JamesAcorn
Re:A Silly Anti-Disassembly Trick
on Sunday April 25, 2021 @04:34AM (#26931229)
Many years ago I was playing around with an Acorn Archimedes (RISC OS) anagram application. It wouldn't let me create anagrams of the programmer's name, William Tunstall-Pedoe.
Re:Show HN: My first game, minimal procgen gravity golf inspired by De...
on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @12:06PM (#21137976)
It was called !Gravity on the Acorn Archimedes. It was written in BASIC (and possibly some assembler) and I remember it being a popular game at school to hack - change the number of planets, acceleration rate etc.
Re:Ask HN: Do you program in Basic?
on Sunday June 16, 2019 @07:01AM (#20194910)
About three years ago I knocked up a quick BBC Basic program (RPCemu/RISCOS) to play around with some dithering algorithms; I ended up painting the results:
https://flashasm.wordpress.com/2015/11/04/more-incredibly-sl...
Re:Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses
on Saturday June 01, 2013 @04:06AM (#5803214)
You could get away addressing that as:
GB Technical Services
Unit W7a
Warwick House
18 Forge Lane
B76 1AH
The postcode effectively encodes the post town and county. It may not be easily 'human readable' but Royal Mail will deliver it no problems.
Re:Sorry, Digital Ad Exec, I Probably Don’t Want To Work For You
on Monday May 13, 2013 @02:39PM (#5700544)
Just curious.. why didn't anyone run a quick benchmark of both methods?
I was thinking the same thing; my initial thoughts were Jeff Minter or James Hague, but Google is not showing anything relevant.
It might simply be that a common first-time benchmark exercise for programmers moving from BASIC to assembler is to fill the screen with characters or pixels. I have a sneaking suspicion I did the same too.
Re:Google Forks WebKit And Launches Blink, A New Rendering Engine
on Saturday April 06, 2013 @12:02PM (#5503958)
'Chrome' used to refer to the GUI elements that surround a webpage - scrollbars, back button etc. Google changed that.
Google will effectively Google-bomb the web development word 'blink' too. It is no big loss.
Re:21 Nested Callbacks
on Friday March 29, 2013 @06:29AM (#5460026)
Supposing you could travel back in time and give your earlier self a book (or at least, a few sheets of paper) that described 'good programming' (e.g. using GOSUB, in this context) - would you do it?
Would you have been better off 'doing things right' from day one, versus experimenting and muddling through?