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You're missing the point. Retrogaming is about creating the familiar feeling of playing the games. A WiiU controller is not the same as a NES controller. HDMI is not the same as CRT + Scanlines.

Retro gamers generally play on the original hardware with CRT screens. If they can't do that, they play on emulators with using controller input converters and shaders or scanline generators. Gaming on a WiiU does not recreate that experience.

Watch the videos on this channel for more info:

https://www.youtube.com/user/mylifeingaming

The Wii U only supports Limited RGB, and playing on a Wii U misses the entire point of Retro Gaming.

Some of the issues were recently patched:

http://libretro.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5428

The default RetroPie installation is notoriously laggy[1] when it comes to NES/SNES games. Some of the issues have only very recently been patched by enthusiasts:

http://libretro.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5428

[1] I guess it depends on how sensitive you are to lag in the first place...

There's also the Retron 5 that plays NES, SNES and Genesis carts.

Also the Retro Freak: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2016-cyber-...

Each of these devices have their own issues though.

As someone that just shelled out $200 for a PVM CRT monitor to support retro-gaming, this device doesn't appeal to me at all. I'd wager I'd get a better gaming experience via a low-lag emulator with the appropriate shader plugins.

IMO, they should create a cheaper version of something similar to the Analogue NT[1], with built-in network connectivity that you can use to purchase and download legal roms.

[1] http://www.analogue.co/products/analogue-nt-information

Reminds me of a conversation of I had with a Cameroonian recently. He said: "I don't understand how these drug dealers and criminals can get away with so much in your country [I'm from South Africa]. Where I'm from the soldiers will take you to the bush and execute you. That's how they brought peace to my country. The military kidnapped all the criminals and drug dealers and killed them".

I don't have any way to verify this, but he seemed pretty happy about it and hoped they would do it in other countries too.

edit: Wait... did I just read correctly? He gave the public permission to kill drug addicts? That's the WTF of the year.

I'm sure there are certain fields where the amount you realise you do not know is proportional to how much you do know.

> If the seniority of two particular judges happened to be exactly equal, they would not shake hands at all.

Somewhat similar to Buridan's Ass.

... an ass that is equally hungry and thirsty is placed precisely midway between a stack of hay and a pail of water. Since the paradox assumes the ass will always go to whichever is closer, it will die of both hunger and thirst since it cannot make any rational decision to choose one over the other.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buridan%27s_ass

I've been playing Kenta Cho's games since forever. I've sunk countless hours into Noiz2sa, rRootage, Parsec47 and Tumiki Fighters. His games are usually very minimal, creative and stylish with a nice techno soundtrack.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k2yhmvdSkU

He is the reason I spent several years writing shmups.

He is one of the first devs I knew about that switched from C++ to D.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABA_Games

I don't think QBasic's mainstream popularity can be understated. Googling "gorillas.bas" gives you a predictable result. I suppose it can be argued that Gorillas and Nibbles are partly responsible for QBasic's popularity (is there a lesson in here somewhere?).

However, like many others, QBasic was not my first experience with a BASIC language. Prior to that was GW-BASIC on PC (it was part of our introductory course to Computers at high school), and before that was Sinclair BASIC, which I learned in part from a book called "Peek, Poke, Byte and RAM"

http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=2000269

But my first encounter with a programming language was Logo:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_(programming_language)

I'm sure there was a BBC Kids show that featured Logo programming (yes, they drew shapes with the turtle), but I can't remember the name. What I liked about Logo was that, as a child, it seemed very intuitive, and I felt like that even without having touched a computer I knew what programming was about, which is a lot more than I can say for any other language I've worked with.

r/all looks nothing like my front page.

While it's arguably true that the level of discourse is not what it was 5 years ago (or maybe my interests/world view has changed - probably a combination of both), a (personally) curated list of sub-reddits is still 100x better than the default reddit.

