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901.
by endgame 12y ago
How do you guys feel about the backtracking in games like Super Metroid? I find that going through an area with all this stuff you can see but not reach leaves wonderful mental hooks so when you pass through again with grapple or space jump
902.
by endgame 12y ago
That picture of ZZT was a kick in the nostalgia. That game did more to get me into programming than just about anything else.
903.
by endgame 12y ago
Good initiative, but automake is meant to generate POSIX-compatible Makefiles and this is very heavy on the GNUisms.
904.
by endgame 12y ago
And even back then people were putting bad subject lines in their messages. I guess I can't blame it on "kids these days" any more...
905.
by endgame 12y ago
> I invite you to provide counterexamples, where the customary unit has an inherent advantage (familiarity does not count). I can't think of any. The only one I can think of is the nautical mile.
906.
by endgame 12y ago
Yeah I use emacsclient as well, but I wanted to keep the description simple.
907.
by endgame 12y ago
It's hard to explain when there are all these reasonably featureful programming editors and IDEs going around. The key realisation to have is that even today I spend a huge amount of time just editing text. Commenting on HN? Editing te
908.
by endgame 12y ago
He isn't. It's a term to describe security competitions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capture_the_flag#Computer_secu...
909.
by endgame 12y ago
They had a tournament of this at PAX AUS this year. It's not dead.
910.
by endgame 12y ago
That's great and major props for helping those who fell behind. I remember taking classes at the maritime college and watching all these people (who were probably way better at ships or engines than I was) struggle mightily with speed-
911.
by endgame 12y ago
I hate the modern internet sometimes. I think the radioactive boy scout would be much less legal than moss graffiti, for starters: http://www.dangerouslaboratories.org/radscout.html
912.
by endgame 12y ago
People are scared of significant whitespace or old software or something.
913.
by endgame 12y ago
DISCOURSE I AM LOOKING AT YOU. In a real forum I'd open pages 1-n in tabs and read them on PT. On discourse I have to open the same page N times and scroll to a spread of points down the page.
914.
by endgame 12y ago
Now I feel like a huge grouch. Thanks for taking it well.
915.
by endgame 12y ago
The author managed to get the name of the prize wrong in the title, as well. Specifically: the apostrophe doesn't mean "LOOK OUT HERE COMES AN `S'!".
916.
by endgame 12y ago
When it was young you could find veteran wizards who answered all sorts of obscure things because it was fun. The last straw for me was seeing a perfectly valid question about video memory in DOS get drive-by closed by some mod.
917.
by endgame 12y ago
Similarly for How to Ask Questions the Smart Way, which is an article I want to link to people, but when I check that it actually applies I often abort.
918.
by endgame 12y ago
People have written ^H and ^W since forever^W^Wfor a very long timg.
919.
by endgame 12y ago
What a lovely, strange and reflective piece.
920.
by endgame 12y ago
Not strictly answering your question, but I find myself regularly using ed(1) to make quick changes to files.
921.
by endgame 12y ago
I love reading stories about the old phreaks. It was an era that wrapped up before I got connected, and it's got some amazing lore.
922.
by endgame 12y ago
Look at any photograph or work of art. If you could duplicate exactly the first tiny dot of color, and then the next and the next, you would end with a perfect copy of the whole, indistinguishable from the original in every way, including t
923.
by endgame 12y ago
I think a lot of it is that people are scared of automake, so they reinvent their own build systems, with varying degrees of badness. Then they claim that theirs is "easy" but they've only done the first half of "simple
924.
Terror laws clear Australian Senate, enabling entire web to be monitored(smh.com.au)
224 points by endgame 12y ago|112 comments
925.
by endgame 12y ago
I'm also disappointed that cheat codes don't seem to make it into release builds any more. (Or do they? I haven't seriously played anything modern for a while now - I'd love to be proved wrong.)
926.
by endgame 12y ago
Ever try typing those into Heretic? Was Sega not very big in the US in that era? Most of the old gaming references I see online are NES-based (or at least Nintendo), but the first cheat code I learned was Up, Down, Left, Right, A+Start.
927.
by endgame 12y ago
Why is MattOhio12's post [dead]? I'm guessing it's because his early submissions didn't go over well. I think if dead comments are upvoted by people with accounts in good standing and showdead on, they should be un-dead-
928.
by endgame 12y ago
You mean the standard galactic alphabet: http://www.shikadi.net/keenwiki/Standard_Galactic_Alphabet
929.
by endgame 12y ago
Another piece of emergent behaviour is the "impossible pogo trick": http://www.shikadi.net/keenwiki/Impossible_Pogo_Trick
930.
by endgame 12y ago
I think the most interesting part of this (socially) is this: > This release was made possible by a crowdfunding effort. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/let-s-get-keen-dreams-re-... Looks like they got most of th

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