Hacker Typer
Games
typing game
SHOW HN2011
160points
34comments
#51of 1,097 in 2011
Top 5%of 2011 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
4 positive, 14 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 2 critical, out of 20 comments about the project. Thread score +0.15.
Idea: 4 for, 1 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Fun and amusing joke project
From 4 comments
Now I can be a Hollywood movie hacker too!
s0urceror on HNThis is brilliant.
palish on HNwow, he exactly duplicated my sentient EMACS setup! My job is jeopardize.
hayeah on HNNice! My son loves to type random gibberish in a Vim window and now he is going to type "real" code!
johncoltrane on HN
Objections
Font was not overridden in some browsers
From 1 comment
not done! the font is still my browser's beautiful Serif (not overridden)
tga on HN
Does not work on iOS because no input field is present
From 2 comments
Is there any reason this shouldn't work on an iOS device? It's all Javascript. I just can't get my iPad to pop up a keyboard to start triggering keypress events.
skimbrel on HNThis js simply binds an "KeyDown" event listener to the document. There are no actual input fields so an iOS device.. that's why you don't get a keyboard.
incredimike on HN
Requests
Make Enter key complete the current line
From 1 comment
Feature request: make every "enter" key press complete the current line.
yuvadam on HN
Add ngram analysis to generate code from keystrokes
From 1 comment
it would be cool if you do ngram analysis that generates code based on keystrokes
hayeah on HN
Questions
Where the code comes from: GitHub or generated on demand
From 1 comment
How is the code generated? Is is scraped from publicly-accessible repositories (e.g. on github), or is it somehow generated on demand?
chad_oliver on HN
Whether the C snippet is valid
From 2 comments
There looks like a syntax error early on with the ternary operator: ``` nblocks = nblocks ? : 1; ```
lsb on HNthat's actually valid C through a GCC extension: http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.5.0/gcc/Conditionals.html#Conditionals
brodd on HN