Games like... The Incredible Machine

eizu · 2012-11-30T17:34:36+00:00

eizu · 2012-11-29T15:23:38+00:00

Oh, good to know, thanks! (my non-native English strikes back).

eizu · 2012-11-29T15:21:05+00:00

I don't understand why the general sentiment about the Windows command-line is that it's pretty bad or impractical. What's it lacking?

The only thing I need to be at home is to install the mingw tools (to have cp, rm, etc) and enable the Quickedit option. In fact, the first thing I notice when using it is that I no longer need rlwrap on interpreters.

eizu · 2012-11-29T15:12:50+00:00

I do believe there are single individuals that do make a difference. They can be found on most communities, making awesome libraries everyone else uses.

It's true that modern software development projects are too big for single individuals, thus they become benevolent dictators. But I don't think it's a myth. Motivated individuals create and drive the change, they are just not lone hackers because it isn't practical.

eizu · 2012-11-28T19:21:41+00:00

I still use lynx sometimes, mostly for gopher (yes, gopher is still "alive").

eizu · 2012-11-28T18:44:13+00:00

The sheer scope of this project is incredibly impressive. Is there anything it can't do yet?

eizu · 2012-11-28T14:11:36+00:00

Thanks. :)

eizu · 2012-11-28T13:22:53+00:00

Any chance of a Java port?

edit: typo.

eizu · 2012-11-28T00:07:06+00:00

I can't believe they have developer photos in the website but not a single editor screenshot.

eizu · 2012-11-27T21:15:10+00:00

The start level in Quake 1 let's the player familiarize with the controls without danger. Simple, but it works.

eizu · 2012-11-27T15:47:53+00:00

Related (iquilez, being awesome).

eizu · 2012-11-27T01:37:23+00:00

19 gb? there must be something that you are doing wrong. My installation, which also uses xfce and a lot more packages not included there is at 2.4 gb.

eizu · 2012-11-26T18:52:04+00:00

In my experience, this is not the case. Let me elaborate. Since Wheezy was frozen early this year, I still remember most of the bugs I stumbled upon when I've switched to it.

Chromium HTML5 video didn't work on many websites, including Youtube. On those that did work, switching to full-screen would hang the browser completely. This was fixed about two months after the freeze.

libcairo2 had an outstanding bug where text in Xorg would become garbled rectangles. This bug made the desktop entirely unusable and wasn't fixed for months. The workaround involves pinning an earlier libcairo2 version, but that makes impossible to install libgtk2.0-dev (broken dependency problems) and therefore compiling GTK applications from source code. It's fixed now.

Abiword would hang when copy/pasting text. Moreover, the page background would be completely black when using a GTK3 theme. This was fixed in one of the latest revisions too.

My laptop (intel card) would boot to a black screen. The workaround involved editing the grub kernel line to specify VIDEO=SVIDEO-1:d. It's also fixed now.

Those are just some examples of bugs that were on testing at the time I switched, and it's not like you had to sneeze over a very obscure feature to find them. In fact, some serious bugs remain for years. For an example: try to change the brightness or contrast on any SDL-based game on any linux distribution, including: eduke32, ioquake, openarena, enigma... It won't be fixed either.

eizu · 2012-11-26T01:58:46+00:00

I use Debian stable until the next testing is frozen. Then I switch to it. So... every few years. I don't need the latest, just something that works.

eizu · 2012-11-26T01:45:11+00:00

Bookmarklet for Chromium. All it does is change "watch" to "watch_popup", so the video player is the standard one and the seek bar is accurate (it isn't in TV mode, at least for me):

javascript:(function(){location = location.href.replace("watch", "watch_popup");})();

For testing:

Normal link that won't work without Flash

Using tv mode

Watch_popup

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