I'm happy if I get ~15-20 shots per hole in golf so pretty sure tiger woods would destroy me with a reinforced tooth pick

Ya, even with 200m lifetime users (CR guesstimates, you're def right how hard it is to figure this out) you'd prob see a 4x multiplier on players on Monopoly.

I mean the basic mechanics are the same he has a lever though it's shorter and the club face is smaller.

My guess is that I am worse at golf and I have played worse courses than you which would definitely give him a good chance at beating me. I am so bad at golf that probably 2 holes out of 9 I'll just pick up my ball to keep the game going. Best shot hero solo zero. Haha.

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I'm also surprised how far they can drive it, but 2-3 shots wouldn't get them 400 yards (most of the time).

The mechanics are different. The putter has no loft and isn't designed for putting the correct spin on the ball. You're only going to get long distances in two cases: Your first shot (when you can use a tee and don't need loft from the club) and down a long fairway. And in the first case, you're going to have very poor accuracy.

Everything else is going to go much shorter - sometimes measured in single feet (think putting through thick rough). And there are lots of scenarios (thick rough, bunkers, water hazards) where the person with the putter is going to be giving up a lot of shots even just in avoiding them.


I'm not good either, and I often blatantly cheat for the same reason (to keep the game going quickly). I just think you're underestimating the effect different club faces have.

When he was younger Lee Trevino would hustle people telling them he could beat them playing golf with a Dr Pepper bottle.

Hah, I could see losing to a lot of people if they're good enough to baseball the golfball with the putter. I hadn't anticipated that angle.

I agree with the fact shots between 30-200 yards will be difficult for sure. I probably am underestimating the effects of different club faces tbh. Probably because all my shots suck regardless of club haha.

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I'd like to try to outprogram a super junior developer with a Vic 20 with tape drive and broken R key.

Nothing worse than playing with someone that agonizes over the right club to choose when their margin of error on any given shot with any specific club is like 100 yards.

I have a vic-20 in the closet but I'm not willing to break the R key.

Doesn't this give you more time to finish your beer(s)?

IRT to the golf video. They are using computers to optimize their every movement. What's surprising to me is how close the one golfer is able to call out the distance of the hit. Average Joe doesn't use all of that equipment, and I think it does well to consider how far and accurate Joe would hit with a putter and compare that.

To top it off, golf handicap seems to depend on the course, so it stands to reason that the 16 average isn't as dependable as one would think because that is an average for all courses.

I'm guessing that a PGA-level course is much harder than the local course at the state park, and probably more difficult than than the average country-club course.

The analogy would be from bowling (it was like poker-level TV stuff in the 90s). The waxing on your local bowling alley isn't the same as the waxing in the pro circuit, which effects the average score. I'm not sure the exact numbers, but a professional has an average of say, 175. If someone has an average of 175 in the local league, he would have an average of 125 on a professional lane, which would certainly disqualify most local heroes from going pro.

Point being, the venue would have to play a major role, so I'm guessing a handicap on a PGA-level course would cause a 16 person to be closer to 20 or possibly 30. Even if the 16 person picked the venue, the under for the professional would probably be higher as well, though I suppose there is a smaller difference going negative than positive.

Yeah courses are groomed differently for tournaments. Even weekend warrior tournaments will see the course groomed to be more challenging.

They cut the greens shorter to make the ball run faster. They leave the rough longer do that it's more punishing. Tees get moved back. Probably other things too that I haven't seen personally

I have a month left of this bootcamp.

In trying to research ways that people manage state and do things in apps other than hiding and showing divs, I found React. It's incredibly cool and I've been spending all my free time learning it, have gone through several tutorials and got a book over the weekend. I can't get enough.

What is the best way to get a front-end dev job where I get to use React?

Where do you live?

You better find something soon, Destiny 2 is coming!

downtown Boston

I'm going to say something super-controversial (and not surprising from me).

State is good for session cookies and that's about it.

Hiding / showing divs doesn't have to be stateful.

Stateless:
if you push in params of x_function(), then you will always get back a hidden div and vice-versa. The args could even have information from the cookie. The function itself is stateless because it guarantees that the div is shown / hidded considering the same arguments.

Stateful:
you hold some var in a global area or class, the function internally alters the var despite the args in the function. This is stateful because whether or not div is shown / hiddend does not depend on the arguments, but on some var that is external to the function.

lol'd

Makes sense.

Make non trivial react products, show them via github, apply to react jobs.

Wat.

Stack Overflow: Helping One Million Developers Exit Vim

Yuck.

So basically MS ignores any system settings you might apply to prevent [x y z] from happening