My mother in law who's into this sort of stuff warned me a few days before the Facebook blackout about this. Her exact words were "Mercury is in retrograde and that is bad news for technology" i just brushed it off and a couple days later Facebook had the worst outage of its history. Gave me chills. But not enough to change my sceptic ways (again her words)
> Astrologers you say.. But is no one going to talk about how mercury retrograde wiped out Facebook ..?
For a fact, Facebook engineering uses mercurial instead of git in their tooling. They are going to do some 'hg rebase' whenever the stars are out of alignment =)
It isn't a good idea for a production system or anything, but the code itself seems pretty clean. I've seen infinitely worse bash scripts than this compiler.
> A class of minimal bootstrap binaries that has a reproducible build on all platforms. Providing a verifiable base for defeating the trusting trust attack.
HoMM3 has a cult following among lots of 25-45 years old males. During recent elections, one of candidates mentioned that he enjoys playing HoMM3 a lot, comments under the video were like 80% "I'll vote for anyone who plays HoMM3" and alike.
In the 2000s they were among the go-to strategy games. The hot-seat mode probably helped. Of course, the publishers and devs saw little profit from all that following—unlike middle-aged dudes selling pirate CDs in mall stands.
HOMM 5 was developed by Nival, a major Russian dev and publisher at that time—though the 4 and 5 games weren't as famed, afaik.
someone needs to make a script that can scrape tweets/medium articles and predict what the next hot pet project will be. you could have your git implementation out and on your resume six months before the rush with a system like this.
