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Re: GitHub removes 5 years of One Hour One Life designer's work

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Post by tobltobs »

mkingston wrote: post #52
ZuLuuuuuu wrote: post #50

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It might not be cheaper depending on your needs. You won't get all the features GitHub provides with just a git server. You can install something like GitLab, Gogs or Gitea but then you need to do the maintenance yourself which is not minutes. Add to that the user permission system which Bitbucket like services provide out of the box (I don't know about GitHub), for example a certain team in your company can access c…

I acknowledge that this is a classic HN comment, but a git repo on a VPS with Unix file permissions meets all of your criteria with very low effort.

And when some script blocks your access to your VPS some know-it-all will tell you that this is your own fault because ...

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20064169

Re: GitHub removes 5 years of One Hour One Life designer's work

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Post by animal531 »

enriquto wrote: post #33
aasasd wrote: post #28

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He's also idiosyncratic in the approach to the rest of his life. When he practiced ‘simple living,’ in his front yard he had (or still has?) a small wild garden with uncut grass, where he of course walked barefoot and his children played naked (iirc). He was taken to the court by neighbors on the issue of grass, and appeared there with a tome of paper citing local laws and research that says cut grass exudes harmful…

It would seem that he has some idiosyncratic neighbors, then. But they are not alone, a certain amount of people are strangely obsessed by the grass of their neighbors. My kids loved the dandelions of my grass and I let them grow, but then I received regular bullying by the old lady next to our place, who had a "perfect" french style garden, and looked at us as if we were some kind of savages. I actually found this b…

Dandelions used to be both cultivated and consumed, it is only in modern times that we've decided it's a weed.

Re: GitHub removes 5 years of One Hour One Life designer's work

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Post by stinos »

bingerman wrote: post #77
Angostura wrote: post #58

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Dandelions are fine, but for the sake of your neighbours it is kind to remove the heads before they seed. Having to continuously hand weed myriad young dandelion plants can be a pain, especially, I imagine if you are elderly. I have an allotment, and you'll certainly get frowned at if you let your dandelions seed all over a neighbouring plot.

Well, those are things to consider, but the details depend on the country and the particular neighbourhood. Fortunately there are also people who prefer meadows to "perfect" green deserts. I kinda enjoy both and I've found the hybrid model works best for me and my family (no complains from the neighbours, yet;).

Fortunately there are also people who prefer meadows to "perfect" green deserts.

And fortunately it's even possible (though pretty hard) to 'turn' people.

Couple of years ago I slowly started explaining in detail why pretty much anything is better as far as nature goes than a short lawn consisting of only grass, and also explaining that the idea that such lawn is the summum of gardening is purely a cultural and economical thing without much real benefits but just costing money for the owners of the lawn. This year my neighbour proudly said he would not be mowing a small piece of his fairly huge lawn because he wanted to see more bees and butterflies (which are abdundant in my own meadows) and he might not try to remove the moss this year. So now we're both happier than before. And my neighbour will spend less time and money. Sometimes life is simple yet good.

Re: GitHub removes 5 years of One Hour One Life designer's work

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Post by SteveSmith16384 »

denkmoon wrote: post #61

removes without notice or consultation. How often do we have these articles? Averaging once a month? Maybe more? How often does it need to happen before people realise that your $10/mo means jack shit to a multi-million dollar company, and "accidents" like this are just a cost of business to them. Solving the problem properly would cost a lot more than just letting people fall through the cracks of automation.

So what should we do? What price do we need to pay to exceed the "jack shit" threshold? Specific recommendations please.

Re: GitHub removes 5 years of One Hour One Life designer's work

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Post by millisecond »

The frustrating thing to me is that this guy will get this solved and we’ll all move on. He’s reasonably well known and had enough Twitter juice to get attention. All the small people who end up in this situation, whatever it truly is, without those resources will remain screwed.

Re: GitHub removes 5 years of One Hour One Life designer's work

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Post by dooglius »

SteveSmith16384 wrote: post #84
denkmoon wrote: post #61

removes without notice or consultation. How often do we have these articles? Averaging once a month? Maybe more? How often does it need to happen before people realise that your $10/mo means jack shit to a multi-million dollar company, and "accidents" like this are just a cost of business to them. Solving the problem properly would cost a lot more than just letting people fall through the cracks of automation.

