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Re: Named Entity Recognition Skill – Leo

Andy Baio — Thu, 06 Dec 2018 17:25:43 -0000

All the posts I'm looking at are all in English, but only say "Other." I haven't seen anything but "Other."

Re: Here are Nine Places in Portland to Watch Fireworks for 4th of July 2017

Andy Baio — Wed, 05 Jul 2017 00:00:14 -0000

9:45pm.

Re: News

Andy Baio — Fri, 11 Jul 2014 15:20:26 -0000

The great thing about subscription income is that it typically only goes up, and it's very rare for it to fall. I guarantee you'll be making considerably more than $420/month by the end of Demon's run. Plus, you'll own 100% of the rights, so you'll be able to, say, bundle it up for the Kindle or fund a Kickstarter project to print it as a full-length book and keep the profits.

Re: Failing Upward with Greg Knauss (Episode 63)

Andy Baio — Thu, 20 Feb 2014 13:08:19 -0000

That was the best, one of my favorite episodes so far.

Re: The Only Thing Weirder Than a Telemarketing Robot

Andy Baio — Mon, 16 Dec 2013 17:22:19 -0000

Yes, using a menu with abbreviations for each recorded clip. Search Google for "soundboard prank call" to see how easy this is to do. https://www.google.com/sear...

Re: The Only Thing Weirder Than a Telemarketing Robot

Andy Baio — Mon, 16 Dec 2013 17:20:47 -0000

The audio clips with repeating phrases from the saved calls are identical. Pull them into a sound editor and compare waveforms. It's pre-recorded audio.

Re: Portland's Best Sandwich?

Andy Baio — Fri, 06 Dec 2013 04:57:58 -0000

Lardo's Korean Pork Shoulder. Runner's up: Meat Cheese Bread's Park Kitchen, Bunk's Sloppy Joe.

Re: Sidestep

Andy Baio — Tue, 12 Nov 2013 19:52:20 -0000

Same issue for me. It's been doing this for months, running v1.4.1 also on OS X 10.7.5. Any ideas?

Re: The Next Big Thing You Missed: Patreon Will Turn You Into an Indie-Art Patron

Andy Baio — Tue, 22 Oct 2013 16:51:53 -0000

Patreon only charges fans when the artist releases something. Patronism and Subbable, and other sites like them, charge a recurring monthly subscription whether the artist releases something or not. Huge difference.

Re: 'Blackbar' Review - Words Are A Powerful Thing

Andy Baio — Tue, 03 Sep 2013 18:57:35 -0000

Well, I hope Neven and James never, ever drop the price. This spendthrift mentality is unsustainable, and leads to less independently-produced games and more safe, mainstream dreck.

Smaller, interesting niche games made by one or two people have smaller demand and smaller audiences than "Angry Birds 3: Harry Potter Edition" or whatever nonsense is topping the App Store this week, and they rarely resort to exploitative IAP tricks.

As a result, they usually cost a little more. This is a Good Thing. If you don't want the App Store to turn into Hollywood, and want to encourage indies to make more interesting games, you should be prepared to cough up a dollar now and then.

Re: TA Plays Rewind: 'The Incident' - Killed By... A Falling Aeron Chair?

Andy Baio — Mon, 02 Sep 2013 18:11:06 -0000

God, I love this game so much. It's a pixel-art lover's wet dream. Trivia: The Incident was designed and illustrated by Neven Mrgan, who wrote and designed the recently-released Blackbar, which was just featured on TouchArcade yesterday.

Re: 'Blackbar' Review - Words Are A Powerful Thing

Andy Baio — Sun, 01 Sep 2013 16:32:11 -0000

Um, that's less than a cup of coffee. The expectations people have for prices on the App Store is just insane.

Re: How refusing a $0.50 parking validation cost a bank a $1M depositor

Andy Baio — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 19:07:02 -0000

The bank had a different story. From the March 21, 1989 issue of the Toledo Blade:

"What really happened, she declared, was that John Barrier's parking ticket was validated within 10 minutes of his original request. And that the bank manager apologized on the spot for any misunderstand. Ruble says she's not sure why Barrier took his $2 million out of her company's bank."

Re: Emptyage — NoPa = Prospect Heights. You moved away for a few...

Andy Baio — Wed, 01 May 2013 12:24:56 -0000

tl;dr You ruined everything.

Re: All The Webcams (Part 2)

Andy Baio — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 13:17:33 -0000

Really great work. One thought that may be too resource-intensive: periodically grab two frames of the cams, measure the similarity between them, and then allow sorting based on the image difference. That will help prioritize cams with very little activity in them vs. cams with lots of visual activity.

Re: Browser Game Pick: LabNet Email Systems (Clayton)

Andy Baio — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 09:03:22 -0000

Don't get me wrong, Digital was fantastic. I'm saying there's more than one way to make a game. Twine is a text-only engine, which is a completely different medium for interactive fiction than Ren'Py, which was made for visual interactive novels. LabNet is working within the constraints of that medium, and I think it's promising.

Re: Browser Game Pick: LabNet Email Systems (Clayton)

Andy Baio — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 00:48:23 -0000

I'm blown away by how critical everyone is here. It's obvious that the author's trying to simulate emails, and people spell things wrong in email. Criticizing it for not having music or pacing is insane: it's interactive fiction written with Twine! It's supposed to be like textmode mail!

Seems like an incredibly promising start, and the focus is clearly much more on storytelling than gameplay. Like Konstantinos, I devoured this and am anxious to see it fleshed out.

Re: Want iOS 6? No Problem: Buy It Now From a Scofflaw Developer

Andy Baio — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 19:39:54 -0000

Duh, you're right. Fixed.

Re: Why the rumors about the iPhone ditching walking, public transit are wrong

Andy Baio — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 14:58:31 -0000

If you look at the new Location Awareness API documentation, you can see that the transit routing won't be inline from the new Maps app. Developers can register their app as a directions provider, which will then be shown with other apps in the list displayed when you click the public transit button. Clicking those links will launch the third-party app, passing the start/end locations to the app via a special URL.

Re: Shut Up and Take My Money: Fans Should Hire Artists

Andy Baio — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 20:31:38 -0000

Fixed, sorry about that!

Re: Shut Up and Take My Money: Fans Should Hire Artists

Andy Baio — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 12:50:21 -0000

To mark this article as irrelevant or uninteresting to your interests, please type Ctrl-W (Windows and Linux) or ⌘-W (Mac). Problem solved!

Re: Shut Up and Take My Money: Fans Should Hire Artists

Andy Baio — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 12:22:12 -0000

Amazing. Yes, exactly like this.

Re: Shut Up and Take My Money: Fans Should Hire Artists

Andy Baio — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 12:21:42 -0000

The FILMharmonic Orchestra includes members of the Czech Philharmonic. Confusing, I know.

Re: Shut Up and Take My Money: Fans Should Hire Artists

Andy Baio — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 12:12:38 -0000

It's not about selling you anything. I'm talking about creating new art (music, films, games, etc) inspired by fans, for fans, and that compensates the original artist.

Re: In Focus - The Unreal World - The Atlantic

Andy Baio — Thu, 31 May 2012 20:46:18 -0000

That Helen Mirren figure has to be the most realistic wax sculpture I've ever seen.