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   How the Makers of Mafia III Lost Their Way(kotaku.com)

   3 points by rpeden 9y ago|0 comments
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   by rpeden 9y ago

   Anvil looks awesome. I do really enjoy making apps with the modern web stack, but when I look at how many moving pieces are required to make something simple, I do start to wonder if it's all a bit pants-on-head crazy.
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   by rpeden 9y ago

   The site was down for a bit due to using up my free bandwidth quota, so I decided to pay them for a month of service to get it back up. According to the site's admin panel, they've been hosting it free for 972 weeks so I figure I
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   by rpeden 9y ago

   I think there are at least a few of us here on HN! Feel free to send me an e-mail if you'd like. It's in my HN profile.
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   by rpeden 9y ago

   To be fair, I was 17 and fighting the man was the cool thing to do. :) I see you're a fan of Elm. Me too! I'm also slowly working on an Elm side project. Sadly, I don't think it'll ever get as much attention on HN as my
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   by rpeden 9y ago

   Thanks for sharing that, Bob. I really like your site's design. I also think that the name of the site is more awesome than silly. Not that silly is bad. A bit of silly makes life much more enjoyable! :)
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   by rpeden 9y ago

   Flames, dripping blood, and an under construction sign. Definitely from the 90s! Thanks for sharing :)
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   by rpeden 9y ago

   Thanks for sharing those! I'm having a lot of fun going through all of them.
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   by rpeden 9y ago

   staticfiles.js for the main page, and cgi.js for the guestbook! :)
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    by rpeden 9y ago

    Baseball and airplanes? Awesome! If I'd made a site when I was 12, it probably would've looked a lot like yours.
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    by rpeden 9y ago

    It's free hosting from the 90s, so no money for me! They inject that ad in exchange for hosting the site. Hopefully they're getting their money's worth today.
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    by rpeden 9y ago

    So far it's about 5 trolls for every real post. :)
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    by rpeden 9y ago

    I actually just tried to sign in to it, but it wants to do 2FA using an e-mail address I didn't even remember I had. So I guess I'm permanently locked out of that Yahoo account. :(
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    by rpeden 9y ago

    In case anyone is really bored, I just updated the site for the first time in 19 years and swapped out the broken guestbook for one that works. =)
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    by rpeden 9y ago

    I just updated it with a guestbook that works. :) First update the site has seen in 19 years.
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    by rpeden 9y ago

    Well, I certainly didn't expect this to make the front page. I just wish the guestbook still worked. :) I hadn't looked at the site in years and was actually surprised to find it still running. It's been on the same free host
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    Show HN: My embarrassing personal website from the 90s(boglin.iwarp.com)

    867 points by rpeden 9y ago|417 comments
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    by rpeden 9y ago

    If what I've read is accurate, the various departments were already served by smaller systems that fit their specific needs. The intention with Phoenix was to save money by consolidating them all into one. Oops. At least part of the pr
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    by rpeden 9y ago

    I think most here have already seen it, but I find that Bret Victor's Inventing on Principle talk[1] is one of the best I've seen. I re-watch it every so often to help prevent my thinking from falling into a rut. When developing s
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    by rpeden 9y ago

    Hey, thanks for sharing! I see that this runs on Bubble. What do you think of Bubble? Although I write code for a living, I'm very interested in alternative approaches to software development. In many ways, I feel like modern developme
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    Announcing Dart 2: Optimized for Client-Side Development(medium.com)

    2 points by rpeden 9y ago|0 comments
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    by rpeden 9y ago

    To be fair, though, making evasive maneuvers to avoid a drone isn't irrational. If the drone hit the tail rotor, it could have caused the pilot to lost control. Not long ago, a Hydro One helicopter crashed and killed four people after
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    by rpeden 9y ago

    They approached it with more caution than many people did. But they're almost 40. They aren't so young that losing their life savings will have no impact. I don't write any of this to criticize them. And I realize they could
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    by rpeden 9y ago

    Thanks! I added it, but I wouldn't have realized it was missing if you hadn't posted this.
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    by rpeden 9y ago

    Ouch. This wasn't unexpected, but as much as I'd like to revel in schadenfreude here, I can't do it in good conscience because this is going to hurt a lot of good people who were naive and got caught up in the hype. I remembe
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    by rpeden 9y ago

    Oh wow - this is actually a really big and important question. The things you've listed sort of split into two separate categories: Paradigms/Architectures, and specific tools. I'd focus on the Paradigms and Architectures fir
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    by rpeden 9y ago

    Think of them as FaaS - filtering as a service. If you post an ad for a software dev position, you're going to get dozens to thousands of applications, and most of them won't even be close to what you're looking for. Recruite
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    by rpeden 9y ago

    I enjoy Bisqwit: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKTehwyGCKF-b2wo0RKwrcg He often focuses on some pretty esoteric topics. In one video, he prototyped a simple 3d rendered in QBasic. I'm not sure if you pick up be
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    by rpeden 9y ago

    This brings back some nice memories. I was into the Toronto BBS scene pretty heavily back before public internet access became affordable and readily available. As much as I love modern games, I have to admit I sort of miss some of the clas
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    Running BBS Door Games on Windows 10 with GameSrv and DOSBox(hanselman.com)

    106 points by rpeden 9y ago|23 comments