Google Maps Pac-Man and other April Foolishness
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NewEgg always tries, and always fails at April Fools jokes.
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I think Ars Technica whooshed
While some people were wondering on Twitter if the device was an early April Foolâs Joke, it appears that the product is very real and yet another step toward building a freaky, Internet-connected home.
Doesn't sound like a whoosh to me.
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Doesn't sound like a whoosh to me.
I would almost say @Yamikuronue counter-whooshed because she missed the not-whoosh
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That's the tricky part to the easily accessible dash button... how to secure it from the children or other maliciousness. Would maybe need a smartphone confirmation system requiring a password or something to that effect.
Otherwise..........
Not only did they break in and take my TV, laptop, wife, and all my
moneycredit cards (no one has cash money anymore...not the people with dash buttons anyway), they hit every dash button in our house about 100 times and now I owe amazon $15,000!
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Not only did they break in and take my TV, laptop, wife, and all my money, they hit every dash button in our house about 100 times and now I owe amazon $15,000!
"... but it was worth it... Thanks Amazon." - Henny Youngman.
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I like Amazon's ploy, they know the april fools shit goes viral, so they make a REAL product on april 1st to go viral and actually earn real money from it instead of just lulz.
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To be fair, it seems to be designed such that once it's pressed, it ignores all future presses until a delivery has been confirmed to have arrived. So they can only spend $COST_OF_ITEM * NUM_BUTTONS on accident.
Given how the quick-order option on the site works (it sends you an email receipt, and you have time to cancel it before it ships), I suspect it'll be fine.
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NEED BEER DASH BUTTON NOW.
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Given how the quick-order option on the site works (it sends you an email receipt, and you have time to cancel it before it ships), I suspect it'll be fine.
I am disappoint then. I want their drones delivering beer to me within minutes of my button pushing. There's no time for pre-planning the need for more beer!
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syringe
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To be fair, it seems to be designed such that once it's pressed, it ignores all future presses until a delivery has been confirmed to have arrived. So they can only spend $COST_OF_ITEM * NUM_BUTTONS on accident.
Given how the quick-order option on the site works (it sends you an email receipt, and you have time to cancel it before it ships), I suspect it'll be fine.
Yup.
Evidently that can be turned off if you want (with obvious warning tags about thousands of purchases if used incorrectly).
But yeah, by default they don't order more than once
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If we do, I'll take a moment to mention StackOverflow's "StackEgg". You can find it on the right side of the main page.
It's on all the other StackExchange sites too.
TIL - the trick to democracy is being the only person in it.
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From the company that brought you the Drum Set Keyboard, the [Morse Keyboard][2], and the [Pata-Pata Sign Keyboard][3], Google Japan now proudly presents the Party Horn Keyboard!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAgOnQqyDz0
[2]:https://www.google.co.jp/intl/ja/ime/-.-.html
[3]:https://www.google.co.jp/ime/patapata/
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This game seems to work best with two: best I can tell, when it's 50-50, both actions happen.
Game is too easy:
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Last I checked, it chooses one at random if both are at 50/50.
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Yep, seems that way.
You think you got a nice one-person democracy going, but then another person comes in, votes to restart a bunch of times, and messes everything up.
Not that I'd be lifeless enough to keep playing past the 2nd upgrade. Or to write a script to do it for me, for that matter.
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Reddit is doing a thing too.
It's a countdown and a button. Only accounts created before today can press the button, and only once per account. Whenever anyone presses the button, the countdown resets to 60s.
At the moment the lowest it's gone is 57s, and it seems to be pressed between 10 and 20 times per second. So I doubt it's going to reach zero any time soon.
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I am conflicted on whether to press before the end of the day or not press till it gets down to ~1 second multiple times.
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That's intriguing, but what if I can't figure out how to operate the button?
Oh, phew!
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NEED BEER DASH BUTTON NOW.
I discovered yesterday that a brewery is about to open up more or less across the street from where I work.
