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Dan Schmidt
Personal blog · dfan.org/blogprogramminggames
Dan Schmidt's personal blog at dfan.org covers programming and games. Since 2011, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “I don't see anything when I close my eyes”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its memory-palace post, which describes placing grocery items and numbers on furniture in a house as a memorisation technique. The one comment quotes that example and asks who it works for.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- I don't see anything when I close my eyes2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-04-02
What Hacker News says?
EDMS = Electronic Document Management System? Like source control? I honestly don't remember. These source files all have rcsid tags so probably we were using CVS? In our previous project (Ultima Underworld) our computers weren't even networked and I would go around grabbing floppies with changes from coworkers and merging their code into the master by hand. Here are some of my Ultima Underworld stories: https://dfa…
Comment linking /blog/2011/03/17/one-more-ultima-underworld-story/
on “System Shock 1 source code released under GPL”Submitted Ultima Underworld bugs as a story · 109 points
HN discussionI largely credit spaced repetition with my improvement as a chess player from a rating of 1800 to 2000, something pretty unusual for a middle-aged adult. I wrote about about my experience at http://dfan.org/blog/2013/07/07/mnemosyne-part-3/ .
Comment linking /blog/2013/07/07/mnemosyne-part-3/
on “Spaced repetition for study and learning”Submitted Another coding story (a sad one) as a story · 7 points
HN discussion> In my memory palace, I walked through my house, starting at my front door, and placed these familiar people or numbers on my furniture. > So for a grocery list, the example goes, imagine a container of milk overflowing on your doorstep, and when you get inside, perhaps two giant steaks attacking you in your foyer. Continue to your living room to find pretzels dancing on your rug. To people for whom this works: how…
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on “How to Train Your Brain to Remember Everything”Submitted I don't see anything when I close my eyes as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI'm the Dan Schmidt mentioned in the article. A few years back I wrote a few anecdotes about the technical side of working on Ultima Underworld: https://dfan.org/blog/2011/02/20/the-dangers-of-self-modifyi... https://dfan.org/blog/2011/02/21/ultima-underworld-bugs/ https://dfan.org/blog/2011/03/17/one-more-ultima-underworld-...
Comment linking /blog/2011/03/17/one-more-ultima-underworld-story/
on “Life Off the Grid, Part 2: Playing Ultima Underworld”Submitted One more Ultima Underworld story as a story · 1 points
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