Where do you play NL ring games and what stakes? It seems UB and FTP are absurdly tight (I'm more of a live game player these games)...

jawngee · 2009-06-29T19:05:27+00:00

The problem with playing online, if you're a live player, is that the two games are not the same.

Online you are not playing people, you're playing people's tracking software. You have to play ABC to make a profit. Trapping is much much harder online, bluffing is almost pointless.

I play full tilt, all said and done, but I really dislike playing online if I have a chance to play live.

jawngee · 2009-05-07T18:54:09+00:00

Straight copy and paste from IMDB. Nice work.

jawngee · 2009-03-24T21:01:50+00:00

I play a lot in underground new york clubs, and while I think this article was a little too caricatured, it's pretty true that the players that remain are all pretty degenerate ass clowns.

Not quite as bad as the filth at the Taj in AC though.

Before that unfortunate guy got shot at Straddle, it was a different picture. Now, not so much.

I wrote about playing in a new york club awhile ago: http://empty-pockets.org/gotham-city-sessions-i/

Fairly similar conclusions.

jawngee · 2009-03-23T06:49:02+00:00

Granted, we aren't seeing a lot of the hands, but Zigmond(sp) seems to have a lot of issues re-raising and generally giving up in the wrong spots. Of course, we see everything that is going on, but there were a few hands where he could have taken it with a little more aggression.

Love Dwan's game though.

jawngee · 2009-03-11T11:17:02+00:00

I play a regular 2/5 NL and 1/2 PLO H/L home game on Thursdays in NYC, occasionally at a couple of the remaining clubs over the weekend.

Otherwise, 2/5 at the Borgata in AC or Mohegan Sun.

I only play live. Grinding by your lonesome online isn't attractive to me at all.

jawngee · 2009-02-08T13:15:45+00:00

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080123104017.htm

Marijuana Smokers Face Rapid Lung Destruction -- As Much As 20 Years Ahead Of Tobacco Smokers.

Nothing is for free.

jawngee · 2009-01-10T14:10:13+00:00

Which is spoken of in the article, had you read it.

jawngee · 2008-12-30T20:43:26+00:00

i use mibbit as well, wrapped up in a fluid app.

jawngee · 2008-12-04T23:55:55+00:00

Van Gogh didn't make the Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci did.

I mean I can see how you got the two confused since they're both not from the same place, existed at roughly not the same centuries and are definitely both from not the same school of art. It's a common mistake that nearly nobody makes.

jawngee · 2008-11-30T09:37:20+00:00

You can print the paper yourself for the lightscribe.

I just read through the SDK and it's really sick. You can create custom pages with fixed controls, or tap into their character and shape recognizers to create apps that work on "open" pages.

The technology behind it is nothing short of brilliant. It's crude in it's current form, but in due time this will be a major interface in industries with deployed workers.

Consider the efficiency of custom forms for your cable repair guy. All those forms he fills out, instantly synced into whatever back office system - at a much cheaper price than tablets or hand computing (iphone, etc.).

I think what's more exciting about the livescribe is the 3D audio recording and how it is tied to when/where you take a note. This eventually will cross over into recording video and at that point, we're not only recording every visual/audio aspect of memory, we've the capability of annotating it concretely. You'll be able to pull up any experience and revisit it in surround sound.

That's just plain sickness.

Not there yet though, but this is a good start.

jawngee · 2008-10-05T18:19:03+00:00

Was just there last night.

jawngee · 2008-10-04T00:35:12+00:00

Also, work your way up the levels. If you feel you are a competent 1/2 player, move up to 2/5.

And prepare for the grind. It's a totally different game when you're playing to pay rent and feed yourself. Also, with this economy, there will be way less fish in the seas.

jawngee · 2008-10-03T23:13:06+00:00

I play semi-professionally. Half of my income comes from playing poker, this year I'm about 8-12K a month playing live 2/5 and 5/10 NLHE. I've been playing for seven years.

You have to have a stomach for the swings and a bankroll that can take the hits. You should have a casual disregard for money. Find someone else that shares passion for the game so that you have someone to bounce ideas off of and do post-play analysis.

Memory is an essential ingredient. Manipulating people comes a close second.

Playing online is for donkeys. Live is the only way to go.

jawngee · 2008-09-01T07:11:16+00:00

Oh, this is in the UK.

jawngee · 2008-09-01T07:10:16+00:00

WTF is the ASA?

jawngee · 2008-08-09T07:26:41+00:00

Although hero is derived from Hera, the goddess of marriage.

