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rroriz··on FPS.cob: A first person shooter in COBOL
Come on, we need screenshots!
rroriz··on Bend: a high-level language that runs on GPUs (via HVM2)
I think the point is that Bend in a much higher level than C++. But to be fair: I also may be missing the point!
rroriz··on Ask HN: What has the past 12 months taught you?
I didn't know happiness until I had a daughter. I thought I had a pretty happy life until she was born.

After that, i learned to value my lonely hours :)

rroriz··on Ask HN: How to deal with a dysfunctional relationship with a 50/50 co-founder?
A neutral third party to the dispute? Serving as a mediator?

If you can't argue with him, maybe suggesting that someone, other them you guys, should hear your and his complaints and problems. Like a marriage counseling, i guess.

rroriz··on Ask HN: What has HN given you?
For me, its the other way around: I think I'm ok with my job history/pedigree, and when I check HN, it feels like I'm the dumbest person in my area. It seems like I'm not even trying.
rroriz··on North Korea Missile Appears to Have Flown Over Japan, Abe Says
Maybe NK had this exact same question
rroriz··on Ask HN: Assistive Devices for recently quadriplegic dad
There is a startup in Brazil that promote DIY Assistive Projects: https://www.meviro.org
rroriz··on Ask HN: Does anybody else feel overwhelmed while reading HN?
Read about the T-Shaped profile mentioned on the Valve's Employee Handbook[1]. It's a nice concept on how to know when to learn something new and when to learn more about something that you already know.

And calm down: HN users are really heterogeneous. Trying to be like everyone here is impossible. Even you find someone with the same profile as you, it is a nice thing to know that there is something new to learn. A bigger problem is when you don't have anything new to learn.

[1]http://www.valvesoftware.com/company/Valve_Handbook_LowRes.p...

Edit: And answering your question: I feel overwhelmed when I learn somenthing new here, and there is already another article telling me that what I learned is obsolete.

rroriz··on How I Ruined Office Productivity with a Face-Replacing Slack Bot
I don't know why you foto downvoted. I had exactly the same thought!

Now i'm going to make a telegram bot of this!

rroriz··on Ask HN: Which developers do you closely follow?
Same here. And he looks like a friend of mine.
rroriz··on IPv6 enabled Christmas Tree
CGNAT prevents users from hosting personal services - its a PitA.
rroriz··on CacheP2P – Distributed caching platform
I remember something like this appearing here: http://ephemeralp2p.durazo.us/
rroriz··on Revised and much faster, run your own high-end cloud gaming service on EC2
Amazing idea! If this could be set up for a multiplayer games without much trouble (lag, cheating, licenses), this could be The Next Big Thing :)
rroriz··on The military tested bacterial weapons in San Francisco in 1950
I have to disagree: a lazy search on Google shows only a few countries where this doctrine is legal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_immunity

I was alarmed that this concept (sovereign immunity) could even exist. I thought, at first, that only in monarchies this could be a thing.

rroriz··on Why Are People Still Playing Ultima Online?
This. It was my youth too. Besides the fun, it molded my career. UO was the ultimate reason I did CS. I learned to script in EasyUO to up chars in unofficial servers, and sell it to friends. I learned something about web-development so I could set up reports and graphs of my char progress, and manage that from school, over the Internet. I even learned something about "phreacking" (what a old word) so i could connect to the internet for free.

I feel old. Must be the same thing that people from the commodore/amiga era feels like...

rroriz··on Building a Billion User Load Balancer [video]
I'd like to complement this comment and suggest that this practice should be applied to links that may be blocked to a grand part of us, people that are behind a firewall.
rroriz··on Indian Programmer Exposes Code Injection, Gets a Cease and Desist from Injectors
I'm from Brazil. Which carrier do you use that has this same behaviour? I really want to check what they are doing...
rroriz··on The purpose of DRM is not to prevent copyright violations (2013)
And that's why we have other companies around the world have software for that; that's why we have other types of legislations too: to circunvent DRM schemes.
rroriz··on This is how Visa works
Hey Eduardo, I tried to commend on your blog, but it seems that someone entered an html tag in the last comment and didn't close it. It screwed your comment system.

I'm from Brazil too, and this kind of stuff didn't surprise me. But you have to contact a lawyer and ask for help. Our legal system isn´t the best, but we have to make some effort to make it better.

Best wishes!