last_one_in

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by last_one_in 5y ago
I watched that with my kids a couple of weeks ago. Definitely one of the inspirations. Also been listening to the "What If?" audiobook and Randall Monroe is never afraid to think about things like 80,000 gorillas.
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by last_one_in 5y ago
I added a share results button. Thanks everyone for such amazing support yesterday. Much appreciated. Thanks for feedback on the weights. I think there are definitely some mistakes in there. I'll be checking them this morning. After I
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by last_one_in 5y ago
Glad you like it! It's my first ever post to HN. I've been reading it daily since forever. Had to create an account to post. I did the shuttle in a rush TBH. I have no idea if that's with the main tank and boosters or not! No
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by last_one_in 5y ago
I absolutely hate popups. Not going to be an issue. Good call.
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by last_one_in 5y ago
Watching Holy Grail was the perfect way to unwind at the end of a very very long day. Thanks!
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by last_one_in 5y ago
Yeah, because I got suspended the webserver decided to just serve the first site alphabetically. Nice behaviour. I scared the ** out of me, I thought it had been hacked.
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by last_one_in 5y ago
It picks choices where the winner is about 10 times the weight of the loser. Very simple. Still trying to come up with something better that increases difficulty over time.
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by last_one_in 5y ago
Weird you should say that. The idea came to me after a long conversion with my 6 year old. He was telling me about a friend of his who said he was god or a god and we talked about how you could test to see if he was. That seemed to trigger
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by last_one_in 5y ago
Haha! Just clocked your username. One of my prize possessions is a signed copy of Neuromancer.
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by last_one_in 5y ago
No way! You are the only person to spot that. Fixed. Thanks!!!
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by last_one_in 5y ago
You're much better at it than me then :-)
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by last_one_in 5y ago
Yeah. A friend was playing with a group in a room and one of them was trying to read out the questions. Not a problem with 800 gorillas but it is with bigger numbers. Hmm, not sure what to do. The Greek prefixes I find really hard to rememb
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by last_one_in 5y ago
Doh!
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by last_one_in 5y ago
OP here. Nah man, not bait and switch. The server got fried! Username is my reddit username. Of 11 years, although I hardly use it. I read HN daily but never created an account (not that I can remember anyway). Should all be getting fixed n
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by last_one_in 5y ago
Bah! Well spotted!
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by last_one_in 5y ago
OP here. Everything went screwy! Should be working again now. I don't even work in tech anymore. I haven't been involved in a website launch in over a decade. It's been one hell of a day. My plan for the day was literally to
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by last_one_in 5y ago
Yeah man, the server got hugged to death. My provider was awesome solving issues and all back up again. I could do with a hug after all that!
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by last_one_in 5y ago
Yeah, I agree. Counting winning streaks is good. I was thinking of an acheivement system too.
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by last_one_in 5y ago
Yeah, really sorry about that. Wasn't my doing. The rather unexpected surge of traffic fried the server. Hopefully resolved now. I was never expecting to hit the front page of HN let alone number 1.
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by last_one_in 5y ago
The sysadmin thought I was up to no good and suspended me, which seems pretty reasonable to me. He was really cool and not even pissed off that I wiped out a server. All got cleared up. The site is on a different server now.
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by last_one_in 5y ago
Oopsie. I totally took out the server. Should be back again later.
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by last_one_in 5y ago
Aww man, really sorry. Not my doing. Trying to sort it out. My hosting account's been suspended. It's all gone a bit pear shaped. Oopsie.
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by last_one_in 5y ago
Ahh, it's joke data: { name: "a ton of bricks", plural: "tons of bricks", frequency: 0.01, weighWord: "weighs", min_mass_kg: 1000, max_mass_kg: 1000
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by last_one_in 5y ago
Stupid username is my favourite kind of username. Great job!
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by last_one_in 5y ago
Yeah..... um, so I picked min max ranges which would accomodate 50-90% of something. The human one is probably a bit narrow. It was a manic day of googling. Trying to work out what one molecule of caffeine weighs nearly broke me.
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by last_one_in 5y ago
Yeah, I'd find that more readable too. I aimed for something anyone could understand.
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by last_one_in 5y ago
Yeah right. I'm trying to send messages of apology to my sysadmin (a FOAF). I bet they hate me.
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by last_one_in 5y ago
Aww man, I'm going to have to watch that again tonight. True story: in one of my tech jobs me and my boss had a game to try to get Monty Python quotes into meetings. In a client meeting I talked about search engine behaviour and how yo
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by last_one_in 5y ago
TBH my HTML and CSS is so rusty. I haven't built a webpage in about a decade! I love number 2 and number 2. That's awesome, especially sending a question to a friend. Love it.
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by last_one_in 5y ago
Aww man, I couldn't even fit a gorilla in my kitchen let alone on my scales.

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