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Guyag commented on Amazon and Microsoft employees caught up in sex trafficking sting engadget.com/2017/12/25/a... · Posted by u/LopRabbit

vfulco · 8 years ago

Per the usual, article conflates standard sex services with sex trafficking. See the Amnesty International position for a more reasonable and balanced position. Maybe it is time for legalized sex work. Or would that threaten too many womens' bargaining chip?

Guyag · 8 years ago

> Or would that threaten too many womens' bargaining chip?

Can you clarify what you mean by this please?

Guyag commented on The software engineering notebook winterflower.github.io/20... · Posted by u/Winterflow3r

dageshi · 8 years ago

http://tiddlywiki.com/

Sits in a browser tab, insanely quick to use which is the most important thing.

Consider it perfect for taking notes.

I use seperate systems for todo and project management (the project management one I wrote myself)

Guyag · 8 years ago

Seconded. What I was looking for in a note-taking system was something wiki based, and this has a really nice take on the concept.

Guyag commented on Ask HN: What do you use to take notes? · Posted by u/Kevin_S

Guyag · 8 years ago

Big fan of Tiddlywiki for its nonlinearity. You can see how it works without signing up or downloading anything; the site is itself an instance: http://tiddlywiki.com/

Guyag commented on Show HN: Teachcraft – Learn Python through Minecraft teachcraft.net/... · Posted by u/emeth

nikkidurkin · 8 years ago

This looks great! I run after-school coding lessons for Australian kids aged 8-12, teaching them to code Minecraft mods using scratch-like code blocks (if you're interested, its https://codemakers.com.au).

I've been looking for a solution for teaching the more advanced students who want to start using a 'real' language. I was initially looking at using Scriptcraft, but TeachCraft looks like another great option!

Guyag · 8 years ago

Neat - I'm in the process of making a similar system which will spit out Spigot plugins, with the aim of letting kids create some simple ones themselves and hopefully planting the seed for getting them interested in programming. As part of this I included a 'split screen' view showing the generated Java in addition to the normal block work area, though this is read-only.

It's been more of a challenge than I thought it would be to design the blocks such that the end set isn't near enough a 1:1 mapping to Java - showing it to a non-technical friend of mine made it clear that my intuition was way off. Would be interested to hear how you approached this (if you don't mind).

Also interesting that I didn't find your website when I was initially researching, though I did come across https://www.learntomod.com/ (and even that was hard to find). I suspect my base search term of "minecraft blockly" isn't the most common one used by the target market to find something for their kids though.

Guyag commented on Any server search engines? · Posted by u/hemen

Guyag · 8 years ago

ServerBear did exactly this, though it seems they sadly shut down. ServerScope seems to do something similar - https://serverscope.io/ though without a huge breadth.

Guyag commented on Ask HN: What are the best books on modern computer graphics? · Posted by u/BigJono

Guyag · 8 years ago

I can't recommend Scratchapixel enough for diving deep into the concepts behind CG (although it seems to be down for me at the moment ironically). I can't remember how much it goes into libraries or if it sticks to implementing things from scratch, but I find knowing the concepts behind something makes learning the libraries much easier anyway.

https://www.scratchapixel.com

Guyag commented on Ask HN: Best way to learn new programming language and it's conventions? · Posted by u/asdojasdosadsa

Guyag · 9 years ago

Syntax-wise, I've found learnxinyminutes.com to be a good introductory resource. I'm also looking for a good quality resource on programmatic conventions for different languages, including details on what unique/'cool' features each has, all in once place. So far I've not had much luck.

Guyag commented on Sweden Has a Sub So Deadly the US Navy Hired It to Play Bad Guy (2014) foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com... · Posted by u/smacktoward

Guyag · 9 years ago

Did anyone else think that the language used in this article was really hyperbolic and over-dramatic? Loads of unnecessary superlatives I thought.