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renekooi
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Comment #10828859
The HD Edition has a new AI[0] that's much stronger than the old one. It's built by Promiskuitiv and Archon, two well-known AI scripters in the Age of Empires scene :) [0]: http://…
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Comment #10792479
It was random. According to SteamDB[1] it was a caching issue that ended up sending random pages to the wrong people. Possible explanation from unknown source: https://www.reddit.c…
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Comment #10686443
I like this a lot. It's similar to the proposed function bind syntax[1], but a bit more friendly to not-`this`-related use: function bindMap(fn) { return this.map(fn) } [ 1, 2, 3 ]…
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Comment #10604105
Messages are sent through plainly first over Twitch's IRC-ish protocol. You can connect to Twitch chat with a simple IRC client, or through the browser. Twitch's own browser chat c…
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Comment #10163886
view-source should keep working reasonably. WebAssembly defines a Text Format for exactly that purpose: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/TextFormat...
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Comment #9777739
`.call` is a method in some Promise libraries (eg. Bluebird). Basically, connection.call('collection', 'users') is a shorthand for: connection.then(value => value.collection('users…
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Comment #9718369
querySelectorAll returns a NodeList instead of a real array, so you can't call things like `.forEach` on the result. `[].slice.call(x)` turns x into an array, so that becomes [].sl…
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Comment #9640000
Location: Groningen, Netherlands Remote: Ok, prefer local Willing to relocate: _Probably_ not Technologies: Javascript (Node, Ember, Backbone, ES6 & other new stuff), HTML5/CSS3, P…
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Comment #9504113
Another ASCII art weather (forecast) utility, but in Go: https://github.com/schachmat/wego
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Comment #9402561
Another false positive anecdote! My parents used to have their ISP's adult content filter enabled. One day I couldn't visit DeviantArt, because it said "Mature Content Filter Enabl…
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Comment #9369378
Socket.IO also gives you things like cross-everything callbacks: // server io.emit('event', function (msg) { console.log('Client responded!', msg) }) // client io.on('event', funct…
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Comment #9333035
Nice work! I'd been using http://caniuse.com/#info_news , but it requires some manual checking still :)
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Comment #9074624
It's not about graphs, it's about the entire app. That includes lists and paragraphs of text.
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Comment #8988416
For node.js, there is a module: https://www.npmjs.com/package/deasync
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Comment #8980373
Location: Groningen, Netherlands Remote: Fine! Willing to Relocate: No Technologies: JS (browser&Node), PHP, HTML5/CSS3/LESS, Python Résumé: http://rene.kooi.me/cv.html Email: rene…
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Comment #8959684
OT: I love how the satellite view switch button shows the actual satellite view at its location[0]. [0]: http://i.imgur.com/ycJmczX.png
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Comment #8830314
South Korea doesn't quite fit the "liberal" label either. It's a technologically advanced country, but a socially conservative one.
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Comment #8648354
YT videos lag a lot when I stream them directly in VLC 2.2.0, (`vlc `) and some protected videos don't play at all, so I often use this: ytplay() { youtube-dl "$1" -o - | vlc - } A…
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Comment #8513081
The old AI wasn't particularly good. Playing versus modern AIs, or actual people, is an entirely different experience!
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Comment #8512873
The Forgotten expansion ships with a much improved AI. Expansion-less uses the old Petersen AI from the original game, and that isn't particularly intimidating anymore!
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Comment #8512174
It's something that kind of looks like lisp, but the only thing it has in common is the parentheses. You basically set condition→action rules, one level deep, with a limited amount…
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Comment #8487124
It's the colours used in the Flat UI Bootstrap theme: http://designmodo.com/flat-free/
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Comment #8265066
And that image is returning a 404 :)
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Comment #8097261
Idunno, the web browser has been discontinued for 3 years now. It also seems that bolt.co and Instagram's Bolt are much more similar to each other (apps dedicated to person→person …