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.

Where do get me some of this! Can they deliver it to my house via Webvan?

I think you mean for nearly-dead patients.

I know a few people who have had pacemakers for many, many, years, and one forty-something fellow who had a heart transplant over 20 years ago and is alive and well. They were all people who would have died at a young age otherwise.

The urge to keep someone alive is also heavily weighted for age. Responders will do everything reasonable to keep someone under 50 alive, someone over 80, not so much. The circumstances are highly subject to case by case judgment, which is usually correct.

The model cover about a 3000 sq mile area. The Golden Gate Bridge is about 6 inches long IIRC.

You have to see the Bay Model if you visit the Bay Area. There is a fully restored Nike missile silo nearby that is also a must-see of Bay Area nerdy sights.

How are you going to deal with half the population living within a 10 mile range suing you for blowing out their home electronics, and when every ham radio operator within a 1000 mile radius complains to the FCC about you ruining their radio reception?

I think you are confusing this with the strong interaction of RF wavelengths with the dipole moment of the water molecule, which strongly increases at some frequencies (like in microwave ovens) and, above 30 Mhz, is the model for limits on RF exposure.

The RF simply generates an electric and magnetic field, with interacts (or not) equally with all matter regardless of size. Down to a point, and I'll let the physicists take over from there.

- but since when have incoming freshmen been required to declare their majors before being accepted at most engineering schools?

I'm a not-so-recent alum of a fairly decent school (Rice) and as far as I know as recently as 10 years ago it was normal for many students to wait until well into their sophomore years to declare a major as long as the prerequisite courses were passed. And Rice, being a smallish school, has a lot of collaboration between departments. The exceptions were "professional" schools like music and architecture, where worst case, it might take an extra year to make up the entry year prerequisites.

It may be cool, but I'm a ham radio operator and if you build this thing anywhere within 10 miles of my house, I will come over and burn it down.

This is just a toy for rich techies. There are plenty of places where lightning is frequent enough that if you build a structure to attract it, you will get lots of hits from the real thing:

http://www.lightningsafety.noaa.gov/images/map.jpg

I've heard that both of the people who use WebOS are very happy. Keep it alive!

Heated up during ascent?