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by jazzychad 5180 days ago
HN is funny. Last week as each new dcpu emulator implementation popped up, they got fewer and fewer votes and more comments like "oh great, yet another dcpu post. let's call this Dcpu News for crying out loud!" Then github adds syntax highlighting and gets 150+ points. I'm very curious why that is...
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Twisol 5180 days ago
The emulators got less votes because it was more of the same exact thing ("someone implemented DCPU-16"). This is news because a big name has taken notice of DCPU-16, going so far as to officially support it. It's a different flavor.
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jazzychad 5180 days ago
Ah, so dcpu is cool now because somebody cool says its cool. Just seems like bandwagon/fanboyism to me. Call me a dcpu hipster :)

btw, awesome work w/ mappum on the js emulator stuff. you guys update w/ impressive speed.

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Twisol 5180 days ago
It's not fanboyism, most like "stop showing me emulators it's not interesting anymore". The subject of the DPCU iself is still pretty interesting.

Also, thanks!

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minhajuddin 5179 days ago
My sentiments exactly, I don't believe that Github adding syntax highlighting of a language is "hacker news". They are supposed to have syntax highlighting for most of the languages. Maybe on HN people are discussing DCPU, but if you look at the comments on Github, they are all "awesome", "+1", really? for adding a syntax highlighting for one more language.
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