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lumpysnake | 8 months ago | on: Steam, Itch.io are pulling ‘porn’ games. Critics say it's a slippery slope

These are private companies and you better believe they have a say in what they make available on their own platform.

They do not have to host your game that they don’t like and that doesn’t make it censorship.

lumpysnake | 11 years ago | on: Learn Dart in 15 Minutes

This has got to be the worst learn x in y minutes that I've ever read. Whitespaces, anyone? Every example is compacted and very hard to read. Comments should document each line instead of a huge wall of text before the function.

Naming everything ExampleX is very difficult to see what is being talked about in this particular function.

I'm lucky to know enough about Dart already, because this is a very bad representation of it, IMO.

lumpysnake | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: have you ever seriously learnt something through online courses?

I'm on week 2 of Functional Programming Principles in Scala, at Coursera, and so far it's been a very pleasing experience. Lectures are of very high quality, and assignements are well built. I can't talk for any other MOOC, because that's the first one I've been on, but I would definitely recommend it to anyone.

lumpysnake | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: How can I add 10-15k to my annual income this year?

Nobody said it was gonna be easy.

lumpysnake | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you explain "this" to beginners?

Most of your explanation does not translate really well outside of javascript. Where did you get that the OP is using javascript?

lumpysnake | 12 years ago | on: Ads are disgusting.

The problem is not with the ads themselves. What you described here screams ADWARE at me. Somehow, your grandpa got an adware installed on his machine (maybe by clicking on every ad that says "boost your computer speed by 10x!"). That's what is causing him such a painful browsing experience.

lumpysnake | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: What is the newest hobby you have picked up?

Speed Cubing

lumpysnake | 12 years ago | on: Doge2048

That's the strategy I use all the time but never won a single game (out of 10).

lumpysnake | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: What have you learned in 2014 so far?

Amen to the more technical part.

lumpysnake | 12 years ago | on: AngularChat

That's good work! However the user experience is not the best. I would rather have the chatrooms stacked on the left, instead of inside a dropdown. That way we can quickly see the available rooms. And I'd like to have a list of users currently in the same room as me.

Also, a personal preference of mine is having the new message text box on the bottom.

Keep it up!

lumpysnake | 12 years ago | on: Happy Pi Day

Actually, Pi day is next year on March 14th, 2015. It may also work today if you take into account only the first 2 digits after the decimal point, but it kind of defeats the purpose.

lumpysnake | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: How to disable new Google search styling

> but it's hard to scan and the design looks amateurish

What about Hacker News' design? I guess everybody agrees it's ugly, but it gets the job done. I think your just being over-picky for nothing.

I actually find the new design to be more pleasing to the eye and a lot cleaner. And my search results are still as good as before, so who cares.

lumpysnake | 12 years ago | on: I open sourced my startup

Clickable: https://github.com/KitchenPC/core

lumpysnake | 12 years ago | on: How in-app purchases have destroyed the game industry

In-app purchases are not the problem, people paying for them are.

lumpysnake | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: What is your current pet project?

Link?

lumpysnake | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: What's the best development book you've read?

OO programming is a mess if you make a mess out of it. There is very good OO code out there, and there is also very bad code.

Also, functional programming is such a mess.

I think you get my point.

lumpysnake | 12 years ago | on: More functional C#

What's the point of writing code in a functional way to end up with something that is completely unreadable?

I'd rather have code written in simple, well factored functions and classes and easy to reason about, than having to deal with such a mess of functional code.

Don't get me wrong, functional code can be very elegant and clear, but the example provided here is a huge turn off to me.