Could you pass TDWTF citizenship test?
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To be fair, implementing TCP over IP was very nearly as bad an idea as that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCUrql5E15I
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@ben_lubar No, he wanted both, so he was reimplementing reassembling out-of-order packet arrival and all the other fun stuff.
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@FrostCat as a toy project or as something for use in production somewhere?
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@ben_lubar It was going to be for a Civilization-style 4X game.
One set on a spherical world.
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@FrostCat so he had heard that UDP was better for games and then ignored the rationale?
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@FrostCat As opposed to Civilization, which is set on an... I dunno, mobius strip?
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@Arantor said in Could you pass TDWTF citizenship test?:
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@blakeyrat said in Could you pass TDWTF citizenship test?:
@FrostCat As opposed to Civilization, which is set on an... I dunno, mobius strip?
Civ's set in a ring; some games use a torus. This game was set on a sphere. The reason nobody does that is the same reason it's tough to map a sphere onto a rectangle. He got that to mostly work, I don't remember how, though. It probably involved the map actually being an icosahedron. The development died, though, when he couldn't get world creation to take a reasonable amount of time--computers of the day couldn't quite hack his worldgen.
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@ben_lubar said in Could you pass TDWTF citizenship test?:
@FrostCat so he had heard that UDP was better for games and then ignored the rationale?
No, it was more complicated than that, and he wasn't entirely unreasonable in what he was doing. It's probably been ten years, though, so I don't remember the details.
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Why do people keep saying time-date functions are so hard? I mean, there are only two rules:
- All dates start at 1993-09-01. For example, today is 1993-09-8262.
- There is no need to calculate dates prior to 1993-09-01, as that is when time began. The Universe was created from the dead body of the first Internet-compatible AOL floppy disk.
See? Simple!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU9JoFKlaZ0
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@ben_lubar Ben-L? Who was that, the mpreg love child of Obi-Wan Kenobi and Earth-2's Superman?
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@ScholRLEA that was me back when my avatar supported TrueColor!