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Re:Dwarf Fortress is coming to Steam with graphics on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @06:45PM (#19384726)
My first somewhat successful ONI run resulted in me over producing oxygen. Cut to the mid game and now all the tunnels are packed full of bacteria laced oxygen that I can barely keep up scrubbing. All the while my dudes' ears are constantly popping due to the high amount of pressure from the sheer amount of oxygen being pumped into the base.
Saving this for later
Re:U.S. To Forgive at Least $108B in Student Debt in Coming Years on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @09:34AM (#13071015)
I too live in Michigan. Dantonio's salary is ridiculous.
Re:Wall Street's Frantic Push to Hire Coders on Friday October 28, 2016 @12:45PM (#12817934)
You are very correct in the worker bee interpretation of JPM's culture.
Re:Logo Pizza: Hot and ready logos for sale on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @11:53AM (#12489407)
The sheriff looks too much like the logo for Natty Bo beer.

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

Re:Lessons from Doom (2010) on Thursday June 23, 2016 @03:45PM (#11963829)
Watching it now. Thanks for the link. I love a good tech analysis
Re:Lessons from Doom (2010) on Thursday June 23, 2016 @03:44PM (#11963813)
I've actually been playing on Xbone lately.
Re:Lessons from Doom (2010) on Thursday June 23, 2016 @10:15AM (#11960974)
Another thing is how pretty the game is. It's hard to get that out of a video, but when you're actually playing the game you realize just how beautiful it is. Part of the reason is they use a lot of colors. It's not just another dark color palette shooter.

Plus the frame rate is amazing.

Re:Happy 20th Birthday, Quake on Thursday June 23, 2016 @08:43AM (#11960444)
Was really expecting a longer post. Still pretty interesting though.

PS Really happy Romero set his URL like that.

Re:Housing in the Bay Area on Thursday May 26, 2016 @09:47AM (#11777884)
Switch is putting a large portion of its company into Grand Rapids in the near future. So we may be seeing more tech coming in.
Re:Housing in the Bay Area on Thursday May 26, 2016 @09:46AM (#11777861)
L3 by chance?
Re:Bootcamps vs. College on Thursday May 19, 2016 @02:52PM (#11732687)
//I work with Splunk currently and have been interested in looking at the capabilities of the ELK stack. have any recommended places to start?
Re:PyNES: Write NES Games in Python on Friday September 18, 2015 @01:48PM (#10240794)
The name of that emulator coinciding with the word testicle was on purpose right?

I'm just glad I wasn't the only one who thought this back then.

The Jackbox Party Pack on Xbone uses the same concept. It works well since all of the games are trivia/word games so latency doesn't affect gameplay much.
Re:How “oldschool” graphics worked [video] on Wednesday August 19, 2015 @10:35AM (#10085758)
This is so fascinating. Thank you for this knowledge bomb.

Any chance you are aware of any other hacks from old school video games?

Re:Healthstone Monitoring System on Thursday June 11, 2015 @04:58PM (#9702391)
Thought this was Hearthstone related and I got really excited for a moment there.
Re:Vienna's Recipe for Living Well on Thursday June 04, 2015 @01:49PM (#9660842)
Reminds me of the story of the Italian village Roseto Valfortore from Malcom Gladwell's book The Outliers
Re:Dirty Coding Tricks on Thursday January 08, 2015 @03:54PM (#8858947)
Always is a great read. Can't help myself into rereading these stories every time I see this post.
Re:Classic NES Series Anti-Emulation Measures on Tuesday December 30, 2014 @11:33AM (#8815255)
Do you happen to know anywhere to read further on the topic of programming tricks used in GBA (or any platform) games?

I always find these things really interesting.

Re:Coffee naps are better than coffee or naps alone on Friday August 29, 2014 @12:33PM (#8243228)
I was an avid napper back at college and thoroughly employed the coffee nap technique. Now I'm in the workforce, but my body is still yearning for naps at work. I find myself drifting off here and there, but never fully commit.

I'm afraid to take a full nap at work due to how it may look. Do you find yourself being judged for taking naps at work?

Re:The slow server flow chart on Thursday July 31, 2014 @04:59PM (#8116976)
Great post. As someone working in APM right now this is a fantastic way to explain to people how to understand web server metrics.