Return True to Win • Hacker News Board

qwertyuiop924 wrote: post #30

I already saw this on lobste.rs, but it's still cool. I like ES just fine, but to think we could have had scheme instead. Gee, thanks Netscape: Every time you win, everybody loses.

"it's because of you, motherfucker, that we're not all using lisp" @ 5:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzkRVzciAZg

Re: Return True to Win

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Post by idbehold » Fri, Aug 12, 2016, 1:02 PM UTC

xeniak wrote: post #24

idbehold wrote: post #20

Let me document all the reasons I dislike the HTML spec: it defines a willful violation of the ECMAScript standard.

Can you elaborate?

Well, it's kind of a hint for solving some of the more "that's impossible" problems on here. I don't want to give the whole thing away.

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Post by nfriedly » Fri, Aug 12, 2016, 1:02 PM UTC

It loaded for me eventually. First one is pretty straightforward. After that they seem to require knowledge of JavaScript quirks.

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Post by vog » Fri, Aug 12, 2016, 1:04 PM UTC

kakarot wrote: post #35

Tepix wrote: post #26

It doesn't seem to work for me on Firefox and Chrome..?

It wasn't working on either for me, so I came here to complain, went back and it was suddenly working. Dunno what the issue was but keep trying maybe

Yes, it seems to take quite a while to start up.

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Post by tomelders » Fri, Aug 12, 2016, 1:04 PM UTC

dou4cc wrote: post #4

The game shows us how ugly JS is.

Swift. The Javascript of tomorrow, today!