Yeah, I thought online poker would appeal more to the Slashdot crowd too. The main poker site is the Two Plus Two forums, and there's a lot of good strategy advice to be found amongst a fair amount of childish rants.

I play micro-stakes cash games. Last night I played 1000 hands and lost six buy-ins, but I think I played reasonably well nonetheless. Statistics backs me up as I turned a small profit according to "all-in expected value" (a calculation that removes the luck factor from hands where all the chips went in with cards still to come). It's just a bit annoying as I was hoping to move up stakes soon, and it will probably take me several thousand hands longer now.

Mitchell and Webb covered this

Yup. And the guy who put the spikes in the road was crazy lucky. Even clearly marked booby traps are against the law pretty much across the US, and if the guy riding the 4-wheeler fell on a spike and was injured or killed, the owner could expect some fun jail time as well as a most excellent lawsuit.

What's the legality of the "severe tire damage" spikes you have in car parks to stop people going the wrong way?

Holding a gun to somebody's head won't make them a better developer.

You need to hold a gun to his head and have a girl suck him off to get the best results.

That was two days ago. Give us some pancake science!

Don't think that's quite right. As I said in my other reply, I had to look up CWD in the Instruction Set Reference:

The CWD instruction copies the sign (bit 15) of the value in the AX register into every bit position in the DX register.

So this means if AX was originally positive, nothing happens, and if AX was originally negative the XOR flips the bits of AX, then the SUB subtracts minus one from it (which is the same as adding one). This is the same as the two's complement unary minus operation. So the snippet computes the absolute value of AX, and stores the result in AX.

Sure. Do you know what "=+" is?

Assignment followed by Unary Plus. Tokenization is greedy and left-to-right. The precedence rules may take a bit of thinking, but tokenization is pretty simple.

SLIME is for developing in Common Lisp. Emacs is written in its own Lisp dialect (called Emacs Lisp).

If you want a more IDE-like environment in Emacs, have a look at CEDET and ECB.