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> 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. :)

Can you please stop commenting on whether to use posts as meta-moderation? The community decided the post was worth the number one spot.

> Well, there IS an integer that contains all the digits of Pi 1234567890 does:)

Wow, making selling a game into a game itself. How brilliant!

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 one…

> 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!…

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…

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 pla…

I think like many other nascent entertainment technologies, the first really profitable use cases for this could be porn and gaming.

> 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 i…

> 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 walk…

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…

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 scien…

> 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 fr…

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 kin…

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…

> 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…

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 trivi…

> A corporation is a technology Yes and a very useful one since it adds +1 trade routes per city.

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…

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 …

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 tr…

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 …

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 diff…