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ggerritsen

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About ggerritsen

Software engineer

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    Show HN: MMO Chess – One Global Chess Game for the Internet

    What if the entire internet played a single chess game together? I built MMO Chess as a fun experiment in crowdsourced gaming – when you visit the site, you're randomly assigned to…

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    Wow, that looks interesting! I guess the accountability is something that I could use. Question: does the community mostly exist of full-time entrepreneurs, part-time entrepreneurs…

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    Ah interesting, thanks! It seems then that master doesn't seem like a very loaded word in the context of git. Even so, changing it would then not be very impactful as well (not cou…

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    I don't think chess grandmasters should be necessarily named differently, though having a gender-neutral term would be better. Not sure about the master used in the music industry.…

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    I'm mainly hoping to rid our technical vocabulary of non-inclusive terms, like master/slave, based on https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-knodel-terminology-00.html#r...

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    Great initiative! I'm really interested in how this would turn out in the US. In Norway, it's been somewhat of a success, hopefully in the US as well!

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