This is definitely not something Neal would ever do. Can you share the URL you're talking about? There's no IQ test in his projects list at all. https://neal.fun/
My guess is that 1. there’s virtually no demand from potential supporters for a more convenient way to pay creators than existing payment/subscription apps, and 2. relatively few creators have direct control over their own internet presence anymore, so any solution that requires modifying a web page is dead in the water.
Any new attempt to pay creators that doesn’t factor these two realities in will likely fail, because it just makes things harder than existing solutions.
I mentioned it in my post: in Image Capture, select the “Virtual Scanner II” device if it exists, and in the Details, set the Media to “Document” and Media DPI to “72 DPI.” You should see the preview of the first page of the Bitcoin paper. But that's only possible if the virtual device exists, and it's still unclear why it's hidden for some people but not others.
Hi, I wrote the post. This is patently false. There are plenty of articles about the clip, but none of the videos are still online and there’s no alternate angles, period. Please feel free to post links to prove otherwise.
Hi! I work on Skittish. There's a minimap (and spatial audio, chat, emotes, and a bunch of other settings/features) in the full Skittish app that didn't make it into the demo. Create a new event and try it out!
The Brothers Chaps will probably end up switching from Flash to Ruffle on their own site eventually, but until then, the Internet Archive has almost all the Strong Bad Emails archived here playable with Ruffle.
https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_flash_strongbad
Hi, I wrote the article! Thanks for your commentary, snidely passing judgement on me and my family. Much appreciated.
The article was intended to be a little provocative, more than a little tongue-in-cheek, but suffice it to say, I never would've continued playing videogames with him if he didn't show interest.
He was nothing less than absurdly enthusiastic about it, and it was a way for us to kill time together, but I never pushed games on him for a moment. Eliot, like many of his friends, loves the creativity and collaboration that comes with the medium of games, and the social aspects of playing them with his friends and family.
He's turning 13 this week, and has taken classes on making games himself in GameMaker, and is now modding the games that he loves. I'm happy he's found a hobby he loves, and I'm proud of him.
Hi, I wrote the article! We played a bunch of PC stuff along the way, including a good chunk of the Lucasarts catalog. We skipped the text adventure genre entirely when he was little, but we're making up for that now that he loves reading for fun.
Hi! I wrote the article. First off, I find it disingenuous that you don't mention you work for Google. But, hey! I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that it was a simple oversight.
Addressing your comments:
1. Google News Archive is, without question, a dead project. No new material is being added, no new development is being made, and it's unsupported. They removed the News Archive and homepage and redirected it to News.
The method Google suggests for web search isn't limited to news articles, making it effectively useless for research. (It shows everything indexed in Google.)
You can search for some newspapers in Google Search, but it's impossible to find any date before January 1970, order by date, or filter by publication. You're stuck with post-1970 date filtering for all papers, ordered by relevance.
https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Agoogle.com%2Fnewspape...
2. I didn't say Groups was dead. I said it was effectively dead for research purposes, which is true. For example, you can't search or filter by date across groups anymore:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!search/linux
Not to mention, only a fraction of the total posts are indexed and available in Google Search. For example, changing your query to limit to 1995 only results in 70 posts. There were many more than that being posted monthly in 1995 in comp.os.linux.advocacy alone.
3. It's entirely plausible that Google's library partners are running low on books, though that doesn't explain why the project appears to be completely dormant. As I mentioned, the official blog stopped updating in 2012 and the Twitter account's been dormant since February 2013. It doesn't seem like any book's been added in the last year -- no new books from January 2014 to today:
https://www.google.com/search?q=a&biw=1146&bih=933&source=ln...
4. The 20% time thing is interesting. As a Google engineer, I imagine you'd have a better perspective on that than I would.
Former employees have explicitly said that 20% time no longer exists in the way it used to, and current employees, including here on Hacker News, say that it exists but only on top of your existing workload (effectively making it 120% time). I tend to trust them over a PR person, but really, that was a brief aside in my overall article.
The fact that a tiny fraction of the former functionality of a service is possible, albeit with an obscure and user-unfriendly method, does not detract from the overall point:
Google's current priorities don't appear to be in archiving the past.
