One fun assignment at Oxford's Comp. Sci. department was solving Mastermind in Haskell using minmax. Knuth has a particularly fun paper on it in fact - https://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/teaching/cs3530/resources/k...

Honestly using something like haveibeensquatted would catch _so_ many of these, including ability to submit takedowns.

> Really, think about it. How often do you see somebody inexperienced use ifs instead of a switch? This pattern is common enough for most compilers to recognize, and more importantly, optimize it.

This made me chuckle. Playing dumb so that gcc optimizes you away is both hilarious and genius