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by mc42 10y ago
As is common, Mr. Munroe put things into context. I sincerely hope this image is shared thoroughly . This "all in perspective" thing might help a lot more than out of context quotes, and to kill the FuD. However, I might be o
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by mc42 10y ago
PowerShell was both opensourced [1] and released for Linux [2]. [1] - https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell [2] - https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/#get-powershell
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by mc42 10y ago
The easiest example to see (to me) is the use of the cloud / blush sprite in Super Mario Bros. 1. They use the same sprite with an alternate pallet. (1) The most complicated example I've seen thus far, however, is that of Crash B
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by mc42 10y ago
Another interesting thing to view is the recently published video of his talk at Vintage Computer Festival East XI (1). The idea of text being treated as paper makes perfect sense to me. Unfortunately, it can be incredibly messy to expla
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by mc42 10y ago
I always look at the Lego windstorms with a degree of curiosity, as their software libraries are derived from LabVIEW.
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by mc42 10y ago
I was under the impression it was recently updated for the 25th anniversary. However, I can understand not adding "security" in the name of preservation. Real shame.
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by mc42 10y ago
I find it interesting how the first website ever, being info.cern.ch, fails 6 of the 10 tests, getting a 0/100.
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by mc42 10y ago
It already rules space [1], the microscopic [2], and the server market. One can hope that the advent of Wayland and a more "modern" way to draw items on screen will prompt the rapid development of user desktop applications, even
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by mc42 10y ago
From the perspective of a student who got out of high-school, I got most of my work done in medium-sized group of individuals who actually wanted to work. Any more than 10 was useless and they began to chit-chat. Much fewer and people te
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by mc42 10y ago
I stated that transparently just to say that it was one, not that it isn't a well done one. I actually am running a Canary build for Linux of Discord and have had almost no issues with it, and any problems have been fixed very trans
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by mc42 10y ago
Full Disclosure: I really like Discord, and use Twitch daily. Discord has more easily manageable chat roles, eg: Moderator, Helper, Regular, Supporter, etc. Twitch chat is nothing more than simple IRC, and relies almost entirely on bots fo
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by mc42 10y ago
Though this isn't a service I'd personally use, it seems useful. One suggestion though, as hated as it might be, would be to make a mobile app. My experience with outings and shows is that you tend to forget stuff like this when
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by mc42 10y ago
Though it's my two cents, Niantic got part of the Pokemon games but missed out the biggest thing that made it fun. Random Battles! Battling your friends (as early as Gen 1 [2]) You can't weaken random Pokemon at all, you can&#x2
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by mc42 10y ago
Thanks, that's really cool.
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by mc42 10y ago
The native subversion and mercurial support for the same repos is incredibly attractive. Any idea how it converts them to a shared format in real-time?
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by mc42 10y ago
It's startling for such a large company to make such blunders. Not unexpected, but honestly disappointing... At one point I checked his public account on Imgur and his hosted albums had a set of S3 IPs & keys. Yeah, he responde
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Ask HN: Why / Why Not Use Electron?
12 points by mc42 10y ago|21 comments
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by mc42 10y ago
The profile picture for that newly created user is a photo of the (in)famous feminist "Anita Sarkeesian". (via Google Reverse Image Search)
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by mc42 10y ago
My only major concern about that is would the data encoding of quake be considered "encryption" in the eyes of the FCC? Other than that, it'd be pretty cool to see that.
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by mc42 10y ago
Returning a 503 for a "Code Review" site isn't exactly putting it into a good light... Perhaps your own needs to have done so.
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by mc42 10y ago
Wouldn't the ideal solution not be a component of a simple file writer, but rather, a buffered writer? A command gets executed, thrown into buffer. A wait process in bash checks buffer, and then writes to .bash_history?
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by mc42 10y ago
I'm going to second your comment. My experience in FRC has only been worthwhile because of the people I've met. I suppose it's a form of networking, but quite legitimately having a team that drives for one goal together,
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by mc42 11y ago
Especially considering they run Linux, so... I'm decently sure that Steam could easily use some form of binary protection.
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by mc42 11y ago
This is actually, a pretty big step forward in my opinion. It makes it feel, for the first time (to me at least), that the company is replying to the feedback of the customers. They know that people want to mod it, and rather than force
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Ask HN: What's the most elegant piece of code you've seen?
139 points by mc42 11y ago|88 comments