That was fun until I got to the point where no progress could be made and I had to undo a whole bunch of times to get to a workable configuration. Perhaps add a notification of some kind that I've gotten myself in that situation, rather than letting me kill a bunch of time solving an unsolvable puzzle. Still, very enjoyable!
Same here. On yesterday's puzzle I got into an unwinnable state on my very first move, using the topmost word (spoiler: I made "hut" instead of "out").
lmao same. actually a really cool fun/concept it's definitely wordle popularity caliber, but once i got to the last 3 words and ended up in this scenario and the hint button said that i was like -_- owned.
not sure what the right game experience would be for that. a notif that says "You can still solve more words but you'll never solve them all!" doesn't quite work here, because it's sort of saying "there's only one _right_ way to win, but good luck figuring out the right order". Still, it would be better than me finding that out at the very end.
it would probably be pretty important to design levels so that the unwinnable states can't happen early in the game, but it's getting a little abstract to think about at this point. sort of brings me back to that unblock it game from the old ipod touch days.
maybe a percentage chance of solving puzzle tracker that updates a bit randomly slow so you don't necessarily know right away that you made a mistake, although it would have to be a bit weird, for example when you start you are not at 100% of solving puzzle.
Oof, Cloudflare has been one of the most interesting tech companies for me, and one I would have worked for in a heartbeat. But the MAGA pandering in this tweet is quite disappointing. I get it, running a large business in the US these days requires a certain amount of bootlicking, but still. And I say this while generally agreeing with Matthew's stance.
The "haters" who long ago have warned about the risk of Cloudflare MITM'ing global website traffic have been proven right. In the end, Cloudflare is another mass surveillance tool next to Meta/Google/Apple which will be weaponized in the interests of the current US administration.
Not just Google. I had ChatGPT regurgitate my HN comment (without linking to it) about 15 minutes after posting it. That was a year ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42649774
> Gemini pointed me back at MY OWN comment, above, an hour after I wrote it. So Google is crawling the web FAST. It also pointed to: https://learning.acm.org/bytecast/ep78-russ-cox ... I had ChatGPT regurgitate my HN comment (without linking to it) about 15 minutes after posting it.
Sounds like HN is the kind of place for effective & effortless "Answer Engine Optimization".
As someone who paid for a lifetime license of Tailwind UI, unlike, I strongly suspect, simlevesque - I 100% agree with this. The negativity is completely uncalled for, please take this somewhere else and do some self-reflection.
I was interested to read that. Thanks. I think aspects of his personality came out in that, but also the horrible truth that "public intellectuals" become targets for many people. I have no doubt if some of the names I have catcalled on HN like Malcom Gladwell or Ray Kurzeweil were online in HN they'd be coming in for some flack, from people like me (with lesser chops, but a lot of opinion about them, as public intellectuals)
I saw this in the flesh at a book festival. Dale Spender, a notable feminist author who moved sideways into IT tech (she was involved with online learning systems) did a book talk and the majority of questions from the audience were "Gotcha" attempts about here philosophy and feminism, with nothing to do with the subject at hand.
Fifth grade, early 90s, informatics class with Russian-built 8-bit computers (Corvettes). The "programming language" only had drawing commands (LINE, CIRCLE, etc) and the first program was the homework to draw a house. We were to write the program on a piece of paper and then type it up in class the next day. Everybody came in with your basic six-line box + roof. I had two pages of code with a 3D house, door, windows, chimney, shining sun, etc. I was hooked.
After that, a Logo-like language called Roo (with a kangaroo instead of a turtle) on school 286 PCs, then BASIC (with help from magazines) on home ZX Spectrum, and finally Turbo Pascal (with help from, well, the IDE help files) in after-school club, all during middle school. Made up my mind to become a programmer very early on.
My interpretation of "Postgres for everything", which I totally agree with, is that it is a sane initial default for just about anything. It is a well-understood stack that most people have had some exposure to, and that can handle quite a wide variety of problems. New/specialized tech will have all sorts of sharp edges, it will absolutely introduce complexity, and bring about headaches you didn't expect. And frankly, in lots of cases it's premature optimization. With all that said, if the use case has proven itself out and Postgres is truly starting to struggle - by all means, good time to explore alternatives. There are no silver bullets in this business.
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