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Author Topic: Blog Post: If Tech Companies Made Sudoku - food for thought!  (Read 5,294 times)

mouser

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Sudoku is perfect. It can be as engaging, addictive, and flow-inducing as the flashiest real-time rendered, explosion-filled game on the planet. But I can't help imagine what would happen if someone like, say, Microsoft had designed it. Or rather, if some developers (leaf-nodes) at Microsoft designed it--perfectly--and then upper management stepped in...

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Re: Blog Post: If Tech Companies Made Sudoku - food for thought!
« Reply #1 on: May 17, 2006, 05:33 PM »
EhEh.. nice one!

There'd go the sodoku's geniality down the drain!  ;D

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Re: Blog Post: If Tech Companies Made Sudoku - food for thought!
« Reply #2 on: May 19, 2006, 01:11 AM »
That's a very interesting blog there. If I find the time between administrating my own site and reading groklaw, I will give it a read as well.

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