steamboiler

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by steamboiler 5y ago
I had a lot of fun playing John Tiller's Campaign Series by myself and with my buddies. We'd play the turn based, company/battalion level tactical game on a single computer using its unique single-machine play feature. I can
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by steamboiler 5y ago
Tangential, but here goes. I enjoy miniature wargaming. Sid Meier's 'Gettysburg' is one of my all-time favourite computer wargames. Thanks for creating it!
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by steamboiler 6y ago
Nice find. Thanks.
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by steamboiler 6y ago
Bookmarked, thank you.
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by steamboiler 6y ago
> Failure post mortems, Things which explain a startups decisions step by step +1. I'd also add retrospectives/analysis of successful products to this list. Needn't necessarily be software even.
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Ask HN: Which product/design blogs do you follow?
62 points by steamboiler 6y ago|11 comments
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by steamboiler 6y ago
Typing messages is considered a PhD (?) level problem. Could you talk more about how you went about solving it? Thanks!
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by steamboiler 6y ago
Thanks for commenting. Do you have any code somewhere that demonstrates type-safe messages?
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Making Money [with JOOQ] When All the Industry Wants Is Free Beer(business.jooq.org)
2 points by steamboiler 8y ago|0 comments
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DoD could take a page from SpaceX on software development(spacenews.com)
1 points by steamboiler 8y ago|0 comments
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by steamboiler 12y ago
> The infrastructure for background checks and criminal records in India is more or less nonexistent, so I doubt that Lyft would've been able to catch this driver before he committed a crime any more than Uber would've been abl
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by steamboiler 12y ago
A language spec is roughly analogous to the definitions of scientific units of measurement[1]. They among other things, allow us to verify something independently of a specific kind of measuring device. [1] http://physics.nist.go
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GAO denies Blue Origin's protest regarding LC 39A [lease by SpaceX](gao.gov)
1 points by steamboiler 13y ago|0 comments
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by steamboiler 13y ago
Don't forget the robotic mules. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BigDog
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SpaceX wants more Software Engineers but can't convince many to move to LA(youtube.com)
5 points by steamboiler 13y ago|0 comments
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Anger explodes at Yahoo Mail redesign disaster: Key functions removed or broken(zdnet.com)
9 points by steamboiler 13y ago|4 comments
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by steamboiler 13y ago
FWIW Twitter and Coursera make heavy use of Scala (Twitter also uses Clojure, if you consider Storm etc.)
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by steamboiler 13y ago
I'll probably get down voted for this but I'll say it nonetheless. Roger Ebert and now Margaret Thatcher. I respect them both but IMHO HN is hardly the place to mourn them. Just my 2c. (FWIW I can't flag this article; I would have if I coul
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by steamboiler 14y ago
The Washington Post article[1] on the launch comments on the the apparent cultural differences between NASA and SpaceX: Many of the SpaceX controllers wore untucked T-shirts and jeans or even shorts, a stark contrast to NASA’s old suit-and
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by steamboiler 14y ago
Nice description. I'd suggest explaining how decorators that accept arguments (i.e. @memcached('some-arg')) work lest it befuddle some beginner. It is not straightforward (the first argument of a decorator is the function being decorated).
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by steamboiler 15y ago
I've found that pairing with interviewees on real(ish) problems usually helps to detect useful traits (I am not advocating pair-programing here FYI; rather working with them in front of a machine during the interview). Your mileage may vary
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by steamboiler 15y ago
On a lighter note, this is what Dilbert/Dogbert have to say on new "green" breakthroughs. http://dilbert.com/fast/2011-03-29/
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by steamboiler 16y ago
My "problems" look minuscule in comparison. I am inspired to look past them and try harder. Thanks for sharing.
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by steamboiler 16y ago
by Apple to create a viscous circle where developers bind themselves to iPhone I think you mean a vicious cycle. Or a virtuous one depending on how you perceive Apple.
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Why the "private" keyword is the modern day "goto"(davidarno.org)
19 points by steamboiler 16y ago|23 comments
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by steamboiler 16y ago
Interestingly the top rated answer was given by the gentleman who got turned down by Google http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1520323
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by steamboiler 16y ago
it is /fast, whatever that means AFAIK /fast is an URL to read just the comics "fast" without spending bandwidth loading all the additional information presented in the landing page of the website.
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Dilbert on 'FU Money'(dilbert.com)
131 points by steamboiler 16y ago|27 comments
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by steamboiler 16y ago
But most of their recent projects seem like they're trying to innovate and the coming out thoroughly mediocre, which isn't really a good combination. Innovation and milking monopolies generally require different skills and attitudes. MS h
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by steamboiler 16y ago
I think that once the Django team announces their intention to port most of the auxiliary applications will take notice and follow suit. I base this on how the (better) auxiliaries have been pretty good at keeping in sync with Django's rele

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