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Solving Sudoku With dpkg
Reader Otter points out in his journal a very neat use for the logic contained in Debian's package dependency resolver: solving sudoku puzzles. To me at least, this is much more interesting than the sudoku puzzles themselves. Update: 08/24 02:51 GMT by T : Hackaday just ran a story that might tickle the same parts of your brain on a game played entirely with MySQL database queries.
Don't mod me down if you disagree. If you disagree, consider writing a retort instead.
You must be new here.
No, you must be new here. Referring to people modding you down by saying things such as "I have karma to burn" or "Mods, do your worst!" are sure-fire ways to get modded up. I don't know why it works, but it does.
On a barely related note, I never realized before that "you must be new here" meant "noob!".
Write your own Choose Your Own Adventure. http://www.freegameengines.org/gamebook-engine/
I think you just encountered a failed slashdot bot/AI.
Maybe it was written in dpkg too.
You know, I can also say anything I want in English, as long as it's understood to be imbrigligated.
No, sorry, there comes a gap when "what you're able to do" becomes separated from correct English, as with any language. "I waiting you here" is a perfectly understandable sentence (said to me by an Arab man), but you'd have to be an idiot (or extremely stubborn) to declare it correct.