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Comment · 8 years ago
> Without the in-game ability to start over after making a mistake, you're forced to deal with whatever the game throws at you. No excuses, no rationalizations.

I found "Alien: Isolation" to be amazing in this aspect as well. You can only save at very specific points in the map (no quicksave), and in many situations where you might expect the game to be paused, like when saving progress, it's really not.

Makes you think twice before doing anything.

Comment · 8 years ago
It's like the devs of Clang and GCC suddenly joined to define what "C20" means but bypassing ANSI and ISO processes.
Comment · 8 years ago
I can perfectly see this implemented without breaking backwards compatibility, similar to how we have usermodes for "connected via SSL" and channel modes for "requires SSL".

It doesn't require breaking backwards compatibility because, as far as outdated clients are concerned, they just "can't enter a channel because they lack a required usermode" or "can't send a message to some user because they lack a required usermode".

We only need the spec to define "some way" to do it so clients can announce their support and servers know what to do with the supporting clients.

Then it's up to IRC daemons to provide some modes for it.

Comment · 8 years ago
And federated too, if I may add.
Comment · 8 years ago
Aren't they basically the ones controlling the protocol specs through the BitTorrent Enhancement Proposals (BEP)?

(Honest question.)

Comment · 8 years ago
If you begin this, please leave a GitHub link so I can follow it :)

EDIT: Or a link to the repository, in case it's not hosted on GitHub.

Comment · 8 years ago
Last time I checked you could create a directory with a name "like:this" from Linux or something, and Windows would display it but not allow you to access it in any way.

Have they fixed this? (Just pure curiosity)

Comment · 8 years ago
As long as humans continue to be like we have been so far, i.e. with the mentality of destroying our own planet and not caring about it, or committing crimes like kidnapping, etc... as long as there are individuals like that, every time we humans learn something new, things will inevitably turn way more scarier.

Whether it's colonizing other planets or making a full-dive VR; just thinking about the time when we can do any of these things gives me a headache.

Comment · 8 years ago
I wonder if this app has a drawer.

swipes to the right

> Message archived.

No wtf.

undo

Guess it doesn't.

Comment · 8 years ago
Worse of all is that this abbreviation must have come from someone who had no idea what cryptocurrencies are; someone who thought it was "magical WoW money but better".

Because I just can't wrap my head around the fact that anyone who knows what a cryptocurrency is, is somehow unaware of all the massive prior art indicating that crypto=cryptography.

It's like calling light bulbs "glowing pears" (jk, I love the German language <3).

Comment · 8 years ago
Chill.

It's both a user and UX problem. It's like when some part of a website's functionality is only available through Flash.

You know some (nowadays "most") people will have it disabled, and you're indirectly saying that you don't care about those users at all, which is not a bad thing.

It's the users' fault for not enabling Flash, sure, because they're not your target audience. But whether you provide a good UX for your non-target audience or not, it's your fault. And again, you're not obligated to accommodate those users, but that doesn't change the fact the you could give them a better UX but chose not to.

So, from this you can know that the users GitLab cares about are only a subset of the users GitHub cares about.

Comment · 8 years ago
The article doesn't say which version, though.
Comment · 8 years ago
Eh, I think they were talking about the UX for people that have JavaScript disabled, not about the JavaScript language.

To me it sounded more like "I can browse GitHub without JavaScript just fine, but GitLab doesn't even display the README, even though I'm using the exact same settings".

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