johnfn

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2071.
by johnfn 17y ago
I remember how reading that Facebook was engineered to give you the most positive experience. This feels like the total opposite sort of thing. I don't think it will be a huge success, though, because as much people say that they want const
2072.
by johnfn 17y ago
Just a little note: I read hacker news from hackerne.ws, and you currently have it domain restricted to news.ycombinator.com. Not a big deal, but why not just remove the domain restriction? Seems like more trouble than it's worth. Other tha
2073.
by johnfn 17y ago
I wonder if this is true of reading online as well? I very rarely feel stressed, and I read a lot online, but the two might not be related.
2074.
by johnfn 17y ago
I won't get one immediately. I might think about it a year or two down the line, after a potential price drop, and after I get to see how the whole extended DRM muddle / app store trouble pans out.
2075.
by johnfn 17y ago
You know, after reading this, it would be interesting to compile a list of the top averaging websites as sorted by points on HN. That would be a neat way to find new sites that we collectively find interesting.
2076.
by johnfn 17y ago
I'm pretty sure the number on the x-axis is the amount of weeks past the founding of HN.
2077.
by johnfn 17y ago
Seems like the proportion of articles actually focused on hacking have decreased, but everything else is pretty consistent. Also, what is "as khn" and "as kyc"? It looks like one replaced the other.
2078.
by johnfn 17y ago
> In one video titled Jonas Brother Live On Stage, a user posted a comment saying: "I'm 12 years old and what is this?" Not sure if bbc realizes this is just another 4chan meme...
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by johnfn 17y ago
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=the+unfair+platform... 2 million hits on google, hundreds of thousands of hits on websites like armorgames and kongregate. Pretty good for a flash game.
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by johnfn 17y ago
Counterexample: http://www.notdoppler.com/theunfairplatformer.php This is a game which is totally built around the concept of being impossibly hard, but still succeeds.
2081.
by johnfn 17y ago
Strange. I was able to move the watermelon no problem. Check your flash version?
2082.
by johnfn 17y ago
I only have to fake it like once or twice, actually. It should definitely work.
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by johnfn 17y ago
What bugs me about this article is that the solutions he takes for project euler are taken from a website which tries to make Python into a functional language and are needlessly verbose. For instance, the normal way to solve PE#1 is: print
2084.
by johnfn 17y ago
It was kind of clear that these songs were modeled off of specific previously written songs. The Bach sounded a lot like Invention 8, Beethoven's and his Sonata, Joplin and Maple leaf rag.
2085.
by johnfn 17y ago
> "You know what's more awesome than spending my Saturday afternoon learning Haskell by hacking away at a few Project Euler problems? Fuck, ANYTHING." This is pretty depressing since last weekend I was learning Haskell by working on Pro
2086.
by johnfn 17y ago
The way to make ratings more valuable can be seen on a site like www.rateyourmusic.com . You only get one vote per item, and voting again just changes your previous vote. Furthermore, you can see your voting distribution (this usually cows
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by johnfn 17y ago
I use FL Studio. I'm a total amateur. A lot of it is pretty bad, but it's fun to write. http://johnfn.newgrounds.com/audio/
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by johnfn 17y ago
A) is completely possible in a few minutes if you have a prewritten permutation function. for C) I wrote about 30 lines in python - 20 of them file handling - to solve the problem (after a few hours of deliberation). What matters is your sp
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by johnfn 17y ago
I'm not familiar with haskell - what is O? Optimization?
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by johnfn 17y ago
Whenever I try to do 40.reverse, the thing errors out on me, and it wont let me progress any more through the tutorial. Kind of disappointing. I remember doing this thing before and it was quite fun.
2091.
by johnfn 17y ago
I don't know if this is exactly 'life changing'... although it is pretty cool.
2092.
by johnfn 17y ago
Now if only twitter could tell me when it's going to be back up...
2093.
by johnfn 17y ago
The choices of the last winner: lunch dinner night goodnight morning nite coffee church. If only stock markets were this easy.
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by johnfn 17y ago
I really like Spotify. They say that they tried to outperform piracy, and I think that they entirely succeeded. It grabs songs faster and more reliably than piracy ever could. The only problem is that you can't put the songs on your ipod or
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by johnfn 17y ago
Is it just me, or does this come off as an advertisement more than an article?