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by masswerk 13y ago
What I personally really do enjoy is "var self = this;". Now you just overwrote the system variable pointing to the global object. What was this good for? Oh, the other language doesn't use "self" as a system variab
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by masswerk 13y ago
Hmm -- there's no indication for the author not understanding the patterns. The point is, JS does not need these patterns (which are usually imported concepts from other languages), there are unique ways to do it in JS. (Think of late
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by masswerk 13y ago
So, authorship is out of control? Thinking of textbook authors as mere "rebundlers", where does this leave the author of the article? Is authorship/IP really yet another convenience, which ought to be handled in a one-stop-sh
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by masswerk 13y ago
jQuery -- The world's most popular misunderstanding ...
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by masswerk 13y ago
What you are missing, if we're following the arguments of the initial article, is, why there's 1024, 2048, etc, at all. If "free" is the better distribution model, and that's it, will there be any more 1024, 2048, e
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by masswerk 13y ago
Hum, if I got the initial post right, that was the very point made here. If we would want to have developers to invest in original ideas in a market that has so little barriers, it's probably up to the customers (and their long term st
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by masswerk 13y ago
Whatever may be the case. (I'm neither playing Threes!, nor 2048, but I'm caring for development and original ideas.) I was just mentioning that their argument wouldn't have been just "'invested more time' auto
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by masswerk 13y ago
I would propose that a substantial argument was made in this post: You're mentioning that most of the games in the stores would be BS, lacking creativity, just hunting for in-app-purchases, etc. Now, if you're enjoying a creative
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by masswerk 13y ago
The argument would be like, "if I don't care, if original ideas are being developed for games (and, if I don't care, if it's viable to do so), I don't care for the games, I enjoy."
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by masswerk 13y ago
If you would have read their blog-post, you've also encountered their argument, why Threes! would be the better game in their eyes: "But why is Threes better? It’s better for us, for our goals. 2048 is a broken game. Something we
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by masswerk 13y ago
So, if I get this right, you're saying, you don't care for 2048, because you do not care for the game's original idea being developed in the first place?
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by masswerk 13y ago
This is short for "fabulous"! (informal amazingly good; wonderful; see Oxford Dictionary, c.f. "The fab four", aka "The Beatles")
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by masswerk 13y ago
fab!
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by masswerk 13y ago
You mean like: http://www.masswerk.at/flyer/ ? I don't think that this could be recreated in CSS only, you need to do at least some calculations and conditional execution for this. This is probably the max you can
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Show HN: Scientific Gaming – Minnesota Spacewar reconstructed(masswerk.at)
3 points by masswerk 13y ago|0 comments
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by masswerk 13y ago
But, what is this compared to the JS-animated status-text? (Does anyone remember window.status -- the 90s equivalent to the title-attribute? Does anyone remember a browser with a status bar?)
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by masswerk 13y ago
And it even can play Bach and connect to the network, like the PDP-1! :-)
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by masswerk 13y ago
And now consider that 4096 bytes (words) was exactly the total memory of a DEC PDP-1, considered to be a mainframe in its time and featuring timesharing and things like Spacewar!. And now we're proud to have a simple functional list co
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by masswerk 13y ago
Clickable URL: http://www.masswerk.at/spacewar
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Spacewar 4.2 online (masswerk.at)
2 points by masswerk 13y ago|1 comments
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by masswerk 13y ago
Array.forEach() anyone? What's the deeper sense in superseding built-in features by libraries? (I know there's IE, but ... what about just fixing Array.prototype.forEach for those? "if (!Array.prototype.forEach) Array.prototy
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by masswerk 13y ago
Thinking a bit further, but this is pure speculation (and quite over my level of insight into JS-engine-interna): window.onerror gives you essentially a post mortem dump, as gives you the error message in the console (which now seems to be
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by masswerk 13y ago
To my humble knowledge this (interpreter mode) also applies to FF (which would be handled in the case of this application by the error-event anyway). I would consider it at least as a "legacy behavior". I think there is no JIT wit
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by masswerk 13y ago
Please mind that wrapping code in a try-block will send (at least some) JS-engines directly into interpreter mode (no compile-mode, no JIT-mode) and this will have severe effects on the execution speed. I would not recommend this for produc
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by masswerk 13y ago
No ads, but it features some basic Doodles: Dec 23, 24-26, 31, Jan 1.
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by masswerk 13y ago
The sounds are actually extracted from footage showing this kind of equipment at work. The tape drive operations are controlled by random (based on what assumptions on the index and block locations should we do this?), but should usually fe
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by masswerk 13y ago
The other (more traditional way) would be to address anything in plain JS and add special code to handle things for IE, rather than piping all browser through some abstraction layer. (Same applies for other, non-UI-specific JS: Need Array.f
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US releases (redacted) NSA records(news24.com)
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Both are actually using the old Google REST API that didn't have a such restricted free quota as the current custom search API. But the REST API has been marked as deprecated for three years now and might be subject to the next spring
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But the real Google started out even in HTML quite sparse with a simple white page. It took 10 years before there were more complex doodles. Don't miss the ASCII image previews at http://www.masswerk.at/googleBBS/i

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