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by twhb 10y ago
Sure. Call the sum of all assigned numbers N. No prisoner knows N, but they do know that there are exactly 100 possible last two digits of N, from "00" up to "99". Beforehand, assign a different last digit pair to each p
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by twhb 10y ago
There's a strategy that guarantees success. And you're so very close to it. So close, in fact, that I'm going to guess you've heard this before and just don't fully remember the solution.
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by twhb 10y ago
Numbered hats: yes, they don't hear what the others guess. Of course, they could still "know", if they'd agreed upon guesses beforehand. Colored hats: true, but you can do better than 75%-ish.
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by twhb 10y ago
I collect riddles like these! Here are a few of them. Numbered Hats A warden places a hat on the head of each of 100 prisoners, each with a random number from 1 to 100. There may be duplicates. Each prisoner can see everybody's hat but
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by twhb 10y ago
> Even complex SPA apps I've written come in nowhere near 1000 modules, a few hundred at most. Just to be sure, you're definitely counting modules using browserify-count-modules, not the number of directories in node_modules, r
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by twhb 10y ago
Original source: https://www.fbi.gov/seattle/press-releases/2016/update-on-in... KOMO seems to have misinterpreted the press release: the FBI is not closing the case, they're discontinuing active investi
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by twhb 10y ago
To the Google Fonts dev(s) in this thread: why Angular 1, not 2? Was the previous version already using Angular 1?
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by twhb 10y ago
Two concerns: What about 33Mail? Is this not the same thing with the tag shifted? What if this becomes popular? Spammers can write a special case for @mailhero.io addresses that strips or changes the prefix. If you block those avenues, it j
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by twhb 11y ago
What is the (argued) benefit is to excluding information? “Often what is not said is more important than what is said.” is vague and unsatisfying.
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by twhb 11y ago
If WHOIS is destroyed, your contact information will still be known by everybody you're in contact with, many you've only met, possibly many you haven't met but want to meet, and millions of employees of companies you've
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by twhb 11y ago
I like the home page. It has the right content, and the layout seems to emerge from a more careful consideration of its content and the reader's eye than do homogenous designs. Content that loads as you scroll is, I absolutely believe,
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by twhb 11y ago
I like the given definition of usability, but I wouldn't score the hamburger menu as the author did. memorable: yes. efficient and produces low errors: not relative to its predecessor on non-mobile devices. We've gone from seeking
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by twhb 11y ago
I sound like a cynic when I say this, but the root cause of failures like this is a principle fundamental to Evernote: data owned by an application, rather than data accessed by an application. If all your data exists in a file hierachy tha
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by twhb 11y ago
This reminds me of dealing with dates, in that parsing and outputting the countless conventions is nearly impossible, but more people than realize it can side-step the task entirely. For instance, most systems that request a name are just a
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by twhb 11y ago
It’s not the tool that yields results, but how you use it.