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The “Satirical News” Sites Need to Stop
The Onion has always been entertaining because it either operated at a very generic level or a very absurd level. While The Onion could be mistaken for real news, it was often involving a person that didn’t exist, a generic group of people, or things so absurd that no reasonable person could believe them to be real.…
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Hooking in an LDAP Test Server to Cucumber Tests
I managed to get a custom Devise strategy with LDAP working, but had no clear way of automating tests. I wanted to validate if I still had to keep the password fresh in the database, and needed to be able to write scenarios around that in case someone attempted to refactor out the code. After…
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Kentucky Lottery Pick 3 Expected Payout
The expected payouts for the Kentucky Lottery Pick 3 game have an interesting idiosyncrasy. Playing the special “Straight Box” play pays out better than a separate 50¢ straight and 50¢ box play. All other plays average 60¢ per dollar played, but the straight box seems to be 65¢ and 70¢, depending on the numbers played.…