Archive for the tag 'tech'

Mar 02 2009

ALL CAPS Laws

Published by Chris Rebert at 3:05 AM

My friend does email customer service for a computer company; I worked with him for while. When you work in customer service long enough, you see just how unreasonable people can get (and how little the average person knows about computers). In particular, both angry people and computer-illiterate people tend to use ALL CAPS in [...]

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Jan 18 2009

Tetris: Now proven to be hard

Published by Chris Rebert at 10:47 PM

Here’s some random interesting research I came upon: Tetris is Hard Apparently Tetris has now been mathematically proven to be computationally difficult. NP-complete to be more precise. I suppose this means I’ve been solving traveling salesman problems all this time without even knowing it! Now if we could just harness this power…

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