On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 08:27:58PM +0100, Jonathan E. Paton wrote:
> > Rally golf.
> > ...
> > The team has the advantage of having many
> > brains on the problem, but is as vulnerable
> > as its weakest link. Imagine the kind of
> > peer pressure it would generate if you have
> > the like of Eugene and Ton in your team. Oh,
> > the angst, the sheer angst of it. :)
>
> Congratulations on an almost unworkable idea,
Thank you. :)
> 4. No submitted working solution can be more
> than ten characters different from another
> working solution of that team.
So, basically, while Andrew admonishes to dismount
from a dead horse as quickly as possible, you propose
to chain a bunch of golfers to it? ;)
But, seriously, if my modus operandi is not too
different from the one of most golfers, through a hole,
a solution goes under two kind of changes, the 'nudges',
where a '$a if $b' is changed for a '$b&&$a' and the
big fat epiphanies that make us go 'gee, was I on drugs
not to see /that/?' and make a score go down by 15 strokes
in a single sweep. Making teams stick to a first choice, even
if they have 24 hours to come up with it, would be a cruel
thing to do. Heck, I would despise having to work with my own
first take on the current hole.
Joy,
`/anick, freelance player ready to work for the team with
the niftiest mascot.
--
"I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live
for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for
mine." -- John Galt's pledge from Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged"
