A similar game is Quant Fund or Metal Band: http://www.quantfundormetalband.com/ My score there was only slightly better than on Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer.
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Programming Language Creator or Serial Killer?
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#728/10. I tried to focus on eyes as a heuristic, for whatever that's worth. I also recognized Guido.
Funny, same heuristic, same score and also knew Guido.
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#735/10. It's surprisingly hard...I even hesitated over Guido!
Presumably if it was easy to tell killers by their looks, they'd find it considerably harder to get away with the 'serial' part.
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#75It would be great if we could have some stats on the responses. Preferably cross referenced by referrer URL.
I'd like to know what percent of the HN crowd thinks Guido looks like a serial killer.
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#76A similar game is Quant Fund or Metal Band: http://www.quantfundormetalband.com/ My score there was only slightly better than on Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer.
Pokemon or Big Data? https://pixelastic.github.io/pokemonorbigdata/
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#77In terms of UX and a11y, please add a for the Next button, so that we can do next without having to click (pressing enter, or even allow right key). Same for the Language creator / Serial killer buttons, use a
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#7810/10, I am mildy disturbed with myself that I know by sight with seemingly equal weight both language creators and serial killers.
They say it takes one to know one. The question is if that refers to language inventors or murderers. I got 8/10 right, so I guess I had better come up with a programming language pretty soon. ;-)
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#79The internet needs more stuff like this. I got 7/10 but I couldn't resist calling Guido a killer after the way he murdered Perl slowly for like a decade.
I don't care, I still love quirky perl.
I hope Perl 7 helps Perl make a comeback. Given Larry Wall's Christian background, it would be appropriate for his language to be crucified and then be resurrected later.
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#80Why do people still think they can judge a person's character by a single photograph? This is an age-old dogma rooted in genetic superiority crap that really needs to die. Even a simple Google search shows a staggering number of these pop-psychology articles being actively peddled to the masses. Oh, if a person's nose is a bit crooked in the wrong direction, watch out!
Uhh, it's not perfect, but you can definitely judge a lot about a person by looking at them, from their body language. Video would be better, and of course in person would be better again, but it's not like there's no information there. It's not skull measuring to interpret body language, and some of that body language can come off in a still photo. In particular, I think I can get a pretty good read on how empathic a person is pretty quickly based on body language.