Carcassonne is a tile-based game, where the objective is to construct Roads, Cities and Monasteries, in order to score points. The game works by players taking turns to draw and place tiles to construct a landscape, then claiming roads, cities and monasteries. An example landscape is:
There ar...
Git's internal data structure is a tree of data objects, wherein each objects only points to its predecessor. Each data block is hashed. Modifying (bit error or attack) an intermediate block will be noticed when the saved hash and the actual hash deviate.
How is this concept different from block...
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network are moderated somewhat differently to other sites on the web:
We designed the Stack Exch...
Optimize your score on a biased multiple choice test
In a multiple choice test, sometimes, by chance, multiple questions in a row will have the same answer. Some of my teachers dislike this, and will change questions to ensure there are never more than \$n\$ of the same answer in a row.
In this c...
I want to build a function let objectBuild = (arg_1, ..., arg_n) => {// Instructions} with fixed key list [key_1, ..., key_n] and its default value dictionary {key_i: default_value_i}. In a more refined case, there is a list is_optional, which design may be a list of boolean or string values (I a...
