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The Interactive Way to Go
- Gys 11y agoGo, the game... Not the programming language as I expected on HN... But some of its ancient Japanese wisdom is timeless ;-) 'Basically, I don't provide answers to problems because you will eventually find them by yourself after retrying many times.'
- xyproto 11y agoIt's a chinese game, though.
- lambda 11y agoSure, but it's been played in Japan for over 1000 years, which is plenty long enough to have developed "ancient Japanese wisdom".
- coldtea 11y ago"Ancient Japanese wisdom" (and art, philosophy, etc) is mostly re-packaged ancient Chinese wisdom.
- coldtea 11y agoPerhaps some people thought this was some kind of racist remark? I'm not Chinese, and this is a historical fact. Japanese borrowed heavily from the (earlier and more advanced) Chinese civilization.
- ousta 11y agoso on the assumption that go is a chinese game, japanese cant have a wisdom on it? that would be same than saying: Ok C-UNIX has been made by an american guy so no one can have wisdom on it except americans?
- coldtea 11y agoSure they can, hence the "mostly" part. Of course in the course of centuries they've also diverged, as the once underdeveloped (compared to China) Japan started developing its own identity and variations. Heck, even the 20th century provided enough rapid variation between the 2 countries. That why I was talking about the "ancient wisdom" being repackaged.
- lambda 11y agoIn some cases, yes, but there is a lot of it that has diverged in the years since. In the case of Go, while it originated in China, it really flourished in Japan and the Japanese developed it a lot further, up through the beginning of the 20th century. Throughout the 20th century, Go has gotten a lot bigger in China and Korea (where it is known as weiqi and baduk, respectively), and they are now generally favored in international matches, but before then, the Japanese were quite dominant. As far as other pieces of culture, yes, the roots of a lot of Japanese culture come from Chinese culture. But they have had thousands of years to become distinct; calling them just "re-packaged ancient Chinese wisdom" is pretty dismissive. It is good to recognize the roots, and sometimes the Japanese themselves are a bit xenophobic about that, not recognizing those things that developed from the Chinese, but dismissing their entire culture as re-packaged Chinese culture is equally rude.
- decafbad 11y agoPlease remove GIF homepage link.
- joshbuddy 11y agoMan, we need this for bridge
- rkowalick 11y agoThis was one of my favorite resources for learning: http://www.acbl.org/learn_page/learn-to-play-bridge-software/ http://www.acbl.org/learn_page/learn-to-play-bridge-software...
- blakecaldwell 11y agoWaiting for an argument about how Rust is better than Go... Neither the language nor ancient game have generics yet.
- sethammons 11y agoI just went through the whole tutorial. This was a great introduction to the game. I've glanced at other tutorials in the past, but I could not really follow what was going on. After this tutorial, I feel I could actually play a game! I would lose horribly, but I could play and understand what is happening.
- mkesper 11y agoA WGo.js version of this would be cool. http://wgo.waltheri.net/player http://wgo.waltheri.net/player
- fuel 11y agoTHIS WASN'T GOLANG AT ALL!!!!