Adam13531

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Homepagerizer – open-source bookmarks solution(github.com)
3 points by Adam13531 5y ago|0 comments
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by Adam13531 6y ago
Update: full-time work is fine too.
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by Adam13531 6y ago
Location: WA, USA Remote: yes Willing to relocate: no Technologies: last five years: JavaScript, Node.js, AWS, Firebase, ReactJS, NextJS, Ansible, Terraform, MySQL, NoSQL, Docker, Java, Kotlin Résumé/CV: please inquire
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by Adam13531 7y ago
> You're right that I was trying to calculate distance. Oh good! Thanks for following up on that. > one of your code blocks seems to translate into Math.pow, which made me think that I could use it too. The way that the blocks wo
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by Adam13531 7y ago
Thank you too for the feedback! Would you mind either sharing the following or submitting a bug directly through the game? If you'd like to share this outside of the game but still privately, my Discord ID is Adam13531#3531. • What dev
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by Adam13531 7y ago
> What's the rationale for excluding sqrt? That's a great question, and one with a non-obvious answer! For any potential function in Bot Land, including utility functions like Math.sqrt and Math.pow, I purposely wanted to pro
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by Adam13531 7y ago
Thank you for the feedback! I've added all of this to the list of things to look into. I've heard sporadic reports about not being able to place bots on iOS, and I'm still not sure if it's a bug (I only have my wife&#x27
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by Adam13531 7y ago
I think that with the current climate of gaming, this is a minefield to answer, and I don't think it does me any good to answer it. It feels like a "gotcha, I knew it!" kind of question rather than an honest inquiry into how
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by Adam13531 7y ago
Ahh, I see what you're saying. I think the answer to that is that I had set up my entire life around Bot Land. It was my full-time job, I had the stream for accountability, and I'd dumped my savings into the production of the game
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by Adam13531 7y ago
> Do you find it difficult to converse with folks while programming? How do you maintain flow state while streaming? (Maybe this is just a skill you pick up?) This comic (which you've probably seen!) sums up context-switching as a p
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by Adam13531 7y ago
A combination of a lawyer and some minor touch-ups I've made over the years as things have changed. Do you mind clarifying what you find brutal? I am very far from being a lawyer, so I just wanted to make sure I'm protected, which
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by Adam13531 7y ago
Oh boy, do I have a huge answer for you! > How was streaming development of the game? It was great! People ask me a lot about what I'd change if I could go back in time or start again, and while I would certainly change some technol
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by Adam13531 7y ago
Oh yeah, you may be right. I took it to mean "given that I know code, I wouldn't want to use a drag-and-drop interface". I've had a few pieces of feedback like that before, and sometimes even pointing out the existing co
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by Adam13531 7y ago
Thank you for reporting this! I say this with no sarcasm: I think this is a completely unique bug. Also, it's better that I get reports than not, but if you've got any future bug reports or feature suggestions, there is an in-game
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by Adam13531 7y ago
Do you mind trying either the app or a different browser? I don't know why it wouldn't load at all. I agree that there should be some form of errors, logs, etc. I believe that will eventually happen if the game makes enough money
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by Adam13531 7y ago
Hey, so one thing to keep in mind is that BotLandScript is a subset of JavaScript. Member expressions (e.g. "entity.life") are only allowed in extremely narrow scenarios. Second, all available functions are accessible by clicking
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by Adam13531 7y ago
That probably could have worked, although I don't think I was the best at advertising things. :( As a streamer, I felt like one of the most difficult things to do was to alert people about news/changes for basically anything (my v
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by Adam13531 7y ago
Are you talking about the monetization model, or is something broken with opening salvage packs? I assume the former. The goal was always for Bot Land to be free-to-play, and there were many different approaches to monetization discussed th
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by Adam13531 7y ago
I think the other comments were interpreting this as "where did you find the time?" rather than "where did you find the other resources to support that time?" (e.g. money and motivation). I've been maintaining a hug
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by Adam13531 7y ago
There are three levels of scripting you can do: * None - just ignore the scripting and let the default AI take care of everything. There are some items that can't be used this way, e.g. Teleport and EMP, because the default AI wouldn&#
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by Adam13531 7y ago
> Why do you have the videos unlisted? Two reasons: 1. By making them public, they show up for all of my subscribers on YouTube, but I assume most subscribers on YouTube want to watch "major" update videos like announcements, r
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by Adam13531 7y ago
You can code in a subset of JavaScript too. Even with that in the game, I find Blockly a little bit more usable given the current feature-set in Bot Land right now (mostly the existence of snippets and premade scripts in Blockly). It's
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by Adam13531 7y ago
Thanks! The marketing document is fine to link. It hasn't really been updated much, but then again, I'm going to try more ideas from it now that the game has launched and the fires have died down a bit.
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by Adam13531 7y ago
Hey all, I've been working full-time on a game called Bot Land for the last four years, and it just launched: https://bot.land/ In the game, you can make bots with a Scratch-like interface called Blockly or use a subse
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Show HN: Bot Land, a game where you fight others via code(bot.land)
444 points by Adam13531 7y ago|87 comments
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by Adam13531 7y ago
Ah, good, I'm glad you found the answer! As for making something like this harmonically pleasing, it's been touched on here in other threads, but I think the whole project would require a redesign. If you were still aiming for a o
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by Adam13531 7y ago
Unfortunately no, not yet, although I'll try to make a post if I ever open-source it!
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by Adam13531 7y ago
Sounds like a fun project! RE: integration with what I did - I'm hoping to release the source code one day, then you'd most likely be free to use that code however you want (I'll probably MIT-license it). But as for my involv
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by Adam13531 7y ago
The April Fool's joke was that I'd even bother spending my time trying to learn this, but I assure you, it's all real! I linked to this elsewhere in the thread, but here's a Twitch VOD of practically nonstop typing tests
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by Adam13531 7y ago
I made a little explanatory document ( https://goo.gl/Vq3Fsb ) to go along with the typing tests that I streamed today, and that was one of the things that I mentioned (copy/pasting from there): Q: Can you play a real so

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