It's a query with an existence constraint, meaning that the query will only return data if at least 1 value is returned by the EXISTS predicate. In this case, you should get back all the data from ThisTable as long as there's a row in OtherTable.

But that's not the "tricky" bit. I'm using a feature of SQL that ignores the values in the SELECT clause when used as part of the EXISTS predicate. In the past, people used to type in the EXISTS predicate SELECT 1... because it was (wrongfully[1]) assumed to be faster than SELECT <column(s)>. This query proves that the query engine does not attempt to compute the SELECTed values. If it didn't, it would fail with a division by zero error.

[1] See Chapter 7.9:

    If the <select list> "*" is simply contained in a <subquery> that
    is immediately contained in an <exists predicate>, then the <select list> is 
    equivalent to a <value expression> that is an arbitrary <literal>.

http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~shadow/sql/sql1992.txt

Not really a trick in the spirit of the blog post, but I often catch people out with this, after telling them that it's legal to divide by zero in SQL:

    SELECT *
    FROM ThisTable
    WHERE EXISTS
    (
        SELECT 1/0
        FROM OtherTable
    )

That's a rubbish statement that you quoted. Some tribes often fought with each other, others didn't (eg. who were the Khoi-san people at war with?). And often, the ones who did fight amongst each other lost more in terms of lives and resources to colonizers than anything else. And not just because of fighting. Colonizers also brought with them diseases like smallpox etc that decimated native populations.

I'd have to agree. Most ZA BBSs only popped up after 1990.

http://bbs.hmvh.net/lists/the_list.htm

There were a few that were around during the late 80s, so it's plausible that there may have been BBS catering to porn. But to sell it via BBS during the late 80s? From Krugersdorp? No ways.

The people who were really in the know about stuff like this were guys like tKC from The Phrozen Crew, and in his own words, he only started catching onto BBS in 1991.

http://defacto2.net/wayback/the-life-and-legend-of-tkc-2000-...

Phrozen Crew were a very well-known cracking group during the 90s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_warez_groups#Phrozen_C...

I think many people (myself included) spent ages recreating Nehe's rotating cubes and then calling it a day. It was fun, but looking back I wish there were more sources for learning actual game design.

Now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure there were. I probably just wasn't looking in the right places.

This company was recently determined to be one of the best tech companies in South Africa to work for:

http://www.derivco.com/

http://mybroadband.co.za/news/business/145115-what-its-like-...

It would be interesting to study Simulacra and Simulation when it comes to social media and memes.

People tend to align themselves with other people and communities who share similar beliefs. You can often see this where people Like and Share these meme images with some "profound" message (eg. "A real man/woman ...") when they like, agree with or find interesting for some or other reason.

So, what IMO would be interesting to see is how these things changes their world view and self-image. Are they replacing the reality of life with a simulacra (the meme; Social Media "friends" I supposed can be argued to be another simulacra)? How much more likely are they to like/share to share posts from others who they perceive to have similar world-views, even if they know very little about the topic? How likely are they to defend ideas which they only have by virtue of their social connection to other people?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacra_and_Simulation

Seems like an extreme move. Why not vote to raise the fractional reserve minimum and then see what effect it has?

It is essentially a communications problem. Brian Conrad summed it up:

For every subject I have ever understood in mathematics, there are instructive basic examples and concise arguments to illustrate what is the point to generally educated mathematicians. There is no reason that IUT should be any different, especially for the audience that was present at Oxford. Let me illustrate this with a short story. During one of the tea breaks I was chatting with a postdoc who works in analysis, and I mentioned sheaf theory as an example of a notion which may initially look like pointless abstract nonsense but actually allows for very efficient consideration of useful ideas which are rather cumbersome (or impossible) to contemplate in more concrete terms. Since that postdoc knew nothing about what can be done with sheaf theory, I told him about the use of sheaf cohomology to systematize and analyze the deRham theorem and topological obstructions to construction problems in complex analysis; within 20 minutes he understood the point and wanted to learn more. Nobody expects to grasp the main points of IUT within 20 minutes, but if someone says they understand a theory and does not provide instructive visibly relevant examples and concise arguments that clearly illustrate what is the point then they are not trying hard enough. Many are willing to work hard to understand what must be very deep and powerful ideas, but they need a clearer sense of the landscape before beginning their journey.

http://mathbabe.org/2015/12/15/notes-on-the-oxford-iut-works...

