
Trump Video Demolishes GOP Unity as Party Fears Easy Clinton Win
The leaked audio proved to be a learning experience for some Republican men on the ballot in November, whose spouses and female staffers impressed upon them how offensive Trump’s comments were, according to people who declined to be named. In one campaign, male staffers drafted a statement condemning Trump, but when they ran it by a female staffer the message was: go stronger.
Algorithmic trading could be to blame for pound’s ‘flash crash’ | New Scientist
▻https://www.newscientist.com/article/2108386-algorithmic-trading-could-be-to-blame-for-pounds-flash-crash
Kathleen Brooks, research director at spreadbetter City Index, said: “Apparently it was a rogue algorithm that triggered the sell-off after it picked up comments made by the French President, Francois Hollande, who said if Theresa May and co want hard Brexit, they will get hard Brexit.”