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No one suggested sleep sort? That's the ultimate trolling-but-almost-legitimate sorting algorithm. :)
Wow. http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/16274
If you were to allow the masses to determine whether a question is a troll question or not, using an OR, allowing anyone to flip the bit, then almost every question would be considered a troll question. You get a lot of false positives.
Providing a thorough, quality answer to a troll question won't help advance that troll's career, they will pay the price later, for sure, when their intellect is on the line.
Providing a trolly answer, and treating the question asker as insincere will inevitably treat a sincere person like shit, and turn them off entirely from entire genres and disciplines.
Treat resources as sincere, and those who wish to abuse them for temporary short term gain will, and I am very confident about this, end up fucking themselves over.
*If you downvote this, please let me know what you disagree with, I'm open to debate.
Trolling people looking for easy answers is pointless. Folks like this won't use a single source to send in their work. The problem with this approach is you often penalize people who are truly curious and not trolls. If you were to allow the masses to determine whether a question is a troll question or not, using an OR, allowing anyone to flip the bit, then almost every question would be considered a troll question.…
1. I read the whole thing three times and I still don't really understand what your objective is.... and do you actually know the purpose of the trolling thread or not. The purpose is to have fun and pretend one as a student who is under some stress and is trying to figure out some funny yet creative ways to brain fuck with the TA or professor. Even if it receives F, whatever.
> Treat resources as sincere, and those who wish to abuse them for temporary short term gain will, and I am very confident about this, end up fucking themselves over.
Well, most of the questions we ask on the Internet are really for short-term gain anyway. We hope someone could tell us why the fuck the X.so file is not linked and we move on afterward.
Most of the answers are actually not some quick jerky answers. people actually took time to write them. And in the process of writing an answer, the author learns. Ever heard of "one teaches, two learns?"
2. Why so serious? The Internet is full of shit half of the time. Wasting 100MB in the database for 100 trolling answers isn't going to kill some hungry child in Africa.
No one suggested sleep sort? That's the ultimate trolling-but-almost-legitimate sorting algorithm. :)
And it even has the best time bound you can get for a comparison based sort. Most OS schedulers would use a heap/priority queue internally for timers, which makes sleep sort O(n log n).
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And it even has the best time bound you can get for a comparison based sort. Most OS schedulers would use a heap/priority queue internally for timers, which makes sleep sort O(n log n).
wouldn't sleep sort be O(k), where k is the largest element to be sorted? (Assuming the clock and scheduler are precise enough to achieve the correct answer the first attempt).