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by mmccaff 9y ago
Yes, I had so many DOOR games, and Solar Realms Elite (SRE) and Baron Realms Elite (BRE) were the only ones that I enjoyed playing myself. I liked how they were turn based (each user got X turns per day) and one player played at a time, but
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by mmccaff 9y ago
Yes we did. It's amazing what teenagers were accomplishing at the time. Full product release life cycles, done after school and homework. A few memories: 1) I had a 2400 baud modem, and then upgraded to an external 14.4K US Robotics Co
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by mmccaff 9y ago
Ah, FidoNET. Two things about Mastodon are what got me thinking about BBSs. 1) Administrators running their own instance that they can customize and have local conversations on, and 2) FidoNET, where instances relay messages to each other a
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by mmccaff 9y ago
Ok, yes, I suppose I was a bit liberal with those rules. It's something that I made but it is now impossible to play with because dialup BBSs have gone extinct. By converting the ANSI images to PNGs, I tried to show what it would have
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by mmccaff 9y ago
I know. It was on a computer that burned down in a fire. So, it's very much gone. Both that and the message archives from the bbs itself would have been a treasure trove of nostalgia.
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A look at my BBS Software from '93(mmccaff.github.io)
392 points by mmccaff 9y ago|212 comments
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by mmccaff 10y ago
I didn't see one point that was specific to web developers, or is that a dig on web-based software? The pitfalls of over-abstraction, trying to be more generic than necessary, more "clever" than the business requirements, etc
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by mmccaff 10y ago
My coworker just bought this and loves it. https://leanpub.com/build-apis-you-wont-hate The examples are PHP-based and there is an active Slack channel supporting the book.
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by mmccaff 11y ago
A list of email addresses "which can be matched to signed-in users" - it is not clear if the list will have to be gmail addresses matching the logged in users? I'd assume so, unless Google is maintaining links between people&
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by mmccaff 11y ago
Yes, this. Processing fraudulent cards can result in a costly sum of chargebacks for the seller, and a fake email address is a very strong indicator that the person is a fraudster. Other services like Maxmind minFraud consider the email add
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by mmccaff 11y ago
Ah, nice! :) The Github did mention that there was a handful of hidden features.
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by mmccaff 11y ago
Well done! My train-obsessed 3 year old would approve of the stamp toolbar defaulting to a train. A button to download the canvas as a png or jpg would be nice for saving and sharing special creations.
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by mmccaff 11y ago
The page you linked to has a bold headline, "One Click Intergation With Your Email" -- Integration is misspelled.
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by mmccaff 11y ago
I recently spent some time playing with Mesos, Marathon (the web ui + api for scheduling long-running jobs / services) and Chronos (the web ui + api for scheduling cron / batch jobs). I did this on my Macbook, using Virtualbox, Va
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by mmccaff 11y ago
Agreed. Also, I suspect that the release of mobile apps (supposedly this spring) will be a huge boost for them. I know that I would be checking in on activity there much more if I could do it on my phone.
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by mmccaff 11y ago
I haven't checked it out in awhile, but the last time I did, I also remember not being able to find the Logout functionality. "I'm not a tech newbie." <-- I suspect that is why the UI is difficult for you (and me too)
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by mmccaff 11y ago
I remember daydreaming about how one day "running a BBS" would become mainstream. It just seemed to make sense that a day would come when almost every entity (person, business, etc) would have their own BBS, as they do a voice pho
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by mmccaff 11y ago
It'd be nice if there was a demo on the site to play with. Or, at least some screenshots to see what it looks like. Maybe there is something after signing in, but I didn't want to sign in with Github or Google, and so I moved on.
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by mmccaff 11y ago
Removing check-ins was a strange move, given that it was what made Foursquare Foursquare. Personally, I didn't want to install Swarm in the same way that I didn't want to install Facebook Messenger. I had the same feeling of not t
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by mmccaff 12y ago
It looks to me like it was missing in the source markdown file? I submitted a pull request on Github.
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by mmccaff 12y ago
Clever name, Peter. :) Btw, I noticed a missing "c" in the "url -X POST" example on this page of your docs: http://autocompeter.readthedocs.org/en/latest/api/#bulk-uplo...
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by mmccaff 12y ago
I agree, being able to use your favorite local IDE to load and edit remote files can be very convenient. On OSX, I use Panic Transmit's "Mount as Disk" feature. I've also heard good things about a product called WebDrive
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by mmccaff 12y ago
I don't know the reasoning behind the decision to not use Whoops by default, but I considered the beautiful and informative error pages to be a nice trait of Laravel that I will miss. It is also a feature that almost anyone who has use
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Analyzing Budweiser's Hypocritical, Anti-Craft Beer Super Bowl Ad(pastemagazine.com)
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by mmccaff 12y ago
It's a bit unique to each situation, but a few topics that come to mind immediately: * Profile & measure to narrow down where time is being spent * Memoize repeated function calls * Cache data that doesn't frequently change *
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by mmccaff 12y ago
The web page is beautiful. It might help to emphasize where this sits between installing Docker images from the repo, and using something like Webuzo or Softaculous to install popular web apps.
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by mmccaff 12y ago
There are a lot of broad generalizations and some misinformation here. I am curious what you consider to be the open web stack and why you think that Angular is not "compatible" with them. In my mind, it includes things like Linux
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by mmccaff 12y ago
Maybe not exactly the same? The Docker technology was a by-product of the dotCloud product, which spun-off to create the company Docker, Inc to focus on Docker. Docker Inc sold dotCloud to the Berlin-based company cloudControl. This appears
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by mmccaff 12y ago
That workaround didn't work for me. Auth from either / or /logout both come back with: "Twitter is currently down for maintenance. We expect to be back shortly. For more information, check out Twitter Status. Thanks for
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by mmccaff 12y ago
Neat. Did you have a real use-case for this, or just fun? I'm curious, what dependencies does it have that would make setup difficult? In the Yelp example, I was confused for a second by the variable name of 'pizza' when doin

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