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Comment on Letterpress.app Word List by Mark Cogan

Mark Cogan — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 20:26:13 +0000

You can use the “time” unix command to get timings instead of wiring them into the script yourself (“time python solver.py .. “).

A minute seems really slow, and the algorithm seems to be overkill. Here’s what I do:

- Generate a regular expression from the board letters by sorting them and then joining the sorted list with the optional marker. For example, if the board had NVRIPYKTA, the regular expression would be /^A?I?K?N?P?R?T?V?Y?$/.
- Read each word from the dictionary file and convert it to “anagram dictionary” form (sort its letters). So KINTAR would be AIKNTR.
- Check if the anagram form of the word matches the regular expression. If it does, you can make the word from the letters. Add it to your list.

The quick Perl script I threw together does this in ~3 seconds using /usr/share/dict/words, twice that time using my comprehensive 450K word list. Compiled regular expressions tend to be really efficient.

(for Letterpress, the next step for a useful list is to go through and remove any word which is a prefix of any longer word).

Comment on On assembling an Ikea PAX wardrobe by Monarca

Monarca — Sun, 07 Oct 2012 17:49:12 +0000

I bought a Pax for my son and I HATE IT! We cannot stabilize it on a carpeted floor, cannot align the doors no matter what/how we tr y (yes, the hinges are on correctly). Worst of all, we don’t have a stud to attach it to within the allowable space we have. Even with all the shelves in it is so unstable that I am afraid to let my teen use it. I’m willing to pay another $90 just to get it out of my house.

Comment on SOE Status: iPhone app for monitoring SOE game servers by paul

paul — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 21:38:49 +0000

Well, I’d love to be able to find that thread .

The app uses data as provided by SOE on their status page. If it isn’t correct, then that is because the data SOE post is wrong – which is entirely possible!

Comment on SOE Status: iPhone app for monitoring SOE game servers by Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 20:42:54 +0000

Sorry that link wolnt work for you.

Comment on SOE Status: iPhone app for monitoring SOE game servers by Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 20:40:37 +0000

The devs in Planetside 2 say this app dosent work. As seen in this post: http://forums.station.sony.com/ps2/index.php?threads/soestatus-app.26772/
I sure hope this isn’t the case I love this app for that reason.

Comment on On assembling an Ikea PAX wardrobe by paul

paul — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 10:14:58 +0000

Sue, Ikea furniture is intended and designed to be assembled by us poor folks . It should be idiot proof, and as you can tell from the comments (and the initial post), there are some stages that could be improved by either better documentation, or stronger components.

Comment on On assembling an Ikea PAX wardrobe by Sue

Sue — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 09:07:18 +0000

Why not get it installed by the professionals instead of trying to take notice of any tv show or diagrams. It is not the item it is a lot of times the idiot that cannot put it together properly but pretends he knows everything.

Comment on On assembling an Ikea PAX wardrobe by nicky

nicky — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 07:18:24 +0000

Thank .

Comment on On assembling an Ikea PAX wardrobe by Emily

Emily — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 12:20:55 +0000

Nothing challenges a relationship more than assembling Ikea cabinets! It has been over three years since we bought our house and assembled all of our Ikea kitchen cabinets, so we had forgotten how much fun it can be. After much swearing, we finally got the Pax wardrobe frame put together… We added the doors and they stuck out an inch from the frame. After convincing ourselves they gave us the wrong hinges, I found your blog and figured out that we had also put the hinges on backwards. It looks great now! Thank you!!

Comment on On assembling an Ikea PAX wardrobe by Lynn

Lynn — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 18:23:56 +0000

Me too! I actually blamed myself but I see I am not the only one to find this confusing. The alternate instructions (for low and high ceilings) were confusing and while I assembled the first one correctly the second one broke. I went to Ikea to try to get help and they recommended I buy a second one. I opted to pony up for their services in assembling it. They are here now but their work order didn’t include either attaching it to the first wardrobe nor anchoring it to the wall (which is NECESSARY) nor (as I had asked) installing the sliding doors which I requested and (from these posts) looks to be very tricky. This stuff is just too heavy. The guys doing the installation are huge. I’m going to have to have someone come back to help me with the doors. I called Ikea to complain and the customer service person said “she agreed that anchoring the wardrobe to the wall should be included in assembly” but the guys told me that they did it for another customer, and got in trouble for it.