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by thatha7777 3y ago
I'm actively working on some kind of "live docs" feature for BabaBASIC. Though ... I have to wonder (and I'm only half-joking) -- should it just be a ChatGPT integration that can answer questions?
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by thatha7777 3y ago
Not with BabaBASIC (for now?). No networking support whatsoever :P
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by thatha7777 3y ago
This is awesome! Kudos! I wish there was some kind of "computing archeology" discipline
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by thatha7777 3y ago
I am still so very confused by all the xBASICs, and I wonder if that was a big part of its decline... I hope some mid-level Microsoft marketing manager is enjoying his retirement knowing we're still discussing this decades later. Fun f
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by thatha7777 3y ago
Thought so too . . .until earlier today when I noticed how chipper all the upvotes are making me.
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by thatha7777 3y ago
That's an awesome resource! Thank you for sharing. Hopefully BabaBASIC will be able to run any of these games at some point of time. My first explorations as a child were more around math/algorithms/graphic functions. Not sur
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by thatha7777 3y ago
Considering this is the first thing I have made in decades that he liked/didn't say anything negative about it... it's all very special.
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by thatha7777 3y ago
No, not at the moment, it only supports the default "text mode" (VT100). Graphics modes are my next milestone.
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by thatha7777 3y ago
Ah, yes, you're 100% right. Writing a full-on IBM PC/DOS emulator is beyond the scope of this project -- the project's goal is my dad's request to "show off programming while drinking coffee" :P.
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by thatha7777 3y ago
Thank you! I use DOSBox to run QuickBASIC 4.5 on my Mac to check my implementation :) Unfortunately, Magic Dosbox for Android doesn't seem to work very well with QB45.exe... Aside from linking with assembler, what QuickBASIC 4.5 funcs
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by thatha7777 3y ago
C'mon, that's clearly over the top within the context of an all-nighter for a gift for my father :P
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by thatha7777 3y ago
Ah, and I almost forgot, in re the changes: the commit log is the definitive (and painstakingly accurate) log of changes: https://github.com/ianatha/bababasic/commits/main To clarify my slightly obtuse origin
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by thatha7777 3y ago
Ohhhh yes, you're absolutely right. Frankly, this is my first Android/mobile application, so I'm still trying to wrap my head around the limited screen space and whatnot. I'd be awesome to get some syntax hints, or some
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by thatha7777 3y ago
My analogue is writing a thing that could draw numbers and print them (I think it was just using the PRINT SCREEN button?), but it would make every line squiggly to emulate my (very bad) handwriting. I think my goal was to make it write my
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by thatha7777 3y ago
Thank you! I've never thought of owing my career to BASIC being so accessible, but you're right, and it's a very beautiful thought. I also wrote my first lines of code on QBasic 4.5 -- though my big teenage-years programming
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Show HN: QBasic 4.5 on Android(github.com)
234 points by thatha7777 3y ago|92 comments
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by thatha7777 3y ago
Setting up A VPN is more complicated than a single webapp necessitates. I'd recommend using Cloudflare, with Cloudflare Access, and expose your VPS via a Cloudflare Tunnel. (You can use all of this for free.) If you really want to go d
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by thatha7777 3y ago
This is beautiful! Thank you for making this!
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by thatha7777 4y ago
Hallelujah, as I recently discovered I'm on the ASD, this speaks great truths. Autism is a disability (but it's only a disability because our society is disabled) —— the individual isn't disabled. Obviously, many people don&#
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by thatha7777 4y ago
Absolutely nothing. + You're in the majority. For example, only ~40% of the global traffic Google receives is over IPv6. + There aren't any generally availably internet services. If you ever find yourself worrying about NATs, reve
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This Crawled Up the Shower Drain What Is It?(twitter.com)
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by thatha7777 4y ago
This is misleading and a bit dangerous... You'd also need to "sync" the lock resource, which is accessed over REST. At the very least, you need some sort of Idempotency-Key for your REST API. (Imagine the scenario where &#x2F
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by thatha7777 4y ago
^^ likely a more accurate opinion than mine -- I've been a recluse for ~18mo
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by thatha7777 4y ago
Excellent question! In choosing a first programming language, I think the most important things are (1) acquire generic knowledge, (2) have help along the way. (1) The most important thing to keep in mind while learning a first programming
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by thatha7777 5y ago
This would be much more interesting if it had Apple VAS & Google SmartTap support. Although, I suppose that'd require proprietary blobs and a enterprisey admission process.
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by thatha7777 5y ago
"executed out of" != "executed outside of" (at least in my English vernacular)
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by thatha7777 5y ago
Head-scratcher: "A server-side technology that allows JavaScript to be executed out of the browser, Node.js is an increasingly popular way of developing and hosting web apps."
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by thatha7777 5y ago
It’s important to contextualize this (1) in the frame of Greece at this point of time —- many individuals still recovering from the recent internationally-renowned fiscal crisis, while corporations have received aid —- and (2) the general s
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by thatha7777 5y ago
OP, I symphatize with your pain. I've been trying to get approved for Stripe Issuing for 4+ months now. I have been "approved" multiple times, but the Issuing-related features never get turned on. Every time I complain, there
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by thatha7777 5y ago
This seems very promising. Are the founders able to speak to the backstory and how the came across this product space?

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