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axlelonghornon The Departed Queen (2012)

For those that want to watch the game as the article unfolds, here it is: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1648780 (arrow keys advance the game)

axlelonghornon Employees of kixeye accused of racist remarks fired

He said, "you sound racist", not "you are racist".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=b...

axlelonghornon Double Fine Adventure Kickstarter finishes at $3,335,250

https://twitter.com/#!/TimOfLegend/status/178928061285277699

"$2.7MM!?! And it looks like our hourly rate is going up! Um, people... three million dollars... that was the budget of Grim Fandango!"

This has been such fun to watch happen.

axlelonghornon Why is C faster than Java: git vs JGit

There was a google talk on this posted to HN recently, but I can't find it. In it, one of the directors of the build / testing / code review system at google was talking about how they get things working at scale. Since everyone works out of the HEAD of one Perforce repo, they end up using the map-reduce infrastructure to perform tests in the cloud for each checkout. In line with this, there are too many files, that update too often for every developer to be checking out of the repo, so they use a custom FUSE filesystem to lazily give access to files only when they're needed.