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I'm so impressed with your project's documentation (README), nicely done!

Well just watch the whole thing, from nomination to winning, to award acceptance to Mr Fry taking the stage again and tell me that his comment sounds like a joke. I'm sure he intended it to be a joke and to not be taken seriously, and I'm sure he was sincere when he was calling her the best costume designer in Britain, but the joke didn't work. The comment came across as crass and harsh and mocking of a woman who's just won an award just because she's dressed unconventionally for an awards ceremony.

I think he missed the mark with his 'joke', and as I've said before I'm not personally offended and I'm not going to tell him off publicly on social media but I can't help how his comment felt mean spirited to me and still does despite context of their familiarity.

Well I'm actually curious now what the twitter response was, because as I've expressed here, I think his 'joke' missed the mark and came off harsh, which I found hurtful by proxy I suppose. I wouldn't like to be called that live on television. So I'm assuming most of the response was 'that wasn't very nice I think you should apologise for that remark' and Mr Fry's response is to get annoyed that anyone would get offended by his comment and eventually close his twitter account. I'm sure there were much more extreme remarks but this is twitter, you're going to get chaff with the wheat.

I personally think he was out of line and even with the context of they were friends I think it was a mis-judged joke. I'm not going to go on social media to tell him about it but my opinion of him has certainly changed based on this behaviour.

I'd like to be clear that I'm not advocating anyone on twitter or anything that was said, I have not read any of the twitter response to this.

I just wanted to say that I could understand why people saw it the way they did, because to me it came across as really mean. It really stood out and made Mr Fry seem rather mean even compared to some of his other jokes. I'm not personally offended and I'm not going to twitter about it but I can see why people felt it was harsh because it felt harsh to me.

I mean, I watched the show, I heard what he said, it's whole tone was off compared to the rest of the night. It really stood out and sounded awfully harsh.

Now I'm not going to go to twitter about it, it didn't offend me but it did come across rather mean and crass.

Without clarifying it it looks like he stood on stage in front of a bunch of rich celebrities and slagged off the winner of an award for not wearing conventional dress to an award show.

I'm all for offensive comedy, but this wasn't a joke, he was basically slagging her off in public, live on television to a room full of people. Without context of their relationship it really looks like bullying. That's completely different to an offensive stand up comedy joke, especially when its so personally targeted. Some context to clarify that it wasn't mean and they're friends would have taken the edge off the 'joke' and nobody would have cared, but it was so off the cuff and mean it just looks like he is bullying her, which is probably what touched a chord with so many people. I'm sure Mr Fry is the last person who would want to be seen as bullying anyone.

I watched the BAFTAs with my girlfriend last night and I have to say, when Stephen made that comment we both said 'woah that's a bit mean' out loud. Of course, being the general public we're not aware of Mr Fry's relationship with the lady who won the award but from an outside perspective it came across as a bit bullying.

I only found out today about the twitter backlash and I don't think it should be lumped in with so called SJW movements, or the anti-anti-offensive movement, it really sounded like a hurtful unnecessary comment that he shouldn't have made without context or clarifying their relationship. It really seemed un-characteristically mean for Mr Fry.

Wow. Our 'up and coming' excuse for living in South London is actually turning out to be true.

Well, you've just convinced me never to return to Ireland until I retire, thanks!

I'm fairly sure they disable the trackpad while typing

Oh. So she's actually racist. Great.

Wow, the comments on this post really do sum up his points in this article. The whole article isn't about goto at all, but about programming myths and how they perpetuate and how HN is just allowing us to be more lazy by only reading the titles to posts. Why is nobody discussing the actual intent behind this article, which is how myths and, slightly related, programming myths begin and propagate throughout our education and culture.

Instead, ITT, gotos are bad and here's why, gotos are ok and here's why, gotos are good and here's why.

Could you point the racism out in this tweet?

Please point out the racism in her satire-laden joke about how america perceives the rest of the world?

Am I the only one that "got" what she was saying?

Well this is a little strange to link. I've been using this small library for years, last update was 2005. Hardly 'news'

Not everyone can multi-task that well. I know at least 2 people, girlfriend included, that can't do anything when on their phone. They'll literally stop in their tracks when walking on the sidewalk or completely drop out of a conversation when reading / writing a text message. Let alone playing a game. I also think its a bit rude to play a game when in the company of someone else trying to have a conversation.

I've observed a work colleague play this game. It looks incredibly boring, and its not much fun to hang out with someone who is glued to their phone the whole time, changing routes just so they can get more portals.

Whatever makes people happy I suppose.

Lua is 20 years old :)

My only reason for using Uber in this city is that it beats the hell out of black taxi rates, will definitely not be using this service.

Seems like they're just trying to mitigate the protests happening today.

So weird to see this here

I bought threes because of 2048...

This is a lot of bullshit. They're obviously different games, credit was given where credit was due. 2048 helped, not hindered Threes. I've even passed Threes around my friends, they love it.

I like it less now.

King.com have been around forever pretty much copying every game type it could. Bejeweled, Bubble Bobble, Peggle, and tons of board games. I'm not surprised at all. Their games are pretty good clones though.

Used this a good bit over the past year. It's really good for finding some inspiration from better sources than Google Images.

Sony have some shitty support for OpenGL. Any developer worth his salt used Sony's API.

Wii had its own API too, though closer to OpenGL, still wasn't OpenGL.

I'm a huge fan of OpenGL, but evangelists have been spreading misinformation about OpenGL just as much as they accuse DirectX as.

Are you joking?

You can't pull code from another node, i.e another developer? Git is distributed, if you want centralised source control use Perforce or SVN or something.

I think most developers would have considered creating a git/gist powered blog. I know I have. Being able to simply add a new markdown doc to a repo and have it show up in a blog based on date added would be cool.

I wanted to be more creative, John Cleese gave me some advice (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9rtmxJrKwc). Basically I sit in a café for an hour everyday (on my lunchbreak) with 0 distractions (no phone, laptop etc), and I get bored on purpose. Nice thing about getting bored is, your brain starts to think of things to prevent the bordem. You start to think of ideas, and you start to write those down. By the end of the hour you may have between 6 - 12 new ideas depending on what your train of thought was during the hour. When before I had no idea what kind of personal projects I could work on in my spare time, now I have too many, I don't have time them! Eventually they'll all go on my personal website once I get it up and running.

I carry a notebook everywhere with me and write down every idea I have during my "creativity hour". I have a nice large stash of ideas in it now. No I don't share my ideas, not because I'm selfish, or I think they're worth money (every personal project goes up on GitHub), but because they're personal projects with no real worth to anybody else (at least at the conception phase). When I think of an idea that will change the world, or if any of the ideas turn out to be any use to anybody other than me I'll be sure to share it.