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The origin of a thing does not forever define what that thing is and always will be. C++ has evolved far beyond C with Classes.

> Year.version

I think you mean "(Year % 100).version". Or is it "(Year - 2000).version"? Pardon me for being overly pedantic, but ever since Y2K it really bugs me when someone refers to a 2-digit number as "the year".


I think I saw Jesus, because a guy ran right across the surface of a swimming pool.


yeah the NPCs need a bit more attention.


> Pen and paper is just not a very good way to produce text.

Pen and paper are literally designed to produce text.


Horse carts are literally designed to transport people but they aren't very good at it compared to cars


I visited this page in Firefox and was presented with a message that essentialy said (paraphrasing): "this site best viewed with browser X". Now, I'm not a professional web developer, and maybe there are legitimate reasons why this app is depending on new cutting edge browser features that aren't yet supported by Firefox, but it seems to me that this just shouldn't be a thing anymore.


You can load and get into game with Firefox, you can click the proceed anyway link at the bottom to try it, however performance is worse and some features don't work.

Namely Firefox is missing support for the `FileSystemFileHandle` locking mode which prevents multiple tabs from running (cannot share file handles), and they have a negative standards position on implementing some other parts of the File System Access API like `showDirectoryPicker()`.


> new cutting edge browser features

Mozilla hates the FS api, it's existed for years but seemingly isn't going to happen in Firefox.



https://www.karelia.com/blog/the-long-story-behind-karel.htm...

> An hour later, Steve Jobs called me.

> "Here's how I see it," Jobs said — I'm loosely paraphrasing.

> "You know those handcars, the little machines that people stand on and pump to move along on the train tracks? That's Karelia. Apple is the steam train that owns the tracks."

> So basically the message was: get out of the way, kid; this is our market.

Hope folks will always keep that in mind as they develop software for proprietary platforms they don't own.

https://www.paulgraham.com/road.html

> If you want to write desktop software now you do it on Microsoft's terms, calling their APIs and working around their buggy OS.

> And if you manage to write something that takes off, you may find that you were merely doing market research for Microsoft.


> Hope folks will always keep that in mind as they develop software for proprietary platforms they don't own.

You're right of course and "The Other Road Ahead" was very prescient, but I think the desktop vs web-app divide is marginal nowadays, excepting one huge difference: desktop apps can offer a guarantee of privacy which browser based apps cannot.

Note that a guarantee is just that, Apple offer privacy guarantees, but there is is of course no such thing as absolute privacy or security.

It's perfectly possible to write desktop apps that are thin clients for web apps, so there's no real divide except where the code executes: in the browser sandbox, or in the OS sandbox.

The current issue with desktop apps is mainly UI framework related. The browser based programming model has had so many resources thrown at it that somehow JavaScript and a bunch of divs is probably the best UI framework there is, and it pains me to say that.


So SJ was right, right?


Because there's already another 6 on the same main diagonal. This is an "X Sudoku" puzzle, which means that each main diagonal must have all 9 different numbers.


All I've never done the diagonals before... oops.

https://imgur.com/a/Dfxf9CJ (before picking 2 / 6 / 7.)


https://www.sudokuwiki.org/sudokux.aspx is a useful site. I'm personally a fan of the killer variety.

Its solver is interesting in showing the individual steps.

For the same puzzle, https://www.sudokuwiki.org/sudokux.aspx?bd=06039000804900150...


if you like sudoku, you owe it to yourself to check out the "cracking the cryptic" youtube channel and get introduced to the delightful world of variant sudoku.


I frankly don't buy into this trope that a lack of monetary cost should shield something from criticism. Anything created by humans for other humans, especially tools meant for getting work done, should certainly be open to evaluation/judgement/critcism, regardless of whether the creator chooses to charge for it.

And it's not like Golang is some freshman student's hobby project; it was created by one of the world's largest tech companies, by people with a strong pedigree in programming language design.


I can't speak about Dart, but Carbon had just barely started development when it was first announced 4 years ago, and is currently presented as an experimental language that is not yet ready for use [0].

0: https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang#project-statu...


It would be fiscally irresponsible to the shareholders for tech companies not to voluntarily do so.


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