Notices by sheltering under cats (ceejbot@rafting.io)

I have been playing video games longer than most of you have been alive. And my goal is to be playing them long after most of you are DEAD BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHAHAHAHAHAHA(H) cough sorry what were we saying?

Colossal Cave Adventure
Galaxian
Zork
Wizardry
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Infocom)

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RT @jakeregal
What were the five most important video games to you throughout your youth/teen years? No curating to look cool/interesting please
https://twitter.com/jakeregal/status/1260449257821216768

I write so much throwaway code just to understand problems. I rewrite once I understand.

RT @danielzklein@twitter.com
Game idea: dungeons and dragons. You can play either as a dungeon or a dragon. The dungeon's goal is to get a nice dragon to move in. The dragon's goal is to find a nice dungeon to live in. It's a dating sim.

Sounds about right.

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RT @smashingmag@twitter.com
“The notifications prompt is by far the most frequently shown permission prompt. Not even 3% of these prompts got accepted by users. Most prompts are dismissed, while almost 19% of prompts caused users to leave the site immediately”.

https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2019/04/01/reducing-notification-permission-prompt-spam-in-firefox/
https://twitter.com/smashingmag/status/1166312598129823744

RT @MIT_CSAIL@twitter.com
Left: MIT computer scientist Katie Bouman w/stacks of hard drives of black hole image data.

Right: MIT computer scientist Margaret Hamilton w/the code she wrote that helped put a man on the moon.

(image credit @floragraham@twitter.com)

#EHTblackhole #BlackHoleDay #BlackHole

Gonna start giving writing tests in technical interviews for programmers.

No more fizzbuzz or "reproduce some famous person's PhD work on the fly on a whiteboard while being stared at". Just "write the docs for this chunk of prewritten code".

Today in remarkably cool things:

https://github.com/modernserf/zebu

Don't use Airbnb.
No really, don't use Airbnb.

Hotels are regulated in ways that protect *you*, the person who stays in them. Airbnb's profits come from arbitrage: it skips the cost of adhering to the regulations.

Please enjoy this extremely floofy lynx.

https://twitter.com/HourlyLynxes/status/1045417987954659328