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by TomAnthony 6y ago
Hey! My memory of this is imperfect and I joined as the project was already underway, but I believe there were two companies, yes. The main POC at the second company that got the project completed was Rebecca Heineman [1] from Contraband En
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by TomAnthony 6y ago
Yeah, EV Nova was HUGE. The content was primarily the product of ATMOS studios in Australia. It started out as a plugin for EV Override, but Ambrosia bought the rights and helped turn it into the 3rd iteration of the game. The original EV w
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by TomAnthony 6y ago
I was also a fan before I was an employee. I know the love they inspired! I had moved on from Ambrosia before Steam became a thing, but have also wondered the same. I did point this thread out to Andrew, and he has dropped in some replies,
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by TomAnthony 6y ago
Hey! That is kind of you to ask. I joined Ambrosia in late 2002 as part of a 'sandwich degree' as we call it in the UK. I was doing a 4 year BSc in Computer Science, where the 3rd year was spent as a year in industry. For that I m
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by TomAnthony 6y ago
This was before my time at Ambrosia, but I did work the booth at a few shows in different cities (San Fran, LA, Paris being memories). Your story definitely sounds like the sort of thing that would go down. I also don't have any t-shir
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by TomAnthony 6y ago
I think it was a product of the era, because nowadays games are either big budget with huge teams, or they are indie games which will struggle to differentiate themselves from the crowd. Back then, there weren't the tools available for
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by TomAnthony 6y ago
I remember them changing the licensing system, it was shortly before I started at the company. Matt Slot, who was the lead coder alongside Andrew, wrote an article about it which I've managed to find archived [1]. The article doesn&#x2
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by TomAnthony 6y ago
Yeah, EV is still top 3 for me! As for the Windows release of Nova, I had the honour of packaging that up and releasing it. I still remember exactly where I was when I pressed the button! People on IRC were going wild! I was so fortunate to
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by TomAnthony 6y ago
Yes, I agree it would be a shame if these were lost. I do have some (unopened!) Ambrosia CDs with copies of the software. The activation stuff is beyond what I can offer, but I do speak to Andrew sometimes and will raise it with him. :)
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by TomAnthony 6y ago
Yes, I had a character in the game. I had an extremely over powered ship, and then if you managed to defeat me and board the ship you would find I only had a single credit. I was a beta tester for EV Nova before I joined as a staff member.
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by TomAnthony 6y ago
I also played many many hours of Maelstrom! That particular game is now open source [1]. On the whole, the main code of most games was not written by Ambrosia. There was a form on the website where you could submit a simple demo of a game i
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by TomAnthony 6y ago
Former Ambrosia employee checking in! TomWoozle was my handle back then. I worked at the company from 2003-2005, having (like many here) grown up on their games and spent hours modding Escape Velocity. I mainly worked on the website (I wrot
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by TomAnthony 6y ago
I am very surprised nobody has yet mentioned Notational Velocity, or better yet the fork nvALT [1]. I hate any _friction_ to writing a note. I just want to get it out of my brain (or find it, if a previous thought) as quickly as possible. W
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by TomAnthony 6y ago
This makes sense. What makes less sense is why cache digests were abandoned and not finished? Surely that would have made Push useful?
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Google hit by landmark competition lawsuit in US over search(bbc.com)
1 points by TomAnthony 6y ago|0 comments
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Nvidia – Using neural networks instead of codecs for video conferencing(youtube.com)
3 points by TomAnthony 6y ago|0 comments
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by TomAnthony 6y ago
SearchPilot | Django & React Developer | UK, Primarily Remote | https://www.searchpilot.com/ SearchPilot is a profitable and growing startup currently made up of 12 people in the UK and US. We are building an SEO A&#x2F
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by TomAnthony 6y ago
Yeah, I saw that. I wanted to ask about it in one of the threads, but they are all being Flagged as off-topic, which is a shame given the magnitude of the story.
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by TomAnthony 6y ago
But all your devices stopped working back in 2027 when <insert plausible reason>.
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Blockchain Domain Names(unstoppabledomains.com)
2 points by TomAnthony 6y ago|0 comments
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by TomAnthony 6y ago
Yeah, Zoom works very well, and is so much better for video calls than most of the alternatives. I do have sympathy for their team who were suddenly getting a wild amount more traffic, and scrutiny. They have scaled fast and kept the platfo
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by TomAnthony 6y ago
OP here. I tested much higher rates for short bursts, and wasn't ever rate limited, but didn't want to risk blowing anything up. However, with a few AWS instances / lambdas it would have been possible to do it in a few mins.
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Zoom Security Exploit: Cracking private meeting passwords(tomanthony.co.uk)
419 points by TomAnthony 6y ago|158 comments
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by TomAnthony 6y ago
I think you have misunderstood what he is saying with that sentence. He is not speaking about "GA data", but is discussing the very precise issue of whether HTTP 3rd party cookies, set on cross-domain requests to google-analytics.
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by TomAnthony 6y ago
I take your point, but the phrasing makes sense here as it is refuting two recent articles that were making a strong (and verifiably incorrect claim).
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by TomAnthony 6y ago
The two articles that are discussed in this post have both been featured on HN in the last 24 hours [1][2]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23629918 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23612140
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No, Safari 14 does not block Google Analytics(simoahava.com)
250 points by TomAnthony 6y ago|68 comments
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by TomAnthony 6y ago
All cookies set via Javascript code are 1st party, and belong to the site that was in the address bar when the code ran (unless they are in a frame). GA primarily utilises 1st party JS cookies. If you have GA on example.com then the cookie
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by TomAnthony 6y ago
Reposting my earlier comment from [0] This article is incorrect. There does not appear to be a change between Safari 13.1 and Safari 14 for how it handles GA. I have tested it myself. With Safari 13.1 Apple made a change [1] to their Inte
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by TomAnthony 6y ago
Original commenter here. They are not blocking GA. Apple's ITP affects both 3rd party HTTP cookies and 1st party JS cookies. There does not appear to be anything but a UI change between Safari 13.1 and 14, from my initial analysis. GA

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