Implementation of yesterday's xkcd comic

#1

Post by araneae » Sat, Sep 05, 2009, 5:19 PM UTC

Re: Implementation of yesterday's xkcd comic

#2

Post by Novash » Sat, Sep 05, 2009, 5:39 PM UTC

No, really. Someone's got a lot of free time on his hands. C'mon! Yesterday's XKCD?

#3

Post by araneae » Sat, Sep 05, 2009, 6:08 PM UTC

Novash wrote: post #2

No, really. Someone's got a lot of free time on his hands. C'mon! Yesterday's XKCD?

It might have been two days ago. http://xkcd.com/632/ I've used it to try and verify http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jedliu, but he (or I guess "it") sadly failed.

#4

Post by [deleted] » Sat, Sep 05, 2009, 6:26 PM UTC

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#5

Post by pax » Sat, Sep 05, 2009, 6:28 PM UTC

his parents must be so proud

#6

Post by arketyp » Sat, Sep 05, 2009, 6:28 PM UTC

Novash wrote: post #2

No, really. Someone's got a lot of free time on his hands. C'mon! Yesterday's XKCD?

One day of free time. They do occur.

#7

Post by zandorg » Sat, Sep 05, 2009, 6:35 PM UTC

This makes about as much sense as those 3d posters from the early 90's.

#8

Post by samg » Sat, Sep 05, 2009, 6:41 PM UTC

If only it scaled...

#9

Post by qeorge » Sat, Sep 05, 2009, 6:43 PM UTC

That's kinda cool. Does it generate the pairs on the fly and store them with a random identifier or is it deterministic?

#10

Post by kiba » Sat, Sep 05, 2009, 6:50 PM UTC

Is it me or is the site broke?