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ConnorG··on Dwarf Fortress is coming to Steam with graphics
My first somewhat successful ONI run resulted in me over producing oxygen. Cut to the mid game and now all the tunnels are packed full of bacteria laced oxygen that I can barely keep up scrubbing. All the while my dudes' ears are constantly popping due to the high amount of pressure from the sheer amount of oxygen being pumped into the base.
ConnorG··on Man dies on Mount Everest during cryptocurrency promotional stunt
Saving this for later
ConnorG··on U.S. To Forgive at Least $108B in Student Debt in Coming Years
I too live in Michigan. Dantonio's salary is ridiculous.
ConnorG··on Wall Street's Frantic Push to Hire Coders
You are very correct in the worker bee interpretation of JPM's culture.
ConnorG··on Logo Pizza: Hot and ready logos for sale
The sheriff looks too much like the logo for Natty Bo beer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Bohemian

ConnorG··on Lessons from Doom (2010)
Watching it now. Thanks for the link. I love a good tech analysis
ConnorG··on Lessons from Doom (2010)
I've actually been playing on Xbone lately.
ConnorG··on Lessons from Doom (2010)
Another thing is how pretty the game is. It's hard to get that out of a video, but when you're actually playing the game you realize just how beautiful it is. Part of the reason is they use a lot of colors. It's not just another dark color palette shooter.

Plus the frame rate is amazing.

ConnorG··on Happy 20th Birthday, Quake
Was really expecting a longer post. Still pretty interesting though.

PS Really happy Romero set his URL like that.

ConnorG··on Housing in the Bay Area
Switch is putting a large portion of its company into Grand Rapids in the near future. So we may be seeing more tech coming in.
ConnorG··on Housing in the Bay Area
L3 by chance?
ConnorG··on Bootcamps vs. College
//I work with Splunk currently and have been interested in looking at the capabilities of the ELK stack. have any recommended places to start?
ConnorG··on PyNES: Write NES Games in Python
The name of that emulator coinciding with the word testicle was on purpose right?

I'm just glad I wasn't the only one who thought this back then.

ConnorG··on AirConsole – Your browser is the game console, your smartphone is the gamepad
The Jackbox Party Pack on Xbone uses the same concept. It works well since all of the games are trivia/word games so latency doesn't affect gameplay much.
ConnorG··on How “oldschool” graphics worked [video]
This is so fascinating. Thank you for this knowledge bomb.

Any chance you are aware of any other hacks from old school video games?

ConnorG··on Healthstone Monitoring System
Thought this was Hearthstone related and I got really excited for a moment there.
ConnorG··on Vienna's Recipe for Living Well
Reminds me of the story of the Italian village Roseto Valfortore from Malcom Gladwell's book The Outliers
ConnorG··on Dirty Coding Tricks
Always is a great read. Can't help myself into rereading these stories every time I see this post.
ConnorG··on Classic NES Series Anti-Emulation Measures
Do you happen to know anywhere to read further on the topic of programming tricks used in GBA (or any platform) games?

I always find these things really interesting.

ConnorG··on Coffee naps are better than coffee or naps alone
I was an avid napper back at college and thoroughly employed the coffee nap technique. Now I'm in the workforce, but my body is still yearning for naps at work. I find myself drifting off here and there, but never fully commit.

I'm afraid to take a full nap at work due to how it may look. Do you find yourself being judged for taking naps at work?

ConnorG··on The slow server flow chart
Great post. As someone working in APM right now this is a fantastic way to explain to people how to understand web server metrics.