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I would strongly recommend building up a portfolio of cool side projects and making them publicly available on github. I think more and more tech interviewers are starting to look at candidates' github accounts and taking it seriously. Even better if you can host your side projects somewhere so they can easily check it out.

Counting cards in poker? Say what? The deck is shuffled between every hand.

Unless you're referring to the basic skill of determining odds to make a certain hand based on your hole cards and the common cards?

For a product like this, the extra weight is a good thing.

Nit: The first articles in the series came out in 1999, so more like 17 years old :)

Yep, it's closed source. I dream of a day where they open-source it, but IIRC the creator has turned down various monetary offers so as to retain complete control of the game, so it seems unlikely that he'd ever release the code.

Interesting read, thanks for posting this. I was flabbergasted to see that he had only been diving for 4 years when he made the attempt.

Two points in this article really rang true to me in particular:

- the tendency for divers to speed through increasingly more advanced dive certifications. Often I'll be at the dive shop waiting on a tank fill, and I'll overhear somebody talking about how they had such a fun time during their beginner open water certification that they signed right up for advanced and divemaster courses. There's nothing wrong with educating oneself, but I think the false sense of mastery instilled by these courses is clearly a potential danger. The material learned in the class must be complemented by real-world experience for the concepts to become second-nature. The dive shops make money on this mindset too and so share lots of the guilt.

- going deep for the sake of going deep. There's always that one guy (it's always a guy in my experience) whose goal is to get deeper than everybody else on the boat. As far as I can tell, it's pure machismo. Not only does it lead to accidents like this, but you have less bottom time, worse visibility due to lower light, and in most places the richest animal life is not at the deepest part of the dive. So it's stupid. This article seems like that mindset taken to the extreme.

I don't want to speak callously of the dead, but this guy appears to have had it coming. And I think the dive shop that sponsored him should bear a big chunk of the responsibility for this accident, as outlined in the article.

This is a good step in the right direction, but this piece is still incredibly insensitive. Using words at all is literacy privilege. The author really needs to start thinking about people who either can't speak, or have lost the ability to speak. Not to mention the fact that there are millions of infants and mentally disabled people on this planet who can't even read, let alone speak. Sorry if I have offended you with this harsh response, but I'm still feeling extremely triggered by the brash insensitivity on display in this post.

I really want to want one of these but I have no idea what I'd use it for, and not enough space in my euro rack to risk on it.

I'm so glad that we live in a universe where this exists, though.

Seriously. Thanks a lot, jerks. Well, I guess I can cross it off my to-watch list.

It's been said before, but in the opinion of many would-be DF players, it's really the interface that could use a massive amount of love. The ascii graphics may not be your cup of tea, but at least they would be functional if, IF the interface/controls/menu systems weren't all so horrible and obfuscated and totally inconsistent with each other. I've come to the conclusion that the developers get some sort of sick joy out of putting this incredible, tantalizing core out there but making it completely inaccessible to the average player. Maybe that's their strategy to weed out non-diehards until "it's ready".

This is not sexist. This is anti-his-girlfriend-ist.

Some people just love being victims I guess.

This is really cool. Somebody already asked for a reverse button, how about a way to playback the evolutionary history of your biomorph (animated)?

Knowledgeable and cool user name. Approved.

Dolphins aren't pinnipeds. Just sayin'