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by scrame 6y ago
Wow. I had no idea ScummVM supported so many platforms. I thought it was just for old-school LucasArts games. Seeing "Eye of the Beholder -- Sega CD version" made me blink a couple times and says "huh, cool." out loud.
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by scrame 6y ago
Cory Doctorow has been irrelevant for 15 years. There is a good case to be made for people not reading any more, and a concern of amazon owning the listening time of people like they own the delivery and server space, but a marketing gimmic
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by scrame 7y ago
Huh. Pretty cool. I can't set a filename on firefox, but I like that the style is bigger than the actual markup.
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by scrame 7y ago
Hurd is just a couple months away.
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by scrame 7y ago
I bought a Google branded LG phone about 8 years ago. It was complete garbage and they EOL'd it after 6 months and never delivered anything that they promised. I've never given google hardware a second look after that. Ah, here&#x
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by scrame 7y ago
I generally like rachels posts, but I don't know what the hell she's talking about here.
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by scrame 7y ago
> easy as BASIC, powerful like C and versatile like Python. lol, heard that before. > Over $1,000 worth of high-quality gaming assets According to who? So, is this a gamemaker being released on switch? I don't get it. You're
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by scrame 7y ago
Stack Overflow did a competent job at a community Q&A site, and marketed it well. I think the downside of it was that it was developed in the age of 'gamification', so it has a ton of badges and incentives for participating, b
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by scrame 7y ago
The 'dump response headers only' section made me chuckle. I thought I had been doing things the hard way instinctively, but nope. It's a good old 'curl -D - -o /dev/null http://example.com' Tho
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by scrame 8y ago
This guy is so into himself, the first thing he does is ask for pull-requests to fix his typos because he can't be bothered to proofread.
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by scrame 8y ago
irony.
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by scrame 8y ago
"1200-bit modem". Good job, geek.com, I'm sure the rest of your breathless reporting is just as accurate.
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by scrame 8y ago
I tried my rather large work website and it was unable to fetch it after a couple tries. Also this is the same company that brought us AMP and didn't use closing tags on their landing page to "save bandwidth", and tried to pu
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by scrame 8y ago
There was a good practical ruby example for auto-vivification of hashes using the applicative ycombinator many years back, but I'm having trouble finding it.
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by scrame 8y ago
I saw it once described as "the perfect split of politics and patriotism". People can love the queen and hate the PM.
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by scrame 8y ago
> if your webserver has server side includes (SSI) are you trolling? shtml setups were nothing but security nightmares on top of bad ideas 20 years ago.
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by scrame 8y ago
There was another site that hosted 80+ versions that I scraped a long time ago and made this: http://tao.scrame.com It shows a random passage from a random translation, with an attribution link to the long dead parent site. I sh
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by scrame 9y ago
Naw, I left about 10 years ago and out was still there, and still had co-workers at a different job asking me about it a couple years later, because they got bit by it. The justification I heard was that someone would have a personal and bu
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by scrame 9y ago
I found it to be somewhat basic. The primary language is Java so a lot of the techniques are rooted in the kind of "move the dirt around" refactoring that you get with that language, and indeed covers what became the "refacto
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by scrame 9y ago
Well, that's upsetting.
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by scrame 9y ago
because tech billionaires don't give a shit if poor people die or go bankrupt from medical bills. They've likely never even had to think about it.
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by scrame 9y ago
"When the plan is foggy, that’s the moment to communicate as broadly as possible." Here's a good rule of thumb: Ask them to explain what has to be done, and then count the number of times they say "it should be pretty st
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by scrame 9y ago
What do you think "stickiness" or "user engagement" are measuring. Same metrics that ran Farmville, and the same metrics putting lootboxes in games now.
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by scrame 9y ago
Yep. We've had packages go missing, and I've seen amazon packages just left on the sidewalk in the SF Mission. Granted there were problems before, but their own delivery service is not great.
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by scrame 9y ago
Not just stranger things, but Adventure Zome, The Gamers/Journeyquest, Harmonquest, Nerd Dice there's a lot of D&D in the Zeitgeist. And its just the best known path in. Someone mentioned Java, but maybe PHP is a better exampl
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by scrame 9y ago
In addition to what others mentioned, they were heavily promoting the bizspark program, which was free licenses for the MS stack for the first two years or something. They heavily promoted it in interviews and their other marketing channel
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by scrame 9y ago
Absolutely. I've gotten in a few threads of apple fans insisting that $10-30 for a game is ridiculous because they once played angry birds for over an hour. Mobile games are almost always terrible just for three simple fact that touch
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by scrame 9y ago
Makes me wonder how much cross-pollination there is between HN and MeFi.
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by scrame 9y ago
Yep. In O-chem lab many years ago one of the first things we did was "alkaloid extraction", where we pulled caffeine from tea bags, which was a yellow, clumpy powder, which we then washed out the impurities and it was a clean whit
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by scrame 9y ago
I agree, but my older brother figured it out. It was confusing because most games were single screen with obvious objectives. ET had a larger map with randomized items. You had to collect various objects to get home and bring them back to a

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