still, I don't get it... Peter says "it's just a graph reachability problem", but how do you terminate the search or limit it to a finite number of nodes?
it will be obvious in any other case of "someone might code it in an abbreviation language" as well, because they'll usually say they use the same algorithm, or they won't explain the algorithm or something
Sometimes answers are posted, which almost comply with the specs. They might be a clever, interesting take on the problem, but not follow one of the rules, or the program might crash in a few rare cases. What should be done with these answers? Upvote, downvote, or delete?
@MartinBüttner Will fix when I have time and then consider whether to edit and undelete or to post a new answer. If the change is too drastic then it wouldn't be right to start on +5.
I got the Bugdroid hat last night on CodeGolf.SE. The thing is, I never used (or even downloaded) the Android app.
Did this happen to anyone else, or should I be worried that my account got hacked (in which case, why would anyone use the app then)? As far as I can tell, there wasn't any activity...
most likely, we'll end up tying... apart from Naruto, Red Baron and 30 Minutes or Less (and Hairboat and Eureka) they are all equally doable for both of us. so unless one of us is lucky getting one of those 3...
In this meta-challenge, you will score your own atomic-code-golf submissions. More precisely, you will need to write a program P in language L such that the atomic-score of P is produced by P.
Score
The idea behind atomic-code-golf is to count language tokens instead of bytes. However, in prac...
You don't have to worry, your account is under your sole control. Unfortunately when creating the query to find out who deserves a hat, I thought we recorded which app was used to create a comment, but we do in fact record which app last touched the comment. And in your case, a comment that you h...
oh sweet, I've got my downvote privilege on MSE back
o.O
I posted this two years ago when MSE didn't even exist on MSO. apparently it got automigrated when they created MSE... and now it's closed for being off-topic there :D
also, now I know that you get no sort of notification if your question gets close voted or closed.
@Optimizer I was gonna do that as well, but feel free to go ahead :P ... (if you do, I might put another bounty on it, for the best submission using two different languages)
but I think this isn't the kind of question to go viral. it's way too complicated for that, "Caesar-Cypher-Mania" isn't a title that speaks to many people around the network I think.
if you often experience prolonged states of unconsciousness, and you spend your waking hours teaching people to be moral, is that an example of coma separated values?
@Optimizer also, you know how when you hover over a message it shows you what it was a reply to, or the person's last message if it wasn't specifically a reply to anything? for a whole second i thought you were pointing at my stupid pun and saying "how did this guy become a mod"
> if you often experience prolonged states of unconsciousness, and you spend your waking hours teaching people to be moral, is that an example of coma separated values?
@PeterTaylor I'm slightly disappointed that there's no combination of spells in WH, where you have to decide between using a two-hand gesture for 1 spell or using two one-hand gestures for 2 spells.
@PeterTaylor I've added test cases. Would you mind reviewing them, and having a look if you can think of any edge case I missed?
I just realized that PPCG is just like Minecraft, but way more judgmental. You built a castle? Someone else already built one. DUPLICATE! You built a dirt house in our beautiful city? OFF TOPIC!
I swear I had a good reason for that rambling. I was trying to think of a way to convince PPCG to come together on a physics engine
Actually, I'm not even sure I understood what you meant. I read "to come together on a physics engine" as "to collaborate on writing a physics engine", but on second thought, I have no idea what you were trying to say.
here is a start ;) (although this isn't how you would handle collisions in a general-purpose physics engine)
@Rainbolt I'm pretty sure there are some parts of the engine that wouldn't make fun challenges (basically, the architecture that holds everything together)
Does "Questions without an objective primary winning criterion" apply to the newest question? He has two objective winning criterion, but neither of them is "primary"
@Rainbolt No, I'm saying that it doesn't matter whether one close vote reason applies or not, because another one definitely does apply, so you could just choose the one there is no doubt about.
(for undelete voting a bad, close to unsalvageable challenge, just so you can close vote it to get a hat... I think that's what Peter meant with "counterproductive to site quality")
you never need to plan ahead more than one segment
(as a human you do, because you can't see some of the patterns fast enough, so you have to learn them, but for an algorithm, you definitely don't need to plan ahead)
K. I was going to go through and look for an example later, but if you're satisfied that any adapted answers would be non-trivial or non-competitive, that works for me.
@feersum I know, but I'm not sure what it has to do with the original discussion between Geobits and myself. :D (or was your comment not related to that at all in the first place?)
@feersum So to answer your concern. Sure you can probably claim that any Java code is valid CJam, but why would you want to use a Java snippet for CJam if you might be able to solve it with a much shorter CJam or GolfScript source?
I don't think it's a problem.
the golfing languages will win again anyway, and I don't think it's a bad thing.
@MartinBüttner For codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/17068/21487 do the ords all collectively count as one code block or can you use,say, just ord('!')*ord(':')+ord('d')?
Sometimes answers are posted, which almost comply with the specs. They might be a clever, interesting take on the problem, but not follow one of the rules, or the program might crash in a few rare cases. What should be done with these answers? Upvote, downvote, or delete?
In this meta-challenge, you will score your own atomic-code-golf submissions. More precisely, you will need to write a program P in language L such that the atomic-score of P is produced by P.
Score
The idea behind atomic-code-golf is to count language tokens instead of bytes. However, in prac...
