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by beefsack 9y ago
It's not that I don't like Go, it definitely has its place, but for this particular use case I found it a little painful. Personally, the things I really missed after moving to Rust are quick compile times and very high quality ed
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by beefsack 9y ago
A lot of 18XX games seem to have strong play-by-post communities too, which are interesting from a pure play-by-email perspective because they have already encoded a command vocabulary which could be implemented instead of needing to design
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by beefsack 9y ago
I've played a lot of Mergers on there, and that's actually what inspired me to make my own. It's not pure PBE as it just uses emails for notifications and you make your plays in the web interface.
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by beefsack 9y ago
The main reason why I wanted to switch from Go to Rust was I was finding the type system a bit too weak for game implementations. There were even some games I was having trouble implementing at all without resorting to `interface{}` through
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by beefsack 9y ago
Yeah, in my experience having a pure text interface proves to be a very complex design challenge but it enables so much cool stuff. One interesting side effect is that it makes writing bots quite simple.
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by beefsack 9y ago
On the topic of online board games, I've been really interested in the idea of a pure play-by-email (PBE) system where there isn't a frontend or web interface at all. By that, I mean that a full game rendering is emailed to each p
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Xi Editor November 2017 Roadmap(github.com)
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by beefsack 9y ago
The Australian ABC is another example of a state supported news service which would probably be harmful to penalise.
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by beefsack 9y ago
This article is actually from the 7th. (Thought it was from July for a minute, silly US dates.)
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by beefsack 9y ago
There are many places around the world called Richmond, and even if we assume it's in the US there are still 16 places called Richmond[1]. I wish people were more specific, particularly when reaching an international audience without a
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by beefsack 9y ago
Also, the author is advocating a UI model that has pre-existed React, it was just popularised by React. You could argue that Elm is actually closer to what the author is advocating.
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by beefsack 9y ago
Do you remember DDG five years ago? Everyone needs to start somewhere. One potential advantage is it's run out of Europe instead of the US, which is significant for certain people.
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by beefsack 9y ago
There's no way you can trust this to be unbiased, and the same can be said about the MariaDB comment they're responding to but don't directly reference (I've been unable to find it.)
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by beefsack 9y ago
I've only ever heard people call them "coin pockets."
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by beefsack 9y ago
SOAP defines your API, OpenAPI just describes it. We wrote an OpenAPI spec for our existing API and just use it to generate documentation for external parties and it's worlds ahead of what we used to do.
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by beefsack 9y ago
Whenever I see IAP on paid apps I'm almost instantly turned off. Do you know what sort of nature they are? Is the game complete without them? Do they nag about the IAP in game?
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by beefsack 9y ago
> Sounds like something to not connect to your production db With or without SSL, exposing your raw prod data to external services like these is a huge risk. Only ever share filtered and redacted data with external entities.
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by beefsack 9y ago
I used to love the coffee vending machines until I accidentally got one with jelly chunks in it and was afraid to ever try again. We had a Cup Noodle vending machine on our university campus which sold the elusive curry flavour, possibly th
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by beefsack 9y ago
HN generally really supports Apple products and the company, but cynical old me can't possibly believe some monstrously powerful for-profit corporation could ever make customer freedoms a primary goal. My gut tells me Apple are taking
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by beefsack 9y ago
> Atari says it’ll offer a “full PC experience” for your TV I feel this is a significant part of the appeal.
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by beefsack 9y ago
One is an implementation, the other is a standard which others can implement. Each is licensed differently.
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by beefsack 9y ago
Some airline ticket booking sites still track you and increase the ticket price on return visits, optimised to certain intervals. Many in the industry call it "dynamic pricing." It made the news a few years back[1] but you can sti
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by beefsack 9y ago
There's a funny double standard in mobile reporting. It's incredibly common to see non-Apple phones being called "iPhone clones" but I'm seeing very little mention of the iPhone X looking eerily similar to existing
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by beefsack 9y ago
The cynic in me makes me think this was actually intentional by the recruiter to gauge personality characteristics of the candidate. It's not entirely implausable to think that corporations could use techniques like this to try to meas
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by beefsack 9y ago
23.6% of the rest of the respondents chose "not sure", I wonder what amount of these people just didn't interact with the community at all and chose that response. Only 1.3% specifically responded with not feeling welcome, wh
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by beefsack 9y ago
As time goes on this is become a less and less controversial opinion. There are still some specific use cases which favour competing RDBMS, but the majority of people who choose competitors at the moment is for reasons tangential to functio
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by beefsack 9y ago
This is because of the shell, not the executable. The shell will translate `*` into a relevant list of files before passing them to the executable.
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by beefsack 9y ago
Perhaps the issue isn't the granularity of a single dimensional rating scale, but the lack of expressive options when in reality your feeling about something is complex and multifaceted. I've been really interested in the idea of
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by beefsack 9y ago
The title doesn't seem entirely dissimilar: > China doubles down on real-name registration laws, forbidding anonymous online posts
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by beefsack 9y ago
It's beginning to appear clear that FPS is VR's pipe dream. The locomotion part seems non-trivial to solve and dissonance between the virtual and real world renders VR FPS completely unplayable for a large amount of gamers (it can

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