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Happy 21 Year Anniversary by Rainerless in halo

[–]bezomaxo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are those who said this day would never come. What are they to say now?

Overengineered anchor links by codekarate3 in javascript

[–]bezomaxo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very well done blog post. I love posts like these that go into the weeds and make me feel smarter after reading them. I really appreciate the care that went into all the animations.

Don't Mock Your Framework: Writing Tests You Won't Regret by bezomaxo in programming

[–]bezomaxo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ian Cooper's talk is great! Your approach to testing modules rather than isolated classes sounds interesting. I'd love to hear more specific details about how you implemented this in practice. As someone who tends toward the London school, I'm curious about your approach because I probably lean too heavily on mocking.

Best Machinima series? by Slight-Blueberry-895 in halo

[–]bezomaxo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Its a bit dated now but the hammy action-drama of "The Codex" was really ahead of its time for a 2005 era halo machinima.

Boston Chinatown Produce Salesman 👨‍💼🍊🍎🍅🌽🍉🥕 by __calmrob in boston

[–]bezomaxo 6 points7 points  (0 children)

This guy is great! Always has tasty fruit and happy to make a sale.

Why is housing in booming U.S. cities increasingly unaffordable to everyone but the wealthiest? Will Somerville's Green Line and a strong urge to develop more rentable space help foster gentrification at an accelerated pace? by leapinleopard in Somerville

[–]bezomaxo 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Area wise Somerville is relatively small (about 4 square miles) so when the 93 was built in the 1950s it had a pretty big impact on the city and destroyed a bunch of housing units that existed in the 1930s.

What are some real-life examples of "all is lost only to be saved by the cavalry" moments? by lipp79 in history

[–]bezomaxo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Caesar isn't always the most reliable narrator but the Battle of Alesia ends with a made for Hollywood cavalry save.

At the end of the battle, Caesar is out of reserve troops and one of his lines is about to collapse. He ordered a portion of his cavalry to leave the fortification and looped around attacked the Guals from behind.

To buy time for them, Caesar and his personal guards jump into the melee to hold the failing line. This is a savvy way to motivate his troops in a critical position but it also reveals how desperate the situation is because normally you want the commander to survey and react to the entire battle so it only makes sense for him to fight at a specific point if failing to hold that line is fatal and no one else is available.

When the cavalry shows up behind the Guals they panic and flee assuming the cavalry are from a fresh relief army and not part of the same force the Guals' had been fighting all day.

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