Twenty years later I wrote a Tetris again
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Twenty years later I wrote a Tetris again
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Re: Twenty years later I wrote a Tetris again
#2"One night in May of 1996 I was bored and wanted to play Tetris very badly..." now this is how a great programming story should start :-)
Re: Twenty years later I wrote a Tetris again
#3"One night in May of 1996 I was bored and wanted to play Tetris very badly..." now this is how a great programming story should start :-)
"... so I connected my laptop to the internet, searched github, and within minutes I found several great implementations" ;)
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#6"One night in May of 1996 I was bored and wanted to play Tetris very badly..." now this is how a great programming story should start :-)
"... so I connected my laptop to the internet, searched github, and within minutes I found several great implementations" ;)
"...the majority of them in node.js, so now I need to install 500MB of dependencies to play a simple game of Tetris."
Re: Twenty years later I wrote a Tetris again
#7I think any re-implementation of something you are fond of is a great exercise. It reminds me of a small project in undergrad for a networking course. Our professor's assignment for the quarter was to implement a basic TCP stack using the UDP protocol. It wasn't perfect and had quirks but it worked for a basic client/server model and gave me a huge appreciate for what happens when we use the internet.
I think the higher up the stack you go the easier it is to lose appreciate for all the lower layers that facilitate your stack. And over time I fear new generations of programmers are losing touch with what the basic foundation of a computer is. Sure they will study theory but do they really know how many man hours are supporting their stack?
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
"... so I connected my laptop to the internet, searched github, and within minutes I found several great implementations" ;)
"...the majority of them in node.js, so now I need to install 500MB of dependencies to play a simple game of Tetris."
"... I then proceeded to rip out dependencies until I no longer needed to. I put up another one called Tetris-Lite. After a quick search I found that already existed."
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
"... so I connected my laptop to the internet, searched github, and within minutes I found several great implementations" ;)
"...the majority of them in node.js, so now I need to install 500MB of dependencies to play a simple game of Tetris."
Check out https://github.com/mafintosh/tetris . This is a Node.js based Tetris clone, with only 46KB of dependencies.
Please provide an example of a Node.js project which downloads 500MB of deps.