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More like, trying to see how many inactive users they can sucker back in to reddit to press the button.
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all you need is a button to signal the brewery to deliver beer to your desk
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There's no time for pre-planning the need for more beer!
Ah, so you're the kind of guy who staggers into a convenience store at 5 minutes after midnight on Saturday after county ordinance says no more alcohol sales, and hassles the clerk as if he's trying to ruin your weekend.
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It's April 1st and I still can't play Pacman in central Manchester!
FFFFUUUUUU
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not really?
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Which...where the hell has that limey bastard been?
I'm here. Busy. Competing in national level sport event for ten days, becoming ill after competition (every year), I only TDWTF from work so limited time, can't catch up with what you lot have posted jesus fuck don't you people have jobs and families and better shit to do?, haven't posted myself much for aforementioned reasons.
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Reddit is doing a thing too.
If you comment in a button thread, there's an symbol next to your name that tells whether you're a presser or non-presser. If you're a presser, it shows how many seconds were on the button when you pressed. (mouse-over)
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NEED BEER DASH BUTTON NOW.
lern2brew, n00b! The yeast does all the hard work for you.
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TIL - the trick to democracy is being the only person in it.
It's like Ankh-Morpork being a democracy. It's one man, one vote.(that man is the Patrician)
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So I doubt it's going to reach zero any time soon.
Dammit, I should have taken my time to understand how the button worked before pressing it.Since I didn't, I lost my chance, and now I'm in the 59s club.
The button is now stuck at
????
. I think it's been brought down.Filed under YOPO
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NOREPRO:
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This was the only one to actually fool me:
http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/04/01/google-reader-rises-from-the-grave-with-new-material-update/
It was only when I clicked the link to "google reader blog" to confirm the WTF when I realized...
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The reactions on the page there are hillarious.
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the hell, people actually used google reader ever?
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Not a lot of people, but people who did (like me) loved it with a passion.
That "joke" is just cruel. Cruel isn't funny. Unless the victim is a dog. Or a horse, perhaps. Then it's hilarious. Stupid animals!
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I did for a bit too. But now I use feedly, which is pretty good.
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Not a lot of people, but people who did (like me) loved it with a passion.
Yup, pretty much that.
And people complained because it was one of the few Google products that had almost 100% user satisfaction. They basically killed off a product that worked and people liked. I didn't use it personally, but it probably wasn't the best move...
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which is pretty good.
Find an article you read three days ago among the hundreds of updates since then.
OH WAIT THERE'S NO SEARCH.
FML.
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OH WAIT THERE'S NO SEARCH.
There is a sear- whatâ˝ $45/year just to search my feeds? Fuck that!
*wants to hear about alternatives*
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If I knew a good one I wouldn't be so irritated about Google Reader shutting down
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NEWS BLUR!
That one looks like it has the ability to search too⌠but you still have to pay $24/yâŚ
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Shocking news: you have to pay money for software that doesn't suck ass.
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Not always; Visual Studio Community Edition is pretty good, and is free
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but you still have to pay $24/yâŚ
Aye, but if you find the feature useful or use it a lot, then ÂŁ1.35 a month isn't exactly expensive.
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Qt Creator is also a damn good IDE.
It's even open source.
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The Old Reader is very similar to Google Reader.
Recently they've started trying adding sponsored posts at the top of feeds.
I'm not tremendously annoyed yet.
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Shocking news: you have to pay money for software that doesn't suck ass.
...and if a product or service is "free", then it is likely that you are the product that is being sold.
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Giving away the main product, then holding essential features for ransom leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I'd rather know what I was paying for up-front, like with the podcast software I bought for my phone.
I should point out: the podcast software, essentially the same type of product as feedly, cost me $3.99. $9 for the web version. One time fee.
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Not always; Visual Studio Community Edition is pretty good, and is free
And is subsidized, presumably, by the people who buy it. Compare that to the Express Edition.