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by bitofhope 5y ago
If games are so expensive to make and sell so cheap, how come are the game companies getting bigger and making record profits year after year? Not that the median game developer seems to be much better off for it, though. Besides, many of t
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by bitofhope 5y ago
+ Randomly generated environment + Permadeath + Turn-based + Grid-based + Non-modal + Exploration and discovery + Single player character (arguable) + ASCII graphics (arguable) + Numbers Minesweeper ticks a lot of the Berlin interpretation
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by bitofhope 5y ago
Procedural generation + permadeath includes Tetris and Solitaire. I just try and avoid the whole word nowadays. The Berlin interpretation was a fairly decent guideline when there were just a bunch of turn-based tile-based dungeon crawlers w
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by bitofhope 5y ago
Pop culture properties like seasonal anime are more popular than great works of high literature, especially ones so obscure they haven't been translated before. Translating an episode is also likely to be less work than a full novel or
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by bitofhope 5y ago
It's popular among college students where I live. I guess it initially spread among the the sizeable engineering student body, many of whom found it preferable over a Facebook-owned IM application, but less of a hassle than Signal.
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by bitofhope 5y ago
Breaking up Facebook sounds fine to me. I've got an even better one, though: make their business model practically illegal. I'd love the US to implement something broadly similar to the GDPR and actually enforce it (and while at i
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by bitofhope 5y ago
The conclusion slide appears at about 1:02:00 so you can skip there if you just want a four-sentence answer to the question posed in the title. The first five minutes or so lead up to a rough definition of what he means by "Operating S
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Ask HN: What style guides are there for technical documentation?
7 points by bitofhope 6y ago|7 comments
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by bitofhope 6y ago
I found these two commits to the stc/sys/dev/ic/vga.c crediting Carmack https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/src/sys/dev/ic/vga.c?rev=1.70&con... https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/
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by bitofhope 6y ago
sed, along with grep and awk
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by bitofhope 7y ago
Backgroud of the bug's infamy and original bug bounty described here[1] with a letter from high scoring Japanese player that details the context here[2]. [1]: http://electricunderground.io/the-top-secret-dodonpachi-scor
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The “Double GP Glitch” of Dodonpachi Explained(electricunderground.io)
1 points by bitofhope 7y ago|1 comments
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by bitofhope 7y ago
For the Unix history fans, BWK's interview of Ken Thompson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY6q5dv_B-o
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by bitofhope 7y ago
This year's Cantrill talks include one on Ethical Dilemmas [0] and another on the "Moore's Law" paper [1]. Highly recommend both. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wtvQZijPzg [1] https://ww
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by bitofhope 7y ago
If you're not running a firewall, your router is just as vulnerable as any device behind it would be with IPv6 — that is potentially vulnerable on any port it might listen to. NAT is not a firewall, it's an ugly workaround to a sc
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by bitofhope 7y ago
The Handbook is a fine document and any computing history fan worth their salt should read it, but it's hardly the best analysis of Unix in a historical perspective. Blaming (or crediting, however you want to think about it) GNU for pr
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by bitofhope 7y ago
I remember reading a blog post about how something like "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa…" with sufficient 'a's was actually perfectly secure since it wasn't included in any of the common cracklists or hash leaks. I think the
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by bitofhope 7y ago
That's the founder and lead dev of sourcehut you're talking to. I'm pretty sure he wouldn't object if he agreed.
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by bitofhope 7y ago
That wasn't really the question, though. There was nothing there about saving lives _by_ murdering someone. It's more like "is it ok do do bad things if you've built up good karma beforehand by doing more good stuff&quot
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by bitofhope 7y ago
Perhaps No Starch Press? https://nostarch.com/mg_databases.htm
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by bitofhope 7y ago
I think most people who believe they don't care about fashion do. Cargo pants, t-shirts and hoodies might not be the typical image of fashion or putting effort in one's appearance, but me wearing them at work and free time is stil
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by bitofhope 8y ago
There's really nothing that names like "MIT License", "BSD License", "European Union Public License", "GNU General Public License", "Apache License, version 2.0",or "Mozilla Public
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by bitofhope 8y ago
I, for one, can't really think of any daily experiences that would count as evidence for or against glass being transparent to UV. Maybe if long drives in sunny weather are a typical experience to someone, it'll be common sense to
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by bitofhope 8y ago
I honestly would not be surprised if the difference in effectiveness of targeted vs untargeted advertisement turns out to be none, negligible or even unfavorable to targeted. Sure, NYT is not enough data to be significant, especially when c
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by bitofhope 8y ago
The contest is about obfuscated C. Clearly written or not, I'm impressed.
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My Views on GNU Kind Communication Guidelines and Related Material(ebb.org)
1 points by bitofhope 8y ago|0 comments
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by bitofhope 8y ago
And Aho, the A co-wrote the most famous book on compilers. I like to think he'd approve of implementing programming languages.
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by bitofhope 8y ago
I don't have a computer running an operating system that supports either of those browsers so I can't test with them. However, I assume they can render basic HTML enough to make my site readable and I don't even think there&#
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by bitofhope 8y ago
Hell yea my site works cross-browser. I've tested it with Firefox, Chromium, Midori, w3m, lynx, surf, and edbrowse and they all look fine. I freely admit I have no idea what a PWA actually is, but that page is not helping me understand
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by bitofhope 8y ago
This is useless to me because I have a website, not a web application. I got a 46/100 on PWA which is astonishing because the site being tested is not a progressive web application at all. Imagine vim getting a 40/100 score in the

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