I was expecting something along the lines of "A Rorschach Cheat Sheet: Literary Allusions in Watchmen" (or something). Interesting nonetheless. Do optometrists get upset with the color-blindness tests that are online? People could do the same with them (memorize them for the test).
I have to agree with the "equally shitty to use" statement. One of the other problems is that it is hard to get the features you want in a phone that you want. It's along the lines of "GPS, Bluetooth and good Camera: pick any 2." Yu do, however, get a bunch of features that you never need. That, and they seem to have used their mailroom staff to design the UI. People always think they are so advanced. Maybe they were ten years ago, but now not so much.
It may only be me, but I don't like scribd for some reason. Anyway, if you are like me and want the PDF link (and are too lazy to "Copy Link Location") here it is:
Anyone remember the name of the Japanese game show where the comedian was locked in a room for (n) and had to win his way free via magazine giveaways? I always thought it was fake/marketing, but an interesting.
The place in the article, Daiwa sushi, is great after a morning of wandering around (if you can handle sushi for breakfast). Probably the best I've ever had. Only problem is, its small and popular.
I don't think it would be all that useful for scrabble. For that you would have to be able to input random letters and get words out.
I didn't, however, have any difficulty figuring out what the site was for (the name and the icon made it fairly clear I thought). The "crossword puzzle" metaphor could have been incorporated a bit more in the design, maybe.
If no one worked for/hired them, it would raise the cost. Of course, you would have to tell them why you made the decision you did. I think a lot of assholes don't know that they are one. Jeez... I hope I'm not an asshole.
In theory it does. And for simple things, it works great. I often find (and like the author, I assume this is because of my poor CSS skills) that I end up putting a div in a div in a div to achieve the look I'm going for; it's not in a table, but I've added presentation logic to my content, and would have saved 30 min just using a table.
Running it several times showed that the 20 cycle loop was fairly close, where the 20,000 loop was not even near close.
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Edit: I also changed them both to add a fixed string, since I don't have enough memory for a 4 * 2^20,000 length string.