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Re: Regex Crossword

#31

Post by jordanpg »

spacefight wrote: post #4

"Notice! In order to save your progress you have to login with Facebook." Yeah, maybe... let me check: NOPE.

I like this enough that it prompted me to whittle my FB account down to nothing except a login provider for things like this.

Re: Regex Crossword

#32

Post by natch »

Nice, but the answers being phrases ruins it for me, because you start seeing the answers without needed to check the regular expressions.

Really nicely designed though. Clean UI. Wouldn't mind if it was enlarged to use more of the screen real estate (tiny fonts are hard to read). I had fun with this.

Re: Regex Crossword

#33

Post by aroman »

jedberg wrote: post #28
vobios wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is a good chance that Facebook already knows you visited a particular site because that site is already serving Facebook content (via a like button, for example).

This is exactly why I use a different browser for Facebook than any other web browsing. As far as they are concerned, the only site I ever visit is Facebook. Same with Google properties. I only use Chrome to visit Google properties.

I'm sorry to be rude, but that strikes me as legitimately paranoid. Why do you care so much if Facebook knows that you visit sites other than Facebook?

Re: Regex Crossword

#34

Post by ryanlschneider »

Fun! When I saw the title, I was expecting the opposite: a normal cross word with the usual "42 Across (4): It gets things done" style hints, but the answers were valid regex's. Someone make that too!

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#35

Post by tokenizerrr »

jfmercer wrote: post #18

This is fantastic work. Many thanks. One request though: please add one or more alternate logins than Facebook.

Yeah, this. Especially for something like regexes where a large amount of your users will be more technical, and facebook is becoming less and less popular among technical people.

Personally, I don't have a facebook account and I will not create one just so I can log in on your website. The disability to save my progress also made me give up on trying to progress since it'd just be lost anyway.

Re: Regex Crossword

#36

Post by eCa »

aroman wrote: post #33
jedberg wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is exactly why I use a different browser for Facebook than any other web browsing. As far as they are concerned, the only site I ever visit is Facebook. Same with Google properties. I only use Chrome to visit Google properties.

I'm sorry to be rude, but that strikes me as legitimately paranoid. Why do you care so much if Facebook knows that you visit sites other than Facebook?

I guess it depends on why someone uses Facebook. I (finally) got an account a while ago in order stay in contact with friends and former colleagues. My usecase of Facebook does not include me wanting Facebook to know everything I do.

Hence, Facebook lives in its own VirtualBox machine.

Re: Regex Crossword

#37

Post by mfsch »

Cool game, it really helped me brush up my regex skills.

I think I found an error in “The Lektor Device“: The “I“ in “WITH” could also be a “T” from the rules, but only the “I” is accepted.

Re: Regex Crossword

#38

Post by eddieroger »

pyroMax wrote: post #21

How about you save my progress in a cookie? You might find this hard to believe, but I don't have a Facebook account.

I do have a Facebook account, but I'm not interested in using it here just to save. So, another vote for a cookie.

Re: Regex Crossword

#39

Post by kbuck »

mfsch wrote: post #37

Cool game, it really helped me brush up my regex skills. I think I found an error in “The Lektor Device“: The “I“ in “WITH” could also be a “T” from the rules, but only the “I” is accepted.

The "I" can't be "T" because the regex on the bottom (.(\sSAI).*) forces it to be "I".
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