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You already knew лудис from люде :)

Yeah that one caught me off guard too. Any idea why? The only reason I can think of is that it's very easy to confuse with `substring`.

I've used it for a personal project blog and I'm really happy with it. I wouldn't call myself a heavy user though.

The underlying engine just got open sourced: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18432327

Awesome, that's really good to hear! Happy user here - I was recently on the lookout for a simple hosted blogging platform for a personal project, and write.as fit the bill perfectly.

Will PRs for WriteFreely generally make it into Write.as?

Is that after they left beta? I noticed quite a few outages, but that was while they still had the big beta disclaimer on things. I've not had any trouble since.

I once played a Mulatu Astatke album on a friend's Spotify account during a social gathering at his house, and he complained his discover weekly playlist was mostly African music for the next couple of months.

The discover weekly algorithm seems to latch on to outliers, I guess.

I have to agree. This sort of hatred kind of made sense 150 years ago when it was part of a liberation struggle, but it's just plain racism at the moment. People should be better than this.

(Disclaimer: I'm a Bulgarian who's lived in the UK for the past decade. Most Bulgarians who have lived in Bulgaria their whole lives would probably disagree with me.)

That's a leftover thing back from Ottoman Empire times. There is not a lot of love for Turkish people in Bulgaria.

So the situation isn't great but it's been not great for a long time.

It feels weird to say there's no conflict in Eurogames.

Power Grid is pretty relentless and brutal - there's no violent aspect to it, but you can mess your opponents pretty badly, and it still hurts.

The only time I've managed to get my girlfriend to swear at me was when I stole the line she was clearly trying to build in Ticket to Ride.

Small World kind of sort of does that.

The game simulates the rise and fall of civilisations, and a key part of the game is knowing when to call it quits with your current civilization and start playing with a new one. You skip a turn whenever you do that, so you can easily shoot yourself in the foot if your timing is off.

I'm working for a small (<50 employees) company, and I'm pretty lucky to have a management that cares about this.

Stuff we've got:

- weekly all hands meetings where people talk about what makes them excited - lots of non-work-related chat rooms - 2-3 meetup opportunities per year - culture of quick ad-hoc synchronous meetings

We also had a board game night via Tabletop Simulator (http://berserk-games.com/tabletop-simulator/)

It also helps massively if the company is remote-first. We've got a central office where several employees are based but you never feel like you're missing out if you're based elsewhere.

I recently stumbled upon a webcomic called Drugs and Wires. It may have more comedy than you'd expect from the subject matter, but it builds an excellent dystopian world.

I've read various William Gibson books and generally enjoyed them, but I find his dense writing style exhausting sometimes. I think a comic written by him could work pretty well.

It's one of my favourite horror novels. It's really good fun if you're into that kind of thing.

I read an article form of Kurt Vonnegut's original talk. My favourite part was the happiness/misery graph of The Metamorphosis: http://austinkleon.com/wp-content/uploads/2005/vonnegut6.gif

(Found here: http://austinkleon.com/2005/12/17/graph-a-story-with-mr-vonn...)

When I was a kid in Bulgaria (and probably now) you could go to one of those small streetside shops in the winter. Along with cheap tea or coffee, you'd be able to get a cupful of beef or chicken stock to warm you up.

I still have a cup of stock every now and then - half a cube per mug, with a splash of lemon juice, salt and pepper to taste. Wakes and warms you up like anything.

I save them in `/tmp` and I don't need to worry about them ever again.

A friend of mine set up IFTTT so his phone would play a "ka-tching" sound every time someone paid for a premium account for his startup. The novelty never seemed to wear off.

Not if you try something like PlayOnLinux. I've managed to run quite a few golden oldies that way.

I thought it was going to be about not ignoring messages about Wikipedia's funding drives.

But if you're plugging in input like that, couldn't the malicious user just pass in something like

    && sudo rm -rf /

anyway? Which would render the whole point of the article moot.

Relevant thing that was posted on HN last year: http://www.vassalengine.org/

I haven't had a chance to try it out but it looks great. Apparently it allows you to build board game mockups, and then play them locally or online. Useful for prototyping gameplay without having to print stuff, or alternatively you can also try games out before buying them.

That, or math rock song titles.

I live in the UK, and whenever I travel back to Bulgaria, I get told off for saying "sorry" and "thank you" all the time.

In Bulgarian, the word for "thank you" is "благодаря" ("blagodarya") but people often fall back to a simple "мерси" ("merci" - the French word, yes) for transactional thank-yous.

I'm not really sure whether that's because "благодаря" is reserved for sincere, heartfelt thanksgiving or because the word is just too long to say very often.

I... thought you were joking before I watched the film.

At first it didn't seem all that bizarre but a few minutes in you start noticing some interesting things. For instance, the utter lack of traffic lights.

Then there's the bit at about 5:14 where two buses have just gone past a bus stop, but there's still at least a good 50 or so people just waiting there, queuing.

Plus, it gives you something to do while you wait. More socially acceptable than picking your nose if anything.

And then somebody else calls their beer BIER and copyright lawsuits ensue.

Besides unit testing, with regexes I always put a quick comment like "matches foo but not bar or baz" which might not be comprehensive but allows the next person to get a quick understanding of what the code does at a glance.