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zxy

12 karma · joined January 20, 2012

Amateur Web designer and developer http://PlanetZXY.com
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zxy··on Warsow 1.0 Released
It would've sucked in Warsow imo.
zxy··on Warsow 1.0 Released
That's not a Warsow map.
zxy··on Warsow 1.0 Released
They are quite organized, it's pretty hard to be disorganized, when you only have 2 main developers, and 2-3 occasional helpers.

I think the biggest hurdle in developing this version was actually the choice of using libRocket to script the UI with. Turns out the lib is very slow, and it needed lots of work to get working properly.

zxy··on Warsow 1.0 Released
When this game was founded, about 7 years ago, Quake 3 was at a pretty big peak. The original goal was to make the next big competitive FPS. Though that didn't last too long, even though the scene is still largely very competitive players, there's no big tournaments for the game. Another thing to note, is that Warsow's engine is actually based on idtech 2.
zxy··on Warsow 1.0 Released
Yeah, the game right now I don't think is that good. I was talking with the developer and he's planing on doing some big gameplay changes. I really hope it turns out good, that game has a lot of potential.
zxy··on Volatile Software (2012)
I personally think it's better to break backwards compatibility if you're removing or changing something that was bad in the first place. Otherwise, there is no need, and thus it never breaks. Much like in the case of your list of non breaking programs.
zxy··on How I lost access to my Google account today
Considering the post is titled "How I lost access to my Google account today," there is a lack of how.

It's well known that your data should be redundant, this is one of those 'I didn't make a backup' posts.

zxy··on Poll: What's Your Most Disliked Programming Language?
But then there's python.
zxy··on PHP source code now hosted on Github
I remember Linus saying they only keep the last 5 years of commits, because more isn't really necessary.
zxy··on Pure CSS Clickable Events Without :target
The cool thing :target allowed was those css3 only lightboxs (http://tympanus.net/Tutorials/CSS3Lightbox/). I might play around with this method and see if it works as well.
zxy··on Add Syntax Highlighting To Your Blog With VIM
It seems the output uses the <font> element. That element has been deprecated since HTML4(https://developer.mozilla.org/en/HTML/Element/font).