davegauer

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Ten of the World’s Rarest Gemstones(curiousnotions.com)
1 points by davegauer 5y ago|0 comments
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Complex game worlds, simple text interfaces (2015)(egamebook.com)
162 points by davegauer 5y ago|38 comments
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Little things that made Amiga great(datagubbe.se)
19 points by davegauer 5y ago|1 comments
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Complex game worlds, simple text interfaces (2015)(egamebook.com)
1 points by davegauer 5y ago|0 comments
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by davegauer 5y ago
Thank you very much!
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by davegauer 5y ago
Ha ha, exactly. Again, I emphasize that this is a toy. On the other hand, there generally _is_ a limit: $ getconf ARG_MAX 2097152
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by davegauer 5y ago
For a shell? To launch other programs? You're right about the modern part. :-)
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Braille e-books: Why can't you buy a budget e-reader? (2014)(bbc.com)
2 points by davegauer 5y ago|0 comments
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by davegauer 5y ago
In my garage are a Tesla and a Subaru. They're both the first new cars I've ever owned and both are far more technologically advanced than anything I'd previously driven. So I'm a great guinea pig for testing modern car
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by davegauer 5y ago
Absolutely. AsciiDoc (2002) is actually 2 years older than Markdown (2004), but is surprisingly similar to write. It was created as an equivalent to DocBook XML for the creation of book-length technical documents. It has a rich history and
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by davegauer 5y ago
Bingo and I distinctly remember when IE's CSS support was significantly better than Netscape's at a crucial point in time when it really mattered to nascent Web design and development.
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Increasing my contribution to Zig to $200/mo(devlog.hexops.com)
63 points by davegauer 5y ago|13 comments
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by davegauer 5y ago
> ...sometimes a reasonably priced, rock-solid, proprietary tool can be preferable to a janky OSS project connected to a murky business model. I agree completely with this. Even worse, "free" (ad-supported) software is so darne
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by davegauer 6y ago
Highly recommend starting with "The Pragmatic Programmer". I found "Clean Code" to be much more narrow in its applicability (and I did not enjoy Martin's writing, but that's highly subjective). The Pragmatic Pr
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by davegauer 6y ago
I completely agree with you and I don't think it's being pedantic at all. Clearly the 21st century is bearing the FRUIT of scientific discovery and we're seeing incredible iteration and innovation that is very exciting. But m
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by davegauer 6y ago
This is a total gem. Entertaining and absolutely packed with the most lucid explanations of the Apollo systems I've ever heard.
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by davegauer 6y ago
I realize I'm replying six days later - but I can't help mentioning that the "dd situation" is even crazier than it first appears: you can just use `cp foo.iso /dev/sdb` or `cat > /dev/sdb`. https
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by davegauer 6y ago
Yes, sorry, I meant to make that more clear: this is NOT an nginx issue. It just HAPPENS that I always see nginx on the 403 page. It appears somebody doesn't like lynx's User-Agent string and it makes me sad.
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by davegauer 6y ago
Yes, 403 Forbidden in lynx as well. This is a very unfortunate trend I've seen increasing over the last couple years. The answer almost always comes from an nginx server, but my understanding is that it's User-Agent sniffing being
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One should use AT&T syntax ever, for any reason, under any circumstances(elronnd.net)
2 points by davegauer 6y ago|2 comments
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by davegauer 6y ago
You're absolutely right. My own first exposure to this type of learning resource was Ruby Koans. I believe Rustlings (which was my direct inspiration) also credits RK. I'll update the README with the grandparent attribution. :-)
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by davegauer 6y ago
I think you mean: "People do seem to think it's like books or something, you can walk up, rock the Walmart and no one can object or stop you..."
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Patent US20150006145A1: Chinese name transliteration(patents.google.com)
1 points by davegauer 6y ago|1 comments
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by davegauer 6y ago
I love this advice. I used this exact technique when I wanted to improve my digital drawing skills. I forced myself to use just a single "brush" to create a complete drawing every day until I had used every brush. (Desktop comput
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by davegauer 6y ago
Aside: the book Digital Apollo[0] gave me the impression that the computer might well have been able to land, but we'll never know since the astronauts didn't trust it enough to find out. [0] https://mitpress.mit.edu&#x
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by davegauer 6y ago
(7 days later) Also, check out Bash's `help` command. Shockingly good terse info.
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by davegauer 6y ago
I think that's uncharitable. The author is only addressing the inverse: code that is definitely not production quality.
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by davegauer 6y ago
I'm a fan and supporter of the EFF. And I'm not a huge fan of Nintendo. And yet, I find myself in favor of there being some social platforms where you can _escape_ from the grim realities of the "outside world". On one
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What the *, Nintendo? This in-game censorship is * terrible(eff.org)
2 points by davegauer 6y ago|1 comments
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by davegauer 6y ago
Amusingly, both are useful and valuable statements.

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