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From "Chris Uppal" <chris.uppal@metagnostic.REMOVE-THIS.org>
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Eric Sosman wrote:

>     It's oddly interesting that at least three people have made the
> same error (I did, too, but had the good fortune to catch myself
> *before* posting).

Since [at least] three people have fallen into the same trap, I claim that it's 
a bug in the presentation of the problem ;-)  Specifications shouldn't be 
obfuscated any more (on fact less) than code.


> Perhaps we're all thinking back to the days
> when we took our first fumbling steps at Boolean logic, and we sort
> of half-recognize the problem: "Aha!" we think, "this is somebody's
> idea of a way to introduce exclusive-OR!"  Then we leap ahead to
> solve a problem for which XOR would be useful (we may or may not
> actually use XOR), and we wind up solving the wrong problem ...

In my case, I'm sure it was the speed reading thing (as you mentioned, but in 
my case natural rather than learned):  See first 2/3 of problem; visual systems 
forms hypothesis as to what remaining 1/3 will be; quick scan of remaining 1/3 
appears to confirm hypothesis; job [not] done [right].

All totally unconcious of course.  And /impossible/ to turn off (I'm a hopeless 
copy editor -- or rather I lack the ability to be a copy editor at all).  I 
did, in fact, "read" the spec several times...

...sigh

    -- chris

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in1To10 cdalten@gmail.com - 2014-08-09 12:12 -0700
  Re: in1To10 Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2014-08-09 15:58 -0400
  Re: in1To10 Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2014-08-09 16:13 -0400
  Re: in1To10 Marcel Mueller <news.5.maazl@spamgourmet.org> - 2014-08-09 22:56 +0200
    Re: in1To10 Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2014-08-09 17:02 -0400
      Re: in1To10 Marcel Mueller <news.5.maazl@spamgourmet.org> - 2014-08-09 23:43 +0200
        Re: in1To10 Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2014-08-09 19:49 -0400
        Re: in1To10 Torsten Kirschner <torsten@kirschner.no> - 2014-08-10 16:59 +0200
          Re: in1To10 Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2014-08-10 11:33 -0400
            Re: in1To10 Torsten Kirschner <torsten@kirschner.no> - 2014-08-11 22:23 +0200
            Re: in1To10 Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2014-08-12 11:10 -0700
              Re: in1To10 Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2014-08-19 16:54 -0400
                Re: in1To10 Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2014-08-20 10:36 -0700
            Re: in1To10 Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2014-08-19 16:53 -0400
  Re: in1To10 cdalten@gmail.com - 2014-08-09 18:35 -0700
    Re: in1To10 Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2014-08-09 22:13 -0400
    Re: in1To10 Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2014-08-09 22:23 -0400
    Re: in1To10 Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2014-08-10 12:07 -0400
  Re: in1To10 Mike Amling <mamling@chaff.us> - 2014-08-10 00:29 -0500
  Re: in1To10 "Chris Uppal" <chris.uppal@metagnostic.REMOVE-THIS.org> - 2014-08-10 13:53 +0100
    Re: in1To10 Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2014-08-10 09:48 -0400
      Re: in1To10 "Chris Uppal" <chris.uppal@metagnostic.REMOVE-THIS.org> - 2014-08-10 15:01 +0100
        Re: in1To10 Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2014-08-10 10:32 -0400
          Re: in1To10 "Chris Uppal" <chris.uppal@metagnostic.REMOVE-THIS.org> - 2014-08-10 15:53 +0100
  Re: in1To10 lipska the kat <lipskathekat@example.com> - 2014-08-10 14:07 +0100
  Re: in1To10, a simple test plan lipska the kat <lipskathekat@example.com> - 2014-08-10 16:43 +0100
    Re: in1To10, a simple test plan Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2014-08-10 12:01 -0400
      Re: in1To10, a simple test plan lipska the kat <lipskathekat@example.com> - 2014-08-10 17:41 +0100
      Re: in1To10, a simple test plan Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2014-08-19 16:57 -0400
  Re: in1To10 Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2014-08-12 02:59 -0700

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