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gabrielfloriton Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest

This is amazing.

gabrielfloriton Colleges at the breaking point, forcing ‘hard choices’ about education

I enjoyed your writing style. Thank you.

gabrielfloriton Amiga Music Tracker in JavaScript

This is fantastic. I love the demo tunes. Runs pretty smooth too.

gabrielfloriton SCRIPT-8: An 8 Bit Fantasy Computer Programmed with Javascript

There's an issue for this: https://github.com/script-8/script-8.github.io/issues/41

gabrielfloriton SCRIPT-8: An 8 Bit Fantasy Computer Programmed with Javascript

Thank you for the kind words. I have no immediate plans for changing the palette, but you should open an issue here https://github.com/script-8/script-8.github.io.

gabrielfloriton SCRIPT-8: An 8 Bit Fantasy Computer Programmed with Javascript

Good idea. This would be useful for sure.

gabrielfloriton SCRIPT-8: An 8 Bit Fantasy Computer Programmed with Javascript

That's a fair point. SCRIPT-8 is inspired by many projects, and PICO-8 is definitely one of them. I'll make sure to add a note.

gabrielfloriton SCRIPT-8: An 8 Bit Fantasy Computer Programmed with Javascript

Thank you, and no issues, because I didn't implement any low-level programming. I use React/Redux and Canvas 2D, with some custom shape drawing to avoid antialiasing (e.g. Bresenham's algorithm).

gabrielfloriton SCRIPT-8: An 8 Bit Fantasy Computer Programmed with Javascript

They don't now, but that is coming. The "SHOW CASSETTE SIZE" button under the live-preview screen shows you the current size / compressed size. But it doesn't prevent you from making a huge cassette - not yet.

gabrielfloriton SCRIPT-8: An 8 Bit Fantasy Computer Programmed with Javascript

There are game-like demos:

- https://script-8.github.io/?id=07b50badd10dc9be002ecb9f9031f...

- https://script-8.github.io/?id=cd8d6811adb3afb472aaf7505729c...

- https://script-8.github.io/?id=7f370bc716aff805f593a3f800087...

gabrielfloriton SCRIPT-8: An 8 Bit Fantasy Computer Programmed with Javascript

Hello everybody, author here. I hope you enjoy my tiny project.

Regarding language, I chose Javascript for three reasons:

- the (ab)use of `eval` lets you do all sorts of sorcery, like instant evaluation

- the JS Redux library makes it easy to work with state, and I couldn't have implemented SCRIPT-8's time-traveling debugger without it

- I dream in Javascript

I love Lua's small footprint, and very early on I considered writing SCRIPT-8 in MoonScript, which compiles to Lua and has gorgeous syntax. Maybe some day.

And yes, my fantasy computer is definitely not the only open source project, there's several out there, and probably all of them are more stable than mine. Go check them out.

gabrielfloriton Textures.js – SVG patterns for Data Visualization

Very nice, this will come in handy. Beautiful site design too.

gabrielfloriton How to Ace a Phone Screen

This Buzzfeed article corroborates your findings: http://www.buzzfeed.com/williamalden/zenefits-hr-rocket-ship...

Glad my benefits aren't handled by Zenefits.

gabrielfloriton Interactive editor based on the 'Inventing on Principle' talk

Fixed!

gabrielfloriton Interactive editor based on the 'Inventing on Principle' talk

Indeed - noted at https://github.com/gabrielflorit/water/issues/4. Do feel free to add more issues / requests at https://github.com/gabrielflorit/water/issues.

gabrielfloriton Interactive editor based on the 'Inventing on Principle' talk

Glad you like it! Yep, several people complained about lack of alt support. Seems like a better choice overall.

gabrielfloriton Interactive editor based on the 'Inventing on Principle' talk

Thanks everybody - didn't expect to make the HN front page! Still working out a couple issues.

And go watch Bret's talk if you haven't - a truly ingenious presentation! :)