I’ve never experienced any other game that gives you the rush of a major alliance battle in EVE.
It’s an incredible game with a lot of insanely smart people playing and some great communities around it, but regretfully I had to “win” as life is life.
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I'd drop my Ishtar[s] in an anomaly[s], then tab out and probably read hacker news or something, and completely forget about it, usually leading to either dying as I didn't check intel channels or even look for hostiles in the local system, or wasting time as I didn't warp to the next anomaly after clearing the current one. With a simple ruby script, a janky sql query and a pile of ugly heuristics, most of that stopped being a problem, as a very loud noise would remind me to warp away! It hits a "sweet spot" of being totally non-reusable but doing exactly what I need it to while remaining just editable enough to hack in more special cases/heuristics...
It wasn't a super time-efficient way to get space-rich, but at least somewhat effort-efficient, and it netted me enough that I could probably have bought a titan or three. Of course I eventually lost most of my net worth by having it invested in shitty minerals and being unsubscribed as the floor fell out under that market.
Those were the days.
(as an aside, I started looking and testing mushclient, which is adored by many. nick gammon has been upkeeping it for years and it offers a ton of features/settings)
It would sort those kills, and add separators between fights based on time.
It's one of the simplest things I've ever implemented, and I think Eve Uni still used it for years after I stopped playing. Eve chat logs are beautiful.
Sean Eddy, he’s probably on HNews, wrote some software to process the emails to get a lead on other teams.
As I remember the story this keen interest helped him hone the skills for genetics analysis, but he could just have been a natural.
https://www.the-scientist.com/uncategorized/a-mind-apart-450...
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I’m reminded of Richard Feynman honing is mathematical skills at school competitions.
Suffice to say these skills with the impetus behind them are hugely useful.
That said traditionally perl would be the choice for parsing, and it is still a good candidate. For simple extraction - think "programatic grep" - then awk is also a good choice.
- `split` splits a string at an index or into substrings separated by a pattern - `substring` takes a substring of a string for a range of indices - `prefix` returns true if the start of the string matches a pattern, false otherwise - `suffix` returns true if the end of the string matches a pattern, false otherwise
Python and C++ both have good standard library functions for these tasks. What's less important than a language for your parser is a language to plug the output into to make something useful.
