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Comment Re:Not Horrible, Just Mature (Score 1) 603

That's what Jon Blow is doing. He's aiming at game developers because game developers demand speed and efficiency and it would be good to have a lean, robust language that enables fast iteration, reduces errors with simple unified syntax, gracefully transforms data sets, and doesn't hold your hand wasting your cycles and memory..It's a high-performance general purpose language for competent programmers who know what they are doing.

Comment USGS Statement (Score 1) 3

USGS statement:

We've heard concerns from ppl using our Swarm software to monitor seismic activity at Klauea & posting videos of the tool—it's free, Public Domain, open-source software. In other words no one holds a copyright and anyone claiming otherwise is incorrect.

https://twitter.com/USGS/statu...

Twitter thread has some victims of this reporting in.

Comment Re:This is about open web standards (Score 1) 77

It's not that things change, it's that Google, with 60% of the browser market, was too cavalier with this change. They didn't appear to think about how to implement this change at all, breaking thousands of web applications, including many of their own, in non-trivial ways. The immediate knock-on effect to livelihoods of creatives who are already struggling is very real.

Comment Re:Pac-Man (Score 1) 58

Billy Mitchell's Pac-Man claim to fame is being the first to achieve the so-called "perfect game" which is the highest possible score, 3,333,360 points, achieved on the last playable level, 256. Whether or not he was the first or not, he was the first recorded by Twin Galaxies. John Birkner may have been the first to reach level 256, the book does not make this claim.

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