WilliamLP

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by WilliamLP 8y ago
> 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. :)
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by WilliamLP 15y ago
Can you please stop commenting on whether to use posts as meta-moderation? The community decided the post was worth the number one spot.
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by WilliamLP 16y ago
> Well, there IS an integer that contains all the digits of Pi 1234567890 does:)
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by WilliamLP 16y ago
Wow, making selling a game into a game itself. How brilliant!
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by WilliamLP 16y ago
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 candidate for being a design
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by WilliamLP 16y ago
> 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!
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by WilliamLP 16y ago
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 top university, much of
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by WilliamLP 16y ago
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 be?
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by WilliamLP 16y ago
I think like many other nascent entertainment technologies, the first really profitable use cases for this could be porn and gaming.
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by WilliamLP 16y ago
> I don't know exactly how his experiment would turn out. I'm sure there would be correlation, but I suspect that it would be very far from perfect, possibly because of talent or inadvertently (or deliberately) discovering better and mo
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by WilliamLP 16y ago
> 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 downtown area and see
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by WilliamLP 16y ago
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 much our weight can var
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by WilliamLP 16y ago
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 account (e.g. hyrdati
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by WilliamLP 16y ago
> 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 coca-cola. It may be "obv
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by WilliamLP 16y ago
Do you know about Sphere Online Judge? ( http://www.spoj.pl/ ) It supports a lot of languages. It still contains mostly algorithmic problems though, making it a superset of the kinds of problems at Project Euler but still a tiny subset of g
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by WilliamLP 16y ago
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 the vast majority of u
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by WilliamLP 16y ago
> varied tasks That's where I'd argue. It would be like saying you're an all around gamer when you play only chess but with different openings every time. Varied simple tasks would be doing some Euler problems, doing some basic algorith
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by WilliamLP 16y ago
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 insight, especially after
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by WilliamLP 16y ago
> A corporation is a technology Yes and a very useful one since it adds +1 trade routes per city.
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by WilliamLP 16y ago
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 game.)
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by WilliamLP 16y ago
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 as a native iPhone ap
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by WilliamLP 16y ago
From the Google style guide: "The semantics of this can be tricky. At times it refers to the global object (in most places), the scope of the caller (in eval), a node in the DOM tree (when attached using an event handler HTML attribute), a
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by WilliamLP 16y ago
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 acceptable to most program
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by WilliamLP 16y ago
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 metabolisms.
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by WilliamLP 16y ago
If you're going to do a twss in a humourless forum, please at least make it a funny one!
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by WilliamLP 16y ago
"rhythm" works pretty well because they're probably going to burn 5 vowels on it right away.
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by WilliamLP 16y ago
> 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 serious!
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by WilliamLP 16y ago
Yes, indicative of positive mutual feedback, not a round area of slow and sticky fluid flow:) Thanks.
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by WilliamLP 16y ago
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 also the fact that there
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by WilliamLP 16y ago
Can make their own damn money, the way we did.

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