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Re:The Programmer's Dilemma on Sunday June 05, 2011 @05:44PM (#2622915)
A Prisoner's Dilemma is defined by the ordinal ranking of alternatives, not the absolute cardinal values. The common example used from which the name of the game is derived happens to be prison sentences, which are all negative payoffs (or zero for no time). But as long as the payoffs maintain the same ordinal ranking, they could positive, negative, or a mix.

Good open source projects to contribute to?

I am an intermediate level developer with background in PHP, but I am moving towards RoR development now. I would love the opportunity to work on some open source projects, but I don't have a good grasp of where to start in the Ruby community. I'm by no means an expert Rubyist either, so I am looking for something I can handle on my own level, while still contributing something useful. I'd...

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