> I'm a frigging EXPERT in dozens of stuff that would make people smile now (those who are old enough ;-)) I'd love to read your list. :)
Can you please stop commenting on whether to use posts as meta-moderation? The community decided the post was worth the number one spot.
Wow, making selling a game into a game itself. How brilliant!
I wonder if I'm the only one here who is completely font-blind? I never notice what font something is unless someone points it out, let alone being able to pick out 25 specific ones. I guess that makes me a poor…
> I think paying for porn is easier than torrenting it if you have any discrimination at all in what you're after. You sound like someone who has never used BitTorrent effectively!
It is interesting just how much Y-Combinator itself resembles the business model of a university, except that it really can make a deal for a percent of a student's future earnings in a socially palatable way. Like a…
There has to be a better way to raise optimism about a release that has been continually delayed, other than to start soliciting public user feedback as to what the medium term plans for the development schedule should…
> If there was no minimum wage, they could work $2 an hour of value and then gradually work their way up. Wouldn't panhandling itself be far more lucrative than this? Based on walking by many beggars every day in a…
For one thing, though scientific, any conclusion is going to be rather soft if it's drawn from one study where human beings self-report calories, and where the difference in weight (2kg) is within the variance of how…
You're preaching to the choir here. What you're not going to be able to demonstrate is that, in laboratory controlled conditions where literally every calorie is counted by a scientist, and all variables are taken into…
> obviously getting your calories from healthy fats such as olive oil and avacados is going to be a lot more beneficial to your weight in the long run than getting your calories from sugary fizzy drinks such as…
Don't get me wrong, I love Project Euler and had a blast doing a couple of hundred problems in Java a couple years ago. I make these claims: 1. The problem solving there has almost no connection to what it is like for…
One thing that raises my eyebrows is how much functional programmers talk about Project Euler problems. The actual programming for solving these problems is in fact extremely trivial. They require some mathematical…
Yes if you haven't played those, or GemCraft I and II, or the original Desktop Tower Defense, I don't see why you'd touch this. (Not to mention Plants vs Zombies if you are willing to pay ten dollars for a fantastic…
Does it ever stop being news when someone writes any game in JS/Canvas? As a serious question, how long until we have to judge these games on the same standards for which we would judge the state of the art in Flash or…
The much glossed-over answer is that JavaScript and HTML just isn't a good environment for rich app development, for many reasons. One "elephant in the room" kind of issue is that JavaScript's object system is not…
The big part of this article that raises my skepticism is that it's talking about rat studies without mentioning that there are very many well known, dramatic, and fundamental differences between rat and human…
If you're going to do a twss in a humourless forum, please at least make it a funny one!
"rhythm" works pretty well because they're probably going to burn 5 vowels on it right away.
> set at very low weight to failure. Keep in mind that "very low weight" in this context might be what you can do 12 reps of. For anyone who wants to know a lot more, look up "Doggcrapp Training". I'm actually…
It's ironic that what developers hate about iPhone is precisely what makes it ideal for developers who want to make money. This being the walled garden, the inability to easily install free third party programs, and…
Can make their own damn money, the way we did.
Does World of Warcraft count?:)
> is preferable ... > or creates a new global variable You're the first person I read who actually defends this feature of JavaScript. (Crockford lists it in his "terrible parts" I believe.)
Why would the performance of recursion not be very context-dependent? I would expect it to be extremely context dependent depending on how much memory is being put on the stack, cache hits and misses, and so forth. I…
> I'm a frigging EXPERT in dozens of stuff that would make people smile now (those who are old enough ;-)) I'd love to read your list. :)
Can you please stop commenting on whether to use posts as meta-moderation? The community decided the post was worth the number one spot.
Wow, making selling a game into a game itself. How brilliant!
I wonder if I'm the only one here who is completely font-blind? I never notice what font something is unless someone points it out, let alone being able to pick out 25 specific ones. I guess that makes me a poor…
> I think paying for porn is easier than torrenting it if you have any discrimination at all in what you're after. You sound like someone who has never used BitTorrent effectively!
It is interesting just how much Y-Combinator itself resembles the business model of a university, except that it really can make a deal for a percent of a student's future earnings in a socially palatable way. Like a…
There has to be a better way to raise optimism about a release that has been continually delayed, other than to start soliciting public user feedback as to what the medium term plans for the development schedule should…
> If there was no minimum wage, they could work $2 an hour of value and then gradually work their way up. Wouldn't panhandling itself be far more lucrative than this? Based on walking by many beggars every day in a…
For one thing, though scientific, any conclusion is going to be rather soft if it's drawn from one study where human beings self-report calories, and where the difference in weight (2kg) is within the variance of how…
You're preaching to the choir here. What you're not going to be able to demonstrate is that, in laboratory controlled conditions where literally every calorie is counted by a scientist, and all variables are taken into…
> obviously getting your calories from healthy fats such as olive oil and avacados is going to be a lot more beneficial to your weight in the long run than getting your calories from sugary fizzy drinks such as…
Don't get me wrong, I love Project Euler and had a blast doing a couple of hundred problems in Java a couple years ago. I make these claims: 1. The problem solving there has almost no connection to what it is like for…
One thing that raises my eyebrows is how much functional programmers talk about Project Euler problems. The actual programming for solving these problems is in fact extremely trivial. They require some mathematical…
Yes if you haven't played those, or GemCraft I and II, or the original Desktop Tower Defense, I don't see why you'd touch this. (Not to mention Plants vs Zombies if you are willing to pay ten dollars for a fantastic…
Does it ever stop being news when someone writes any game in JS/Canvas? As a serious question, how long until we have to judge these games on the same standards for which we would judge the state of the art in Flash or…
The much glossed-over answer is that JavaScript and HTML just isn't a good environment for rich app development, for many reasons. One "elephant in the room" kind of issue is that JavaScript's object system is not…
The big part of this article that raises my skepticism is that it's talking about rat studies without mentioning that there are very many well known, dramatic, and fundamental differences between rat and human…
If you're going to do a twss in a humourless forum, please at least make it a funny one!
"rhythm" works pretty well because they're probably going to burn 5 vowels on it right away.
> set at very low weight to failure. Keep in mind that "very low weight" in this context might be what you can do 12 reps of. For anyone who wants to know a lot more, look up "Doggcrapp Training". I'm actually…
It's ironic that what developers hate about iPhone is precisely what makes it ideal for developers who want to make money. This being the walled garden, the inability to easily install free third party programs, and…
Can make their own damn money, the way we did.
Does World of Warcraft count?:)
> is preferable ... > or creates a new global variable You're the first person I read who actually defends this feature of JavaScript. (Crockford lists it in his "terrible parts" I believe.)
Why would the performance of recursion not be very context-dependent? I would expect it to be extremely context dependent depending on how much memory is being put on the stack, cache hits and misses, and so forth. I…