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edgarvm··on Prince of Persia in JavaScript
there is a bug in level 1, I lifted the sword but it still appeared on the ground.
edgarvm··on Ask HN: Films that made you see the world differently?
For me 500 days of summer is a documentary movie, it helped me to deal with many stupid ideas I had about relationships.
edgarvm··on Audacious 4.0 released, switches from GTK to Qt 5
Qt's license and cost is another valid reason to continue developing on GTK
edgarvm··on Delphi's 25th Birthday
Borland made a lot of mistakes with Delphi, but the best part of delphi was VCL was shipped with the source, it was a great introduction for the Win32 API world.
edgarvm··on A small DIY air purifier
Has you tested it effectively can absorbe particles? It's a good project but seems more like a nice form to waste energy
edgarvm··on The Value in Go’s Simplicity
Go is not a simple language, it lacks of features.
edgarvm··on BootOS: Monolithic operating system in 512 bytes of x86 machine code
Not sure if I'm not catching the joke or everybody here got naive.
edgarvm··on BootOS: Monolithic operating system in 512 bytes of x86 machine code
>Computers aren't necessarily gigantic corporate undertakings.

I'm not saying it's not possible, there are much stories in HN about guys creating VGA cards or self-made computers, I'm asking for evidence.

edgarvm··on BootOS: Monolithic operating system in 512 bytes of x86 machine code
Oscar Toledo is very talented to write minimal code, but it does mean either his entire family is a society of wizards or they can build a computer or develop browsers, these "achievements" are urban legends without any proof.

> Unfortunately, they live on the outskirts of Mexico City, not Sunnyvale or Boston, so the public accounts of their achievements have been mostly written by vulgar journalists without even rudimentary knowledge of programming or electronics. It would be a valid reason in '80s

edgarvm··on Ask HN: Is “new” Reddit completely unusable for anyone else?
I use i.reddit.com it's faster and usable
edgarvm··on How to use array reduce for more than just numbers
You don't need a function, this is my little trick to convert an array to object

peopleObj = peopleArr.reduce( (a,x) => (a[x.username]=x, a), {} );

edgarvm··on After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed
Maybe we should say torrent can't be killed, sadly there is not a good replacement for it until now
edgarvm··on Ask HN: Best alternative to Gmail?
What about protonmail?
edgarvm··on SETI spots dozens of new mysterious signals emanating from distant galaxy
Seeking for alien messages sent to nobody is silly, we have more chances to find extraterrestrial civilizations if we look for two points that seem talking to each other, I know, easier said than done.
edgarvm··on The Bielefeld Conspiracy
If you' re tired of it, does that mean that you receive a lot of tourists?
edgarvm··on How I slashed a SQL query's runtime with two Unix commands
Naive question: are your tables partitioned?
edgarvm··on An Italian Song That Sounds Like English But Is Nonsense
Reminds me when I find out that should I stay or should I go is partially in spanish, I didn't know it until read the lyrics
edgarvm··on Windows93 SP2
Solitude does not accept drag and drop on android
edgarvm··on Is jQuery still relevant? (2014)
Most of problems pointed by the article are related to javascript and the DOM model, JQuery just provides a very useful function set and interoperability between browsers.
edgarvm··on Spinner
Quick fix for the link https://www.google.com/search?q=spinner&hl=en
edgarvm··on Ask HN: Will We Get Close to a General AI in 2017?
Better automation != General AI
edgarvm··on World Energy Hits a Turning Point: Solar That's Cheaper Than Wind
It'll never cost $0, even if we could satisfy all the demand of energy with solar power, electric grids still involve costs, same as roads.
edgarvm··on Corporate Media Gatekeepers Protect Western 1% from Panama Leak
The same thing for Unaoil scandal, it's not being covered by the media
edgarvm··on First Impressions of a $9 CHIP Computer
Looks very interesting, too bad they don't accept paypal
edgarvm··on Turbo Vision port to the GNU compiler (2009)
Is this project dead?
edgarvm··on Using Protobuf instead of JSON to communicate with a front end
Which library do you use to support both?
edgarvm··on PostgreSQL vs. MS SQL Server
I was expecting something more convincing like benchmarks, PostgreSQL has a lot of nice features and that's is a good thing for development, but just for development.
edgarvm··on PostgreSQL vs. MS SQL Server
TOAD DBA Suite for SQL Server is nice too, very expensive though
edgarvm··on VisiCalc
And yes, it's still available to download http://www.bricklin.com/history/vcexecutable.htm
edgarvm··on Windows 93 in JavaScript
Solitaire (Solitude) is nice but it has a weird bug, some cards cannot be found
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