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Re: Show HN: I Made a Stupid Game

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asmosoinio wrote: post #123
superninjy wrote: post #29

Fun game! I have a suggestion: the huge numbers are not quite readable. Maybe add the scientific notation as well. Comparing 73,400,000,000,000,000,000,000 with 844,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 is tricky, especially since the numbers are not right aligned. Adding a 73.4×10^21 vs 844×10^21 would be helpful.

I like the big numbers with lots of zeros: works for kids as well. IMHO it could lose some of the silly charm with scientific notation. But having the numbers aligned for easy comparison would be great. --- To OP: I really like this! Will be guessing some with my kids who are around 10 year old. Combined weight less than an elephant.

OP here. Thanks! Will be testing with my 6 year old later. He actually hasn't seen it yet. Yeah, I agree. I wanted something that everyone can read and where the physical size of the number on the screen gives a great idea of the size (in terms of order of magnitude). Alignment is a great idea. I'll have a think about that one.

Re: Show HN: I Made a Stupid Game

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Arch485 wrote: post #120
unobatbayar wrote: post #118

> a space shuttle weighed 2,040,000kg It's common sense that a space shuttle would be heavy, but this heavy? The thrust needed to lift the damn thing must be weight x 9.8m/s^2 = 19,992,000 Newtons. Why can't it be lighter?

I think the weight listed in the game is for the shuttle, boosters, and a full load of fuel

OP here. I was absolutely frazzled creating data to chuck into it. Yeah, I think the shuttle data should be correct for shuttle, external tank and boosters. And fuel. A whole lot of fuel. See robocat's answer.

Re: Show HN: I Made a Stupid Game

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_justinfunk wrote: post #116
_justinfunk wrote: post #115

I feel like modern statistics has taught me that no matter how big you think the moon is, when you have 3 quadrillion of something.... the moon weighs more than 3 quadrillion of the rockets that we used to get there. space is big, human brains are small

3 quadrillion Saturn 5 rockets would be more than it would take to cover the surface of earth (standing up) - but would have less mass than the moon. Sorry- this question blew my mind.

OP here. Awwww, I love how much great positive feedback this is getting. I literally have tears in my eyes.

Re: Show HN: I Made a Stupid Game

#135

Post by last_one_in »

oldstrangers wrote: post #73
contravariant wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's because it's forwarding the traffic to some entirely unrelated website for some reason. Not sure if the DNS went screwy, but something is not right.

Think the guy got hacked mid launch.

OP here. It all came out right in the end! The server was bought to it's knees. Sysadmin thought I (as a very new customer) was up to something bad (my email address is james@rootdev.com and he feared I was a bad actor) and froze my account. The webserver didn't know what to serve and decided the best bet was to serve the first thing (alphabetically) that it could find (some insurance company beginning with the letter A). Now on a different server. And got to meet my lovely sysadmin who put everything right straight away (who wasn't even pissed off at me). What a day.

Re: Show HN: I Made a Stupid Game

#136

Post by tokamak-teapot »

last_one_in wrote: post #131
asmosoinio wrote: post #123

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I like the big numbers with lots of zeros: works for kids as well. IMHO it could lose some of the silly charm with scientific notation. But having the numbers aligned for easy comparison would be great. --- To OP: I really like this! Will be guessing some with my kids who are around 10 year old. Combined weight less than an elephant.

OP here. Thanks! Will be testing with my 6 year old later. He actually hasn't seen it yet. Yeah, I agree. I wanted something that everyone can read and where the physical size of the number on the screen gives a great idea of the size (in terms of order of magnitude). Alignment is a great idea. I'll have a think about that one.

    4,200,000,000 (4.2 billion)  
        1,000,000 (1 million)
          900,000 (900 thousand)
This kind of formatting would be great - for kids learning about bigger numbers and their names.

Re: Show HN: I Made a Stupid Game

#137

Post by tokamak-teapot »

crummy wrote: post #99
last_one_in wrote: post #41

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Yeah, I'd find that more readable too. I aimed for something anyone could understand.

Could you just have a simple bar graph that showed their relative sizes? Two numbers with a bunch of zeroes are hard to compare.

That'd be great to see!

Re: Show HN: I Made a Stupid Game

#138

Post by last_one_in »

tokamak-teapot wrote: post #136
last_one_in wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

OP here. Thanks! Will be testing with my 6 year old later. He actually hasn't seen it yet. Yeah, I agree. I wanted something that everyone can read and where the physical size of the number on the screen gives a great idea of the size (in terms of order of magnitude). Alignment is a great idea. I'll have a think about that one.

4,200,000,000 (4.2 billion) 1,000,000 (1 million) 900,000 (900 thousand) This kind of formatting would be great - for kids learning about bigger numbers and their names.

Oooo, I like that. That's really clear.

Re: Show HN: I Made a Stupid Game

#139

Post by contravariant »

last_one_in wrote: post #135
oldstrangers wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Think the guy got hacked mid launch.

OP here. It all came out right in the end! The server was bought to it's knees. Sysadmin thought I (as a very new customer) was up to something bad (my email address is james@rootdev.com and he feared I was a bad actor) and froze my account. The webserver didn't know what to serve and decided the best bet was to serve the first thing (alphabetically) that it could find (some insurance company beginning with the lette…

Thanks for the postmortem. Sorry things got a bit more hectic than you'd hoped but it's interesting to know why.

Re: Show HN: I Made a Stupid Game

#140

Post by last_one_in »

contravariant wrote: post #139
last_one_in wrote: post #135

Earlier quoted context omitted.

OP here. It all came out right in the end! The server was bought to it's knees. Sysadmin thought I (as a very new customer) was up to something bad (my email address is james@rootdev.com and he feared I was a bad actor) and froze my account. The webserver didn't know what to serve and decided the best bet was to serve the first thing (alphabetically) that it could find (some insurance company beginning with the lette…

Thanks for the postmortem. Sorry things got a bit more hectic than you'd hoped but it's interesting to know why.

Yeah, things did get hectic. Still pretty busy today. The support and feedback from here was amazing though. I didn't expect that. It really helped me get through. And takeaway food. I literally posted to HN just as I was about to go shopping cos I didn't have any food - I didn't make it, still haven't!
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