CivBase

Not really. This game uses a turn-based combat system with a hex grid. It's more like Sid Meier's Civilization, but with a drastically simplified economy and a strong focus on battles. It also has a Tolkein-esque fantasy theme instead of a real-life history theme.

If that sounds at all interesting, I suggest giving it a shot.

You're right... but I think you have incorrectly conflated "web" with "desktop". Websites work perfectly fine on smartphones when they are designed to do so. I'm using HN on my phone's web browser right now to type this comment. I don't need an app for HN.

I don't have many apps on my phone because I've found I simply don't need them. There are basically only two cases where I use apps:

1. When I want push notifications

2. When I want to use local files

How very noble of Google /s

> we have not been “pressured” by Atari to make these changes.

> Atari approached us to explain their plans for the Transport Tycoon Deluxe re-release, and what it might mean for OpenTTD.

> we understood that a compromise would be needed to balance Atari’s commercial interests […] against the availability of a free, well-developed evolution of the game.

Sounds to me like you were pressured by Atari to make these changes.

Because they're cheap.

> What do you mean by "monitor and control"? Should an employer not be able to see what their employees are doing at work?

I don't see any reason to get into a discussion about how much an employer should or shouldn't be able to monitor and control their employees. Some businesses are simply more trusting of their employees and allow a great deal of independence, while others aren't. Those that aren't will naturally face greater barriers to monitoring and controlling employees who are working remotely.

> What is an "excuse" for a layoff, exactly?

It's no secret that when the return-to-office movement began, many businesses used it as a means of achieving a headcount reduction. Employees who could not (or would not) return to the office were let go. Parting ways with difficult employees looks much better to investors than layoffs.

For something to "backfire" you first have to account for why it was done. This article assumes performance and retention are the only considerations. It does not account for things like commercial real estate value, a buesiness's ability to monitor and control its employees, or excuses for layoffs.

Here's his video on it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uKZ84zwJI0

The spirit of the rule is clearly about using AI to determine what you say and how you say it. Translation is not again the spirit of the rule and I doubt you'd get in trouble for using it.

Hacker News is about technology and venture capitalism. Those sorts of comments are very much expected here.

> Google isn't waiting

Years of legal battles says otherwise. They just know they've already lost this one.

> the 30 percent Android app store fee is dead

No it's not. It was just reduced to 20%.

With a title this wrong, why should I even bother reading the article?

Nobody is harmed by their pursuit of perfection. But the adoption of GraphineOS has certainly been hampered by its lack of device support.

I personally believe the project would achieve more overall good if they supported more devices - assuming they are capable of doing so without sacrificing software quality. That includes support of devices which do not meet the project's current security standards.

When did I make any demands of GraphineOS? I have no expectation that they support me. I'm not entitled to benefit from the work they've done. My opinions are merely opinions and those who maintain and contribute to GraphineOS are not obligated to value them.

They're only bumping it down to 20% (or 15% in some cases). Anything over 5% feels like an abuse of their anti-competitive position.

And they're still taking 10% for subscriptions. What's the justification there?

> In what ways has the pursuit of perfection harmed the good in their development?

Their lack of device support means I am still running Google's Android and will continue to be until a GraphineOS-supported device that meets my needs becomes available. This means I'm not just lacking in security, but I'm also stuck with Google and all of their anti-consumer practices.

Running GraphineOS without all the security features they want would be better for me than what I currently have.

This is a perfectly reasonable solution if the problem really is child safety. But we all know it's not. There's money in surveilance and profiling.

I'm sure many law professionals felt the same way when we started getting bombarded with EULAs.

Oh cool. That's a promising start.

I don't know if the "The Nebraska Guy Ranking" this project uses is very useful, though. In particular the "depth" criteria doesn't make much sense to me, since it assumes the more foundational a dependency is, the more robust it must be. This seems to run counter to the point of the original comic where the "Nebraska Guy" piece was the fragile block holding up the entire tower.

This project also doesn't attempt to measure or visualize the complexity of a project. Theoretically a more complex project would require more support than a simple one, so I think that's an important metric to capture.

It'd be really cool (and probably useful) if someone could figure out a way to generate diagrams like this for any software project.

You'd first need to figure out a way to generate a complete dependency tree. For each box, I interpret its height as a measure of its complexity and its width as a measure of the support it receives. The hardest part would probably be figuring out a way to quantitatively measure those values.

The only games I've encountered that don't work on Linux are ones where the developer has intentially designed it that way. Some developers are paranoid about cheaters and one of their solitions is to tell all Linux users to kick rocks.

Aside from that I've encountered a handfull of games with performance issues on Linux (especially with Intel/Nvidea hardware), but most run just fine. Some technically run better on Linux, but I haven't encountered any where the difference was perceptable to me.

I used to bother with things like registry edits, until I eventually realized the technical difficulty of operating Windows has surpassed that of Linux.

Of course I still have to use Windows for work and even a few edge cases at home. But otherwise I've been quite happy since I swiched to Linux as my primary driver.

This is excellent news. Hopefully Motorola will soon produce a GraphineOS-compatible device that meets my needs.

Although I seem to curse whatever company I buy a smartphone from. My last three devices were from HTC, LG, and Sony. Hopefully Motorola doesn't share the same fate.

But at least your laptop can run Linux. You get to decide as the user whether the problems that come with it are worth it.

And while some machines have problems like that, there are plenty of manufacturers who will sell you Linux devices with better support.

Also I don't think Linux's reputation is as problamatic as you make it seem. It is astoundingly popular and continues to grow - owing in no small part to its accessibility.

The Pixel hardware does not have the capabilities I consider to be essential for my personal phone.

Indeed. Apple is financially successful, but they're ultimately a minority player in pretty much every market they engage with - including desktop/laptop computers and even mobile devices globally. And for me they are just as inaccessible as GraphineOS.

But for Apple that is not necessarily a bad thing. They're a company. Their goal is to make money and they are highly successful at it. GraphineOS is not a company. They don't make money. Which begs the question of what is GraphineOS's real goal and is it valuable? Creating a maximally secure mobile OS seems valuable on its face, but that value is undercut by its inaccessibility.

Imagine if the Linux project had this same mentality. Thank goodness they don't.

I'd think the answer to "why not?" would be because in being a bare bones, dead simple text editor is Notepad's core feature. And by adding these redundant featues, they are effectively removing Notepad's core feature without even providing a replacement.

Is the value add for Notepad not that it is litterally the most bare bones graphical text editor available in Windows?

Microsoft has already positioned VS Code as its code editor and OneNote as its notetaking app. Why should Notepad compete with these offerings?

The goal is and always was to make as much money as possible. Any consideration for how it affects actual people was marketing to get ahead of bad PR and regulation.

Safety was never a genuine concern. They simply don't benefit from marketing themselves that way anymore so they've stopped pretending.

The bigger shame is that it took Peter Theil's name to get people's outraged about this. Discord handed over their users' identifications to a third party without regard for how it would be used or secured. I don't care if it was backed by Peter Theil or Mother Theresa - it's a huge problem either way.

And they'll do it again too. They'll find a new partner - one with less baggage - to do the exact same thing and few people will bat an eye.

I understand why a the original manufacturer might want to destroy their remaining stock to keep up an inflated perceived value. What I don't understand is why the business buying the remaining stock would want to do the same.