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by simple1 5y ago
This is great! I was recently thinking of creating something like this for my own personal use to follow a bunch of YouTube channels. Would you consider making visited links a different color? That would vastly improve the experience for me
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by simple1 7y ago
Thanks for the feedback! I just put in an update that makes it much easier to capture the crystals and ore.
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Show HN: Asteroid Anarchy – Multiplayer Asteroids(asteroidanarchy.com)
3 points by simple1 7y ago|2 comments
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by simple1 9y ago
You might be interested in a site I created, Day Old Hacker News ( http://dayoldhackernews.com ). This shows Hacker News as it was exactly one day ago, so the comments are always full.
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Show HN: Day Old Hacker News
3 points by simple1 9y ago|0 comments
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by simple1 10y ago
I wrote an online multiplayer game called Aberoth: http://aberoth.com . I released the first version to the world in January 2010, but the game did not have many features initially, and there was no way to buy anything. Toward th
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by simple1 11y ago
You can also read the most popular AMAs at http://amatranscripts.com/
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by simple1 12y ago
One way to intuitively believe the answer is to imagine there were 100 doors, you picked one, then the host opened up 98 of the other doors, revealing goats. Switching would be the obvious answer in that case.
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by simple1 12y ago
The problem was not with the killing itself, but that it was instant death with virtually no way to escape and no warning.
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by simple1 12y ago
The problem with emergence in MMOs is that once an emergent trick is found, it becomes an exploit, and then the emergent behavior has to be eliminated somehow, for the good of the game. For example, in the MMO I am creating, you can catch b
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by simple1 12y ago
The questions and answers are presented in the order that they were answered, which I believe gives the best flow to the "interview".
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by simple1 12y ago
I also made a site ( http://www.amatranscripts.com ) that transcribes popular AMAs. Elon Musk's is here: http://amatranscripts.com/ama/elon_musk_2015-01-05.html
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by simple1 12y ago
OVH prices are so amazing, I wonder if they must be running at a loss. I use them to run Aberoth ( http://www.aberoth.com ), and I always keep my eye out for a better deal, but nothing comes close for high RAM servers. They also s
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by simple1 13y ago
Having all players move on when there is a tie has always baffled me. If any three contestants ever agreed to always lose down to the lowest score in final Jeopardy, they could all win forever until the rules changed.
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by simple1 13y ago
Thanks for pointing this out! I went ahead and registered and disputed the 'threat', so hopefully this warning will go away once they have manually reviewed the site.
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by simple1 13y ago
Basically, the only thing sent to the server are mouse clicks and keystrokes, which should make cheating difficult. In the past, people have used macros or programming to flood the server with mouse / key input, which caused performanc
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by simple1 13y ago
I'm not sure what the causes this. I always get this error when trying to run Aberoth from Apple stores (and I have tried 3 different stores). I can't debug or fix the problem because I have not seen it anywhere else. The Java ver
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by simple1 13y ago
Wow, thanks for the encouragement! I am indeed making a business out of this, and so far I sell memberships, character customizations, vault upgrades, and name changes. The income has not reached "quit my day job" yet, but I am st
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by simple1 13y ago
I've considered a Kickstarter, but I'm not sure exactly what I would use the money for. Perhaps some professional artwork or music. I am trying to get Aberoth Greenlit on Steam, however. You can see it at: http://steamc
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by simple1 13y ago
I first released the game in 2010. There was originally only one small area to run around in, and it was running off my DSL line, so it could only support 5-10 players. Also, the client was only available as a Java applet. Websockets made i
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Show HN: MMORPG in 55KB of Javascript(aberoth.com)
178 points by simple1 13y ago|51 comments
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by simple1 14y ago
According to a tower clock I found, this picture was taken at 1:40. Edit: In the "low resolution" image, the clock reads 1:38. In the second level of zoom, the clock reads closer to 1:41.
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Show HN: I built a MMORPG in my spare time.(aberoth.com)
1 points by simple1 14y ago|0 comments