Nickb 20k • Hacker News Board

IsaacSchlueter wrote: post #12

icey wrote: post #4

Next milestone: 32,768?

Yeah, but then you fall off the leader board, because your score is -1. :P

Chuckle I had originally posted 32,767; but I figured getting to 32768 should really be the milestone.

Re: Nickb 20k

#15

Post by pius » Tue, Sep 02, 2008, 8:08 PM UTC

@nickb Very impressive, congrats!

Re: Nickb 20k

#16

Post by rokhayakebe » Tue, Sep 02, 2008, 8:10 PM UTC

Dude I am working hard to get to 2k.

Re: Nickb 20k

#17

Post by willchang » Tue, Sep 02, 2008, 8:32 PM UTC

IsaacSchlueter wrote: post #12

icey wrote: post #4

Next milestone: 32,768?

Yeah, but then you fall off the leader board, because your score is -1. :P

I think you mean -32768.

Re: Nickb 20k

#18

Post by simplegeek » Tue, Sep 02, 2008, 8:41 PM UTC

Thank you and please reveal yourself now :)

Re: Nickb 20k

#19

Post by jmatt » Tue, Sep 02, 2008, 9:29 PM UTC

willchang wrote: post #17

IsaacSchlueter wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, but then you fall off the leader board, because your score is -1. :P

I think you mean -32768.

If it rolls over due to 2s complement then it'll be -32768.

What the -1 comment is refering to is a casting problem. Or int into byte, etc. Versus unsigned to signed.

Re: Nickb 20k

#20

Post by IsaacSchlueter » Tue, Sep 02, 2008, 10:01 PM UTC

jmatt wrote: post #19

willchang wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think you mean -32768.

If it rolls over due to 2s complement then it'll be -32768. What the -1 comment is refering to is a casting problem. Or int into byte, etc. Versus unsigned to signed.

Oh, duh. Brainfart. -1 would be 11111111 not 10000000.

While I doubt that HN's scoring would suffer from signedness bugs, if it did, getting your score down/up to -1 would be the ultimate. It would be an interesting easter egg to build into the system, tho :)