It took the loss of 17 lines of Javascript code to bring down a lot of NPM builds, after an indie dev faced off with a corporation bearing the same name as his lib.

https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/1941 ... npm-builds

What I found fascinating was reading the comments (and not just the first page of them). I knew that programming had changed since I left that world twenty years ago, but I didn't realise quite what a mess parts of it had evolved into.

This is what happens when the whole client side of the internet now runs on a minimal dialect of Scheme that got kitbashed together in one hectic week in 1995 as part of the browser wars.

I'd say, "Mmmmmmmmmmmm...."

http://www.cnbc.com/2015/06/05/amtrak-t ... bacon.html

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/m ... ear-attack

Only in North Korea.

Mural in Cairo: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/29/world ... rbage.html

Man escapes death after crawling from car dangling on cliff edge, only to be hit by a passing bus

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... 67416.html

Hordes of radioactive wild boars are running wild in Japan.

So begins the end of an era.

http://news.zam.com/article/292/eve-online-has-just-started-its-first-big-war-in-years

Glor wrote:So begins the end of an era.

http://news.zam.com/article/292/eve-online-has-just-started-its-first-big-war-in-years

Never have I been happier to know that I have nothing to do with that game. Sounds like a hell of a mess.

Ornette wrote:Mural in Cairo: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/29/world ... rbage.html

Thats amazing. Wish i could see it in real life.

Glor wrote:So begins the end of an era.

http://news.zam.com/article/292/eve-online-has-just-started-its-first-big-war-in-years

Fascinating! I never knew there was an MMO that actually let the players form cooperative empires and control territory. That's cool.

At the largest levels the game sounds amazing, yes, but as I understand it on the individual scale EVE is basically Spreadsheets: The Game.

IronEvangelion wrote:Fascinating! I never knew there was an MMO that actually let the players form cooperative empires and control territory. That's cool.

Something I wish every MMO did. If I remember right, one of the big pastimes for the larger alliances is to see how successfully they can raid highsec areas, which usually have a dreadnought or two lurking around. I've bought a book on Amazon that details all of the great wars in EVE's history. The fact that this book is even a thing is too awesome.

NemZ wrote:At the largest levels the game sounds amazing, yes, but as I understand it on the individual scale EVE is basically Spreadsheets: The Game.

Haha! Pretty much. Along with trying to figure out how your goddamn ship works, most of your time is spent in a shitty mining rig trying to farm minerals for ISK so you can get a less-shitty mining rig. Supercarriers, for instance, can take RL years to build and you can only operate them after you've spent RL months/years training your characters in very specific skill trees. Pretty neat once you get the hang of it, just way too time consuming.

Traditional Australian priorities in a nutshell.

NemZ wrote:At the largest levels the game sounds amazing, yes, but as I understand it on the individual scale EVE is basically Spreadsheets: The Game.

The joke among us EnB players was that EVE was a "mining simulator". Their first expansion, if I'm not mistaken, included a mining station operable by the player.

In the 4 weeks I played it, the stereotype certainly seemed to hold true. I mined, got a bigger ship, mined, hung out with a French guild, mined, was given a better ship by someone else, mined.... lost interest.

I never experienced "ganking" or even so much as a harsh word from somebody; I wondered if I lucked out, or if players were just less competitive then?

My interest peaked again a little when I heard about Dust 514; a 1st-person shooter that would exist simultaneously in the universe of EVE, where you could use your EVE ship to call in orbital bombardments--- but it seemed that it petered out.

http://www.sciencealert.com/nasa-has-trialled-an-engine-that-would-take-us-to-Mars-in-10-weeks?platform=hootsuite
Get in losers, we're boldly going where no man has gone before.

Rosenakahara wrote:http://www.sciencealert.com/nasa-has-trialled-an-engine-that-would-take-us-to-Mars-in-10-weeks?platform=hootsuite
Get in losers, we're boldly going where no man has gone before.

Check the date. That created a stir last year, but nobody's published anything about it for months now. I wouldn't hold my breath.

You realize how long it takes to test something like this right.