Maybe it's the nostalgia talking, but so many of those games were great! I could easily name 10 more off the top of my head. Many of these old games still hold up today.
Also, the article mentions that IE doesn't support the <canvas> tag. While this is true, you only need to add the excanvas JS library to use <canvas> in IE.
Will these be made available for download? I'd be interested in attending, but the time doesn't work for me, so I'd only be able to view them after the fact.
kinda sad they didn't plan for spam better, since they bill wave as the second coming of email/jesus
if it takes off, spam will happen. gmail's spam filtering is really good (can't remember the last spam message that made it through to my inbox), so maybe they can borrow that from gmail.
because your calculation assumes that out of 100 flips, heads always gets 51 out of 100, which is not how probability works - it's not linear (for lack of a better word).
It's possible to be up $10 in just 10 flips, just as it's possible to be even at 1,000,000 flips (though neither very likely, but possible!). Also, the question asked "with a 99% certainty", which your answer doesn't take into account.
If you had a coin that when flipped had these odds, and you wanted to try this out, your answer of 500 would be a good rough estimate, but not the answer.
there's always the computer history museum in mountain view, if you're just in the area for a few days.
also, when i was there, i found a lot of the typical "touristy" things fun and interesting - fisherman's wharf, street car stuff, Alcatraz, Golden Gate....even just walking through Chinatown.
hell, if the weather's nice while you're there, rent a car and drive down the PCH - one of the most beautiful drives in the entire country. there's more to life than computers :)
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1684403