Timeline for Dealing with "Find out who's going to buy the croissants"
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| May 23, 2017 at 12:36 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://stackoverflow.com/ with https://stackoverflow.com/
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:48 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://cs.stackexchange.com/ with https://cs.stackexchange.com/
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| Mar 20, 2017 at 10:31 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://meta.stackexchange.com/ with https://meta.stackexchange.com/
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| Apr 24, 2014 at 13:50 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
Migration of MSO links to MSE links
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| Jul 25, 2013 at 0:36 | comment | added | Mark Booth | Sigh, I'm glad I don't work in the same office as you. We'd always be making nuclear power plants out of bike sheds. As it is, I bow to your superior arguments. | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 21:11 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | @Asad Nonsense. Coming up with definite requirements is part of the modeling job. It's part of programming. Stack Overflow is about programming; there's more to programming than writing code. | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 21:05 | comment | added | user200500 | @Gilles Modeling a process is distinct from coming up with definite requirements for a process. The latter has to precede the former, and should always be the job of the OP. | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 21:01 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | @Asad The choice of metrics is part of the problem. This isn't a pure coding problem, and I do expect the coding to be easy. The modeling is part of the problem. Modeling of this kind is part of the work of a programmer. Arguably, it's not part of the work of a code monkey — but is Stack Overflow really solely about code monkeys? | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 20:58 | comment | added | user229044 | Really? How do you define an "algorithm", except as a set of steps to follow? He said he "can" have a server, but didn't stipulate that he needed anything more than the algorithm. He didn't tell us a language, or request pseudo code, or give us anything resembling useful information. He asked for an algorithm for something so trivial that my one sentence answer ("put names in hat and draw") fits. Everything else was useless except to demonstrating his ignorance of the subject matter. | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 20:58 | comment | added | user200500 | I really don't understand why you think this is a high quality question. "The choice of metrics is an interesting modeling problem" The choice of metrics shouldn't be part of the problem the answerers are supposed to solve. If you come up with conflicting requirements like random but "fair", you need to make it concrete. "Fair" to within what number of croissant runs? Otherwise all discussion and voting on the answers relies on an attribute of the algorithm that has nothing to do with programming. | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 20:57 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | @meagar You clearly haven't read the question. The only part that may be construed as “useless rambling” is the introduction, mostly the picture. “Put the names in a hat and draw” does not meet the hard requirements, and even after applying the minimum necessary fix, it isn't a good answer. | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 20:52 | comment | added | user229044 | Sorry, but you're wrong. This is a super, super, super bad question. If you trim away all the useless rambling crap, you get "I want to choose a person, but they might not be in the office. How can I do this?" When "put the names in a hat and draw" is a valid answer, it's a bad question. | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 20:24 | history | edited | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 24, 2013 at 19:57 | history | answered | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | CC BY-SA 3.0 |