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by finnw 15y ago
In other words, "No." I often see developers claiming they will release their projects' source "real soon now, once I've cleaned it up." It never happens. This (binary) is still useful though, thanks for releasing it.
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by finnw 15y ago
That is just as easy to use for extortion. Suppose we have a dispute over who owes who $1000. You hire a $10000 lawyer. I hire a $100000 lawyer. Now although we both get the same ($1000) if we win, you stand to lose more than I do. So
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by finnw 17y ago
Similarly beware of using the wrong digit for "L".
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by finnw 17y ago
I'm surprised no-one has yet pointed out that #15 does not work in FireFox 3 (I happen to know the answer and was confused that there seemed to be no way to enter it - until I switched to Safari.)
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by finnw 17y ago
I don't mean the 4th task, I mean the 4th question in task #13
426.
by finnw 17y ago
Don't waste your time on this stupid puzzle. #13 is just completely unfair. There are too many combinations (if the answer ends with '0' do add a '5' to form a plural or use a decimal point? Do you use '9' or '8' to represent 'b'?) Tryin
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by finnw 17y ago
I also once tried referencing the C++ FQA on stackoverflow and was quickly downvoted. Maybe SO is just the wrong place to mention it, probably because of a C++ bias from the high percentage of SO users who develop on MS platforms.
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by finnw 18y ago
Get a copy of this book if you can: http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?is=0333992857 Chapter 9 describes a set of combinators for logic programming in Haskell, covering both your examples and more.
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by finnw 18y ago
Thank you, Markus. If just a handful of users are stupid enough to pay the fee to put a badge on their profile that effectively says "I'm really desperate" it will have the opposite of the intended effect, and maybe improve my chances.
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by finnw 18y ago
@masukomi, have you tried 1passwd? I was about to buy it so if you have tried it and found a serious flaw I'd be interested to know.
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by finnw 18y ago
Did you investigate any other network DBMSes? If so why did you find them inadequate? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_model