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`to be or not to be` seems to be working
The question is, do we live in an age where someone (admittedly someone in a very strange place mentally) might actually take the response seriously, or is that age just a few years or months away?
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So if I'm getting you right, you think that it is of tremendous importance that a user not be asked, in their 5 question run, whether to choose Good or Evil twice. And you're willing to take a MASSIVE performance hit to guarantee that, for all users. OK, let me take a wild stab in the dark: you've got over 1,000 unique pairs in the database. You ask the overwhelming majority of users 5 questions. The chance of a user…
Well, it's not just that we wanted to avoid asking the same question twice in a 5 minute span... we do have users that spend literally HOURS just answering questions (instead of paying attention in class). So in order to maximally squander their education, we wanted them to receive new questions all the time.
Sometimes I think this is the true reason the internet was created.
(additionally, you can substitute education with noun of choice)
Now I'm confused. Should I use Doxory.com or icantdeci.de?
I got back a tie.
Oh well, I worked through to dinner anyway.....
I am not affiliated with that site but they seem fairly similar in concept. Not sure which I like better.