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New comment by sproketboy in "GameMaker to be free for non-commercial purposes and have one-time fee license"

sproketboy — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 16:57:47 +0000

Who needs C#? Nobody.

New comment by sproketboy in "OpenRA – Classic strategy games rebuilt for the modern era"

sproketboy — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 13:41:56 +0000

Cool. I'm currently working on a modern remake of the old goldbox games. Making good progress.

New comment by sproketboy in "California moves to silence Stanford researchers who got data to study education"

sproketboy — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 19:45:52 +0000

Leftists always do that. SCUMS.

New comment by sproketboy in "A few words on Ruby's type annotations state"

sproketboy — Fri, 05 May 2023 20:14:07 +0000

Adding types after the fact is never going to work out well.

New comment by sproketboy in "Stranger Things, JavaScript Edition"

sproketboy — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 01:37:04 +0000

" ['1', '7', '11'].map(parseInt);

For what you would expect the output to be:

[1, 7, 11]

However, things get a bit off here, and the actual result is:

[1,NaN,3]

At first, this may look up very weird, but it actually has an elegant explanation. "

The elegant explanation is that JavaScript was taken over by psychopaths like bajcmartinez.

JavaScript is fine for button onClick code. Outside of that it's garbage.

Will Project Loom Obliterate Java Futures?

sproketboy — Thu, 30 Jan 2020 19:50:56 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.softwaremill.com/will-project-loom-obliterate-java-futures-fb1a28508232

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22194770

Points: 4

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New comment by sproketboy in "Better Portable Graphics"

sproketboy — Fri, 12 Jul 2019 11:11:42 +0000

Why bother when we have PNG?

New comment by sproketboy in "One Year After Quitting My Job"

sproketboy — Sun, 30 Dec 2012 00:03:52 +0000

Reality: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chicago_Hobo.jpg

New comment by sproketboy in "JetBrains Doomsday Sale - 75% off for 24 hours only"

sproketboy — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 13:37:22 +0000

Yes, you are.

New comment by sproketboy in "160 Mac Minis, One Rack"

sproketboy — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 12:36:16 +0000

Yeah but can it run Crysis? /s

New comment by sproketboy in "The State of Windows 8"

sproketboy — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 15:25:41 +0000

This is just an Ad to get people to use their service which monitors everything you do on your machine. Nope.

New comment by sproketboy in "PHP Annotations Are a Horrible Idea"

sproketboy — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 15:46:32 +0000

PHP Is a Horrible Idea - FTFY

New comment by sproketboy in "Face detection for cats in JavaScript "

sproketboy — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 16:13:05 +0000

Doesn't work.

New comment by sproketboy in "Custom bots for Unreal Tournament 2004 pass Turing test"

sproketboy — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 16:08:53 +0000

Not quite but still cool.

New comment by sproketboy in "Bill Gates: Books I Read this Summer"

sproketboy — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 12:59:44 +0000

The Road Ahead first edition? You know the one where you forgot to mention the world wide web and had to recall it?

New comment by sproketboy in "Why I went from Python to Go (and not node.js)"

sproketboy — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 13:34:21 +0000

Why would anyone go to Node.js? Serious question.

New comment by sproketboy in "Woman recieves world's first bionic eye"

sproketboy — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 12:56:48 +0000

Yeah but doesn't make the du.du.du.du sound. :(

New comment by sproketboy in "Damn Cool Algorithms: Homomorphic Hashing"

sproketboy — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 18:27:05 +0000

Not that there's anything wrong with it.

New comment by sproketboy in "How TeX made it to the iOS App Store - running on DOS, inside an emulator"

sproketboy — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 12:09:03 +0000

Sounds like Apple will remove this if they find out about it.