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thejjon Microsoft Becomes Linux Foundation Platinum Member

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace%2C_extend_and_extingui...

Let's see how they'll try the next step.

thejjon Why Age of Empires 2 is still growing

I'm not playing it much, i'm actually pretty bad at it, but it's totally fun. We mainly play aoc in wine, which works very well on local LANs but is crappy via internet, same without wine, which was the initial spark.

Nobody had suceeded in creating a clone with potential at 2013, so we took chances and are still trying to do it the "right" way.

I think the last year I played about 40h of aoc, so actually not that much, and haven't played aoe:hd yet.

thejjon Why Age of Empires 2 is still growing

I'd like to remind you that there's openage, a free engine for Age of Empires 2.

https://github.com/SFTtech/openage

It will be the future if you wanna accomplish things the original engine is incapable of doing, especially a sane mod API.

Help us make it more awesome :)

thejjon Ask HN: How to read faster

This is a free python gtk3 speed reading tool:

https://github.com/SFTtech/splash

It needs a lot of polishing but may be a good start for you.

thejjon OpenRTS: A 3D Real-Time Strategy Game Engine

You might be interested in the free Age of Empires II engine then:

http://github.com/SFTtech/openage

thejjon Gtkflow – interactive gtk3 flowgraph widgets

Think of the awesome applications:

* GNU Radio

* Pulseaudio mixing

* Desktop environment configs

* (your program here)

thejjon An open source engine clone of Age of Empires II

Terrain blending theory: https://github.com/SFTtech/openage/blob/b7af79f1d5bfcc986935...

Terrain blending implementation: https://github.com/SFTtech/openage/blob/b7af79f1d5bfcc986935...

I think we got the perfectly matching algorithm, we even get the same blending bugs with snow :D

thejjon The Satoshi Nakamoto SourceForge account has been hacked

A bitcoin address appeared on satoshi's profile page:

https://blockchain.info/address/19pta6x1hXzV9F5hHnhMARYbRjux...

http://p2pfoundation.ning.com/profile/SatoshiNakamoto

Satoshi Nakamoto posted a status:

"Tip Jar: 19pta6x1hXzV9F5hHnhMARYbRjuxF6xbbV"

thejjon Fully Functional 1KB Hard Drive in Vanilla Minecraft

ok, it does work. i totally forgot about the command blocks. he's using them to change the block type.

thejjon Fully Functional 1KB Hard Drive in Vanilla Minecraft

Yes, but you don't see BOTH block types on the big tape. Swapping bits requires one block for each state, but the green ones are missing from the tape screenshots.

thejjon Fully Functional 1KB Hard Drive in Vanilla Minecraft

Imagine a write process: You'd need to somehow replace the visible blue blocks with a green block. But where does the green block come from?

thejjon Fully Functional 1KB Hard Drive in Vanilla Minecraft

-> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8202255

thejjon Fully Functional 1KB Hard Drive in Vanilla Minecraft

This will not work as described. I think his design is a good idea, but still does not work.

I build a better harddrive (with 4 kb storage!) over a year ago, imgur link will follow.

Now to the design problem in this HDD: see that all the blocks are blue in the platter? No way to swap each of the bits without magically creating new green blocks. My hdd solves that problem by having BOTH block types available on the platter. But see for yourself:

http://imgur.com/a/8ESMW

thejjon Just Use Sublime Text

but it's non-free software.

you should also consider trying emacs.

thejjon Is Wine Bullshit?

lol the first thing i thought this article is about was the wine software from winehq.org :)