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Set up an amb for each square. Then use "require" with each regular expression defined across the grid.
Problem solved - generically - for all time!
It's not the most efficient solution in the world, but it'll probably still solve it faster than you?
We use Fizzbuzz and a short SQL test that take a total of 30 minutes for the first part of the test. If they fail this, we can them and don't give them an interview.
A surprising number of people fail this test.
We then have a larger problem with much more time allotted. Here we're looking for style and quality of construction.
That said, even with this longer test, the people we hire tend to get the same distance through the test. They're at least within the same half of an order of magnitude.
At the end of the day, in a paid position you can and do have a deadline to work to. You can't take forever building something. You have to produce the goods!
There's an opinion on-line that the UK is turning in to some sort oppressive totalitarian state. It seems like this summary was written with this view in mind. It makes a number of errors of omission.
The article says it's opt-in! It only applies to that web-site too. That's obviously a huge omission to make from the summary. The summary seems to imply that the government would snoop on all traffic of a job-seeker and it was mandatory.
Finally, people who are claiming Job Seekers allowance are requesting support from the government while they look for a job. It's not totalitarian to suggest that we ensure that they are actually looking for a job!
As a taxpayer and a liberal democrat, it's something I support!
God is quite capable of using DNA and RNA and quantum mechanics and other theories which we have yet to learn about to make people and the world.
Why would he though? He's God! He can just zap us in to existence! Surely, that's better than having distant cousins eat each other just so they can survive. We've defeated evolution to some degree. Evolution in its pure form is unimaginably brutal.
The religious suffer from a cognitive bias where they assume that any contradicting evidence is more proof of their man in the sky. The point of the Origin of Species was to give us a mental framework that required no man in the sky!
Science shows that your God tries very, very hard to look like the null hypothesis; which is, complete and total none-existence.
Evolution has been operating over hundreds of millions of years.
If we didn't need a foreskin, we wouldn't have one.
I live and work in the UK and I cycle everywhere. Part of the reason is precisely because it's difficult for the government to interfere with your business. The way I see it, the fewer interactions I have with the government the better.
If you take public transport, you're on CCTV everywhere. Naturally, you can be subject to searches when leaving train stations or even in bus stations.
If you drive a car, at some point you're going to get pulled over. You're going to get a ticket of some sort with high probability.
With cycling, there's no tax to pay. No fuel to pay for. There's no real way to be stopped and searched on a bicycle.
Often, it is faster than a car journey anyway.
Cycling is probably one of the only remaining modes of transport that is truly free in both senses of the word.
Neither this law, nor the original version of it, would have retroactive applicability; in other words, you can't make something illegal today, and then prosecute the guy that did it yesterday
It also wouldn't apply outside the US either, which is sort of a problem. What's to stop a Wikileaks clone starting in say, Iran, and doing the same amount of damage as Wikileaks?
It's weird in a way, I thought America came out of the Wikileaks cables pretty well. America acted, for the most part, in private exactly as they acted in public. It's everyone else that looked like a bunch of douche bags.
As a Brit, it's done more to repair the reputation of the US than, say, the election of President Obama. I've actually surpised myself with that sentence, but it's actually true!
Mass bends space-time, right? So why not define it as a certain amount of curvature - say the mass needed to bend a light beam in vacuo by some measurable amount, divided by a chosen constant to give 1kg according to the theory.
That would couple the kilogram to G, which we know less _much_ less precisely than the current kilogram.
A better, but equally flawed, solution would be redefine the kilogram in terms of the electron. After all, we can measure its rest mass to a great degree of accuracy. But then usuable amounts of mass would be inaccurate to the level of precision given to Avogadro's constant.
It's a harder problem than it looks.
Heisenberg may have slept here...