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It would be a fun idea to make a console-based Tetris game, methinks, showing it off.
Jeremy Falcon
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Pretty sure you just committed to an article. Just saying... 
In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. ~ Ronald Reagan
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 Oh crap.
Jeremy Falcon
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Why did you bother waiting for 24-bit colour to code Tetris?
8 colours would suffice.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Actually I didn't. Back in the 90s I coded a Tetris knock-off when I was a young lad. It was DOS based, which is why the console thing reminded me of it. Back in the good old days when invalid memory access would crash the entire system. 
Jeremy Falcon
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Cool, my first programming projects were a version of Tetris and Frogger, both on the ZX Spectrum way back in the day (1983ish).
I remember as a 15 year old getting £150 for a version of Frogger accepted for publication in a magazine (Your Computer if I remember correctly), which as a 15 year old back then was a lot of money, to me anyway. Gave me a taste for making money from coding, that hasn't failed me yet.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Glad to hear it man. Now if we just had a tetris emoji...
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: It would be a fun idea to make a console-based Tetris game, methinks, showing it off.
6 – Tetris
Yes it’s even found its way to the command line, this great little game has kept me entertained on many a Friday afternoon.
Commands:
J: left
L: Right
K: Rotate
Space: Drop
Run:
tetris-bsd
Install(Ubuntu):
Sudo apt-get install bsdgames
A quick google found that here[^]
Marc
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Oh snap. Thanks for the link.
Jeremy Falcon
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cool. chkdsk /r in red, nice.
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You could use different shades of red to indicate the severity of the error...
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I'm so glad that the feedback they listen to is, "we want more colours in the command shell"
But that's not the feedback they listened to. The feedback they listened to was "we want more colors in the command shell".
Those British colours will have to wait until the next version. 
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Even after seeing the reference article I'm sure you made it up... It can not be real!!!
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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It will be interesting to see if this affect the current possible sale negotiations between Verizon and Yahoo. imho, it also raises a question about why we are finding this out now.
Note: I mis-read the article as saying 500k accounts were hacked, perhaps because I couldn't imagine Yahoo having 500 million users. I still have trouble believing that.
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
modified 22-Sep-16 16:16pm.
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Oh no!!!
They got all my incoming SPAM!!!!!!
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Not sure what's worse, they covered it up for two years because they wanted to look good to potential buyers, but some disgruntled ex-employee spilled the beans.
or
They didn't even know for two years.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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I don't consider it a big deal as the passwords were hashes (per reuters[^]) and the remaining data is more or less stuff you can find on spokeo or related websites.
The negotiations are complete and I don't see Verizon backing out, but I could be wrong. Verizon is buying Yahoo for advertising and competitive leverage, not for the junky web portal. 4.83 billion for Yahoo Core is pretty cheap if you consider they are in the top 5 visited websites in the world.
I am biased as my junk email service is through them, but more importantly, I've owned shares in YHOO for 2.5 years now. They own 15% of Alibaba and back then, it was the only way you could get your hands on it.
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BillWoodruff wrote: Note: I mis-read the article as saying 500k accounts were hacked, perhaps because I couldn't imagine Yahoo having 500 million users. I still have trouble believing that.
Have you been living under a rock?
Although they are less successful in the west... Yahoo has massive penetration into many Asian-Pacific countries. In the last decade Yahoo had a much larger Asian presence than most other U.S. tech firms... including Microsoft and Google. Some countries such as Vietnam at one point had extremely high percentages of their population exclusively using yahoo.com email accounts.
Much of that success is slowly eroding away over time.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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We all know accounts are not users. How many people have abandoned accounts where spam took over?
Of more interest to me, AT&T uses Yahoo! as the Internet portal for their Internet and Mobile account holders. Is AT&T allowing Verizon to take over responsibility for its accounts without a qualm?
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LinkedIn Learning combines the content from Lynda.com with LinkedIn’s professional data and network. Who better to learn from than the site that lets you know when coworkers are starting to look for a new job?
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LinkedIn don't seem to know what they are at the moment - they tried a bit of social networking stuff with Groups but that seems to be hidden away now, they have user generated articles but again that seems to be on the wane and the news stream is basically Facebook without real life friends...
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LinkedIn Learning combines the content from Lynda.com with LinkedIn’s professional data and network.
How is this different than them spamming me about lynda for the last year and change.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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New name, so it's all new spam? 
TTFN - Kent
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With this release, TypeScript delivers close ECMAScript spec alignment, wide support for JavaScript libraries and tools, and a language service that powers a first class editing experience in all major editors; all of which come together to provide an even more productive and scalable JavaScript development experience. In case that's your type
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In Windows 10 RTM last year we introduced a new MIDI API, accessible to UWP Apps on virtually all Windows 10 devices, which provides a modern way to access these MIDI interfaces. "By pressing down a special key, it plays a little melody"
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