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Re:The Great When? A London-through-time quiz on Saturday June 17, 2023 @03:16AM (#36368056)
Super fun! Obviously I wouldn’t do this on purpose because it defeats the object of the game but if you watch this on an iPhone, you can pull down the Notification Centre and it’ll show you the title of the video you’re watching as part of the media controls. The title has the year in it.
Re:Show HN: Lander, a lunar lander style web game on Sunday March 05, 2023 @04:08PM (#35033938)
This is adorable.

Great game! I got a 95 point landing after a good few goes then I saw all the fun people were having with the crashes so I joined in. Great job!

Re:Show HN: Natural Language Git (Gitgpt) on Monday February 27, 2023 @03:21PM (#34961379)
> Interfacing with git sucks

I disagree

Re:Things I’ve Learned in my 20 Years as a Software Engineer on Thursday January 19, 2023 @02:47AM (#34437764)
This is a very well written article, and thank you for the advice. Lots that resonates here.
If they don't exist, this is a good idea for anybody looking for a project to write a programming book
Re:Victorian Hacker News on Friday September 16, 2022 @02:40AM (#32862861)
Hahahaha
Re:Victorian Hacker News on Thursday September 15, 2022 @11:27AM (#32853528)
Hahaha. I see what you did there
Re:Victorian Hacker News on Thursday September 15, 2022 @08:09AM (#32850519)
Oof yes, this is exactly the kind of beef I would like to see on VHN.
Re:Victorian Hacker News on Thursday September 15, 2022 @06:49AM (#32849857)
This is excellent.

Was anybody else also hoping for a Victorian HN Front Page with list of parody HN links which one might've expected to see in the 1880s or something?

- New Developments Greatly Increase Steam Engine Efficiency

- Show VHN: I have developed plans for a machine that will travel through time

- Nikola Tesla on Direct Current

- Ask VHN: Is the Trans-Atlantic telegraph cable down?

Any other ideas?

This isn’t quite what you’re looking for but I have a GitHub project to create various implementations, including for ethereum! https://github.com/conwaysgame

EDIT: perhaps the GitHub’s main README could include links to various implementations too!

Re:Cat gap on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @06:54AM (#32317135)
I suppose this doesn't fit on Wikipedia, but obviously one possible cause is that Cats are aliens from a planet abut 3.4 million lightyears away, and during that 7 million year period, all the cats left Earth suddenly because their planet needed them [1]. They used a near-light-speed vehicle to get there, solved the crisis on their home planet, then returned to continue their stewardship of Earth, and then the vehicle flew back.

Publishers, line up

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5k8ZQsZJpk

The author lost me when they took a train from Moorgate to Barbican. Clearly doesn’t count as walking underground!
Predictable angry comment about the stupidly large ad on this site for eToro: apparently my thumbs are too fat to close it, when do I get my complimentary dialling wand?

So fat in fact that it opens the ad no matter what I do, only to be told that eToro is not even available in my country.

So not only do I see a massive ad that makes the article hard to read, I can’t even close it, and it’s for a product I can’t buy.

I hate this, and everybody involved in implementing it should be ashamed of themselves.

Re:Show HN: I Built Conway's Game of Life for Ethereum on Sunday January 31, 2021 @11:21PM (#25985499)
Honestly I wish I had thought of that title ahahah!
Re:Show HN: I Built Conway's Game of Life for Ethereum on Sunday January 31, 2021 @11:11PM (#25985442)
Hahah! Thank you! That name is much better :D
Re:Show HN: I Built Conway's Game of Life for Ethereum on Sunday January 31, 2021 @11:10PM (#25985441)
Congratulations!

I agree, it needs to be much more cost-effective. Someone In The Know told me that there's some attempts being made to make it more cost-effective with something called Optimism (https://twitter.com/optimismPBC) - but after looking into it, it does seem like you'd need to buy tokens. I specifically wanted this Game of Life to be driven by ETH!

You don't need to share of course but I am curious - is your contract a more "legitimate" use than mine? Something which is a genuine utility?

Thanks for reading btw!

Re:Ask HN: Show me your half baked project on Saturday January 09, 2021 @06:57PM (#25706528)
Hi! I have a public Trello board [0] with a list of projects I'm working on, or ideas I have, which from time to time people comment on!

Currently I'm doing a version of Conway's Game of Life in Solidity for the Ethereum network. Spoiler: it's not going to be affordable to actually use it on the network!

0: https://trello.com/b/v4dV9CQS/1-dans-side-project-ideas

Thanks for sharing your experience. Yes, I like the sound of this model too, at least for now. It'll be interesting to see how it scales if it does indeed scale!

Ask HN: Content creators who've signed up for Brave's BAT, how's it going?

Having a few spare minutes this morning when I stumbled across the BAT wallet in my Coinbase account and decided to look more into it. As someone who regularly produces YouTube and Reddit content as well as content for my own site (which I often share here), it seemed like it might be worthwhile. So I've signed up. Obviously nothing yet, but I was interested in hearing from other...

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Re:A Continuous Integration Mystery on Saturday December 05, 2020 @10:06PM (#25320663)
This is helpful, thank you. I will bring this up with my colleagues.
Re:A Continuous Integration Mystery on Friday December 04, 2020 @05:48PM (#25309361)
This is new to me, thank you for sharing! It would fit the bill. Very interesting.

EDIT: Hang on a second, Tom Forbes! Fancy bumping into you here yet again. It's Dan from Marvel!

Re:Always leave the code better than you found it on Saturday November 28, 2020 @10:27AM (#25238085)
A very nice sentiment!

I think one of the most useful parts of this list of suggestions is to write or improve tests. You did allude to this, but I think it’s the most useful part (if test coverage starts out poor) because by doing so, especially before doing any other changes, you’re making it easier to do some of the other suggestions with confidence.

Good read!

Cool, thanks for confirming :)
Is it just a coincidence or is Moderna’s name and stock ticker label (MRNA) intentionally supposed to reference the type of research they do? (mRNA)
Hah, came here to make this comment!

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