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Awesome. I've been fighting to unsubscribe from things for 3 years. From catchall filters that insta-delete to battling inscrutable unsubscribe pages, I'm pretty close to no spam.

I wish I could unsubscribe from everything at once.


Maybe they'll allow you to search for emails that have the unsubscribe button in your archive/spam/trash and then mass unsubscribe from them.


Don't you just wish every city and place could just stay the same forever?

No.

"Losing its soul" = Changing in a way I don't agree with, and maybe I'll try and use government to stop the change. I'm more important than the people causing the change.


'"Losing its soul" = Changing in a way I don't agree with, and maybe I'll try and use government to stop the change. I'm more important than the people causing the change.'

Or equally important, if the attempt at change is democratic.


"Maybe the jobs are gone forever" - Good analysis, economist. This article is full of bullshit 'maybes' and aggressive 'income inequality' overtones.

I don't know how this garbage gets onto HN.


I don't know how this garbage gets onto HN.

The only unique aspect of this piece is it strikes a nerve with you. I know how it gets here, because HN is jam packed with "analysis" that doesn't make any stronger of a case for itself. Vague wishy-washy "Maybe the jobs are gone forever" level points are taken at face value when the rhetoric is headed to more agreeable conclusions.


Maybe spend an afternoon learning up on copyright and trademark law.

Why would you spend so much time on something that clearly violates the intellectual property of Nintendo?


This may qualify as fair use, and in any case it's not like this is going to jeopardize sales of the 29 year-old Super Mario Bros or any of it's derivatives.


If your position is "may", you're on shaky legal ground at best. Regardless, he would be forced to shutter his side project with a CnD, since I doubt he's willing to go to court.


Who gives a shit about shaky legal ground? How will a CnD shutter his side project? Could just take it offline and continue to build it. I doubt Nintendo are going to go through the lengths to force him to destroy a .py file or two...

It's as if every line of code written needs to be useful. I'm seeing this more and more. Many cool projects are criticised based on how useful they are rather than how cool they are. Maybe if a project was positioned as useful/sellable, then perhaps such criticism is justified, but when something is obviously not meant for sell and has obviously been built for all except seriousness, it just comes across as daft.

Just the other day I saw a comment about an embedded PHP interpreter. "How will this EVER be useful?" Who gives a shit? It looks fun to write, so it was written.

I personally enjoy programming. Most code I have written has made me 0 money, has been seen by 0 eyes and has provided me hours of fun and pleasure in writing it. I'm sure many programmers are the same.


His homebrew version, for self education does way less harm than the millions of ROMs out there running on MAME. It is a single level, not a full clone that gets sold for profit at Target.


A Derek Sivers post that appeared here recently goes over some of the rationale for copying-as-learning, and imperfect-copying as an essential part of creative work:

http://sivers.org/mirror

HN discussion (with more personal & famous historical examples):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7168467


Have you heard the story of how Commander Keen came about?


No, please educate me; this sounds interesting


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commander_Keen#Creation_and_dev...

John Carmack and John Romero developed a clone of Super Mario 3 for the PC using a smooth-scrolling technique that had never been achieved on the platform before.

They went and showed Nintendo, who weren't interested. So they changed the name, artwork, and levels and went off to start id software and all the money went to them instead.


for the sake of learning?

EDIT: Also, if you check the commit history, I'm quite sure he didn't spend way much time.


Exactly. You do it for the same reason why people try to paint famous works of art. You get to really see many of the pain points that the original artist went through and connect with something on a different level unlike any casual observer.

In this case, the medium that is being used for the implementation is different, but you still get to solve many of the same problems.


133 commits? And you have to violate copyright or trademark to learn? Please.


I'm pretty sure you care more about this than Nintendo ever will. Get off your high horse. As someone who has never used PyGame, this is really cool to look into and learn from.


most of the commits are done on the last days... some of them are just some line changes... (https://github.com/justinmeister/Mario-Level-1/commit/586b96...) I code on my free time too, On the night I turn on my laptop and code for a couple hours, I am a bussiness owner, most of my day is related with other activities, and I just want to think in another thing and relax. Coding it's the perfect choice, but you need a project to feel motivated, something not related with your day work and something easy enough to be accomplished in a couple days (so you can fell your progress and feel proud). I see he completed level 1, my intuition says he won't go more far away to another level, because he just got the satisfaction he needed. Probably now he will choose another project and develop it.


Because he can? I know the word "hack" is meant very lightly on this site but creating for the sake of creating falls under that nomer


Another income inequality article. Get off hacker news and stay off.


Why?


Because elitism is harder to maintain if people protest inequality?


Being combative and sneering about people worse off from him is stefan_kendall's schtick (both here and on Twitter), so I was sort of hoping to actually get an answer.

Not expecting to, but hoping.


Sound and fury.


I've started flagging these stories.

It doesn't matter how many men or women work in particular careers. Technology is only singled out because the pay is high. Where are the articles about the lack of women in welding?


On sites other than HN, which has nothing to do with welding?

I'm sure it's very easy to say that gender inequality in the workplace doesn't matter at all when you are not the one affected by it.

see: http://www.aikenstandard.com/article/20130125/aik0101/130129...

http://www.millerwelds.com/resources/articles/rosie-the-weld...

http://awo.aws.org/2013/12/women-in-welding-meet-karen-gilge...

http://www.advanced.edu/blog/more-women-entering-the-welding...


"Where are the articles about Women in Y" or "where are the articles about men in X" is a common comment in these threads. Those articles are written, and linked to in those threads. They're not posted to HN because they're not of interest to HN which has few welders or nurses but many coders.


Oddly enough, I know some people in the welding industry, and it's discussed.


Women may not be welding, but they are riveting.


You absolutely need to "design down" if you want to support all of android. Go build an app with a reasonable number of users and you'll learn this the hard way.


Good thing I never said "all of android", as there will always be edges that in many cases aren't even worth targeting.

I did, however, say that many of the cheap phones are quite powerful. And they are. And as someone who has several widely deployed games on Android -- one category where there is much more demands than categories like WhatsApp -- it is absolutely no problem at all.

I generally test things on the Nexus One just as a bottom end comparator. Compared to many of the devices from bottom-tier manufacturers now, the Nexus One is grossly underpowered. It is always surprising what it can run with gusto.


It's a crap addition that cheap people demand instead of buying phones that can hold more on flash. At least, that's the only argument I've ever heard for SD.


Someone buried the lede. The real story here is that someone posted to Google+.


Google+ is essentially Google forums.


You just made my day. :)


Clearly you are unfamiliar with the caliber of comments on hacker news for the borderline-tech articles.


Clearly you are unfamiliar with the caliber of comments on hacker news for the tech articles.


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