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cmaggard··on Dice baseball: a tabletop tradition
Echoing this, it's a fantastic game for what it is. The author also just finished funding a Kickstarter for a "Junior" version of the game as well.
cmaggard··on 16-inch MacBook Pro
Why not both? My QMK mechanical keyboards (and, I just noticed, Karabiner Elements) can support turning Caps Lock into Ctrl+KEY if pressed with something else, and ESC if pressed by itself. Best of all possible worlds.
cmaggard··on My Kid Lost a Game of 'Magic' to Its Creator But Scored a Piece of Its Art
MTG Arena, their latest online effort, also has a "learn to play" mechanism built in.
cmaggard··on Zachtronics: Ten Years of Terrible Games (2017) [video]
It's also available in ZACH-LIKE [0], a free compilation of a bunch of his earlier flash games. Windows-only, however.

[0] https://store.steampowered.com/app/1098840/ZACHLIKE/

cmaggard··on United States v. Microsoft Corp. Dismissed [pdf]
Providing a link for this because it was something I was interested in doing: https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_audio/2...
cmaggard··on Solving Minesweeper and making it better (2015)
There's an iOS version as well for those of us on the other side of the smartphone aisle, which is similarly free and ad-free: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/simon-tathams-portable-puzzl...
cmaggard··on H3: A Hexagonal Hierarchical Geospatial Indexing System
So MGRS[0] with hexagons? Pretty interesting.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Grid_Reference_System

cmaggard··on Working with time in Postgres
Remove the comma before the SELECT?
cmaggard··on Where the hell are the new MacBooks?
They'll hold off on hardware announcements until they can ship them with macOS 12 already on them. Why would they announce new hardware that you'd have to do a full OS upgrade on in a few months?
cmaggard··on ‘Worms’ or bust: Britain’s most tenacious indie games company
A sequel implies some sort of continued story or major overhaul, not what would be 1.99 DLC in this day and age.
cmaggard··on ‘Worms’ or bust: Britain’s most tenacious indie games company
Not sure about the team bits, but Worms in the 2000s was basically ultra-DLC before DLC even existed. Every 'new' game for a long time kept the vast majority of the old bits from the previous games, added a few new items, and charged full retail for the privilege.
cmaggard··on E-Cigarettes, as Used, Aren’t Helping Smokers Quit, Study Shows
If you feel like you can't make the jump straight to 0 yet, some places make 1.5mg liquid.
cmaggard··on Dozens of oil tankers cluster off the coast of Texas due to oil price fall
It's amazing, but at the same time it's OOP with a reprint anytime soon being unlikely. It would probably be very easy to rig up a print-and-play copy however.
cmaggard··on EFF asks appeals court to “shut down the Eastern District of Texas”
Couldn't you simply stipulate in your ToS that if you reside in that area that you are not allowed to use said service?
cmaggard··on The Little Printf
Some of these characters are hitting a little too close to home.

What a great read.

cmaggard··on 100M games played
Take the existing list and add a sixteen-character word to it.
cmaggard··on Netflix – Chasing 60fps [video]
Not to mention the nightmare that accessibility would be if you were just rendering polygons on a canvas.
cmaggard··on Agar.io Clone DMCA
Probably an honest mistake considering it's GitHub's 'dmca' repo.
cmaggard··on 1/999999999999999999999998999999999999999999999999
I've seen it both ways- "Divide four by two" is equivalent to "Divide two into four" in my experience.
cmaggard··on MonolithFirst
We experienced similar to this at our company. When my coworker and I first arrived, the prior engineers had built the system as a set of microservices but it was completely overarchitected. Our first act was to pull all the parts together into one application.

Now that it's grown, we're starting to look at the microservice approach again, but it's been almost four years since we pulled everything together so it makes much more sense given the load/functionality we have now relative to then.

cmaggard··on Assignment: Creating a D&D Character
Providing a scanned copy of the most recent Player's Handbook probably isn't the best idea for something like this. Any of the System Reference Documents from the 3rd Edition era could stand in its place without many material changes.
cmaggard··on With 'The Machine,' HP May Have Invented a New Kind of Computer
It will take 1e4 times as long to completely fill that device proportionally to an older one, yes, but that's still two orders of magnitude faster than it would be to fill that equivalent amount of space with the older write speed.
cmaggard··on South Korea bans unremovable mobile bloatware
Are you implying that parent should be charging his or her parents for the work, or that he or she should cover the difference out of pocket?
cmaggard··on Show HN: Ridiculously cheap bulk geocoding
The part I was unclear about, actually, is whether or not one is charged for the first 2500 if one were to hit that threshold.
cmaggard··on Notch Playing Ludum Dare [video]
This new title is absolutely ridiculous.
cmaggard··on SteamOS: It's here
I've had this happen with me- I preordered Leviathan: Warships, and upon launch was completely unable to access multiplayer through their buggy account system. The publisher acknowledged my issue but declined to answer further support requests. Valve issued credit to my account in exchange for removing my game from the library within hours of asking for it.
cmaggard··on Go Advent Day 2: Performance Improvements in Go 1.2
Fairly solid gains for the most part, although the regex performance regressions are curious.
cmaggard··on Go 1.2 is released
And merged.
cmaggard··on What's New in Ruby 2.1 [pdf]
Ah, well that's something then. Thanks for the clarification.
cmaggard··on What's New in Ruby 2.1 [pdf]
It's unclear from the intro summary, but I'm assuming from the lack of further explanation that refinements are just GONE, and not just "no longer experimental"?
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