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Halo |OT| HaloGAF Evolved
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StalkerUKCG
Banned
Cold blooded.
Hypertrooper
Member
Yeah of course. He should especially record it this weekend, right?
@ghal and hitmonchan. I thought he was talking about me.
Bringing the fruit of knowledge to the unwashed masses. Also because it's kind of funny.
(and something to do while also going back through the Halo 3 thread - a couple things stick out: so many names I haven't seen in years, and that I've posted in these dumb threads for a stupidly long time. Then I discovered while watching the HaloGAF Halo 3 montage that BladedExpert has a bunch of my Halo 3 Beta videos on his Youtube channel from way back when, months before he started posting here. I had a bnet group for folks that wanted footage but didn't make it into the F&F beta and used my shitty USB capture setup to record some [really terrible, looking back] gameplay.)
Hypertrooper
Member
Can panels be added? But don't cry, you will encounter me. PAX East will be worth because of it.
thezerofire
Banned
it's a thing
I'll hook you up with some Stetty West dining hall tier Stir Fry.
It's actually pretty good.
Fo Free.
In addition to other free food you might want. I got guest passes on guest passes. This goes for any HaloGAF peeps going to East.
StalkerUKCG
Banned
You just using your real pic jan avatar then yea?
Devo just told us the time the Halo 4 embargo ends that is all.
Tashi ceiling, prepare a new pair of underwear on Monday, you're gonna need it.
Heh - I wondered if anyone from here would see that.
I really did enjoy it - some awesome snipes. I just thought the death before the Overkill was unfair and funny.
Blue Ninja
Member
Holy shit, GrimBrother on GAF? Awesome.
Der Flatulator
Member
4.0353*10^869 > 9*10^3
ElzarTheBam
Member
It's a HBO invasion, i tell you!
Tha Robbertster
Member
Man, reading the last 7 pages of this thread... Monday can't come soon enough.
Blue Ninja
Member
Same. You might want to get one last good weekend of Reach in before 343 spoil your optic nerves!
GrimBrother One
Member
oh gosh
Gabotron ES
Member
Guess who's account finally got activated?! Pretty good timing, too.
Hello buddy!
Edit: Damn at all the hype on the last pages, working on a medal for monday's big reveal. BUCKETS WILL BE FILLED!!1!!
The Librarian
Banned
Well hello there. So now we have two Waypoint moderators here? Rukizzel and you.
She got to play it?! :O
Der Flatulator
Member
And Grim One!
Hypertrooper
Member
Because we Germans are awesome.Funny name, why is it German?
Hypertrooper
Member
Because we German-speaker are awesome. Fixed it. Otherwise it won't work anymore because Der Flatulator isn't German or German-speaker.I am no German
Interview over the Reach API:
http://levelsave.com/2012/02/the-future-of-halo-an-interview-with-kirk-smith/
343 could seal this whole week off with announcing that they'll continue the API.. however, this is apparently their current stance:
I don't see why supporting the API entails the costs of a new feature. The work has been done. It's ready to go. Waypoint is obviously using the API or some form of it right now (whenever Bungie.net stats go down, Waypoint's stats also mysteriously go down at the same time). With the amount of time they've had since Bungie handed it off, nobody could expense some server blades and re-prop the API server in Kirkland?
http://levelsave.com/2012/02/the-future-of-halo-an-interview-with-kirk-smith/
343 could seal this whole week off with announcing that they'll continue the API.. however, this is apparently their current stance:
I don't see why supporting the API entails the costs of a new feature. The work has been done. It's ready to go. Waypoint is obviously using the API or some form of it right now (whenever Bungie.net stats go down, Waypoint's stats also mysteriously go down at the same time). With the amount of time they've had since Bungie handed it off, nobody could expense some server blades and re-prop the API server in Kirkland?
Gabotron ES
Member
Funny name, why is it German?
I think it's a farts joke.
The Librarian
Banned
What's an API?
Hypertrooper
Member
The only German part is "Der". I don't know what you are trying to say but does the word "Flatulator" even exist in German?I know, that's why I asked
If he knows what it means?
Otherwise my first intention was to say that Germans are awesome and everyone wants to be German somehow. Etc.
application programming interface. Through a API key, Bungie gave programmer the ability to get access to the stats etc for their website or to create apps.
Application Programming Interface (edit: beaten by Hyper). In basic terms, a simplified way of interacting with someone else's program or server. In the past, you had to scrape Bungie.net (download the entire webpage's code minus the images), parse out the downloaded web page (gigantic pain the ass), then get the data you want (with tons of wasted data and bandwidth) so you could finally use it. Web scraping can either end up with you banned for hitting the site too much and also puts the usability out of range of people that cannot afford or are not allowed to let their app or webserver screenscape another server.
What the Reach API lets you do is ask Bungie for just the information you want, preformatted in a machine-readable language with no fluff or gigantic requests and consistent variable names, even if they change how things are displayed on the website itself. Here's a sample of the data you can quickly get. A lot of this is unavailable even if you screenscrape Waypoint, because 343 simply does not output the information.
In the end, the sites that really want to are going to screenscrape Waypoint for stats, and that's just going to end up costing 343 more bandwidth and money if they just moved the API stuff over to their end and maintained it's availability.
German language, serious business.The only German part is "Der". I don't know what you are trying to say but does the word "Flatulator" even exist in German?
Otherwise my first intention was to say that Germans are awesome and everyone wants to be German somehow. Etc.
Zeouterlimits
Member
Beaten By Fyrewulff.
<3 the Reach API. Hope 343 continue the tradition.
<3 the Reach API. Hope 343 continue the tradition.
ElzarTheBam
Member
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
Hey, I tried to ask Angel if I could help on Waypoint being that I am a mod for Saints Row and Xbox, no dice. You all are in the elite Halo club.
Gabotron ES
Member
Does the Halo Reach Stats "HR Stats" iphone app uses this API key?
"whenever bnet stats go down, waypoint mysteriously goes down."
Well maybe that's backwards. Bnet stats go down because waypoint and reach go down...
squidhands
Member
Monday will be a good day. I get up at 3:45am Central Time, will I have the sufficient info to load my undies by then? Should I call in sick?
8am Central will be the magic hour for your time zone.
StalkerUKCG
Banned
Protip time,
In your browser of choice go to you settings and the home page option next to www.google.com (if you dont have this get off the internet) type
The " | " is very important
And click apply, everytime you hit your home key a second tab should open up containing
Which is a countdown to the Halo 4 reveal based on what we currently know
Tested only on Firefox
In your browser of choice go to you settings and the home page option next to www.google.com (if you dont have this get off the internet) type
Code:
| http://www.secondapps.com/countdown/t1330956000z0.pngThe " | " is very important
And click apply, everytime you hit your home key a second tab should open up containing
Which is a countdown to the Halo 4 reveal based on what we currently know
Tested only on Firefox
Aka the only real browser gtfo with your chrome nonsense
ncsuDuncan
Member
Yep! Bought a new camcorder and tripod for PAX.
Hoping to record everything Halo-related I can, including your panel. I'll have ample storage space for hours of HD footage, so long as I can keep my battery packs charged.
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