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I believe the original author of most of this content was Brian Walker, creator of brogue, which uses Dijkstra maps to great effect. In my opinion, brogue is the greatest 'modern' traditional roguelike.

latest 'community' version: https://github.com/tmewett/BrogueCE

reddit community with seeded contests: https://www.reddit.com/r/brogueforum/

original game: https://sites.google.com/site/broguegame/

This is really cool! I have been adjusting to life without Bloomberg recently. Does anyone know of something similar to this for rates, credit, or the ABS space?

Hi! Off topic but I love love love Neptune's Pride. :)

I remember hearing about this on the podcast roguelike radio a long time ago - truly a brilliant little hack.

Here's the link for anyone interested: http://www.roguelikeradio.com/2016/06/episode-122-nethack-to...

A very niche topic on an already niche podcast, but probably will get some decent overlap on HN.

(Also I'm assuming this is the same team? It's hard to tell.)

Thanks for posting this - some great memories and great links here. I'll jump on the bandwagon since I don't see any MUSHes mentioned here yet.

MUSH was MUD-based, but built around roleplaying (planned and improvised) and community-driven building. PennMUSH also had a great underlying program language that was (in retrospect, quite amazingly) flexible and powerful. Many MUSHes had very advanced combat, economy, and other systems. I developed a love of programming thanks to the PennMUSH codebase.

My personal favorite was (still is) TF2k5 (Transformers: 2005) - oddly enough, a MUSH based on the 1986 Transformers movie. :) Last I checked it was still going.

I bookmarked an old feature Kieron Gillen did on RPS about MUSHes (and TF2k5)[0] a long time ago - still a very dead-on description in my opinion.

[0] https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2009/07/08/gaming-made-me-3...

Hah. So many great memories of MUSHclient. For a long time it was the first thing I installed on any new machine. Eventually moved to tinyfugue on a remote shell (so I could be "always online").

Coming from someone who uses python but doesn't really follow alternative compilers, PyPy sounds great. What are some of the downsides, if any? Are you sacrificing library compatibility for faster core+standard libs?

Yup. Made it feel more realistic to me, but I also don't have especially strong opinions for or against use, although more research seems reasonable.

The podcast Reply All covered this in an episode last year: https://gimletmedia.com/episode/44-shine-on-you-crazy-goldma...

Obviously not scientific, but great anecdotal discussion.

This is an important point.

This game and it's creator(s) never cease to amaze me. Looking forward to all of the new "fun" this will create.

Seems like they are focusing on multi-family condos/apartments. I don't see much activity either - they started in a few residential neighborhoods intown but growth has stalled.

It's incredibly frustrating - I don't even care if it's the same price (or more) than Comcast. I just want options. Would gladly pay good money for a reliable fast connection.

I've been a dropbox pro user for many years, but have lately gotten the impression that they (dropbox) are focused on Dropbox Business and not so much regular consumers. Curious if other people have had similar experiences?

Wow, Dr. Goldsman. Glad to hear he is still an amazing professor - was one of my favorites as well.

Thanks for all of these comments, great to have some inside knowledge on this program.

Just curious what the general consensus of 1Password is here on HN? I am especially interested to hear from people that are actually using/paying for the cloud hosting (their servers).

Excellent list.

There's a very big and important difference between "random" and "procedurally generated". Most great roguelikes (or roguelike-likes?) have strong procedural elements in their level generation, but certainly randomness is an important input.

I'll add brogue since I am a roguelike traditionalist. :)

One of the best replies I've ever read on HN. :)

I think you nailed it.

I have an elderly family member with this exact problem. Even with constant reminding, it is an uphill battle. I suspect it is a combination of addiction but also "dark patterns" that essentially trick folks into spending money.

One thing that helped is switching the family member to a True Link card: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Link

While not perfect, it does root out the obvious scammers and does make it much easier to push back and cancel those reccuring subscriptions that "some how" keep getting activated.

I have no affiliation with True Link, but posting it in hopes it can help someone with a similar problem.

Edit: Just now realized True Link has a YC affiliation, so maybe this is more on topic than I thought.

Stuart Memo: https://stuartmemo.com/

Out of curiosity (and because I'd love to read more), which of your old blog posts would you MOST expect to randomly resurface at the top of HN?

For anyone who is a fan of Cathy and wants to hear more, she is a co-host on the Slate Money podcast[0] (along with the amazing Felix Salmon) which covers a lot of these topics.

Although not ONLY these types of topics, I should say. It's a great nerdy finance podcast.

[0] http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/slate_money.html

What's the best way to get the battery replaced on one of these?

Really glad to hear I'm not the only one holding on to this phone. Absolutely perfect form factor, for me.