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by lopatin 14y ago
Globally in 2010
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I have no idea how complicated this is, but with 76 million in funding, what are the chances they found a way to process credit cards them selves?
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by lopatin 14y ago
Who cares the about what FizzBuzz REALLY is? Can't we all just agree that it's a programming test because anybody who calls them self a programmer should possess these painfully simple analytic skills. If you can translate pseudocode to cod
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Show HN: JavaScript simulation of Langton's Ant (View famous corridor)(lopatin.github.com)
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by lopatin 14y ago
HN question: Why is post on the front page for days now?
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by lopatin 14y ago
Yea I think he means link building, which is by far the most time consuming and daunting task of SEO.
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by lopatin 14y ago
This article is spot on in pointing out that search advertising is more valuable and more effective than display advertising, and that Facebook will most likely never be a major player in search. However the rest of the things this article
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by lopatin 14y ago
I think it can be extremely fun and challenging to play only if the levels are designed right. Angry birds doesn't look like it would be fun, but it's got a great engine and just as importantly it has challenging levels that clearly had a
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by lopatin 14y ago
Pretty cool. I made something similar (a site that played any song via YouTube) last year at a hackathon but I failed to think of such a creative idea, props.
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He doesn't disagree with you, one of his main points was that Wikipedia hosts very very disgusting porn. The fact that children can find porn if they seek it out does not mean we should be presenting it to them on a very public website like
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by lopatin 14y ago
This article pays time
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by lopatin 14y ago
Whats wrong with estimating the number of API requests the average user makes and figuring out a price based on that?
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Just fixed sorry bout that. MySQL crashed overnight and just got to fix it.
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Thanks :) I think the issue is that some people are playing with browsers that don't support web sockets, so even if you support them, their connection affects the synchronization between you two. I should probably start doing some feature
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Gotcha. I haven't experienced that yet but it may be resulting from all the traffic I'm getting right now. Or .. were there still snacks popping up after he ran into you? If not, it's possible that the server restarted when that happened du
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by lopatin 14y ago
Yea definitely, I wanted to comment this better but I was just too eager to release it hah. The run down is this. server.js is a long running script and it only has a few global vars like games and playerQueue. These belong to the applicati
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by lopatin 14y ago
Great suggestion, I would snake to techno
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That's odd about the other snake having a higher speed than you. I've noticed that when I was testing a lot but I thought I patched all the bugs that caused it. I'll look into it thanks for pointing it out!
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by lopatin 14y ago
Thanks! Both of those are bugs caused by latence issues. I tried my best to make the game playable, but they still sometimes occur. Most likely the person you were playing with had a slower connection or had a browser that didn't support we
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by lopatin 14y ago
Sure aren't :) Crypto node module FTW. And I should definitely add those components to make it more competitive thanks for the suggestion!
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Lol that actually occurred to me. I had some issues with hotkeys but I think I might figure it out and add that, now that a few people have mentioned it already :)
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Thanks! I actually spent the majority of my time fixing latency issues. The movement actually is mostly client side, but I have to sync positions sometimes. With purely client side movement many issues arise like one snake lagging behind
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Show HN: Snaketron, online multiplayer Snake(snaketron.com)
96 points by lopatin 14y ago|55 comments
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PayPal is actually very reasonable when it comes to getting in contact with human operators. I've never had a problem with that. Receiving decent support from them however is a whole other issue.
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A SocialCam employee stated on this post that this has been fixed, not much info besides that. I wonder when this fix happened though.
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Nice, I think I might have two leaderboards, especially since I have the room on the screen for more. One for win/loss ratio and one for either length of winning streak or accumulated score for a streak. Yep I think this is coming together.
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Thanks for the feedback! That actually makes a lot of sense. I was thinking that I would be changing more by removing score, but I'm starting to realize that having two objectives (getting a high score + trapping the other snake) is too con
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Ask HN: Need rules suggestions for my multi-player snake game
2 points by lopatin 14y ago|6 comments
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SliderTabs replaces your bloated tabs, slideshow, and content slider javascript(lopatin.github.com)
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Yahoo may be losing users on some of their have-been web services, but to say that the developer culture is one of the worst is the funniest thing I ever heard. Yahoo is doing more for developers than almost any company out there. Ever hear

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