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Or any of the desktop OSs. Only mobile and consoles.

Heh... we've always run nginx. The change was adding Varnish in front of it to handle caching. There are some rules in vcl_recv to return(pass) for the forums, and a few other things that require user auth or shouldn't be cached. Phase 2 is checking for ip.board's cookies so that it can be cached for logged-out users, but I didn't have time for that yesterday. Phase 3 is ESI, so parts of the homepage can be cached with a different TTL than others.

I'd much rather Notch use Unity than Java

Just fixed an issue that was making the 'Online Users' section of the forum show up weirdly.

This might be helpful: http://wiki.kerbalspaceprogram.com/wiki/Maneuver_node

Also, if you install the ios app (or android app, I assume, if that exists) it'll alert you when a followed channel goes online.

Which, of course, will be recorded at the offices of Computer 5000 in San Francisco.

I may have said it before, but I will say it again: http://thememorypalace.us/ Basically a short form history podcast. Each episode is maybe 6-7 minutes tops, and it comes out monthly, so it's easy to catch up on. The production seems a little inspired by Radiolab, to me. Some good starter episodes: Episode 46: After Party http://thememorypalace.us/2012/09/after-party/ Clearing up some misconceptions about the Donner Party. This one's a little longer than average. Episode 18: Dig Set Spike http://thememorypalace.us/2009/08/episode-18-dig-set-spike/ This one's about Nazis and Volleyball. I dare you not to listen now.

Just made some database changes. There shouldn't be any visible changes, but please let me know if anything seems to be horribly broken.

Depends how much you like spaghetti code

The stars should be fixed. I don't know why they break with every update.

This *may* have been fixed in the update I just installed. Let me know.

Not actually a secret, but I did some under-the-hood updates to the main site (not the forums) tonight. Let me know if anything seems amiss.

I'm really curious how much of the simulation is running server-side. One of the things the latest patch 'fixed' was disabling the Cheetah speed level. That kind of makes me wonder if it's writing events to the server in realtime (which seems like an inefficient save strategy) or if its the server doing at least some of the processing in the game.

Hopefully staging a Music Man style citywide scam is also supported. Monorail!

Sorry, it's actually there but I haven't updated the page due to laziness: http://www.idlemc.com/past-epochs/files/idlemc_seventh_epoch.zip (Note that it's 700MB)

Are you sure?

Are you sure?

Not to be confused with the Idle Thumbs Urban Wiki.

Yeah, backblaze's only filtering options are excluding certain directories (I exclude steamapps and dropbox, for example) and limiting the largest filesize it'll back up (defaults to 4GB, can be changed to unlimited). I use both Backblaze and Time Machine. The latter is most useful in case of disksaster, but if my apartment burns down or floods or something then an offsite backup swill have been well worth it.

Yeah, backblaze is great, and insanely cheap for what they deliver.

Small Gods was a great one, for sure. I also really loved Night Watch, though for different reasons

For food? - Ruchi, 3rd and Bryant also (South Indian food) - The American Grilled Cheese Kitchen, 2nd and South Park (You can guess their menu) - 21st Amendment, 2nd and South Park also (Brewery/Restaurant) - Farmer Brown's Little Skillet, Ritch between Townsend and Brannan (Fried chicken and waffles)

Protip: For GDC attendees willing to walk a bit there's some really good food to be had without the conference crowds. HRD Coffee Shop at 3rd and Bryant, for example, makes a spicy pork and kimchee burrito that is amazing.

Sublime's a general text editor. I really can't recommend it highly enough: http://www.sublimetext.com/ Also, if you install the Package Control plugin, it essentially adds apt-get for plugins from an enormous repo: http://wbond.net/sublime_packages/community