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The article shows that picture of a clone of original Mario Bros and says it was written in 10 lines of BASIC.
I don't see how that was possible. Show the code or it didn't happen. 
EDIT
I found the code at : 10-liner: Mini Bros[^]
Here's a snapshot -- and it is as ridiculous as we all suspected...it's a huge number of BASIC statements on individual lines:
https://i.stack.imgur.com/VteNg.png[^]
modified 30-May-19 8:23am.
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My short game:
Move object around in circle.
Press keyboard.
Move object in counter-direction.
Isn't this fun?
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Gaming can indeed be addictive, but is it a mental health condition? Well, the World Health Organization (WHO) has now declared that gaming disorder is indeed a thing. Defining mental illnesses is a disorder
At least at that level of definition.
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Cash grab inbound in 3...2...1...
"Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity."
- Hanlon's Razor
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Researchers found "no evidence whatsoever" that fusion is possible at room temperature. "In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!"
Yeah, not exactly thermodynamics, but I couldn't think of a good "cold fusion" quote.
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Not the version in Pompeii[^]? Ah well, great song (and it's been a while since I heard it). Thank you!
TTFN - Kent
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F me, that was a good version! Thank you for pointing it out! 
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The project hasn't failed, they just didn't get the outcome they'd hoped for...
Also, $10 million isn't a lot for a billion $ company (and $10 million divided by 30 is even less).
Too bad they "failed" though.
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Sander Rossel wrote: $10 million isn't a lot for a billion $ company
Not a lot for what they are trying to achieve.
Clicked through with false assumptions based on title, to find
1: this money used as funding to others.
2: Research done on 3 past theories for achieving Cold Fusion.
I feel like if this was a Google/Alphabet project like loon, funding would have been closer to $100 million.
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UC Berkeley’s SETI@home, one of the most significant citizen-science projects of the late 20th century, brought the search for intelligent life to PCs. It hasn’t yet found what it set out to, but there’s still hope. "If you don't answer I'll just ring it off the wall"
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Yup.
This proves without a doubt what the Earthman's speciality is.
@home spyware, for spying on other Earthmen, obviously isn't enough; we've just got to take it interstellar.
Just wait until the Andromedan Union starts imposing fines.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Meanwhile, the Search for Terrestrial Intelligence also continues to draw a blank.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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That's right; I'm just passing through.
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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Since I’ve been working with the community on porting desktop applications from .NET Framework to .NET Core, I’ve noticed that there are two camps of folks: some want a very simple and short list of instructions to get their apps ported to .NET Core while others prefer a more principled approach with more background information. Convert before they merge them all into one.NET
I mean, you've nothing better to do, right?
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One .NET to rule them all!
... Until Thursday.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I still don't know what .Net Core is for, or how it's "better" than .Net Framework...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Main selling-point is that it's cross-platform and, I assume, somewhat cleaned up, so more performant. It will be .NET going forward.
It seems that new frameworks and libraries are now being built on that rather than traditional .NET.
E.g., the recently-released ML.NET is .NET Core based. As is Q#, so usable on Mac and Linux.
Kevin
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I don't care about any of that.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Fair enough but you're not Microsoft's only customer.
Kevin
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But I'm the only one that matters.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I concur. I'm the only M$ customer that matters
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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W3C hands over development of HTML and DOM standards to browser vendors (WHATWG). Standards? We don't need no farging standards (We've got Chrome)
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0) Why would an entity that doesn't have skin in the game (W3C) be put in charge of a standard?
1) Does having new stewardship indicate that things will move faster, or will the "too many chefs" rule still plague/inhibit the ratification perocess?
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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0) I'd say that (right or wrong) it grew out of the standard bodies being more academic and "pure". We still have the IETF as one example continuing this.
1) I'd suspect it would go faster. The 802.11 WG seem to be good for making decent progress, and "the new Microsoft" seems to be better at playing well with others than they have in the past. I do worry that Mozilla might act up just to be different though.
TTFN - Kent
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