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PowerShell was both opensourced [1] and released for Linux [2].

[1] - https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell [2] - https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/#get-powershell

The easiest example to see (to me) is the use of the cloud / blush sprite in Super Mario Bros. 1. They use the same sprite with an alternate pallet. (1)

The most complicated example I've seen thus far, however, is that of Crash Bandicoot for the PS1.[2] Perhaps the most interesting thing is the description of their efficient code use:

"Ultimately Crash fit into the PS1's memory with 4 bytes to spare. Yes, 4 bytes out of 2097152. Good times." (3)

[1] - http://www.rantgamer.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Clouds-a... [2] - http://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/02/02/making-crash-ban... [3] - https://www.quora.com/How-did-game-developers-pack-entire-ga...

Another interesting thing to view is the recently published video of his talk at Vintage Computer Festival East XI (1).

The idea of text being treated as paper makes perfect sense to me. Unfortunately, it can be incredibly messy to explain the concept to others. My best current analogy is citations linking paper to paper all at once. Without more software, or a better analogy, it's difficult to preach the merits to others.

I think this is a step in the right direction.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcfwLhDDMz4

I always look at the Lego windstorms with a degree of curiosity, as their software libraries are derived from LabVIEW.

I was under the impression it was recently updated for the 25th anniversary. However, I can understand not adding "security" in the name of preservation. Real shame.

I find it interesting how the first website ever, being info.cern.ch, fails 6 of the 10 tests, getting a 0/100.

It already rules space [1], the microscopic [2], and the server market.

One can hope that the advent of Wayland and a more "modern" way to draw items on screen will prompt the rapid development of user desktop applications, even if many are little more than a front-end for command-line tools. Shame that any "sunset" of a Linux Desktop Environments / API prompts further fragmentation of their marketshare. From what I've read, Windows' Win32 API, though often broken, stays reliably broken. This seems to be a interesting distinction in comparison to Linux, and why I believe Linux may never conquer the desktop.

[1] - http://www.computerweekly.com/blog/Open-Source-Insider/Inter... [2] - http://www.computerworld.com/article/2468248/high-performanc...

From the perspective of a student who got out of high-school, I got most of my work done in medium-sized group of individuals who actually wanted to work.

Any more than 10 was useless and they began to chit-chat. Much fewer and people tended to make mistakes or forget things. Those 10 or so people could be paired off into 5 groups of 2 for practice of exams, or 3 groups of 3 (with one floater, or one group of 4) for more round-robin type work and collaboration.

There is very much a reason the philosophers of old had a set class size of ~8, and why classrooms encourage "smaller" groups. The workplace should, in theory, value this more. However, in the sense of being "new and hip", I fear they've abandoned productive work to create "ideas".

I stated that transparently just to say that it was one, not that it isn't a well done one. I actually am running a Canary build for Linux of Discord and have had almost no issues with it, and any problems have been fixed very transparently.

Full Disclosure: I really like Discord, and use Twitch daily.

Discord has more easily manageable chat roles, eg: Moderator, Helper, Regular, Supporter, etc. Twitch chat is nothing more than simple IRC, and relies almost entirely on bots for the more complicated stuff. Discord also has voice chat built in, whereas Twitch has none for their chatters.

Discord also has a better documented API and libraries in a lot of languages. Overall, Discord (despite using an electron app...) is simply a better chatting product.

Though this isn't a service I'd personally use, it seems useful.

One suggestion though, as hated as it might be, would be to make a mobile app. My experience with outings and shows is that you tend to forget stuff like this when you get home. You drop your bags on the floor and your body into bed.

Best of luck to you!

Though it's my two cents, Niantic got part of the Pokemon games but missed out the biggest thing that made it fun. Random Battles! Battling your friends (as early as Gen 1 [2]) You can't weaken random Pokemon at all, you can't just hatch eggs in your bag without Incubators, you can't go beyond the level cap of 40.

Nintendo had spent a ridiculous amount of time and effort for evolutionary charts, catch rates, and so many other things. [1]

If people enjoy the dumbed down game, with not even the "core features", or "new Pokemon", I do believe they'd make ludicrous amounts of money with a near-faithful recreation of mechanics.

[1] - http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Catch_rate

[2] - http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Game_Link_Cable

I digress though, as it's gotten me out of the house having fun.

Thanks, that's really cool.

The native subversion and mercurial support for the same repos is incredibly attractive. Any idea how it converts them to a shared format in real-time?

It's startling for such a large company to make such blunders. Not unexpected, but honestly disappointing...

At one point I checked his public account on Imgur and his hosted albums had a set of S3 IPs & keys. Yeah, he responded very quickly to that.

The profile picture for that newly created user is a photo of the (in)famous feminist "Anita Sarkeesian". (via Google Reverse Image Search)

My only major concern about that is would the data encoding of quake be considered "encryption" in the eyes of the FCC?

Other than that, it'd be pretty cool to see that.

Returning a 503 for a "Code Review" site isn't exactly putting it into a good light...

Perhaps your own needs to have done so.

Wouldn't the ideal solution not be a component of a simple file writer, but rather, a buffered writer? A command gets executed, thrown into buffer. A wait process in bash checks buffer, and then writes to .bash_history?

I'm going to second your comment. My experience in FRC has only been worthwhile because of the people I've met. I suppose it's a form of networking, but quite legitimately having a team that drives for one goal together, not in either a "corporate" or "anti-corporate" but rather in a "this is cool" way, is inspiring.

Especially considering they run Linux, so... I'm decently sure that Steam could easily use some form of binary protection.

This is actually, a pretty big step forward in my opinion. It makes it feel, for the first time (to me at least), that the company is replying to the feedback of the customers. They know that people want to mod it, and rather than force them to use arcane methods to hack the current controller into their desired one, they can simply alter it digitally.

As an aside, I'd love to see a full-metal case for it, only using plastic when needed (the buttons and touchpads?)