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Regex Crossword
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#22This is good homework/quiz stuff if you're teaching people regexes, just to spice things up a little bit.
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#23So I had a bunch of important stuff to get done today, but now I know what I'll do instead. This is so much fun, well done!
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#24I made it to http://regexcrossword.com/challenges/experienced/puzzles/4 before I opted to keep my sanity for the remainder of the day instead of continuing :) very well done. As noted, add non-FB login options!
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
I really wish Facebook's Anonymous Login would make it out of beta so this wouldn't be an issue: https://developers.facebook.com/products/anonymous-login/
A site knowing my facebook account is a small issue, facebook knowing a visited that site is the big one.
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).
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#26Cool!
I had a lot of fun writing a solver in Haskell for a crossword like this a few months ago. Apologies for the self promotion but here's a link to the article I wrote about it http://almostobsolete.net/regex-crossword/part1.html
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#27This highlights how crossword puzzles are a valuable way to stretch the mind laterally. This is a way to think about regexes that rarely comes up in practice: comparing one regex against another unrelated one.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
A site knowing my facebook account is a small issue, facebook knowing a visited that site is the big one.
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.
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#29My main problem with this is telling the difference between O and 0, the clue O's look more like 0 so I have to copy paste them. (Although I don't think I've had any numbers required for solutions yet).
Yeh just swapped 0 for O in a puzzle to win.
Perhaps the hint font should be different from the answer font. Or at least better zero's.
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