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Funny bit about this is that someone will give these people millions in funding or acquihire. All for a: from random import randint choice = randint(1

Funny bit about this is that someone will give these people millions in funding or acquihire. All for a: from random import randint choice = randint(1, 6) delete = randint(1, 6) if choice == delete: print "Today is not your lucky day." else: print "Try again tomorrow." print "Today's choice was {0}.".format(choice) #I felt like writing some bad python.

m4design 13y ago
There's a bug in your code, the chance of deleting is less than 1/6.
- olympus 13y ago
  While the code could use streamlining by only drawing one randint and comparing it to a static number, the probability of orangethirty's way of doing it still gives the correct probability of 1/6. Think of it as two dice, the chance of rolling doubles is 6/36 = 1/6.
  - andrewchoi 13y ago
    I think the point of the post you're responding to is that the code doesn't actually delete anything.
    - orangethirty 13y ago
      How could it delete what is not there? Or did you really expect me to write python script with fb graph integration?
SandB0x 13y ago
FYI "choice" is the name of a function in the random module: from random import choice if choice(range(6)): print "Try again tomorrow." else: print "Today is not your lucky day."
- orangethirty 13y ago
  No one liner? Im disappointed. Did you read the commnt at the end?
  - shill 13y ago
    alert(Math.floor(Math.random()*5)<1?"Boom!":"Click!");
  - sublimit 13y ago
    print ("Click", "Bam!")[input()%6==4] Tee hee.
  - relix 13y ago
    puts "Bam" if rand(6).zero?
hawkharris 13y ago
I know what you mean. In a sense the backend code is probably pretty simple. But that just goes to show how important the implementation / design really is. I just survived the game, and I thought the spinning revolver wheel is what made the experience.
- orangethirty 13y ago
  My point is that the code really doesnt matter in many "startups". Just the fact that someone will buy.
  - hawkharris 13y ago
    As a programmer I think that well-written code can be beautiful. A pithy, innovative Python script should be worth more than, say, a script that powers a run-of-the-mill to-do list app. At the same time, I think it's understandable that users and investors don't evaluate startups the way I do, using a programmer's mindset. They're more interested in how well the overall idea has been executed from design, marketing and user experience standpoints.

m4design 13y ago

There's a bug in your code, the chance of deleting is less than 1/6.

olympus 13y ago
While the code could use streamlining by only drawing one randint and comparing it to a static number, the probability of orangethirty's way of doing it still gives the correct probability of 1/6. Think of it as two dice, the chance of rolling doubles is 6/36 = 1/6.
- andrewchoi 13y ago
  I think the point of the post you're responding to is that the code doesn't actually delete anything.
  - orangethirty 13y ago
    How could it delete what is not there? Or did you really expect me to write python script with fb graph integration?

SandB0x 13y ago

FYI "choice" is the name of a function in the random module: from random import choice if choice(range(6)): print "Try again tomorrow." else: print "Today is not your lucky day."

orangethirty 13y ago
No one liner? Im disappointed. Did you read the commnt at the end?
- shill 13y ago
  alert(Math.floor(Math.random()*5)<1?"Boom!":"Click!");
- sublimit 13y ago
  print ("Click", "Bam!")[input()%6==4] Tee hee.
- relix 13y ago
  puts "Bam" if rand(6).zero?

hawkharris 13y ago

I know what you mean. In a sense the backend code is probably pretty simple. But that just goes to show how important the implementation / design really is. I just survived the game, and I thought the spinning revolver wheel is what made the experience.

orangethirty 13y ago
My point is that the code really doesnt matter in many "startups". Just the fact that someone will buy.
- hawkharris 13y ago
  As a programmer I think that well-written code can be beautiful. A pithy, innovative Python script should be worth more than, say, a script that powers a run-of-the-mill to-do list app. At the same time, I think it's understandable that users and investors don't evaluate startups the way I do, using a programmer's mindset. They're more interested in how well the overall idea has been executed from design, marketing and user experience standpoints.