ZenSwordArts

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by ZenSwordArts 10y ago
There are so many stories to tell about the FIDE and corruption. If you are interested google for Kirsan Ilyumzhinov.. the president of the FIDE. He does not need to hide behind Blatter.. It's just soccer is covered by television and c
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by ZenSwordArts 10y ago
The article says his password was 30 characters long. But maybe it still wasn't a strong password. Weak ones can be brute-forced pretty easily.
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by ZenSwordArts 10y ago
Perfect questions.. and also Europe consists of many countries.. Are the immigrants evenly distributed between them? I doubt it.
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by ZenSwordArts 10y ago
Although calling 1.e4 aggressive is kind of inaccurate there is some truth behind it. You could at least consider it to be active or ambitious :) 1.e4 introduces a quick development of the white kingside and also the center usually is opene
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by ZenSwordArts 10y ago
Thanks! I considered accounts in the beginning but didn't go through with it because most users don't want to create yet another account. Also the favorites should persist via cookies at least for some time.
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by ZenSwordArts 10y ago
About 9 months ago i created https://namesmith.io , a business and domain name generator. I practically did nothing to boost the search engine ranking but the volume of visitors is growing (very slowly). So far the site can bare
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by ZenSwordArts 11y ago
Every change that stops people from reading this awful newspaper should be welcomed.. though I somehow have the feeling that few of the people using AdBlock actually read Bild..
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Reddit has no idea how their front page works(technotes.iangreenleaf.com)
1 points by ZenSwordArts 11y ago|1 comments
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by ZenSwordArts 11y ago
Yea it can spit out hilarious stuff.. Just to update you. Some affiliate links (e.g. namecheap) now redirect directly to the corresponding domain. I've also changed the domain availability check from the api I used before to a homegrow
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by ZenSwordArts 11y ago
Hehe thanks! Glad you like it. It's really really good to hear positive feedback after all that time tinkering with it :)
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by ZenSwordArts 11y ago
Thanks for your feedback. I'm not sure yet what is causing the problem. It could be that someone just registered the domain because i cache the results for a few minutes.. or the api I use produces too many bad results.. I will hopeful
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by ZenSwordArts 11y ago
Thanks! I used UIkit ( http://getuikit.com/ ) as frontend framework. After having used boostrap and others, I really like it most. Other than that I did everything myself.. layout, colors etc. with one exception: I didn'
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by ZenSwordArts 11y ago
Hey thanks! It's nice to get some positive feedback on a project :) I use an api from a domain registrar to check domain availability at the moment. I will investigate this.. should not be happening. The automatic checking is a bit of
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by ZenSwordArts 11y ago
Author here. I worked on that project part time for the last months. The backend is completely written in Go (Revel framework). There are a lot of features on my todo list but I thought it would be a good time for release. If you have any i
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Show HN: Namesmith.io – Business Name Generator(namesmith.io)
20 points by ZenSwordArts 11y ago|11 comments
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by ZenSwordArts 11y ago
Out of curiosity I have to ask another question.. When you started the project did you consider using libtcod ( https://bitbucket.org/libtcod/libtcod , http://roguecentral.org/doryen/libtcod/
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by ZenSwordArts 11y ago
That game looks really great. I've played so many roguelikes and was instantly interested. Reading a good post mortem was another plus to check it out. Then I remembered the general problem with commercial games.. went straight to the
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by ZenSwordArts 11y ago
Wow thanks for sharing.. this is really is beautiful!
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Show HN: Mosaic Mage – Create unique mosaics from your favorite photos(mosaicmage.com)
2 points by ZenSwordArts 11y ago|0 comments
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by ZenSwordArts 11y ago
While it is true that Morphy's games were beautiful, one should note that his opponents usually were significantly weaker players than him. You could also read this as: Morphy was levels ahead of the other players at the time. He coul