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bopbop commented on Mozilla is giving up on their IRC server exple.tive.org/blarg/2019... · Posted by u/ori_b

naiveai · 7 years ago

Sure, it may be a bad-faith question, but I think the point still stands. IRC, as an open communications protocol, will always, always, always be better than private companies with the potential to be controlled by anything. Richard Stallman would be rolling in his grave.

bopbop · 7 years ago

Christ, you scared me there. Stallman is not dead.

bopbop commented on Godot Engine Awarded $50k by Mozilla Open Source Support Program godotengine.org/article/g... · Posted by u/wyldfire

crocal · 7 years ago

Thanks for the tip. Did you have a chance to compare with gamemaker?

bopbop · 7 years ago

<not the original commenter> It's a bit more advanced and complex then gamemaker - when I used it a few years ago a more direct comparison would have been a 2d specialist Unity (although it does 3d as well, and this may have significantly advanced since I last used it)

bopbop commented on The Billionaire Next Door (2007) dmagazine.com/publication... · Posted by u/non_sequitur

dependsontheq · 7 years ago

In general this is quite common in Germany, there are still many family companies and the heirs often work outside the business before returning to the family company.

Herzogenaurach his hometown is an interesting case for everybody who is interested in the weird ways of entrepreneurship. The small town is home for Schaeffler, Adidas and Puma. Quite remarkable for a population of 30.000.

Disclaimer: I live next door and organize the Nuernberg Digital Festival

bopbop · 7 years ago

Some background on the Adidas/Puma rivalry, which is quite a fascinating story:

https://sports.vice.com/en_us/article/mgz97b/the-nazi-siblin...

bopbop commented on BASIC Computer Games vintage-basic.net/games.h... · Posted by u/martincmartin

jim_lawless · 7 years ago

You're thinking of zero page ($0000-$00ff), not the stack $0100-$01FF).

bopbop · 7 years ago

Yes I am! Thanks!

bopbop commented on BASIC Computer Games vintage-basic.net/games.h... · Posted by u/martincmartin

0815test · 7 years ago

The 6502 processor itself also has very poor "stack" support, the hardware-supported stack is limited to 256 bytes at a fixed location. It's one of the things that make it hard to compile a modern language like C for the architecture, so even among compiled languages one would prefer something FORTRAN/BASIC-like.

bopbop · 7 years ago

To be fair, the 256 byte stack can essentially be used in assembly as 256 registers, which is also one of the features (along with indirect addressing) that make assembly on it awesome.

My relatively poorly researched impression of it is that it's half-way to portable C, with a proto-stack and pointers, essentially.

bopbop commented on It seems that Google is forgetting the old web stop.zona-m.net/2018/01/i... · Posted by u/barry-cotter

randomsearch · 7 years ago

Possible contrarian insight: in the era of recommendation systems, hand-curation is due a big comeback.

I’ve been listening to the BBC’s Introducing Mixtape podcast for a while. I also use Spotify and really enjoy its recommendation but the 6 Music podcast is just stellar.

As paywalls restore quality journalism, I believe a renaissance for curated content is possible.

bopbop · 7 years ago

Interesting - what would the evidence that current paywalls are/have restored quality journalism be?

As in, do you believe this uptick in quality journalism has already happened/is happening? And what associates it with paywalls? Presumably you'd have to be seeing quality journalism behind paywalls for this to be case?

bopbop commented on It seems that Google is forgetting the old web stop.zona-m.net/2018/01/i... · Posted by u/barry-cotter

kickscondor · 7 years ago

The group mostly converses on micro.blog. I cover the various conversations and new discoveries on my site (kickscondor.com). Do you just want to follow along? Or do you have some ideas to share?

This is a very new group that has sprung up in the last few months.

bopbop · 7 years ago

I wanted to follow along - your blog looks excellent, I'll check there and micro.blog. Thank you.

Incidentally (and rhetorically), how I have not heard of micro.blog? It looks amazing! This whole thread has become a goldmine of interesting things.

bopbop commented on It seems that Google is forgetting the old web stop.zona-m.net/2018/01/i... · Posted by u/barry-cotter

kickscondor · 7 years ago

While it's become impossible to browse the wider Web with Google, it's getting a bit easier elsewhere.

A few helpful search engines:

* https://millionshort.com/

* https://wiby.me/

* https://pinboard.in/search/

A recent movement to build personal Yahoo!-style directories:

* https://href.cool/ (my own project)

* https://indieseek.xyz/

* https://districts.neocities.org/

* https://the.dailywebthing.com/

The above resources are focused on general blogging and personal websites - for software and startups, I would refer to the appropriate 'awesome' directories. (https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome or https://awesomelists.top)

If you know of any more, please list them - a small group of us are collecting these and trying to encourage new projects.

bopbop · 7 years ago

How do I get updates on the groups project?

Wiby seems amazing - the first three surprise me links were a human powered ornithopter, lego maniacs and a guide to knife throwing. Thank you for sharing!

bopbop commented on Google Employees Uncover Ongoing Work on Censored China Search theintercept.com/2019/03/... · Posted by u/jbegley

ladzoppelin · 7 years ago

All people want from life is free meals and video games?

bopbop · 7 years ago

Bread and circuses

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses

bopbop commented on Show HN: Discover what locals eat all around the world what.toeat.in... · Posted by u/sandoche

telesilla · 7 years ago

I was in the UK recently and got fish and chips from a local chippy at the seaside thinking, well, I should try something local outside of the fancy seafood chowder at the restaurants lining the bay. I was horrified that vinegar was not used but some fake invention called "non-brewed condiment" I'd never heard of before. Apparently this is normal now?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-brewed_condiment

bopbop · 7 years ago

I can't comment nationally, but I've been having fish and chips a couple of times at our local and near my parents, both in London, and they're all using vinegar.