Here's a comic that makes light of the situation:

http://www.sandraandwoo.com/comics/2014-11-24-0636-hodge-the...

From:

http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2014/11/24/0636-hodge-theater/

I used it for about half of the EAP. For the biggest problems were performance and some general quirks (which admittedly may have been fixed/adjusted by now). It also didn't particularly provide me with a sense that I was being more efficient.

Right now I use a combination of SQL Management Studio and Atlantis SQL Everywhere. SMS to manage entities in design view, and Atlantis because of it's much better intellisense and ease-of-use features.

Does anyone have a good counter-point worth reading? I understand that it's more of a anecdotal rant, but it's not the first time I've read something like this about TDD.

I've tried TDD, but I've found that it just stifles my productivity too much.

> How do I overcome this sense of loneliness and dismality?

You are actually asking several different questions. But I suspect if you can overcome this one, you'll find that you won't really yearn for deep friendships as much.

There are several things you should probably ask yourself:

- Are upset that you are alone, or are that you are lonely? Remember, there's two are not necessarily the same.

- What is making you feel dismal about life, exactly?

- What is your definition of a "deep" friendship?

Toyota was fined $1.2b in 2014 for deliberately concealing safety defects - something that was linked to actual deaths. It was the biggest fine ever handed down to a car maker by US courts.

I don't see how $5.2b is justifiable in this case.

(This is of course besides the whole issue of whether or not people should be forced to divulge things like their phone numbers to government in the first place...)

On the one hand, $5.2B in 2 weeks is an unreasonable amount of money, and virtually everyone agrees that the value is only that high because of the kidnapping of the Finance Minister.

On the other, MTN's service has been atrocious for the last two years or so (I've been a customer for about 15 years).

$5.2B is too much, but they really do deserve a massive fine.

> I think you are overestimating how much of the popularity came from the FGC.

I'm really not. PogChamp is Gootecks, host of Cross-Counter and FG player. The meme is based on an ad they did for MadCatz Fight Sticks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkBDZ8Davvg

"BibleThump" started out as meme involving an incident with streamer Spooky and FG player Wolfkrone.

http://36.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7921h1cU41qcriw6o1_1280.p...

BibleThump resembled Wolfkrone in that image so literally thousands of viewers started spamming it with the text "spooby pls" on Spooky's chat whenever something went wrong, or the stream was going to end.

That is why you'll often see people type "<topic> pls biblethump", eg.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=df_C79cFhoM

If I'm not mistaken it was popularized by the Fighting Game Community (FGC). There's a related subreddit (r/Kappa). PogChamp and Bible Thump (which are also on the list on the linked page) were also popularized by the FGC. The interesting thing is that in terms of viewers, Fighting games have a substantially less proportion of the total audience compared to MOBAs and FPSs. It's possible that FG viewers just spend much more time chatting than other spectators because the average Fighting Game match goes by in about 2 minutes.

Besides trolling, r/Kappa is also known for sponsoring many FG players to get to tournaments around the world, so you might come across players who list them as a sponsor (in the same way you'd maybe see someone sponsored by EG - Evil Geniuses).

In "twitch speak" the term can in some ways be used to indicate sarcasm, as replacement for "j/k", or just trolling in general.

eg. "This stream's quality is fantastic kappa!"

I first read about his proof a year or two ago. I'm surprised so little progress has been made. Is there no formal collaborative effort in trying to verify his proof?

This seems like an opportunity to me. Host the proof (and ones like it) and allow commentators to annotate and explain parts, and then replace all the ambiguous parts with formal explanations.