- Of Gravatars and Robohashes
- Optimizing VP$IP
- A Question of VP$IP
- John Carmack: Script Interpreters Considered Harmful
- Movie Doppelgangers: B-Movie Ripoffs of Hollywood Blockbusters
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Of Gravatars and Robohashes
Webmasters who use Gravatar to decorate comments with custom avatar images will be familiar with the d parameter of the Gravatar image request.
<img src="http://www.gravatar.com/avatars/8ca7425c8a9da807b9bf6934f10d59fa.jpg?d=monsterid" alt="" />You can specify values like monsterid, wavatar, identicon, or retro here and Gravatar will generate a unique avatar image corresponding to the MD5 hash of the user's email address. You've seen these all around the web:
There are just a couple problems with these sets of generative graphics:
Optimizing VP$IP
In response to the VP$IP riddle we posed on Twitter, the PokerTracker team hooked us up with an explanation of the upcoming changes to the VP$IP stat, along with some superfluous superlative scatter graph awesomeness.
But first, the answer to said riddle:
A Question of VP$IP
Pop quiz for you PokerTracker and Hold'em Manager users.
VP$IP is arguably the most common statistic in online poker. It appears in strategy discussions across the internet and, increasingly, in books. Along with PFR and AF, it's one of the "Big 3"[1] statistics whose shorthand notation has confused newbies on Two Plus Two and Pocket Fives since time immemorial.
John Carmack: Script Interpreters Considered Harmful
The most interesting part of John Carmack's keynote at QuakeCon this year wasn't the stuff on megatextures or static code analysis. It was his assertion, right around the 1:07:32 mark, that script interpreters are evil. Well, as evil as it's possible for a script interpreter to be. Which is still pretty evil.
And I quote:
Movie Doppelgangers: B-Movie Ripoffs of Hollywood Blockbusters
[Skip to the Movie Doppelgängers poster.]
Well, another $5 down the drain. The other night I stopped by Blockbuster to rent a copy of Battle: Los Angeles. Blockbuster is a bit of a ghost town these days, the sort of place that makes you think:
Huh, wonder what my first move would be if the undead attacked, right here, right now.
I was in a hurry and I kept imagining the clerk would morph into a zombie and I'd be forced to defend myself with stacks of $5 previously-owned titles from the bargain bin. So in my haste/nervousness I ended up grabbing a copy of what looked like Battle: Los Angeles, but was in fact Battle OF Los Angeles. Silly me.