So what should we do? What price do we need to pay to exceed the "jack shit" threshold? Specific recommendations please.

Do your own backups on physical drives you own of anything truly irreplaceable

Re: GitHub removes 5 years of One Hour One Life designer's work

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Post by whatever_dude »

AgentME wrote: post #63
narrowtux wrote: post #47

According to an earlier tweet [1], the reports are from users who are mad they were banned from his discord server. > Actually, it seems like this "report" to discord came on the heels of us banning a member for posting offensive content. That member then, to seek revenge, reported the entire server to Discord, and told us about it. Nice. I've experienced similar immature behaviour in the Minecraft community back whe…

I've helped run a forum in the past, and holy shit is it scarily easy to make stupidly-determined enemies. Even people who joined just to spam offensive content would act like they were the one victimized when banned and would do all sorts of things to "even the score". I think these people would emotionally forget that they joined looking for a fight and earned their ban in the first place, and would then ride the h…

Online forums for random topics used to be the last refuge of the mentally unstable. I've moderated several forums and saw this behavior first hand; a banned user would spend so much time and effort trying to stir the pot and get back at the forum's owners for their Injustice. I often wondered why would they choose to waste so much time in a niche forum rather than go do something productive.

Naturally, nowadays they have online forums that _cater_ to this kinds of individual (4chan, some subreddits, etc). Nature, um.. finds a way.

Re: GitHub removes 5 years of One Hour One Life designer's work

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Post by enriquto »

Paradigma11 wrote: post #76
enriquto wrote: post #33

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It would seem that he has some idiosyncratic neighbors, then. But they are not alone, a certain amount of people are strangely obsessed by the grass of their neighbors. My kids loved the dandelions of my grass and I let them grow, but then I received regular bullying by the old lady next to our place, who had a "perfect" french style garden, and looked at us as if we were some kind of savages. I actually found this b…

I would guess that the neighbours mostly want to avoid the appearance of negligence in their neighbourhood which might impact house prices.

What a shitty neighborhood, when the main concern in the lives of your neighbors is the price of the houses they already own!

Re: GitHub removes 5 years of One Hour One Life designer's work

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Post by userbinator »

V-2 wrote: post #46
rurban wrote: post #42

Must have been a mistake. It's there again: https://github.com/jasonrohrer/OneLife I also found this comment on his site: Tarr (1,819.0 hours on record) Posted 42 hours ago "Can't recommend the game to anyone who either doesn't have 15+ years of game development or doesn't know Jason personally. Game dynamics are too rich for a filthy casual like myself. If you want to make a suggestion please learn to read spaghetti…

I'm admittedly not proficient in C++, but I can't see what's beatiful about the code. Looking at the specific example you linked to... inconsistent formatting and "magic values" aside, what's the point of, say: if( !relaunched ) { printf( "Relaunch failed\n" ); setSignal( "relaunchFailed" ); } else { printf( "Relaunched... but did not exit?\n" ); setSignal( "relaunchFailed" ); } Instead of simply: if( !relaunched ) {…

I'd say it's pretty mundane code, like perhaps 90% of what I usually see.

If I were trying to reduce redundancy, it would become more like this:

    printf("Relaunch%s", relaunched? "ed... but did not exit?\n" : " failed\n" );
    setSignal("relaunchFailed");

Re: GitHub removes 5 years of One Hour One Life designer's work

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Post by aasasd »

abetusk wrote: post #72
babuskov wrote: post #54

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> as far as I could tell was dedicated to the public domain I recommend everyone to read this regarding that matter: https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/ay0w64/one_hour_on... I don't think Jason really understood what public domain means when he released the game into public domain. Once people started using his work as PD work, he started to complain, file DMCA requests, etc.

Very interesting, thanks! Just to be clear, it looks like Jason Rohrer is still very much committed to putting his work in the public domain and, as far as I can tell, has been consistent in his commitment to keeping the work he's dedicated to the public domain in the public domain. What looks to be happening is more of a trademark issue. I think Jason Rohrer might be backpeddling on that. It looks like he clearly in…

From his twitter, he apparently has recently filed a trademark application for OHOL.
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