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Pedantic mode activate: it's actually the developer of the atari home-console clone of Nintendo's arcade Donkey Kong. I suspect the original developer comments
by 13ren 18y ago
Pedantic mode activate: it's actually the developer of the atari home-console clone of Nintendo's arcade Donkey Kong. I suspect the original developer comments might be in Japanese.
Maybe I'm imagining things, but I just don't like it that US developers are often seeming to get the credit for a Japanese success. Why don't we hear stories about the original coders of Donkey Kong? Miyamoto designed it, but didn't code it, so maybe it's because it's not code romantic (?)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donkey_Kong_ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donkey_Kong_(video_game)#Development
note HN doesn't linkerize the parentheses in that URL correctly
- ks 18y agoProbably because ( is not a valid character in an URL.
- snprbob86 18y agoHorribly off-topic, but interesting (at least I think so): As far as I can tell, "(" is in fact valid. In the URI standard [1], a URI has a `path` which is made up of segments. Each `segment` is a set of pchars delimited by by "/". The `pchar` character class includes the `unreserved` character class which contains the `mark` character class which contains both "(" and ")". That said, I'd argue that "(" and ")" should never have been allowed because of the tendency for people to mention web sites like this (news.ycombinator.com). I'd also argue that trailing punctuation should be ignored for cases like this news.ycombinator.com. But oh well, it is too late now. These characters are in URLs and that means they are here to stay. [1] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt
- gojomo 18y agoFYI, rfc3986 is the latest for URI syntax (obsoleting rfc2396), but you're still right, and the grandparent comment is wrong: parentheses are legal in URIs. News.YC also mishandles '<' '>' around URIs, which is the recommended manner for delimiting them. (Consider, for example, <http://www.example.com> http://www.example.com>.)
- jonhohle 18y agoin the case of a fully qualified domain name, a trailing period is valid (its implied if you don't include it). http://news.ycombinator.com. is just as valid as http://news.ycombinator.com
- deleted 18y ago[deleted]
- silentbicycle 18y agoYou can include the parens in a URL by adding %28 and %29 to it for the left and right parens, e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donkey_Kong_%28video_game%29#Development http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donkey_Kong_%28video_game%29#De... I swear, this should be in the FAQ by now.
- 13ren 18y agothanks - I'd change it, but I just saw your reply now, and it's after the edit sunset.