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easy!

cripes youre fast...

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5 mins? jeez - im still plugging along...

done. finally. easy, just takes a bit...

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Have you read the "explanation of rankings"? It soo doesn't sound fair to me... "The groups on the left are calculated using a player's total points earned divided by the total number of points possible since the dawn of Iron Sudoku.

woo, 5 minutes. i think that's about as fast as i can physically do one.

congrats!

thanks

i think with the rankings, that's why there's the "who's hot" thing as well, so that people who haven't done all the archives can still be ranked

pretty straightfoward board today

yep, probably the easiest one I've ever seen here.

kebek: sudoku combat easies can be done in about 2 1/2 min. not sure if they are that much easier than today's or just the competition of racing against someone makes me do them faster.

hi dad.. im coming after your record

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Difficulty score 12.

DrWho, How do you determine difficulty score?

I wrote a computer program that solves and rates the puzzles.

Neat. What factors does it use to rate them?

It weights the difficulty of the techniques used to solve the puzzle and the number of passes through the data.

Okay. Is your program in Java? Does it look at the screen?

No, it is in C and runs on Linux.

I see. Do you have to enter the initial configuration by hand?

Yes.

Pretty good. I'm impressed. Did you also write the little Java program that puts in the greens?

No. I don't do Java.

Neither to I. I used to do C. Long, long ago. When it was in beta test.

What's the Java slogan; "write once, debug everywhere"?

When C was in beta test? Does that make you colleage of K &R?

No. But I was hired to explore C and Unix at UC Santa Barbara when they first came out of Bell Labs.

I first used it at Sperry Univac in the mid 80s.

I used it in 1976.

Obviously, UC Berkley liked C and Unix, did you come to the same conclussions at Santa Barbara?

It was growing in popularity with students when I left in 1980. But the mainframe computer still was using PL1 mostly.

Was that IBM?

Yes. IBM at first. Though it was replaced by Amdahl. No transition problems.

My mainframe experience is on Sperry Univac. I did some assembly language programming on it.

Great.

Also some Fortran and several in house programming tools that I would rather not remember.

Ever program with the text editor Wilbur?

No.

It was a programable text editor. You could use 10 integer variables, ten floating variables, and 10 string variables. But I managed to make a pretty sophisticated program with it.

What did it do?

It wrote data collecting programs. ie, programs that prompted for input, checked it, formated it, and saved it.

Cool.

It made life so easy for our customers, they wrote their own programs, and I had no more work so I was laid off.

Sounds familiar. I was in manufacturing automation at Unisys and we won some industry awards for our work, then they laid off a bunch of us.

Bummer.

That's life in the world of engineering.

I learned to stay a step ahead of the lay offs after that.

Yes. I taught English in Japan after I got laid off.

Piece of pie ..

cool! I finished

nice and easy for a friday eve

i got a whole week to catch you up dad

Haha.. drwho.. you've got Tom Baker! Sweet!

Maybe I am Tom Baker...

Not.

Hah.. ;)

He's my favorite Dr. Who.

Best Doctor evar . .

I've only seen a little bit of him so far.. I like Jon Pertwee (sp?) though.

My sonic screwdriver is no help with Sudoku.

Why did you go pro? You could have just gone back and done the archives when they weren't archives yet.. ;)

Hmm....why didn't I think of that.

Ah, yes, those stuffy old time lords of Gallifrey forbid it.

Hmph. They're no fun.

Just to throw in a little bit of controversy, I must say my favorite Doctor is Christopher Eccleston...

Just to throw in a little bit of controversy, I must say my favorite Doctor is Christopher Eccleston...

**ducks and runs**

OOps, sorry for the double post.

Oh, I adore him.. he was my first doctor.

"Everybody lives, Rose! Just this once... everybody lives!"

He projects such joy and wonder

I've only seen a few of his episodes, he seems to have some of the qualities that I liked in Tom Baker.

David Tennant is fun too.. I didn't like him at first, but he grew on me.

David Tennant's growing on me, but I keep remembering him as Barty Crouch Jr. in the last Harry Potter movie... ewww...

Haha.. I've been meaning to buy that so I can see him in it. I didn't know who he was when I saw the movie.

(And I only saw it when it first came out.. for shame!)

Watch out for the icky lip-licky thing he does. Kinda like a frog catching flies. (no offense, it's fine for the frogs, just not for humans)

It took me a minute to realize why you were saying no offense. I'm slow tonight. :)

tee hee, silly froggy.

Who was it that played in the original movie?

Which character, Doni?

Dr. Who...It was the tv movie I saw about 10 or so years ago

Oh.. that was.. ::looks it up:: .. Paul McGann.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who_%2819
96%29

Thought it was a good movie..my brother had taped it. Have never seen any of the series. No TV conections...

Yeah it was good.. I liked his outfit, lol.

Doni, what an adorable kitten!

Thanks...

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wow i think that was the easiest yet

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