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zeckalpha on July 17, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: How things get done

User: "Solve the Halting problem"

The program could continue to run forever, stuck at 20.

But back on topic, good article. We're in the everything else phase right now. :(

emmett on July 17, 2013 | [–]

When a user asks you to solve the halting problem, ask them what they want to accomplish by doing it. Almost always there's some way to cheat and get them what they want without doing the impossible.

MichaelGG on July 17, 2013 | | [–]

Like Microsoft Terminator:

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/cambridge/projects/te...

zeckalpha on July 18, 2013 | [–]

Why am I being downvoted?

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