There must be comments like that all over the Windows Diagnostic tool. "// We don't know what's wrong. Send stupid suggestions and pray they call their ISP instead."
I'm always fan of game theory game with chance. However, one of the downsides is, that when one agent plays random, it's basically become mixed strategy, and meh....
One interesting case is my penalty shooter. When I designed this game, what comes into my mind is that this will be something like...
Right, but my point is that I don't see the harm they do. Creating odd penalties for randomness or half-banning it seems like it would "kill the fun" more than having one random participant.
The easiest way to solve this would just be to either forbid or allow random (or deterministic, whatever).
The normal rules of KOTH are that two entries can't be the same. If one uses perfectly balanced random, the others can't. There's your base of non-random.
Really. I decided that if you were consistently bad, you got rewarded. If you were consistently good, you got rewarded. If you flopped around a lot, you didn't do so well.
Ok I have a question: In C# Visual Studio, I have a chunk of code like else foo(); And I decide it needs to be surrounded with braces because the else is suddenly growing larger. Why is there no hotkey for this?!!!!
I always find myself needing to enclose a block of code in curly braces { }, but unfortunately that isn't included in the C# surround code snippets, which seems to be an oversight. I couldn't find anything on building your own surround snippets either (just other kinds of snippets).
I am actu...
@Realdeo I wasn't suggesting that "know your audience" is a cure-all. I was just saying that it leads to more entries (in general). That doesn't make the challenge (or the entries) necessarily better or worse.
Also, I don't see any rules about randomness on the site you linked at all. Am I missing it?
It does say that random isn't the optimum strategy (in the long haul, in a pool of nonrandom opponents).
Meh, banning random moves seem to not be covered by the rules at all, according to their help page. It just recommends against it. The banning is (to me) based on an unwritten rule, which is not regarded well here.
The only other reason I see may be because it's "submitting functionally duplicate programs", but that means that randomness isn't the issue, but that there's already a random player.
In other news, the python messiahs have been born into the world. Repent now!
One digits or two digits
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Here’s the rule:
They're 2 players. Each player has a pool of 99 points.
The player that takes the first turn will choose to invest an amount of point taken (deducted)from your own pool. Then other player will do the same.
Who invests more wins the r...
I may have made my tetris jumble too unfeasible to crack even if I bounty it. Even with the solved code in front of me, it took me quite a while to piece it together using COTO's handy snippet. I can't see anyone having the patience to work it out.
Stitch a Picture
A few weeks ago, I asked Stitch a picture. Since then:
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My telephone is a computer!
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I finally took the plunge and purchased a push-button telephone. It seemed a waste to just bin the old telephone, so I got working with some surplus chips and boards and things, and a soldering iron, and made it into a computer!
What ...
@Geobits Someone asked me how to produce a 404 response from our product, I said "It's impossible." They proceeded to ask me the same question three more times, declaring that there must be a way to produce a 404. I finally gave up and said "try galoogle.com".
I'm kind of a jerk when people ask me loaded questions at work.