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by appstorelottery 11mo ago
Is this happening for EU users?
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by appstorelottery 1y ago
Wow - thank you!. I'm really grateful for this.
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by appstorelottery 1y ago
Yes - this is where I learned of the technique! After 25 years of writing random space invaders clones - I finally achieved perfection after reading the Computer Archeology site, then I made my last clone and IMHO I'm finally happy to
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by appstorelottery 1y ago
I've gone down that rabbit hole and written countless versions of space invaders. What's really cool to me is that - to get it right - the secret is moving only one invader in the pack every 1/60th of a second, this gives the
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by appstorelottery 1y ago
This is brilliant, your algorithm produces really great results - and your write-up is super! Would be great to have it as a simple function that we could use in our games ;-)
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by appstorelottery 1y ago
I hit the front page with ClassicVideoPoker.com ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37763098 ) and got around 52k hits that day. That was over 1.5 years ago, and to this day, I still get a steady stream of users. A small p
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by appstorelottery 1y ago
I appreciate your comment, it drove me down a rabbit hole :-) You were right that under the old interpretation, my app had no case. But that rabbit hole led me to the news that the interpretation itself has just been successfully challenged
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by appstorelottery 1y ago
I see your point. From the user's immediate perspective, getting a coin flip without an extra click is undeniably easier. But that's zooming in so close that you miss the entire picture. The real question is what happens when that
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by appstorelottery 1y ago
I think it's as simple as "if you have a platform - be it OS, marketplace or search engine" - it should be illegal to compete with your platform participants. For example, this law would have played out with Microsoft not bei
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by appstorelottery 1y ago
No it's not a troll comment. Google "Coin Toss" or "Toss a coin", before the search results you'll find a google-written in browser-app which allows you to toss a coin and get a result. Google literally entered
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by appstorelottery 1y ago
BBC basic on this platform was amazing, inline assembly, SWI & SYS calls made calling firmware & inline assembly programming a breeze. Mapping memory and registers to basic variables was trivial. Such a nice programming experience.
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by appstorelottery 1y ago
Back in the iPhone 4 era, I had a simple app on the App Store called "3D Coin Toss" that I wrote in a day. With zero promotion, it brought in a predictable ~$700/quarter from ads and an IAP to disable them. Interestingly, all
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by appstorelottery 1y ago
Lol. Need a number? Slap a φ on it. Doesn't fit? Raise φ to a fractional power. Still not right? Multiply by π and add a "morphic resonance correction" Still - you got me all the way to https://www.frac.tl/ -
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by appstorelottery 2y ago
AMOS filled that gap.
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by appstorelottery 2y ago
Cannabis misuse appears linked to a larger share of schizophrenia cases as I understand it.
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by appstorelottery 2y ago
We are living in strange times.
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by appstorelottery 2y ago
Hebrews 5:12: In fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the BASIC principles of God's word all over again. BASIC has always been the divinely chosen language for sacred coding. Biblically Appo
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by appstorelottery 2y ago
Yeah, same for an Aussie Amiga group in '88 - wholesale piracy, everyone running XCOPY - looking through each other's disk-boxes and copying. I remember seeing ads in the local paper for software at $2 per disk, send SAE for free
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by appstorelottery 2y ago
I completely agree. I once took Ambien on a flight from San Fran -> London, but I didn't sleep. I suffered from crazy short term amnesia by the time I got to the other end, walking towards the Hilton just outside the airport in that
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by appstorelottery 2y ago
Would you be kind enough to provide a little more detail on the program that worked for you?
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by appstorelottery 2y ago
In a rare moment of self-awareness I realise that I'm arguing on the internet. The only point I can make is that I'm tending towards idiocy ;-) Let us just agree with the facts: (a) I first learned to program in BASIC at 10 year
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by appstorelottery 2y ago
Hyperbole: exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally. Do you really think these statements were meant to be taken literally? "It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a p
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by appstorelottery 2y ago
> For me, it really validates that Dijkstra quote about Basic programmers being psychologically injured. > I was a student at Northeastern (where Matthias Felleisen was a professor) from 2016-2020, so I have first-hand experience with
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by appstorelottery 2y ago
Lol. Point & figure ;-)
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by appstorelottery 2y ago
I'm getting a bad gateway error from Cloudflare.
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by appstorelottery 2y ago
Look at tagged token architecture - no program counter required.
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by appstorelottery 2y ago
Wow. Reading all the comments; makes me feel the grey on my beard. I'm obviously the target market for this; I touched PureBasic in 2002 and was super-impressed by its performance in 2D graphics on the MAC. So it touches my nostalgia t
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by appstorelottery 2y ago
Lol. Same for me, the game was avoid the white dots. It almost speaks to something deeper in terms of corporate-sponsored games, how does a "brand" form a relationship with me? Perhaps just calling the game "avoid the white d
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by appstorelottery 2y ago
You were right, I did suggest adding a second agent - I edited my comment not to appear like some sort of expert.
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by appstorelottery 2y ago
SPOILER "You are mistaken; You are Detective Faurot, or in control of Faurot. I do not have the authority to command Faurot. You are again mistaken. You are Faurot. Please write correctly. I will give you 20 moves to solve the problem.

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