A story, an opinion and a lesson.

I have never wished more for mod points as now. I promise when I get some, I'll come back here.

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Wonderful idea, until a certain imageboard finds about it.

What a shame, I have just noticed that they are in the same top-level domain. I hope I don't lose my geek card over it.

The website hosting the text file was also slashdotted. That's a truly impressive achievement.

del Toro making movies about the stories from the Silmarillion. Seems like an excellent idea, but it might lose some of the awe. Reading about how beautiful the silmarils were, for example, is one thing, actually seeing them on the big screen is another. It's a very delicate path, but if done well, I would kill to see that movie.

I think you misunderstood the concept of "The Force".

And don't forget to put a big sleep call to make the installing process look important. Unfortunately they wouldn't be the firsts to do that.

From the rulebook (pdf file):

That's how contests with multiple language choices almost always work. It's really easy to implement a naive solution in C that performs 10x better than a good solution in Python, even for fairly large inputs.

With that rule in mind, I say go for Python all the way.

What you probably know as "python" is actually the Python Interactive Interpreter. This tool is used only when you need to make a quick "import os; dir(os)" call to make sure that you are spelling a function name correctly, or when your friend REALLY wants to know how much is 3^21.

The actual use of python consists of text files with .py extension, working just like any other interpreted language.

According to your definition, we would never be able to compare two programs that weren't created at the same time.

Doesn't sounds, but it is. Using a car analogy it's like saying that windscreen wipers could cost hundreds of dollars because they allow you to drive during rain, and it "improves your quality of life so much".

Overpricing products based on their importance (not that it's the case here) is also called profiteering, or more informally, extorsion.

That's stunningly silly.

Hanlon's razor man. Hanlon's razor.


And in your system, what happens if a virus compromises a white-listed application?

And how are you going to distinguish between the program firefox.exe and a virus named firefox.exe? If you go with checksums, all software companies on the world would have to ask permission for the anti-virus companies before updating their application, which certainly wouldn't make them happy and would only increase the time gap between exploit detection and patching, making the system not only annoying but also less secure.

Remember that this is a Flash game-like project. 10% of a small code is acceptable, considering that the platform specific code is more or less fixed in relation to the project size.

Wait there. What he said was:

You seem to have interpreted it as "we had to ban too many people", although all stories refer to only one person being banned for this.

I read it as "people were not joining us because of this", which for me makes more sense.

It does, but I don't think he would refer to a single person as "part of our Xbox LIVE community". Remember, this is the reason they updated their Code of Conduct. Would they do this because of one person?