marklar423

Ah we have the same taste in games :)

I originally asked because for most of the games I've played (and the ones you mention) the overall story played out the same regardless of your choices.

There could be branches and dialog changes but they always reconverged at important story points that stayed constant. And of course the cutscenes at very end would be different. Take DeusEx - some minor things would be different depending on your actions, and at the end you basically got to press a button to choose your ending.

The only real exception I can think of is Fallout New Vegas, where the game storyline would become wildly different as you chose to help different factions....that game was a rare exemplar of "choices matter".

Are there any games you like that you felt did give you a real significant choice in how the story played out?

Very well said, I often feel the same way.

About memories - throwing away the associated item often feels like admitting that you can't go back to the moment represented by the item. It's hard to face that small grief so it's easier to keep it there.

I agree but I think being usable by the keyboard isn't enough, because the shortcuts are often hard to discover and remember. I think the ideal is - like good TUIs - GUIs should put obvious hints on screen how to navigate via keyboard.

It would be really great to have some GUI frameworks for the common platforms (including web!) designed to do this and have some opinions on common shortcuts for common actions so we can standardize on something.

To me, the funniest part of this is:

> We had to change them all

I'm assuming a bot running a headless browser instance can still get past it?

It's still valuable to raise the cost of scraping of course. I don't think anything can really stop a determined scraper from impersonating a human. I wonder though if a system similar to Anubis but mining some crypto would make bots _welcome_ - since they're paying for their traffic.

This is a great article and exactly mirrors my experience consuming webhooks. My team built almost the same workarounds as the author.

The solution my team eventually settled on to the dedup, buffering, and race problems was:

  * When a webhook came in, store a single copy of the payload (usually json) in some temporary storage and enqueue the id.
  * Any subsequent updates (while the id was enqueued) overwrote that payload and skipped the queue.

So, we were able to ensure we only updated the object once and with the latest state (since the webhook payload always held the entire object state).

We didn't have a great solution for the bootstrap problem though.

I do like the SCROLL proposal, but I wonder about the cost of keeping around log-structured data forever - every log structured DB I know about does compactions for this reason.

> However, the sharp monthly increase needs context. Statcounter’s June figures included an “Unknown” category that accounted for 9.24% of North American desktop usage. Its reduction seems to have coincided with Linux’s rise, possibly indicating better identification of previously unclassified traffic.

Still good news for those wanting to see broader Linux adoption, but the news really is the usage was correctly recognized as Linux for the first time.

I stand corrected, thanks for pointing it out. I suppose then I'm back to not seeing the utility of the proposal over form tags.

I had the same thought at first, but the example in the article convinced me. It's something I ran into when I did webdev.

Form tags usually contain other elements - textboxes, checkboxes, etc. The url and method are specified on the form tag and not the button, so if you want a second submit button that goes to a different URL or use a different method, you need to duplicate all the other inputs in a separate form tag with your button.

All of this can be done with scripting, but the point of this proposal is to make that unnecessary.

Did Apple help defend you against those claims during the six months?

I've always understood it as a perk the company knowingly allows its employees who need to travel.

+1 thanks for porting this

Yes!!! I spent many hours playing the summer resort games.