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I wonder how many responses of : Cantaloupe');DROP TABLE Food;-- ol' Randal is going to get (or some permutation thereof). Figuring that Randal is pretty smart, I bet he has a piece of code to parse out that. Still, anyone here have a good hack that can just nuke days of his time whilst completing this form? Only other one I can think of him using is (for Matlab): Cantaloupe'); clear all; clc; close all;
He is hip to sql injection. https://xkcd.com/327/
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I do the buying all the same thing for the new, but I don't throw out the old. They go into reserve for when nothing else is clean. I keep them in a separate drawer.
I don't do it on the same basis, but I do have decay batches like that. I'll buy a bunch of undergarments that are frequently used so that there's a whole generation. When I feel a need based on function I buy a new generation. If the old generation still has some service life it becomes 'houseware' (the 'holy' stuff worn only about the house). Socks usually get culled completely once they have a hole of any size (ev…
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I thought about it for a while, and then it occurred to me, that there are actually many ways one could possibly understand that -- thus replying e.g.: - cat - "cat" - 'cat' - panther (not exactly a cat, but kinda -- that's why it was in quotes, no?) - [one could type "cat" in one's terminal] - "Whiskers", etc. (i.e. name of one's cat) then, one could make a typo (thus e.g. "ca" or "catt"), or finally something more…
My phone was going put 'Cat', but I corrected it to match 'cat'. I'd be curious to know how many people on smartphones would do the same.
=== SPOILER ALERT! === The most interesting question, to me, is the one about which words you know the meaning of. About half of them aren't real words. I assume this question is used partly as a gauge of vocabulary (how many of the real words do you recognize) and partly of honesty (how many of the fake words do you claim to recognize).
Some of them were definitely highly specific jargon to medical fields and the like. I'm betting fewer of them are made up than you think.
* Phoropter * Tribution * Slickle * Cadine * Fination * Apricity * Revergent * Unitory * Trephony
These are not words. They are not highly specific jargon either. They are just made up nonsense.
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"How many tabs do you keep open on your browser" would be an interesting question, to me, to see the results on. I'm often mystified by the stories of people who keep 50+ tabs open. I've never understood why, but I guess now that I'm considering it, I'm guessing such people must base their workflows around tabs.
I tend to have about 50 or so tabs, per /window/ (it's time for a new one when I can't see the faveicon anymore). I tend to have about 250-300 tabs open in total. Various things I mean to get back to, reference material for projects that I've paused working on, etc. In general when it costs you nothing to keep a photocopy of a reference on your desk, the desktop becomes nothing but photocopies of reference materials.
I'm back up to 89 tabs now, after having recently cleaned it up a bit.
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I think his point was that if you're seeking out all the pairs when you curl them together, you're still spending unnecessary time and effort matching socks, just ahead of time instead of in the moment when you need socks
Exactly he does an O(N^2) Pair followed by a later O(N) search. Why not do a O(1) Pair folloed by an O(1) Search.
Finally, my graduate-level algorithms class comes in handy in real life.
I have a google form like this for Couchsurfers who wish to stay a few nights in my apartment. I believe my questions might be little bit more on the insane side though.
This I would like to see, for the laughs.
Sample portion:
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS
In life, there are no right answers. But this is a test so you better choose wisely.
Question 1. Right now, do you want to ask the apartment tenant something along the lines of: “Are you serious?" ?
A. Yes.
B. Are you serious?
I can't shake the feeling that this will just measure of how willing people are to follow instructions for no reason whatsoever.