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The most popular page with Hacker News appears to be the Tetris rant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20342543 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=203425
by omoikane 3y ago
The most popular page with Hacker News appears to be the Tetris rant:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20342543 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20342543
https://tcrf.net/The_New_Tetris https://tcrf.net/The_New_Tetris
- ido 3y agoI was confused by the 2nd rant using metric and imperial randomly (e.g. describing distance in feet but speed in km/h and temperature in c).
- howenterprisey 3y agoYeah, Canadian units system usage is somethin' else. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication_in_Canada#Common_usage_today https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication_in_Canada#Common_u...
- actionfromafar 3y agoMeasuring energy usage per distance, makes a lot more sense though.
- bregma 3y agoSeems normal to me, eh?
- molticrystal 3y agoThanks for sharing that article. New Tetris led me down the rabbit hole to the "Dirty coding tricks from game developers" [0] offsite articles. Lots of fun to read anecdotes about turning crashes and malfunctions into features. [0] https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/more-dirty-coding-tricks-from-game-developers https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/more-dirty-coding-trick...
- boomboomsubban 3y agoSo that's why saving never worked on NBA Jam TE. I figured they lazily didn't remove the save option from the port. A childhood mystery solved at last.
- InvisibleUp 3y agoThe Wing Commander one was a myth. See https://www.wcnews.com/news/update/16279 https://www.wcnews.com/news/update/16279 and its HN discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37564217 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37564217
- AdmiralAsshat 3y agoDevelopers should take it as a cautionary tale that no matter how much good work you do throughout your career, you will absolutely be remembered, above all else, for a stupid code comment you wrote late one night. Don't vent in code.