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I had the source on green stripy paper. A friend and I wrote a customised version of it (in FORTRAN 4) to run on our college computer (a Pr1me 300B) with our own messages and map. Nobody liked it much so we gave up and I wrote a version of the early Star Trek type game instead which proved immensely popular - so much so that we were instructed to restrict access to it as all terminals were permanently occupied with students playing it.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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OriginalGriff wrote: to have the FORTRAN sources for that on microfiche!
It might take you the rest of the year to top that statement!
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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It does date one slightly, doesn't it?
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Forogar wrote: proves how many hours I have spent playing TOCC (The Original Colossal Cave).
It was all in the name of QA, right?
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Youngin!
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Marc Clifton wrote: Youngin!
It's the rare insult that makes you feel better.
I just arrived late to the game.
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Extra credit for using both "grok" and "xyzzy" in a sentence. Mr. Peabody apparently fired up the Wayback Machine for you!
Fun game, back in the day. I spent countless hours lost in those twisty little passages. As a result, xyzzy.txt remains one of my go-to names for a temporary/junk file.
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Eric Lynch wrote: Mr. Peabody apparently fired up the Wayback Machine for you!
That's correct, Sherman.
I really loved the Rocky & Bullwinkle show. I also liked Tennessee Tuxedo[^].
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Wow, that's fantastic!
Now I can to Xyzzy every day!
Nothing happens.
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So I want two lines to not be treated as a paragraph.
Like this:
Line1
Line2
Not this:
Line1
Line2
Google, find this. Says:
A paragraph is consecutive lines of text with one or more blank lines between them. For a line break, add either a backslash \ or two blank spaces at the end of the line.
In Bitbucket's wiki, backslash doesn't work. Two blank spaces does. So now there is a totally f***ing invisible whitespace that indicates a line break.
God, I hate markdown.
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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It annoys me enough in QA, and I have it disabled there! Even disabled, it manages to creep in and add code blocks, strike throughs, and such like stupidity to code. Fortunately, it's only there until I refresh a solution, but ...
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Amen.
I just dug through a work request that was in part fixing a boatload of markdown documents so that code blocks in the middle of lists were formatted correctly. Gotta make sure all our text lines up nicely...
1. something
```
is wrong
```
1. with this
---
1. but this
```
is fine
```
1. gah
TTFN - Kent
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String programming* is fantastic.
But white-space programming...that's another level of genius altogether!!
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Exactly! If I had wanted to program in Python, I would have hit myself upside my head with a brick.
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Exactly! If I had wanted to program in Python, I would have hit myself upside my head with a brick.
Genuine LOL!
But I think it might be more on the order of a boulder-size stoning.
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Especially variable pitch fonts. That leads to using fixed pitch fonts OR inserting tabs and then you have another rabbit hole to dig yourself out of.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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raddevus wrote: But white-space programming..
Can we even call it that anymore?
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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raddevus wrote: white-space programming I seem to remember there was a Brain [^] variant that used space, tab, carriage return, and line feed characters in place of some of the commands.
Software Zen: delete this;
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That's an interesting subject and a good wiki entry. thanks for sharing.
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I like Markdown in general, but dislike the case you ran into: there are so many Markdown implementations that *mostly* work the same way, but you run into edge cases like the line break where it's inconsistent across implementations - some do it one way, others do it another way, and others don't support it at all.
Interestingly, the documentation you linked to is from Commonmark - which is an attempt to standard Markdown and give all implementations a common spec to target.
Maybe we should give Bitbucket a hard time for using a substandard Markdown parser.
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Just because Mark Down spells his name correctly...
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I was so fed up with Markdown that I wrote my own processor and then hit the wall when trying to decide which version to follow. John G who first came up with it deliberately left the spec vague and ambiguous, which is a little annoying because he's commands a lot of clout in the industry and does owe part of his livelihood to his infamy.
Fair's fair, John: nail down the standard so we can fight over it and create new standards. Otherwise all is chaos!
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Last night, SWMBO commented on the poor quality of dark scenes in some movies.
I suspect it's simply the way the movies are mastered on the original DVD since the crappy picture varies quite a bit from movie to movie. However, I'm willing to consider it may be the video card.
I currently use a GTX-1050 (2gb ram) in the home theater box. Would a video card with more RAM resolve the problem we're seeing? If so, I'm looking at getting a 1050ti (twice as much memory as the current card, and still doesn't need an external power connector).
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Before spending money on new hardware, try downloading some calibration software for the display. Assuming you (or SWMBO ) aren't colour-blind, you should be able to ensure that your screen is giving you the best picture that it can give.
Win10 has built-in calibration software; I assume that similar software is available for Linux.
(You can also spend money on external calibration hardware, if you've got money to burn)
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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