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Yes, "inverse" could perhaps be more clearly stated as "inverted". I've heard the term used this way before, but it's not common.

If only there were a single word that could convey "difficult to translate without using more than one word", alas the closest we have is "untranslatable".

Yes, a few folks in the NES homebrew scene have managed it. Here's a cartridge my team released this year: http://starversus.com (currently sold out, hope to have more soon) and th…

A crying face is called "ever" #define ever (;;) for ever { // do something }

Wow, Super Mario Bros Special looks terrible. Very strong evidence that the main reason the NES was so successful was its easy to use hardware scrolling. Just one write to a memory…

A couple of years ago jwz did something similar, getting the original Mosaic browser to talk to the modern internet: http://www.jwz.org/blog/2008/03/happy-run-some-old-web-brows...…

The same thing happened years ago to New Brunswick, New Jersey, a college town that produced some very successful artists in the past 2 decades: Lifetime, The Bouncing Souls, Thurs…

I used to years ago, but eventually wrote a browser extension Paragrasp to do it: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/paragrasp/lhhabjbh... for Chrome and https://addons.mozi…

As of an hour and a half ago, it's April 1 in Japan.

Another possibility, which I use for testing my Firefox Add-ons, is using Rhino + env.js, which creates a very good simulation of the DOM.