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Re:Quine Relay by wpietri on Monday July 15, 2013 @09:33PM (#6049558)
If I make a ranked list of all the ways that people spend their time, I cannot imagine a sensible scoring algorithm that puts making a quine relay lower in value than posting an internet comment bitching about somebody making a quine relay.
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Re:Quine Relay by jbranchaud on Monday July 15, 2013 @11:00PM (#6049808)
+1, imagining the scoring algorithm you mention would even rank higher than the posting of that comment!
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Re:Quine Relay by shawn-furyan on Tuesday July 16, 2013 @01:23AM (#6050175)
Very funny. I think it might be possible to come up with a sensible algorithm that yields such a result. If so, it would definitely have $time_spent in a denominator somewhere :)

[edited to improve wording]

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Re:Quine Relay by aerolite on Tuesday July 16, 2013 @03:29AM (#6050424)
bitching about someone making a quine relay takes like 10 seconds, though.
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Re:Quine Relay by saraid216 on Tuesday July 16, 2013 @03:45AM (#6050451)
That's because there's only ten seconds' worth of intelligence going into the bitching.

A truly worthwhile bitching would take at least an hour.

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