hybridification | IC Inbox for hadriel

Hey, got a second now that no one's turning into monsters?

[He has nerd stuff to talk to you about. More than he had to talk about before, too.]

People not turning into monsters is my favorite time to have seconds.

What's up?

Great, awesome. I've got an idea for something that could be super useful, but I think I'm gonna need your help on the tech side if you're up for it. Especially since I don't know how Hope's OS works yet.

Oh, really? That's awesome! Shoot it at me, I'm curious.

Cool. Basically, I'd been thinking about sort of like an emergency alert system, so if something happened someone could send a message to their friends or whoever they set up to message just by hitting a button on their phone, and wouldn't have to go through a bunch of steps to let someone know they need help.

I don't think coding it would be too hard since it'd just be telling the phone to do something it already does but skip some steps, but that would only let people know there was an emergency, not where to go. I mean, without satellites and whatever we can't do GPS, But Maketh suggested just setting up receivers in a few places in the city and then we could use them to triangulate a location. We'd need Hope's help on the receivers part but we could probably use just spare phones, so maybe he'll be willing to do that.

If any of what I'm saying makes any sense.

[Sorry he's a little overexcited.]

1. Emergency signal is a good idea. It shouldn't be hard to generate a pre-recorded message and make a posting shortcut as a separate app.

2. Some asshole already tried to get me to make him GPS. I'll tell you what I told him: I can probably try to code the basics of a program built around GPS, but we'd need at least three signal emitters to make it work and then be able to program the actual mapping system into the phone, which stumps me. Looks like you guys came to the same conclusion. Tl;dr I'm not an engineer so idk.

3. Who's Maketh?

4. I'm almost done with multiplayer Pong. Do you wanna be my beta tester? :)

Edited 2016-03-10 04:37 (UTC)

[Okay, numbered points is a good idea.]

1. Okay cool, that's what I was thinking. Probably wouldn't be too hard to make the message customizable too.

2. Which asshole was that? Yeah, we'd need three towers or whatever to receive the signal from whoever's phone and then triangulate it; I think that part would be pretty easy but I totally have no idea on the mapping thing. Maybe we can say screw a map entirely? If we use the triangulation to find someone's location relative the to receiving towers, then maybe that can then be used for sending directions relative to someone else's phone. It'd just be running the calculation twice; one for the person who needs to be found and once for the person who needs to find them. Not as useful as a map but '500 meters to the north' would still be better than nothing.

3. Someone here who's good at organizing stuff.

4. Dude, of course. I'd be honoured.

1. Yeah. Have a default that can be one-click sent and then let people customize it if they want.

2. Dunno. Jack-something? Lilith was talking to him though. Anyway, the no-map idea is interesting... maybe like a compass or something that just points to the distress call phone and tells you the distance from it. That also sounds pretty complicated but at least a little less so.

4. Awesome.

[Attachment: Rhy5_aNd_br0z]

Download that. It's a patch for the game.

1. Awesome, yeah.

2. I don't think I know them. Yeah, exactly, and I think we might be able to set up some small-scale testing if we get a few friends who are willing to let us use their phones every so often. Then we could figure out if it's possible before we bug Hope about giving us stuff for receiving stations.

4. Downloading it right now.

3. Yeah. You've got a lot of friends, right? I can steal my roommates phone.

4. Cool. There'll be a new matchmaking option in the menu. See you in a lobby in a few minutes!

3. Yeah. I'm sure at least a few of them will agree to help out.

4. Awesome. You are so going down.

No you!

[AND THEN THEY PLAYED PONG for like 3 hours straight probably?]

[Indeed and it was totally the most epic of all Pong matches.]

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