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Super fun! Obviously I wouldn’t do this on purpose because it defeats the object of the game but if you watch this on an iPhone, you can pull down the Notification Centre and it’ll show you the title of the video you’re watching as part of the media controls. The title has the year in it.

This is adorable.

Great game! I got a 95 point landing after a good few goes then I saw all the fun people were having with the crashes so I joined in. Great job!

Interfacing with git sucks

I disagree

This is a very well written article, and thank you for the advice. Lots that resonates here.

If they don't exist, this is a good idea for anybody looking for a project to write a programming book

Hahahaha

Hahaha. I see what you did there

Oof yes, this is exactly the kind of beef I would like to see on VHN.

This is excellent.

Was anybody else also hoping for a Victorian HN Front Page with list of parody HN links which one might've expected to see in the 1880s or something?

- New Developments Greatly Increase Steam Engine Efficiency

- Show VHN: I have developed plans for a machine that will travel through time

- Nikola Tesla on Direct Current

- Ask VHN: Is the Trans-Atlantic telegraph cable down?

Any other ideas?

This isn’t quite what you’re looking for but I have a GitHub project to create various implementations, including for ethereum! https://github.com/conwaysgame

EDIT: perhaps the GitHub’s main README could include links to various implementations too!

I suppose this doesn't fit on Wikipedia, but obviously one possible cause is that Cats are aliens from a planet abut 3.4 million lightyears away, and during that 7 million year period, all the cats left Earth suddenly because their planet needed them [1]. They used a near-light-speed vehicle to get there, solved the crisis on their home planet, then returned to continue their stewardship of Earth, and then the vehicle flew back.

Publishers, line up

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5k8ZQsZJpk

The author lost me when they took a train from Moorgate to Barbican. Clearly doesn’t count as walking underground!

Predictable angry comment about the stupidly large ad on this site for eToro: apparently my thumbs are too fat to close it, when do I get my complimentary dialling wand?

So fat in fact that it opens the ad no matter what I do, only to be told that eToro is not even available in my country.

So not only do I see a massive ad that makes the article hard to read, I can’t even close it, and it’s for a product I can’t buy.

I hate this, and everybody involved in implementing it should be ashamed of themselves.

Honestly I wish I had thought of that title ahahah!

Hahah! Thank you! That name is much better :D

Congratulations!

I agree, it needs to be much more cost-effective. Someone In The Know told me that there's some attempts being made to make it more cost-effective with something called Optimism (https://twitter.com/optimismPBC) - but after looking into it, it does seem like you'd need to buy tokens. I specifically wanted this Game of Life to be driven by ETH!

You don't need to share of course but I am curious - is your contract a more "legitimate" use than mine? Something which is a genuine utility?

Thanks for reading btw!

Hi! I have a public Trello board [0] with a list of projects I'm working on, or ideas I have, which from time to time people comment on!

Currently I'm doing a version of Conway's Game of Life in Solidity for the Ethereum network. Spoiler: it's not going to be affordable to actually use it on the network!

0: https://trello.com/b/v4dV9CQS/1-dans-side-project-ideas

Thanks for sharing your experience. Yes, I like the sound of this model too, at least for now. It'll be interesting to see how it scales if it does indeed scale!

This is helpful, thank you. I will bring this up with my colleagues.

This is new to me, thank you for sharing! It would fit the bill. Very interesting.

EDIT: Hang on a second, Tom Forbes! Fancy bumping into you here yet again. It's Dan from Marvel!

A very nice sentiment!

I think one of the most useful parts of this list of suggestions is to write or improve tests. You did allude to this, but I think it’s the most useful part (if test coverage starts out poor) because by doing so, especially before doing any other changes, you’re making it easier to do some of the other suggestions with confidence.

Good read!

Cool, thanks for confirming :)

Is it just a coincidence or is Moderna’s name and stock ticker label (MRNA) intentionally supposed to reference the type of research they do? (mRNA)

Hah, came here to make this comment!

I have always wondered how Tesla is allowed to sell cars where the controls are so touch-screen-heavy. It does seem far less intuitive and more distracting than the convention for many controls.

I always assumed there was some rigorous usability test they’re required to undergo.

Yes, and they should call it Verifhide.

EDIT: Also, that's not always the case. The author of the piece herself is Verified and she clearly runs her own account: https://twitter.com/WaterSlicer

I appreciate the celebration retrospective on what the web used to look like. However I take issue with the name. Since this is Hacker News, I hope you're okay with this kind of unimportant semantic argument.

From Wikipedia:

The "Dark Ages" is a historical periodization traditionally referring to the Middle Ages (c. 5th–15th century) that asserts that a demographic, cultural, and economic deterioration occurred in Western Europe following the decline of the Roman Empire.

If you're trying to keep with how "Dark Age" I don't think the periods you're referring to are at all "Dark". The cultural output of the web back then was _massive_, novel, and growing. It's even more massive now, and growing at a faster rate than before. Whether that output is quite as novel now is up for debate, but what I'm saying is that if there is such a thing as a "Web Dark Age", we haven't seen it yet.

Back then, it was the early days and things were still being worked out. It wasn't a deterioration, since there was nothing to deteriorate.

Nonetheless, I like the website and it's a nice snapshot of some design trends of the time.

Probably fine in some use cases. But another reason on top of what's already been said: Because you might be sending the data back to a non-browser client such as a mobile application.

I like your blog! It reminds me of https://littlebigdetails.com/ except it’s the opposite. Bookmarked!

This may not seem like a big deal, but consider the effect that such an influential source of “correctness” can have on the general sense of what is correct.

Spell checkers like Word’s are responsible for the “z” in British English being demonised. Once upon a time, according to linguist Gretchen McCullen, it was common in British English to use both z and s. But somewhere along the line, automated spell checkers categorised one spelling as British and categorized the other as American, and it created a whole new hobby for many British people who fancied themselves the guardians of the English language, courageously pointing out whenever someone used the filthy, “dumbed down” version from across the Atlantic. We have these brave volunteers to thank for defending the purity of the famously consistent English language, and for these people we have spell checkers to thank.

Thanks a lot, spell checkers!