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This is technically difficult to do without being horribly slow. I can do you a random sort easily enough, but the "keep it around for a day" is where it becomes more challenging. As a compromise,...

posted 5y ago by ArtOfCode‭  ·  edited 5y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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#2: Post edited by user avatar ArtOfCode‭ · 2020-01-17T18:52:54Z (almost 5 years ago)
  • This is technically difficult to do without being horribly slow. I can do you a random sort easily enough, but the "keep it around for a day" is where it becomes more challenging.
  • As a compromise, how would it be if the lottery page was _only_ one page? That is, there's one page, and there's only 25 questions on that page - there's no page 2, 3, or 366. That limitation should allow me to keep the order around without making re-applying it later a slow operation.
  • This is technically difficult to do without being horribly slow. I can do you a random sort easily enough, but the "keep it around for a day" is where it becomes more challenging.
  • As a compromise, how would it be if the lottery page was _only_ one page? That is, there's one page, and there's only 25 questions on that page - there's no page 2, 3, or 366. That limitation should allow me to keep the order around without making re-applying it later a slow operation.
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#1: Initial revision by user avatar ArtOfCode‭ · 2020-01-10T00:04:02Z (almost 5 years ago)
This is technically difficult to do without being horribly slow. I can do you a random sort easily enough, but the "keep it around for a day" is where it becomes more challenging.

As a compromise, how would it be if the lottery page was _only_ one page? That is, there's one page, and there's only 25 questions on that page - there's no page 2, 3, or 366. That limitation should allow me to keep the order around without making re-applying it later a slow operation.