poker.py
I spent a few days learning enough python to write a hand evaluator. Python’s seamless use of extremely large numbers makes some neat tricks involving prime numbers that would be tricky in languages limited to 64-bit integers extremely easy. (more…)
Two hours, four minutes of my life I’m never going to get back
No one ever warned me not to watch Lucky You. Maybe, I should have known better. There were plenty of warning signs. But, there was nothing on the DVR and it was a Sunday afternoon.
I almost got away from it. I hated the main character enough to root for Drew Barrymore not to sleep with him. That meant I thought he didn’t deserve to do as well as, say, Tom Green. But, it kept hovering back and forth over the entertaining-annoying ratio line and sucked me in.
Even if this had been a good movie up to that point, the ending would have made it a horribly bad movie. Instead, it went from mediocre to painfully bad. Everyone involved should be embarrassed.
No one ever warned me. Now, you’ve been warned.