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New comment by neop in "Stephen's Sausage Roll remains one of the most influential puzzle games"

neop — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 20:55:36 +0000

Overall, I probably agree that Baba is You is a better game, but I think what makes Stephen's Sausage Roll receive so much praise is that the puzzle design is incredibly tight. It's a very straightforward concept and the core mechanic does not change between the first and the last level. But the puzzles are expertly crafted in a way that as you progress through the game you naturally come across situations where you think you know everything about the game and then it surprises you with a new mechanic that you did not expect.

Baba is You ramps up as you go to, but the ramping up is mostly done by the game giving you new tools to work with. Plus, the amount of interesting puzzles you can do with the mechanics of Baba is You is virtually endless, whereas SSG makes you feel like the game squeezed all the possible gameplay out of moving sausages around.

New comment by neop in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2024)"

neop — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 16:36:12 +0000

Location: Bay Area, CA

Remote: YES

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: iOS, Swift, Objective-C

Résumé/CV: http://linkedin.com/in/pablogom/

Email: pablo[at]shiftingmind[dot]com

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I'm an iOS engineer with 10+ years of iOS experience, the last 6 years I've been working at Meta mostly focused on the Messenger and Instagram apps. I'm interested in building delightful native iOS experiences and have experience working with a wide range of iOS APIs and apps of all sizes.

New comment by neop in "Ask HN: Are there 3D twisty puzzles that can only be simulated on a computer?"

neop — Sun, 02 Apr 2023 19:46:50 +0000

Puzzling Places for Quest is kind of like that for jigsaw puzzles: https://www.realities.io/puzzling-places

New comment by neop in "Ask HN: What RSS Reader do you use?"

neop — Fri, 02 Oct 2020 05:36:03 +0000

http://www.bazqux.com/ - I paid for a lifetime subscription a couple years ago and never looked back. The interface is great is both desktop and mobile, since it’s online everything is kept in sync across devices and I can configure the interface to my liking. I tried many RSS readers and nothing came close.

New comment by neop in "What is 5D chess?"

neop — Wed, 05 Aug 2020 20:01:35 +0000

It's only 4D. I believe they called it 5D chess because they didn't want people to interpret this as 3D chess + time. If I recall correctly, the tutorial mentions at some point that the 5th dimension is "unused".

New comment by neop in "Luigi Model found in Mario 64 source code"

neop — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 01:42:56 +0000

My understanding is that Luigi is not in the final build of the game (which is why it was not found before). But I believe the recent leak contains the CVS repo used during development, which includes the complete change history.

McDonald's Real Estate: How They Really Make Their Money (2015)

neop — Thu, 20 Apr 2017 17:24:41 +0000

Article URL: http://blog.wallstreetsurvivor.com/2015/10/08/mcdonalds-beyond-the-burger/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14158772

Points: 470

# Comments: 259

Pornhub Space Program

neop — Wed, 10 Jun 2015 20:46:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/pornhub-space-program-sexploration#/story

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9695246

Points: 17

# Comments: 0

New comment by neop in "The Sierpinski triangle page to end most Sierpinski triangle pages"

neop — Tue, 17 Feb 2015 16:39:30 +0000

A few years ago I wrote an article explaining how the chaos game works with high school level math, and a few couple of fun experiments that you can do with it. If anyone's interested you can read the article here: http://shiftingmind.com/chaosgame/

Nanaya – Predict the future of your love life

neop — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 17:57:09 +0000

Article URL: http://www.nanaya.co/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8961354

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by neop in "Ask HN: Is Swift ready for production yet?"

neop — Wed, 14 Jan 2015 18:48:42 +0000

I recently worked on a production app that used Swift. It's certainly possible, but I wouldn't recommend it (yet). Writing Swift is nicer and feels much more natural than Objective-C, but the tools are not there yet.

Xcode crashes often (even more frequently than with Objective-C), the compiler will probably also crash at some point during development. Compiling Swift code is also considerably slower than compiling Objective-C code. Error messages are often cryptic and debugging compiler bugs is very time consuming.

There's also a few places in Swift where things still need some more time to settle, framework support is tricky and some very basic tasks are harder than they should be (for example, getting a substring).

A theme-park chain where children pretend to be adults

neop — Tue, 13 Jan 2015 21:58:53 +0000

Article URL: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/01/19/grow

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8882909

Points: 76

# Comments: 19

DAQRI Smart Helmet

neop — Sun, 07 Sep 2014 17:23:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIU456jtkmw&list=UU6Jpt6cn9H9y7brezlBjuxA

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8281766

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Countless celebrity nude photo leaks being blamed on supposed iCloud hack

neop — Mon, 01 Sep 2014 04:21:35 +0000

Article URL: http://9to5mac.com/2014/08/31/countless-celebrity-nude-photo-leaks-being-blamed-on-supposed-icloud-hack/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8251529

Points: 14

# Comments: 5

New comment by neop in "[dead]"

neop — Thu, 12 Jun 2014 22:58:11 +0000

Mozilla Bug Report: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1024642

Webkit Bug Report: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133804

Apparently both of them are just waiting for Eric to confirm that this is OK.

Everything is Broken

neop — Sat, 07 Jun 2014 03:57:02 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/message/everything-is-broken-81e5f33a24e1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7861228

Points: 8

# Comments: 1

New comment by neop in "Swift: Not quite there, but too far gone too"

neop — Wed, 04 Jun 2014 16:59:10 +0000

The article suffers from a bit from looking at things from a strictly theoretical knowledge (i.e. the first example is not valid Swift code), but it does bring up a few interesting points.

Swift: Not quite there, but too far gone too

neop — Wed, 04 Jun 2014 16:34:24 +0000

Article URL: http://studentf.wordpress.com/2014/06/03/swift-not-quite-there-but-too-far-gone-too/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7846553

Points: 32

# Comments: 48

How Dutch women got to be the happiest in the world (2011)

neop — Tue, 06 May 2014 18:51:29 +0000

Article URL: http://www.macleans.ca/news/world/the-feminismhappiness-axis/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7706375

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by neop in "ISS HD Earth Viewing Experiment"

neop — Fri, 02 May 2014 17:29:31 +0000

Also check out http://iss.astroviewer.net to figure see what the ISS is currently over.