Genius Award
May. 1st, 2008 10:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
livingdebToday I found a genius award certificate online and printed it out for my programmer who figured out a way to code a set of degree requirements that I had given up on. I only asked him in case I was wrong about it being impossible; I had planned to ask him to create a new rule type for this situation if he couldn't find an answer either.
Arg, how did he do that? He tried something that didn't even occur to me. You could call it thinking outside the box, but it was more like thinking half inside the box. If you're carrying a box, usually you do it with both hands on the outside of the box, on opposite sides. In this case, that wouldn't work because then the things inside the box would get all mixed up with each other. He got the idea to put one hand inside the box, using it like a wall between the two kinds of things, and the other hand outside the box, carrying it like that. That's dangerous. Nervy. But with these particular box contents, it works perfectly.
I've started putting together a web page for my training manual that's going to be sort of like "Name That Tune," only instead of trying to name a tune in as few notes as possible, you have to try to code some requirements in as few lines (or really, as elegantly) as possible. I am collecting real requirements that are really coded.
I'm splitting them into categories with names like "basic," "difficult," and "tricky." This one's going in the "evil" category.
Arg, how did he do that? He tried something that didn't even occur to me. You could call it thinking outside the box, but it was more like thinking half inside the box. If you're carrying a box, usually you do it with both hands on the outside of the box, on opposite sides. In this case, that wouldn't work because then the things inside the box would get all mixed up with each other. He got the idea to put one hand inside the box, using it like a wall between the two kinds of things, and the other hand outside the box, carrying it like that. That's dangerous. Nervy. But with these particular box contents, it works perfectly.
I've started putting together a web page for my training manual that's going to be sort of like "Name That Tune," only instead of trying to name a tune in as few notes as possible, you have to try to code some requirements in as few lines (or really, as elegantly) as possible. I am collecting real requirements that are really coded.
I'm splitting them into categories with names like "basic," "difficult," and "tricky." This one's going in the "evil" category.