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Ron | August 17, 2009

Someone managed to exploit a flaw in the way I calculate high scores for my game Gem Story.
As of 8/18/09,
Quest

Name
Score
Level
Date

ma
2147483647
16
August 13 2009

Loren
1317023
28
August 16 2009

yan
1108697
9
August 04 2009

Matt
880118
20
August 06 2009

moogleii
313409
17
July 10 2009

smd
298247
1
July 08 2009

bud
284941
32
July 11 2009

Emily
242672
6
July 07 2009

hech
184688
8
July 15 2009

Gg
170662
13
August 05 2009

I thought I had accounted for such a scenario with proper checks, but it looks like [...]

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Tags: apple, arithmetic, gem, gem story, integer, iphone, mac, objective-c, overflow, story, xcode

Ron | August 15, 2009

Wow, I haven’t enjoyed a movie this much in a long time. But perhaps it was because I had somewhat low expectations. I thought it was going to be a lame, heavy-handed, symbolic exploration of Apartheid. Not that a movie about Apartheid would be bad, but my whole angle on that is if you’re going [...]

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Ron | August 13, 2009

Nerd out! Defying Gravity is a new sci-fi series that started maybe 3 weeks ago. I think it airs Sunday on NBC or something.  It’s about a long-distance space exploration mission taking place in the 2040’s.
Visually, it’s pretty cool. It has that slick Minority Report look to it, and the CG is nice. Plot-wise, it [...]

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