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mattmoss··on Show HN: I made a simple addictive web game
In Firefox (102.0.1), I see only the bottom-left 25% of the playfield.

In Chrome (103.0.5060.114), after a few attempts, the game became very lagging/low framerate that it was mostly unplayable.

Nice simple clicker!

mattmoss··on [dead]
You monster.
mattmoss··on Show HN: Coding Font – A game to find your favorite coding font
I currently use Fira Code, and I tried to focus on the text comparisons without consideration of the font names.

I ended up picking Noto Sans Mono by a very slim margin over Fira Code. Interesting...

mattmoss··on Google's Abandoned Android Authenticator App
Do Yubikeys have a shelf life? Something akin to a usb flash drive?
mattmoss··on Why Don't People Use Formal Methods?
> That's a problem with specs, the most concise and complete way to write them is by writing your program.

I've never dealt with formal specs/design, certainly nothing like those described here. Your comment (however in/accurate) strikes me as interesting and leads me to wonder...

What if we took the code and processed it to generate a "spec"? (I quote "spec" here b/c I wouldn't consider it a spec, but don't know what else to call it.) Basically, a document that explains verbosely what the written code does... hopefully in a way that is reasonably, humanly digestable.

Then we might get a doc that says, "Function add(...) accepts two integers/nulls and returns the sum." And Joe-coder looks and realizes it shouldn't accept nulls, goes back to the code, fixes the issue.

mattmoss··on Show HN: Concrete Calculator for your weekend projects around the house
White on orange is not great for readability. Especially the calculation results block which animates from white on orange to white on pale-orange: even less readable.

Otherwise, nice job!

mattmoss··on How did you learn to code?
Mostly self-taught: BASIC/ASM on a C64 using the Programmer's Reference and Compute!'s Gazette. Taught myself C on a Mac Plus by writing a game over winter break during my first year at university.

There's so much documentation available now (more than was available years ago) for so many open-source and free resources out there.

For me, though, the biggest assist to really learning something is having a project. Whether it's at my employer or a personal thing, a project drives me much better to learn something than documentation alone.

mattmoss··on Ask HN: What project did you tackle to learn C?
I learned C over 1990 Christmas break from university. At home, I programmed my father's Mac Plus and wrote a game similar to Light's Out but on a playfield not a square grid.
mattmoss··on Building a Thermal Camera
Would this be a good tool for finding air leaks (i.e. cold air coming in during the winter) in an old house? I might drop the $200-300 for one of these if it will help me find all the leaks.

Even better if the $40 Adafruit one mentioned elsewhere (https://www.adafruit.com/product/3538) worked just as well, once configured/programmed adequately.

mattmoss··on Ask HN: Payment processor for non-profit donations?
Thanks, I'll keep an eye on it when you are out of beta.
mattmoss··on Ask HN: Payment processor for non-profit donations?
No.
mattmoss··on Ask HN: would you pay $199 to survive the zombie apocalypse?
$199 to survive fiction? More seriously, website doesn't load.
mattmoss··on Show HN: Discover Recipes by Ingredients
Seriously… that's the first thing I searched.
mattmoss··on Show HN: Discover Recipes by Ingredients
Firefox 29.0.1: Can't type into the text field to put in an ingredient. EDIT: Typing is there, can't see the text. (White on white?)
mattmoss··on Ask HN: What's going on with Google's WHOIS record?
Only one of those appears to be google.com.
mattmoss··on Give Your Spirit Clojure
Sweet...

One suggestion: take, for example, (= ___ (count [:a :b :c])), or anything similar. Check that the answer provided by the user isn't exactly the same as the value on the right. Trivial to pass all/many of these by copy/paste. ;)

mattmoss··on HelloRun - A WebGL 3D Game
Cool… the fog color matching the gate color often makes it difficult to discern which section is the opening.
mattmoss··on Time as a hexadecimal color value
Really… Flash?
mattmoss··on Show HN: An Open Source Number Game
"You can only get credit for each multiple of 7 once…"

That carries across games; should it?

(Using Chrome 26.0.1410.65)

EDIT: I looked at the source; you do not reset sumslist.

mattmoss··on Being flown out for technical interview. Advice?
They obviously have some interest to fly you out, so relax and do the interview and be courteous and all that. But don't worry an iota about their expense: it's part of their budget.
mattmoss··on How to Fold a Julia Fractal
This page was educational and interesting until it locked up my computer with the CPU pegged full. Force power off/on "fixed" the problem.