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tl;dr: Doom clones, RTS' and games with penguins in them.

Too bad this game wasn't mentioned, it has cute graphics, interesting gameplay, and no penguins: http://joyridelabs.de/game/

Even better would be a Love2D-like platform.

What's the speed like? Looks like its built on top of some opengl C code, so I imagine its alright.

Its at the top of the blog page for me... http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/

Are there any IRL hackfests for the Seattle area planned?

Its really only true for startups at this point. I've had plenty of interviews with the interviewer scratching their head when I mention github.

Another article hopping on the cyberwar 2011 bandwagon. [1]

Even NPR ran a similar story that was just as sensationalist and vague.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2659501

-fmudflap always interested me, but I never seem to remember it when I'm actually confronting a hard to debug pointer issue.

A similar article about C code coverage tools would be great.

I've had enough of these fear mongering "cyber war" stories. No one seems to know whether the hackers are part of the Chinese government or not, yet new bullshit articles like this keep popping up, riding on the excuse of "we can't rule out the possibility the Chinese government isn't behind the attacks".

Libcaca and its various programs:

http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/libcaca

Also, there is neercs, a terminal multiplexer that uses libcaca: http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/neercs

Is it just me or is this the 100th "SASS rules but HAML drools" article this week? This one doesn't even point out the biggest weakness of HAML, that it is terrible at inline markup.

How is it known the radiation is from Fukushima?

Does the font on the website look extremely blurry for anyone else...?

My schoolmates and I wrote a collaborative paper using git back in college. It was great for critical feedback, sometimes we would delete each other's entire paragraphs in a single commit.

Don't you ask for milestone payments?

Why oh why do you need your battery life displayed in your prompt? There are plenty of other places to display it.

Several posts have mentioned that objects are merely metaphors, and isn't that exactly what you are doing here?

I think that a language for beginners should be as paradigm agnostic as possible. Lua does not force OO or functional programming upon the user. And unlike Ruby, there aren't a bunch of list-like datatypes like lists, arrays, and hash tables to keep track of. There is just the table datatype which takes care of all of those.

In case you missed it, there was more discussion about Ruby4Kids here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2158231

Why don't you just use Dillo. :P

In only spins on the x-axis in my version of chrome... 9.0.597.98

Is it supposed to rotate on the z-axis?

This seems like a valid question to me. Who cares if its vague? The more to explain to the person asking the question...

Good point, glib offers a ton of useful functions: http://library.gnome.org/devel/glib/2.6/glib-String-Utility-...

As you can see, its no std::string, but it can still save you some time.

There are subsets of C++ that I just find too useful to pass up, particularly STL data structures like strings and vectors. Why shouldn't I use them? I'm just going to have to keep using them until I "blow my whole leg off" as they say.

I just saw a commercial for this game, and I got interested when I started thinking about how the architecture might work. How might the tiles communicate between each other? They all have to tell each other what letter is on the other tiles, then one of them (or all of them?) decides if its a valid word.

Is this article supposed to make sense?

I used to do this with dzen, via:

http://dzen.geekmode.org/dwiki/doku.php?id=dzen:irssi-notify

Then I started using a combination of perl scripts to detect when my screen session was detached, and if I got a new message while my screen session was detached to send an SMS to my phone through email. These days however, I'm satisfied with simply logging all my notifications in a separate split irssi window and checking them when I feel like it.

Anyone else see lines between the triangles in the pentagon, using Chrome?

I've always preferred elinks with its support for colors, but I'll have to check out w3m and retawq.