Graham24
Re:Tunnels and Trolls
on Monday July 20, 2020 @08:22AM (#23897037)
Think I've still got the books someplace. All those d6 became a real pain you needed dozens.
Re:Does scrum ruin great engineers or are you doing it wrong?
on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @07:48AM (#23689111)
There is no silver bullet
Re:When in doubt: hang up, look up, and call back
on Friday April 24, 2020 @11:21AM (#22968917)
Just get rid of the land line. When I move house, I'm not going to have one ever again.
Re:“The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” turns 42
on Monday March 09, 2020 @05:05AM (#22524006)
I have them too, both series.
Re:Folding@home takes up the fight against COVID-19
on Thursday March 05, 2020 @08:07AM (#22493169)
sounds like a great new idea for phone scammers; try to con people into downloading their covid research project.
Re:The core memory inside a Saturn V rocket's computer
on Thursday March 05, 2020 @05:20AM (#22492400)
I played Lunar Lander in the arcades, top draw game that.
Re:Scottish Power: "Billing chaos caused by a new IT system"
on Monday March 02, 2020 @04:16AM (#22462879)
I might just do that
Re:Scottish Power: "Billing chaos caused by a new IT system"
on Monday March 02, 2020 @04:14AM (#22462863)
I've had one of these letters, 600 quid they wanted for my neighbours electric, addresses to the owner occupier. never had a Scottish power account and it's nothing to do with me.
I called them, but we shall see if that stops them.
Ghost ship washes ashore in Ireland after more than a year at sea
Re:Beer Waste Saves Montana Town $1M on Water Treatment
on Thursday February 13, 2020 @04:58AM (#22316538)
marmite
Re:The Disneyfication of a University
on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @07:28AM (#22297910)
that reminds me, I must clean my phone.
Re:The limits of high-speed rail
on Friday February 07, 2020 @08:38AM (#22265788)
It takes 5 hours to go 100km? what route is that?
Re:Terry Jones has died
on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @08:06AM (#22117170)
He's not the Messiah, he's...
From Worms to Tomb Raider: classic UK video games celebrated in new stamps
Re:Student Loans a Lot Like the Subprime Mortgage Debacle, Watchdog Says
on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @04:57AM (#21761035)
It costs $30K to go to Barber School in the US?
Re:O(n^2), again, now in Windows Management Instrumentation
on Tuesday December 10, 2019 @10:17AM (#21753213)
The very idea of O(n*(n!)^n) is going to give me nightmares.
Re:The Crystal Palace
on Monday December 09, 2019 @04:59AM (#21741486)
I went to Selhurst last season, I was thinking of visit the Crystal Palace, but didn't have time. Rather wish I had now.
Re:Say it's 1962, you're lucky enough to be a programmer working with ...
on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @08:48AM (#21702084)
I wrote a COBOL interpreter on the C64 for this very purpose.
Re:How to pack a Norwegian sandwich, the world’s most boring lunch
on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @09:35AM (#21258172)
I love that cheese, Gjetost.
Rail line in Hampshire (UK) is world's first to be powered by solar farm
Re:The art of interrupting software engineers
on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @08:38AM (#20564238)
I'd rather work on the bins.
Re:Capital One Says Breach Hit 100M Individuals in U.S
on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @06:22AM (#20563486)
If you put data in the cloud...
assume it is no longer private.
Re:C. Hoare and Co., a British banking dynasty in business for more th...
on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @08:11AM (#20401164)
I'm related to the Hoares. Probably. There can't be many distinct families with that surname.
Re:Ask HN: Has anyone ever been hired from “Who wants to be hired?” th...
on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @08:49AM (#20334480)
Pompey?
Re:Invaders game in 512 bytes
on Friday June 07, 2019 @10:07AM (#20124611)
i'm impressed
Re:Plaid Launches in the UK
on Thursday May 30, 2019 @05:20AM (#20049563)
I thought it was about a remake of Dead Men Don't Need Plaid.
Re:Three geeks rescue a 50-year-old IBM 360 mainframe from an abandone...
on Monday May 20, 2019 @12:00PM (#19961779)
I would very much like to know who owned it and what it was used for. and more importantly why it was just left to rot. It must have been worth something.
Re:Source code for Zork, Hitchhiker’s Guide, and other Infocom games
on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @08:06AM (#19672906)
"Zork I is a 1980 interactive fiction game"
Surely, these were called Adventure Games at the time. I never recall them being called that.
Re:Aphex Twin Speaks to Tatsuya Takahashi (2017)
on Monday April 15, 2019 @04:30AM (#19663942)
Indeed The John Peel Show was awash with the stuff in the early 90s, certainly where I heard LFO, Aphex Twin (etc) for first time.