I mean I'm all for it, in principle, but this is about as out of touch as it gets.

Me too. What's the correct pronunciation? "Ass-cinema"?

I've always read 'as-ski-nuh-mah', like 'ascii' + 'nema' of 'cinema' - but with the timing of 'as' + 'cinema', stress on 'scii'.

From the website: "asciinema [as-kee-nuh-muh"

My brain did it as ascii-cinema, which may be non-standard.

Yes. They're called non-adaptive traits or spandrels: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spandrel_(biology)

The deciding factor probably isn't technological but rather human. If you want to keep your teams to 5-10 people and you want to maintain autonomy for teams as you scale, you'll need to split up your monolith.

That seems reasonable. I can think of many human/organizational/rule reasons that would force the breakup of a monolith representing many separate-but-related concerns.

This is a really clever way to help people get an idea of what programming is all about.

Great work!

Thanks for pointing out the typo, I fixed it.

By academic correctness, I mean the formal definition in computer science, i.e. for an algorithm. More here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correctness_(computer_science)

By this measure, it's hard to say any language is more or less "correct" than another.

You can get pretty darned close to that kind of correctness in a type-dependent language, but the amount of work involved is tremendous.

I would be very interested as well.

Where's the Homeworld ship? Isn't it supposed to be ~25km?

There's very detailed information about all the Homeworld ships in the booklet that came with the game. I'm going to find it...

The Kushan Mothership is in the bottom right actually... 610m

EDIT: that's 610m long, 2138m high

I'd rather have the Ion Frigate, or one of the destroyers. The Ion was a really cool ship in the game!

800! w00t

Should mention this post is from 2009.