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Wow, fantastic games! Probably the highest quality bundle ever.

- Amnesia is fantastic. Terrifying, yes, but fantastic.

- Limbo is gorgeous.

- Bastion is a great game.

- Haven't played the others, but I've heard good things.

A big "thank you" to the developers and humble bundle inc.


Anecdotally, this is the first Humble Bundle I bought immediately after learning of it, rather than waiting to get around to it eventually.


Unfortunately I've played all of them except Pychonaughts.


A while back I decided that I wasn't going to play any more AAA games, except the absolute cream of the crop - I just don't have room in my life to spend 40-50 hours glued to a screen playing a game any more.

Psychonauts was one of the games I made an exception for. It was time well-spent.


I've played through all of them. I bought the bundle just to have a second copy of Psychonauts.


That is a great idea, if you can get it to work.

I think your nomenclature's wrong, though. If you are comparing via the AST, it's lexical version control.

However, on your second paragraph:

> That is, if you move a function, I can see that as a single action even if you modify the function a little bit when moving it

That already seems a bit more semantic than lexical.


Well, I'm using the AST to power most of the analysis. So the first-order diff is lexical--it works on syntax ignoring whitespace and the like. The second-order stuff, like matching substructures, is based on the first-order diff, but is semantic.

I'm also planning to add more semantic features. In the short-term, I'd like to detect other simple refactorings (particularly renamed variables). In the long run, I might even add very language-specific features (like trying to use type information to help with merging).


Originality apart, I personally think this is a terrible idea:

- Requires Javascript.

- Makes accessibility suffer (your colorblind users are going to be _so_ mad).


This again?

Ah. Good old noscript.

http://i.imgur.com/Cb17T.png


Hmm.

I don't know why `pointer-events:none` is being made a big deal of. In the past, it was easy enough just to put the Like button on top, and set its opacity to 0; all `pointer-events:none` does is make that easier.

More relevantly, we used clickjacking back in the day to do things like have custom Upload buttons (since it wasn't possible to finely style an `<input type="file">`). Does NoScript warn against that? (and should it?)


> When watching TV the intent is to watch TV, not purchase soap, a car, or a soft drink.

The difference being that facebook doesn't make you watch a 10 second ad between each one of Dave's party photos.


Could imagine a "Facebook brought to you by Ford" day where the entire interface is skinned -- I think that would be worth a lot of money.


Clearly this is where they're failing.. should also inject pre/post roll ads on all videos


...worked for youtube.


Naw it was the ads overlaying the videos that made YouTube the win win experience it is.


Won't work with javascript disabled, obviously. This makes it unusable for me.


Interesting discussion on the rationale behind null-terminated strings: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4418708/whats-the-rationa...


I wouldn't read an ebook but I'd certainly read a series of blogposts.

> Taught me to not do anything unless I really believe in the idea.

This can be dangerous. Sometimes you're unsure if your latest and greatest idea will work out, and that's when you should put your critical thinking at play, i.e., weigh the effort vs. the likelihood of success. The "don't launch a startup, launch an experiment" mantra is valuable.


news.yc is both cynical AND pessimistic!

http://hartli.com/facts?site=http://news.ycombinator.com


Haha, this is good feedback to tune Hartli's emotions to. Tuned this morning and now news.yc is optimistic and accepting. Hopefully feels a little more accurate :)



Not really.

Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys 11.9 bits of identifying information.


That's a very low value. With JS off or blocked, my browsers convey between 16 and 21 bits (the latter meaning unicity in their dataset).

The amount of information conveyed by the HTTP_ACCEPT headers is especially preoccupying. There is nothing in there, apart from maybe the language, that should leak any info, on a modern browser. And certainly not 10 or 16 bits of info.


Ok that’s a scary page.


"Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 2,155,876 tested so far."

Huh, that's awesome ... in a bad way. According to that page , both my system fonts and browser plugin details are unique among the browsers they've tested thus far.


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