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They even use music right from the TIme: Total War. http://tinyurl.com/42agar
"Time Commanders" TV series rules. It is basically television version of people playing Rome: Total War game.
Oh noes, hpricot_forms don't work with Rails 2.1, what I do, what I do? Nooooooooooooes!
@DRMacIver My experience says smart people don't sit on IRC. smart people write blogs.
I hate it when software can transparently use two different libraries, except it behaves slightly different depending on which is installed.
@DRMacIver Linus is open about his dislike of svn, he most likely did it on purpose.
Another I to love about the Web is that is pretty much killed the concept of hyphenation i.e. making text harder to read to save paper.
I just got myself an Aeron chair. It's awesome.
@sil I'm fairly sure that farmland doesn't improve mobile reception much, mobile density within city limits should be similar, right?
It seems to me that mobile phone call quality is much worse in UK than in Poland. Technical reasons or just crappy provider?
@simonw Looks more like goatse.cx than like a stargate.
"spam" (n): something on the Internet you dislike, e.g. using archer/cavalry combination in Rome: Total War multiplayer battles.
Watching Prince of Macedon's commentaries for RTW online battles. Every game should get battle replay feature like this.
Putting common onelinery to oneliners.rb, and then ruby -roneliners -e 'coddity code' really scales up what can be done with oneliners.
vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/base.rb:2546: [BUG] Segmentation fault. I really hate Matz Ruby.
My first decent blog post in months. This time about Rome: Total War - http://tinyurl.com/3hr7fk
In most strategy games including Rome Total War "diplomacy" basically means "hardcoding AIs to ally and attack the human player".
In default RTW awesome Macedonians are unplayable faction but shitty Parthia is playable. This cannot be right.
I found if = vs if == error in my Ruby code today.
Old El Paso Enchiladas are full of win.
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