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by reidrac 5y ago
> as someone who maintains small open source games Are those public? Very intriguing, would you mind sharing a link?
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by reidrac 5y ago
On the same line, perhaps: https://TomArayaScream.com/ (I forgot they have a domain that redirects)
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by reidrac 5y ago
This is a good resource: http://geminiquickst.art/
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by reidrac 5y ago
I like how it is put here: http://sawv.org/en.html It is an "Everything / Nothing" type of content. "The website's content means everything to the publisher, but it could mean nothing to the rest of
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by reidrac 5y ago
Yes, I agree there's a bit of hyperbole on those tweets (otherwise we wouldn't be discussing it here). For example: > But this contributor UX is holding Python back As in, fixing one character typos? If he didn't really wa
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by reidrac 5y ago
+1 for Tornado. I used it early on when the docs where not there (IIRC), and spent some time reading the code. Very readable. Not sure if pythonic or not.
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by reidrac 5y ago
That's right. It is open source and, when it breaks, you get to keep both pieces.
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by reidrac 5y ago
I don't know if this makes sense: sponsoring one of the open source projects your business depends on, could that work as PR? Perhaps this could work for any company size, but I guess it depends on what is your core business.
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by reidrac 5y ago
When I started working with Scala, it really surprised me how the JVM world deals with dependencies (include an upstream jar directly in the project, as opposed to the Linux distro model where you use your distributor packages so you have s
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by reidrac 5y ago
Well, early 2000s it was definitely cool. Using ASP and want to calculate an MD5? Oh, you need to pay an add-on for that. Want to send an email? Ditto. Then there was PHP, with all included (and cheaper hosting, because Linux). I started wo
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by reidrac 5y ago
Verifying signatures is messy, because the SSH keys don't store identity information, isn't it? So basically you know that an specific SSH key signed a file, but that's all you know. Not very useful? Who's going to maint
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Universal code for representing variable-length nonnegative integers in binary(github.com)
3 points by reidrac 5y ago|0 comments
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by reidrac 5y ago
IIRC we had to move to Corretto when using AWS CodeBuild, because AWS dropped support of AdoptOpenJDK in their CodeBuild container images. So basically we use AWS distro to run tests and build our docker images, and those images use AdoptOp
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by reidrac 5y ago
I think you're right; this is more about choosing the right license to support your means than a general BSD vs GPL. I find interesting his point of view compared to his partners': he would have preferred if the code was used by m
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by reidrac 5y ago
I think you are right. And it really bothers me because sometimes I see something really unfair, and it is hard to not say anything, but it is not real life and you only need a handful of anonymous people with enough time on their hands to
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by reidrac 5y ago
Coincidentally, I have experienced 4 crashes already since 88.0.1 was released. But I agree with you, I can't remember when was the last time I had a crash before these!
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by reidrac 5y ago
On the spirit of Masters of Doom, I recommend "It's behind you - The making of a computer Game" by Bob Pape. The author explains how he made the R-Type conversion for the ZX Spectrum 48k and provides an interesting view of th
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by reidrac 5y ago
Yep, I started doing that, but I stopped. Generally I find a good number of the blogs hitting HN's frontpage aren't worth following because that post on HN is one off; either because their blog focus on a topic I'm not intere
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by reidrac 5y ago
I stopped using RSS partially because the blogs I was reading stopped writing and because HN started filling that gap. I'm only on Twitter (and trying to reduce its use), so I'm trying to go back to RSS, but I'm struggling to
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by reidrac 5y ago
I used joe for a while, basically because it was installed at the Uni's labs (and because I had used WordStar on DOS). vi (or vim, can't remeber) was misconfigured with terrible defaults, so basically I got used to joe. It was ver
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by reidrac 5y ago
I see some arguments for static typed languages as well. And some notes on performance, but mainly static types.
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by reidrac 6y ago
Searching online to find help to solve a problem doesn't equal to use Stack Overflow, at least in my experience. It may be the type of problems, but I can't even remember the last time that DDG took me to SO and it was actually th
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by reidrac 6y ago
If you are not trusting the packages provided by you distribution, you should switch to a different one. I'm very happy with the packages I get from Debian. https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ Add a bit
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by reidrac 6y ago
> Flatpak is the only practical approach to achieve some degree of isolation on Linux today, unless you are willing to go with Qubes OS. Flatpak tries to solve a problem I don't have. I use the packages from the distro (and you trus
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The complete guide for open sourcing video games(drewdevault.com)
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by reidrac 6y ago
Good question! I always assume it is the same version, mostly because a common pattern is to use SCM tags to track versions, and I haven't seen that work fine on any monorepo. If you have a specific version per subproject, how do you t
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by reidrac 6y ago
> The Emacs-ng team doesn't have to convince the Emacs community -- they only have to convince their replacements. Those are using VS Code already, isn't it?
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by reidrac 6y ago
If this was 20 years ago, when I was kind of starting with Linux, I would love it: lots of possibilities and customisation. But the truth is that I don't have time for all that in 2021. When XFCE supports Wayland and I get a good exper
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by reidrac 6y ago
I feel the same. I couldn't do Scala with vim if it wasn't for LSP and Metals. (and I'm aware that I still have less features than if I was using a full featured IDE, but I'm still very productive and also happy)
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by reidrac 6y ago
A few years ago I gave up on my own XMPP server and moved to Telegram because Signal wasn't ready. Recently I have moved to Signal because, after the WhatsApp opportunity, I had to move my non-tech savvy family members to something bet

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