meshko

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by meshko 4mo ago
fixed, i think.
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by meshko 4mo ago
part of the 2001 charm?
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by meshko 4mo ago
yeah this is what happens when you let LLM design the UI. The whole flow needs to be updated.
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by meshko 4mo ago
WebSockets.
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by meshko 4mo ago
yup, this is the original website. The domain kept auto-renewing I guess :)
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by meshko 4mo ago
yeah, that's the original. It is better than this remake but no multiplayer.
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by meshko 4mo ago
you probably got damage. If stuck like this, go to menu and select "mass kill"
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by meshko 4mo ago
yup, it was a java applet. Stopped working when Java in the browser died.
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Scorched Earth 2000 – Web(scorch2000.com)
384 points by meshko 4mo ago|147 comments
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by meshko 4mo ago
for the 25th anniversary (approximately) I vibecoded what i wanted to do for years -- port of the original remake (yes) to JavaScript. Alive again.
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by meshko 2y ago
I so hate it when people fill these postmortems with marketing speak. Don't they know it is counterproductive?
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by meshko 7y ago
to be fair, they needed to scale to roughly a thousand concurrent users (where concurrent is used very loosely here). so I wouldn't say that scaleability was really a requirement. 1000 users is nothing.
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by meshko 7y ago
You think I was rude asking you about your experience. Now think how rude this unsubstantiated allegation of obvious simplicity of the code in question is to the person who wrote it -- with the weight of hundreds of lost lives on their sho
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by meshko 7y ago
"The technical implementation can be roughly inferred by any programmer", "such a foreseeable failure state"... how many years of experience do you have?
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by meshko 7y ago
All the talk about how crappy Boeing engineering here was is bullshit and speculation and I am surprised PG participates in it. What we can discuss objectively here is incident response in which Boeing allowed the situation to continue aft
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by meshko 8y ago
how about they just use ML for once and detect the typist and mute her automatically?
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by meshko 8y ago
Meh, it is not as hard as it seems. Just get yourself 2 kids in quick succession. Adding second one will be both easier than getting first and it will highlight how silly it was to feel that it is difficult when it was just one. Also the
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by meshko 8y ago
Dude I lost 10 pounds and keeping that is constant work. You go!
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by meshko 8y ago
I agree. I know some doctors and while they do tell stories about the patients (obviously completely anonymously) and sometimes have a laugh about them, you can always feel certain base level of respect, love and care, not unlike someone t
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BAE fires a guy on his first day after learning his wife is terminally ill(bostonglobe.com)
9 points by meshko 10y ago|1 comments
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by meshko 10y ago
I wonder if it would be possible to design a system which would power down some of the memory when not plugged to a power source. I do all my dev on an MBP and would be more or less fine if the memory-intensive things were only available w
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by meshko 10y ago
Oh man, I don't care (as much) about typewriters but yeah, what a happy story. It's like visiting a town for a day and learning by accident that the band you've loved for years but never seen live is playing there this very
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by meshko 10y ago
I've interviewed probably dozens of people who couldn't code, but never worked with one. I've had plenty of bad coworkers, but all of them could write code to a degree where they would pass basic coding interview. I assume
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by meshko 10y ago
wait, but what is it that you do? If you are getting hired to write code, you should be ok demonstrating that you can code in the interview. If you are interviewing for an architect position, or a manager, I guess. Whether a not coding a
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by meshko 10y ago
Thanks, nice job. I must say I am more saddened by the way Google chose to word it than by the fact that they are killing it.
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by meshko 10y ago
I am a bit paranoid about disclosing details, but basically our SAML IDP was down, so the sales person couldn't log in at all. I was messing with the demo server to convince myself that it is 100% IDPs fault and we can't do anyth
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by meshko 10y ago
So if you encrypt your data with both only people who have access to backdoors from both sides will be able to decrypt it!
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by meshko 10y ago
Yup. We have officially ran out of words.
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by meshko 10y ago
Well, the parts that relied out outside services hooked up via SSO were not demoed, but majority of it worked fine because demo server was misconfigured to not actually rely on the external services. It is pretty funny.
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by meshko 10y ago
Very funny guys, can you stop now? We have a demo in 4 minutes.

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