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sproketboy

-18 karma · joined August 16, 2012

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sproketboy··on GameMaker to be free for non-commercial purposes and have one-time fee license
Who needs C#? Nobody.
sproketboy··on OpenRA – Classic strategy games rebuilt for the modern era
Cool. I'm currently working on a modern remake of the old goldbox games. Making good progress.
sproketboy··on California moves to silence Stanford researchers who got data to study education
Leftists always do that. SCUMS.
sproketboy··on A few words on Ruby's type annotations state
Adding types after the fact is never going to work out well.
sproketboy··on Stranger Things, JavaScript Edition
" ['1', '7', '11'].map(parseInt);

For what you would expect the output to be:

[1, 7, 11]

However, things get a bit off here, and the actual result is:

[1,NaN,3]

At first, this may look up very weird, but it actually has an elegant explanation. "

The elegant explanation is that JavaScript was taken over by psychopaths like bajcmartinez.

JavaScript is fine for button onClick code. Outside of that it's garbage.

sproketboy··on Better Portable Graphics
Why bother when we have PNG?
sproketboy··on One Year After Quitting My Job
Reality: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chicago_Hobo.jpg
sproketboy··on JetBrains Doomsday Sale - 75% off for 24 hours only
Yes, you are.
sproketboy··on 160 Mac Minis, One Rack
Yeah but can it run Crysis? /s
sproketboy··on The State of Windows 8
This is just an Ad to get people to use their service which monitors everything you do on your machine. Nope.
sproketboy··on PHP Annotations Are a Horrible Idea
PHP Is a Horrible Idea - FTFY
sproketboy··on Face detection for cats in JavaScript
Doesn't work.
sproketboy··on Custom bots for Unreal Tournament 2004 pass Turing test
Not quite but still cool.
sproketboy··on Bill Gates: Books I Read this Summer
The Road Ahead first edition? You know the one where you forgot to mention the world wide web and had to recall it?
sproketboy··on Why I went from Python to Go (and not node.js)
Why would anyone go to Node.js? Serious question.
sproketboy··on Woman recieves world's first bionic eye
Yeah but doesn't make the du.du.du.du sound. :(
sproketboy··on Damn Cool Algorithms: Homomorphic Hashing
Not that there's anything wrong with it.
sproketboy··on How TeX made it to the iOS App Store - running on DOS, inside an emulator
Sounds like Apple will remove this if they find out about it.