now do battle chess
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ppezaris commented on Show HN: Balancing game for the mobile browser with increasing difficulty balanc3dgame.com/... · Posted by u/nargaw
Awesome! Make it a daily Wordle-style game! I need something new in my morning routine.
I think having a universal 3-life max is very harsh. I died on level 9 and was sent back to level 1. No way am I going to do the first 9 again, so I won't find out what was on 10.
I think it would be more casual friendly to have infinite repeats in every level, but you could have a total count of deaths, for people who care about their score.
Tempest had the best implementation of this. Every 3-4 levels was a checkpoint and with 3 lives as long as you cleared at least one level, you can start at your last checkpoint. If you died 3 times without completing the level, you have to start at the checkpoint below.
ppezaris commented on Emacs standing alone on a Linux Kernel informatimago.free.fr/i/l... · Posted by u/signa11
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, Emacs/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, Emacs plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning Emacs system made useful by Emacs.
Many computer users run a modified version of the Emacs system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of Emacs which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the Emacs system, developed by the Emacs Project.
There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the Emacs operating system: the whole system is basically Emacs with Linux added, or Emacs/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of Emacs/Linux!
sorry if i'm out of the loop, but i've heard what you describe as GNU/Linux, not Emacs/Linux. did emacs change to be the branding label of things like the compiler, the ----
just saw that you're probably making a joke, as i just found this :) https://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.en.html
ppezaris commented on Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B wsj.com/articles/software... · Posted by u/DavidWilkinson
That’s interesting and sounds positive you had autonomy.
Did they have an expected return on investment and just use your existing planned earnings growth? If they didn’t change your earnings slope, did they have a timeframe in mind for the multiple they used to buy you?
For example, if you earned $1 in the year of purchase and $.50 the year before and projected $2,3,4,5 in the next four years; did they use this for your purchase price? Or did they project some efficiency that shifted your projections to $3,4,5,6 and used that for the purchase valuation?
Only if you’re able to discuss, obviously.
Our company had just transitioned from social networking to social commerce, and was starting to build out features like a shopping cart, product listings, etc. So the valuation was mostly hand-waiving based on the fact that we were the most recognized e-commerce brand in the region, despite not really being an e-commerce business yet.
We were doing about half a billion in annual GMV but none of it monetized yet.
ppezaris commented on Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B wsj.com/articles/software... · Posted by u/DavidWilkinson
While I'm happy for the people who made a lot of money in this transaction, I always read these announcements with a bit of angst.
From a user point of view, I expect this to go like Reddit has, for example. Everyone building that value saw high use value, returns on their investment in the form of information they need, lean, easy to find, high signal to noise.
Now there is a debt to be paid. The new owner needs to extract the purchase price, and whatever additional additional returns they intend. Everything costs something.
So what will it be?
Subscription access?
Less favorable signal to noise?
I sold a company to Naspers once (the parent company of Prosus). Their philosophy is to let their portfolio companies continue to operate independently.
I continued to be the CEO of my company, and I reported to a regional CEO, who reported to the CEO of Naspers. I share this because I found it odd that "CEO" was basically a middle manager ;)
I’m sorry, but what was a 4-year old child doing near a switched-on Peloton? I cannot visualize a chain of events that leads to this scenario happening.
It was the child of a guest at a BBQ that I was hosting. The parents were socializing with other adults while some of the children were playing. They didn't see that the kids had gone into the gym.
Why do I feel like there is so much more attention paid to every Tesla accident? It's not news when a BMW or Mercedes has a fatal crash when their version of cruise control + lane keeping is active.
For those who own Peloton products, what do you think of them? Are they genuinely worth the price and continued financial commitment?
One of the 70 reported incidents happened at my house three days ago. A 4-year-old child got sucked under the treadmill and he got rather severe facial abrasions.
Before the accident, we were very happy with both the bike and the treadmill. Now it's scary to think how dangerous they are given what we witnessed first-hand.
The fix seems so simple: a guard at the end of the tread that prevents things from being sucked under it. Kind of mind-numbing that this simple feature isn't included in such a high-end product.
ppezaris commented on Why programmers don’t write documentation kislayverma.com/programmi... · Posted by u/whack
The problem with documentation is twofold:
1. it's broadcast-only. so you have to try to anticipate in advance what the questions might be.
2. it's disconnected from the source. so someone looking at the source code has no idea whether there is good, bad, or any documentation about it.
ppezaris commented on US agencies call for pause in Johnson & Johnson vaccine bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-c... · Posted by u/basisword
If there is solid evidence that a vaccine will kill people, it should not be used. It's intolerable that people die taking a prophylactic.
It's much, much worse to kill someone with a vaccine than to allow that person to perhaps die of a virus.
Thankfully, in this case, sanity prevailed.
If a hypothetical vaccine could save a million lives, but kills 10 people who get vaccinated, are you arguing that it shouldn't be administered?