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901.
by barbs 12y ago
Oh man, these sorts of things are my favourite kinds of games. I love any sort of esport level multiplayer, but I also love the amount of fun that local multiplayer games can bring (Bomberman, Nidhogg, Smash Bros. etc). I'd be interest
902.
by barbs 12y ago
Thanks, though it's a shame that all the graphs and pictures are missing.
903.
by barbs 13y ago
Bit of a digression, but I use "tig" to interface with git on the command-line. It's basically a curses-based gui for git. It raises an interesting question - is it still a command-line app if it uses curses?
904.
by barbs 13y ago
His original statement was: The engineering world would be a much better place if more people built beautiful, easy to use command line apps Toddlers are not part of the engineering world...
905.
by barbs 13y ago
That's hardly an appropriate comparison. The reason it's strange that they're still using floppy disks is that much better alternatives exist today. That said, I agree that, so long as it does the job, there's no real re
906.
by barbs 13y ago
What are the chances that there will be something similar for Android?
907.
by barbs 13y ago
At first I thought the name was a bit misleading. It looked more like a how-to on visual effects than underlying mechanics. But then I saw the linked page, and it gave a pretty decent definition of Game Mechanics: http://www.lost
908.
by barbs 13y ago
Occasionally I'll leave useful debugging log calls in there. It's a lot quicker to just uncomment the code when it's needed, rather than pulling that bit out from source code. Also, even more occasionally, I'll leave som
909.
by barbs 13y ago
My first thought was that it looked very similar to Ninja Blocks: http://ninjablocks.com/products/ninja-blocks-kit
910.
by barbs 13y ago
A neat write-up of the algorithm used can be found here: http://fabiensanglard.net/quake3/The%20Quake3%20Networking%2...
911.
by barbs 13y ago
I'm a bit surprised Nintendo hasn't released their own pokemon app for iOS/Android. Though I guess they're seen as a competitor to the DS these days...
912.
by barbs 13y ago
Valve
913.
by barbs 13y ago
A cross-platform (but not web-based) open-source LAN file-transfer tool that I've used in the past is dukto: https://code.google.com/p/dukto/
914.
by barbs 13y ago
Is it much different to the WINE version? I believe GOG.com wrapped it in a Wineskin wrapper for Mac...
915.
by barbs 13y ago
He didn't just point out a problem, he actively tells people to "stop using JSON" without providing an alternative.
916.
by barbs 13y ago
> I used this webserver with a simple php script. "webserver" is a hyperlink, but it just links back to the blog. Anyone know what he's referring to here?
917.
by barbs 13y ago
> When we started the X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter project, our goal was to create the first multi-player space combat simulator to be playable over the Internet. They obviously hadn't heard of Netrek, the third multiplayer internet gam
918.
by barbs 13y ago
Primarily != exclusively
919.
by barbs 13y ago
I'm curious: where does this 10x speed increase come from? are you implying that git is inherently faster than mercurial? I've not actually used mercurial myself so I wouldn't know...
920.
by barbs 13y ago
Awww, I was kind of hoping it would somehow take small amounts of dead skin from whoever was holding it, and then somehow turn it into graphite...
921.
by barbs 13y ago
I'm surprised no-one's mentioned Replicant, which "aims to replace all proprietary Android components with their free software counterparts" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replicant_(operating_system)
922.
by barbs 13y ago
This has been out for a while. I'd buy it if it were on Android...
923.
by barbs 13y ago
> Also, instead of passing any arguments to "git-log", I usually just use "tig", an ncurses display of the commits: https://blogs.atlassian.com/2013/05/git-tig/ +1 for tig. Definitely m
924.
by barbs 13y ago
"To the moon" isn't exclusive to pump and dump schemes, NASA have been known to use it from time to time...
925.
by barbs 13y ago
I'd not heard of the Debian on Android kit [1] before. Sounds interesting! I had heard of using tcpdump to monitor traffic on Android though, and have used this in the past to help debug some network problems we were having with our ap
926.
by barbs 13y ago
There's a readme.txt included with the game :)
927.
by barbs 13y ago
Also reminds me of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Star_OS
928.
by barbs 13y ago
True. It's not illegal, but it's not a particularly good business model!
929.
by barbs 13y ago
It's a bit of a grey area, but the FAQ states that so long as they're kept separate, and they communicate "at arms length", they should be ok: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLInProprieta
930.
by barbs 13y ago
Just to clarify - it's not illegal to sell GPL'd code, so long as you provide the source with the binary. In fact, this is exactly what happened with Dosbox Turbo ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/detai

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