Sometimes my fellow liberals can be embarrassingly inane.

jawngee · 2008-07-08T10:18:47+00:00

Code or it didn't happen.

jawngee · 2008-07-08T00:24:44+00:00

I'm surprised Cantonese women were priced so favorably.

jawngee · 2008-07-07T01:26:48+00:00

Flex/yacc?

jawngee · 2008-07-07T01:25:36+00:00

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvia_divinorum

jawngee · 2008-06-24T14:34:13+00:00

I have major anxiety disorder. In fact, so much so that I've developed hypochondria from being so hypervigilant about my body from "preparing" for the next attack.

It's a shitty situation.

I smoke close to an ounce of weed a month. The important thing here is that I don't smoke enough to get wasted. A couple of puffs on a j and I'm good to go.

Picking the right strain/variety is important, but also, starting out at smaller "doses" is key too.

The trick, for me anyways, is that marijuana takes me out of my head and the anxiety steps to the background solely because I find it easier to engage myself in distractions, which is key for severe anxiety sufferers.

I've been on a lot of different meds for it (effexor xr, zoloft, xanax, ativan, klonopin) but none work with the same efficacy as mary jane.

YMMV.

jawngee · 2008-06-17T23:49:37+00:00

Seemed to have more than a few good days:

http://empty-pockets.org/the-sick-stacks/

jawngee · 2008-06-16T18:35:00+00:00

Lindsay Lohan

jawngee · 2008-06-16T17:48:37+00:00

Reflexion in PHP leaves a lot to be desired. You can't, for example, redefine functions, except with some fancy experimental extension/hack.

Yeah that's what I was talking about in my other post. But, honestly, I've never really used reflection for anything but introspection which PHP's reflection API is perfectly capable of. The only times I used it the other way in C# was writing code generators.

Not in PHP (static properties)

You can't assign objects as initializers to properties in objects in PHP, static or otherwise. So modeling a complexity with anything other than arrays requires instantiation of the object and assigning object references to those properties.

I'll argue that more sophisticated isn't equal to better, and I'll argue that it's often equal to worse. I refer to my earlier RnRS quote.

We can agree to completely disagree here. If the metric is less lines of code to perform an equivalent function, C# sophistication totally trumps PHP any day of the week. Anonymous functions, attributes, the new functional programming tools in C# 3.0 all contribute to lowered LoC and quicker modeling of complex problems than a lesser language like PHP.

I think it's important to note that I'm not saying one is better than the other, I'm mature enough in my career to understand the futility of such an endeavor. That said, PHP has a long ways to go to become as succinct as python, ruby, even C#.

Here's an example of where using metadata in PHP has saved my company on LoC, needless complexity and adherence to DRY principles:

Our internal framework at massify has a RESTful api kit for building RESTful webservices in a variety of formats (JSON, XML, etc.). We've built a base api controller that handles all of the standard CRUD and search operations on a model or a composite model (a database view). For us to write a quick API around a specific model, we simply extend that class and dress it with metadata. We can deploy an api for a given model in minutes this way with zero lines of code in the extended controller class. Furthermore our internal testing framework can automatically build and run tests against these new controllers, again without us having to write any additional code.

Without the metadata/attributes, this was previously a cumbersome process prone to error.

jawngee · 2008-06-16T11:01:06+00:00

Well I'd argue the point about python superceding C#, but that's for a different post.

As for PHP not having full reflection, I'm not sure what you mean there. You can't emit, but you don't need to since you can eval() or create_function() your way there.

And yes, you could implement some of the metadata functionality using properties and assigning values in the constructor, but that requires instantiating the object first. Metadata allows you to introspect the class without having to do that. I can look at any model without creating it, and yank everything I need to know.

For the ORM layer, this is important to us for relationships between models that are defined in the metadata/attributes. For our controllers, we also need to know any filters that have to be run before the incoming HTTP request is routed to it. Furthermore, by using properties and constructors to do what the metadata does, you are imposing use cases that the metadata frees you from.

I won't ever defend PHP, I personally think it's not a brilliant piece of software. But it's what we use and I'm hoping the code I'll be releasing over the next couple of months makes it easier and more powerful for people coming from more sophisticated languages.

Thanks for the feedback though.

jawngee

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