[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATA_over_Ethernet

So filenames can contain valid commands delimited with semi-colons that, if not quoted properly, can be unexpectedly run alongside your intended pipeline (say if you're doing the usual and unsafe "for csv in *.csv; do cat $csv; done").

I wish I could've laid my hands on the excellent HN thread from some years back that opened my eyes to this vector, but I'm hopeful someone else will mention it so I can add it to my bash notes file. :P

It is not a matter of taste and it is not a matter of metric versus imperial screwdrivers. Someone will copy this code and it will end up being an attack vector where it will have consequences.

I imagine you're rolling your eyes and have flipped the bozo bit but please bear with me.

Think of the teachable moment this presents! The author of the original piece goes back and annotates their original answer along the lines of, "you might solve it this way but there are some gotchas with it - let me show you what could go wrong."

As an industry we absolutely need to circle back with improvements so that those who come after us can build on a more solid foundation.

I do wonder if 3D Monster Maze truly qualifies as "the world's first ever 3D game on a home computer" given that the lead programmer didn't own one of the machines until April of '81 and that the commercial release occurred the following year (at least according to the article on Wikipedia - the sidebar says published 1981 so it's contradictory).

The birthday anecdote seems plausible but if Wizardry was in development for more than six months then it predates 3D Monster Maze.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wizardry

[0]: http://avherald.com/h?article=4c497c3c/0002&opt=7680

I had a real uncanny valley moment listening to the clip because I recognized most of the explosion/gunfire samples.

She mentioned a couple of times that she went into the tangle because she wanted to, that she hadn't had to "bail a loom out of a major temper tantrum" in a while.

To be sure, recovering the 1 1/2 yard Shetland warp and other materials would in no way compensate 10 hours of labor - but that presumes there's nothing to learn from the process.

I want to say something surly about how accountants have driven software development to losing its soul in pursuit of dollars but ... that's not going to end constructively. =D So instead I'll just say I really admire the attitude of, "I can fix that. It will take more time than it's worth but screw the economics of it all, I'm going to do it anyway. Fsck you, entropy."