Re:Analog Chess – pieces are not constrained to a grid
by rittme on Friday January 13, 2023 @08:04PM
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A lot of people are making fun of his code or versioning skills.
It's very cool that he was able to code something interesting enough to be on the top of HN, without mastering the tools he used.
People should focus less on code and tools and more on making great stuff, like him.
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Re:Analog Chess – pieces are not constrained to a grid
by andai on Friday January 13, 2023 @09:04PM
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I found this part of the readme amusing:
> Warning: This code is fucking awful.
> Do not expect the code to be stable under any modifications, but you can try if you want I guess. Also there are barely any comments sorry. I am in Electrical Engineering and I like writing shitty code to piss off my Computer Science friends.
Re:Analog Chess – pieces are not constrained to a grid
by 8bitsrule on Friday January 13, 2023 @09:50PM
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Teenager Evariste Galois did a lousy job of explaining how his math worked, none of the experts could make sense of it. He'd been dead a decade before Liouville said hey, this shit is alright. It turned out to be sorta useful a century later. A couple of the experts are still remembered, not for much.
Re:Analog Chess – pieces are not constrained to a grid
by kazinator on Saturday January 14, 2023 @01:44AM
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If he hadn't gotten himself killed at twenty, he might have learned how to explain it.
Doesn't the legend have it that he scribbled a lot of his ideas down hastily the day he though he was going to die?
Re:Analog Chess – pieces are not constrained to a grid
by ehulinsky on Saturday January 14, 2023 @02:23AM
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wish me luck I have a duel tomorrow
Re:Analog Chess – pieces are not constrained to a grid
by fnordpiglet on Saturday January 14, 2023 @10:27AM
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He was also just totally insane