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mitchi··on The Science of Winning Poker
I'm hoping the US players can come back online soon. I'm not saying US players are bad but it can't be harder than playing Russians hyper-LAGs all day.
mitchi··on The Science of Winning Poker
Are you still a winning player? Were you playing before Black Friday? I heard it was easier. I studied the game a lot these past few months and I barely break even. I'm only winning in live poker.
mitchi··on Soylent Subterfuge: When a Bad Joke Turns into a Business
no fat in Ensure! It can't be a complete food without fat right?
mitchi··on Soylent Subterfuge: When a Bad Joke Turns into a Business
It really comes down to this :

- The guy is not a career nutritionist.

- He's basically recreating the food they eat in Matrix (the second movie I believe)

- He's making money off it.

#1 and #3 are pissing people off. I'm actually glad many people are offering to be guinea pigs for this because all-in-one fast food is a good tech to unlock.

mitchi··on The Science of Winning Poker
why tell them you play in the interview?
mitchi··on Obama Promises Disappear from Web
So much for that
mitchi··on Valve releasing Dota2 for Linux
There's that. But most players don't have to deal with this thanks to the matchmaking system. I'm talking about how any veteran player can feed in a game and it ruins the game, inciting insults and frustrated remarks. I think the big necessity for Dota 2 is to add a forfeit button. Too much time is wasted on finishing up games. Demolishing a base with low damage can take a very long time...
mitchi··on Valve releasing Dota2 for Linux
The game is extremely addictive. When you start getting serious at this game, it means that you will be offended by many small things you wouldn't care about if you were just a casual gamer. Let's say you play at a high level game. You do well at your top lane with your carry, you farmed well for 10 minutes, even got a kill and you're satisfied with how the game's going so far. Meanwhile you have your mid lane getting crushed by the enemy. Your ally mid dies 5 times in 8 minutes and you soon get ganked by a level 12 middle hero when you're only level 6. You get run over as well as they're little you can do. The rest of the game snowballs like this and because you can't give up in DotA 2, you have to play for 15-20 minutes defending or not defending your base against feeded (too strong) opponents. So yea, that's when the unfriendliness comes from
mitchi··on QCL - A Programming Language for Quantum Computers
How long do we realistically have to wait before John Carmack rewrites Wolfenstein 3D in this?
mitchi··on Texas teen in jail for his Facebook comment
This is saddening. Many lone gamers will say these things to make them look tough, feared or just to make others think they're crazy. source : been in the gaming community a long time. USA, where prison is the solution to everything.
mitchi··on PRISM: The Amazingly Low Cost of ­Using Big Data to Know More About You
Please, our CANADIAN Firearms Registry program cost 66M a year. And that's Canada, the gun land!

I would expect Prim to at LEAST cost more than Instagram, no? :)

mitchi··on Tesla: It's faster to 'recharge' electric car than pump gas
When I think about how to optimize the time of my day, it's certainly not the time I have to wait while the gas is filling up my tank. 3 minutes looks like a worse-case too. Not sure if that's 100 % honest.
mitchi··on FLAC 1.3.0 Released
I have invested a lot of money into good headphones and good speakers and I can't tell the difference between good lame mp3s and flac...
mitchi··on Rand Paul wants to lead a Supreme Court challenge to Feds' tracking of Americans
Rand Paul may have its faults. Many people like libertarianism but they don't like the pro-religion/prolife and pro-rich aspects that come with it. That's why Bill Maher has distanced himself recently from the libertarian appelation. However to say that it's not sincere coming from Rand Paul is not fair at all. If you know a little bit about who he is, who his father is, you couldn't say that... Of course Rand Paul is building a political portfolio for 2016. The filibuster, the TSA, the balanced budgets and now this, it's all going into it. But all these political actions are in line with who he is and what he represents. And still, after all that there's a very big chance he'll lose to a generic republican like Rubio or Ryan in the primaries.
mitchi··on Firefox 25 will get a major UI overhaul
Still waiting for a joke on Firefox's version number.
mitchi··on Visual Studio 2013
If you compile with /LARGEADDRESSAWARE and run the executable on win7 64 bits, your process has a maximum of 4 gigabytes of ram. I know, I tested it up to 3.6 g. Not bad at all!
mitchi··on Why I Dislike EC2
I really like the concept of Amazon EC2 but it's incredibly expensive and the performance is horrible. Give me a full 1 gigabits connection, a few ipv4 adresses, all ports open and I'm all good. 90 % of all businesses are okay with this. The server business is getting too centralized and it's bad for the internet.
mitchi··on Kim Jong-il's Sushi Chef
I'm still amazed at how he stayed there 20+ years and never learned Korean.
mitchi··on How to eat healthily for £1 per day – version 0.2
314 carbs is around what a bodybuilder eats when he's bulking up. But bodybuilders eat 4 times this amount of protein (55 g). This diet is designed for a normal/small person obviously! How much would it cost to throw a multivitamin in there? Get some zinc, magnesium, fish oils in there since there's no meat at all. Zinc is obviously important if you're a man since you need it to produce testosterone.
mitchi··on How to eat healthily for £1 per day – version 0.2
If you make the calculations from "biological eggs produced from chicken in liberty", I'm sure it's profitable! These eggs cost a fortune now.
mitchi··on Soylent Campaign
Too late, they raised all the money they need sinister music
mitchi··on Programming in D
Coming from someone working in graph theory code I can tell you that the debugger is invaluable. So many pointer links :) Last time I tried VisualD it was pretty good.
mitchi··on Programming in D
I wonder if they are being deliberately slow at releasing these videos so that each one gets discussion and views. The conference has been over for some time now.
mitchi··on Big-O Algorithm Complexity Cheat Sheet
My friend was interviewed by a video game company not long ago and they gave him an algorithmic problem. He asked what the complexity of the algorithm was and the interviewer said O(n). Good hint to have! He passed the interview.
mitchi··on Big-O Algorithm Complexity Cheat Sheet
This is great! Gratitude
mitchi··on Web Framework Benchmarks Round 4
Looks great!!!
mitchi··on Web Framework Benchmarks Round 4
http://openresty.org/ Looks interesting but at a quick glance it looks like you are programming in configuration files? I'm not sure I like the idea.
mitchi··on Ruby is too slow for programming competitions
That's Design Patterns code. I'm sure that if I start programming seriously in Java, I can bring all the readability of C with me!
mitchi··on Ruby is too slow for programming competitions
Tim Sweeney predicted that we'd all have 20 core machines with 80 hardware threads by 2009. Not really what happened. The whole point is that while Ruby is nice, it's just too slow. Someone is better off investing time learning a faster compiled/JIT language.
mitchi··on Light Table a year ago
I'm interested in ClojureScript development. Will LightTable support it out of the box just like it supports Clojure?
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