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Abadidea's Index of Weird Machines in Video Games

A "weird machine" is when user-supplied input is able to create an arbitrary new program running within an existing program due to Turing-completeness being exposed. Sometimes such functionality was deliberately included but it is often the result of exploitation of memory corruption. You can learn more at the langsec site. There is a good argument for weird machines being inherently dangerous, but this index is just for fun.

It is broken into two categories: intentional gameplay features which may be used as weird machines, and exploit-based machines which can be triggered by ordinary player input (tool-assisted for speed and precision is acceptable). Games with the sole purpose of programming (such as Core Wars) are not eligible and plugin APIs don't count. If you know of more, feel free to add a comment to this gist.

Intentional Gameplay Mechanics

Objects

To create a new object, use the new keyword followed by a call to a constructor function. Javascript provides the Object() constructor out-of-the-box:

var toilet = new Object();

Properties

Once you have an object, you can set and get properties on it, like this:

Do your part to resist Government surveillance and take back your privacy:

Browser Privacy: HTTPS Everywhere, AdBlock Plus + EasyList, Disconnect, NoScript (FireFox), NotScript (Chrome)
VPNs: Private Internet Access (US), BTGuard (Canada), ItsHidden (Africa), Ipredator (Sweden), Faceless.me (Cyprus / Netherlands)
Internet Anonymization: Tor, Tor Browser Bundle, I2P
Disk Encryption: TrueCrypt (Windows / OSX / Linux), File Vault

Screencasting Framework

The following document is a written account of the Code School screencasting framework. It should be used as a reference of the accompanying screencast on the topic.

Why you should care about screencasting?

You're probably aren't going to take the time to read this document if you're not interested, but there are a lot of nice side effects caused by learning how to create quality screencasts.

Communicating more effectively - At Envy Labs we produce screencasts for our clients all the time. Whether it's demoing a new feature or for a presentation for an invester, they're often much more effective and pleasent than a phone call or screen sharing.

Breaking into Web Development

I work as an analyst contractor, these days my roles are often a mixture of development and management. I have been asked by a countless number of people what they need to do to get the jobs I’m offered – and it’s simpler than most expect. The market for talented developers in the United Kingdom (and in many talent-lite communities around the world) is such that anyone who merely knows what they are doing has a very good chance of getting a job. Even a job contracting (which ordinarily has senior-level requirements).

To become a web developer with a good salary and employment expectations you need skills. Below I’ll provide a plan to get you towards the top of the largest market: PHP Web Development. Advanced knowledge of everything on this list would immediately make you one of the best, so just strive to have an exposure if not a comprehensive understanding (though the *starred points are essential). To learn these technologies you should use several in combination on on

tmux shortcuts & cheatsheet

start new:

tmux

start new with session name:

tmux new -s myname

Susy Tutorial

For this tutorial I'm assuming you are already comfortable with CSS, Sass (I'll use the SCSS syntax) and Compass. Please get set up with each one of those before attempting to use Susy. Sass and Compass both have their own setup instructions and tutorials that you can use.

There is also reference documentation in the works.

What Susy Does

CSS Systems

	<div class="record" data-id="<%= user.id %>">
	<p><b>ID: </b> <%= user.id %></p>
	<p><b>Name: </b> <%= user.name %></p>
	<p><b>Location: </b> <%= user.location %> </p>
	<p><%= link_to 'Show', user %> \| <%= link_to 'Edit', edit_user_path(user) %> \| <%= link_to 'Destroy', user, method: :delete, data: { confirm: 'Are you sure?' } %> </p>
	</div>

	//Git Commands
	# NOTES: Lines starting with // or # are comments and should not be typed into terminal. Please be careful of your spelling, spacing, and case before initiating a command in terminal.

	//Standards Commands to push to github (in order)

	git add .
	# adds all files and folders that contain files to be commited

	git status
	# shows what changes are going to be commited