The Nineteenth Byte

Q: How many sample test cases should I include in my question?

9:09 AM

@MartinBüttner I like that idea of people claiming old sandbox posts. They are all CC BY-SA so the only reason not to post them is courtesy. For that I recommend rather than waiting a month after they were last updated (a rule which some may be caught out by) instead we place a comment to notify the OP and wait a certain time after that comment before acting. Whether that's a week or a month the community can discuss, but time to let the OP say "this is still mine".

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Martin Büttner

10:56 AM

@Sparr sure

@githubphagocyte yeah, I thought about that too. that would certainly be nicer.

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I write a question. To make it easier for the answerers to test their answers, it is obvious that I should provide at least one test case and the expected output -- otherwise it may be difficult for the answerers to know if their solution is correct or not. I usually only include one. Is it cons...

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cjfaure

12:51 PM

MFW I see an epic golf.

cjfaure

1:14 PM

(my earlobes don't join to my head though)

2:04 PM

Somebody please say something to scroll that dizzying GIF off the screen...

ProgramFOX

@githubphagocyte Inspect Element -> Delete Node is the easiest solution :D

Have you played the game Osmos ?

@ProgramFOX lol I don't trust my understanding enough to mess around with that... :)

I haven't heard of it. Is it a potential golf/KotH candidate...?

Yeah, I'm going to make it a KotH

It's about many cells eating each other

Just had a look at the wikipedia page - lots going on...

Sounds like it could make an interesting KotH - easy to enter but with plenty of room for improving stategies

2:13 PM

I love writing physical simulators.

Watching the bots fighting is also interesting.

Seeing how the entries improve over time will be good

I need about 2 weeks to write it.

the brainfuck joust contest is weird to me, because there's such a large library of existing programs out there that are probably much better than anything we could come up with in a week or month on pccg

Peter Taylor

3:02 PM

@githubphagocyte I used the browser "Inspect element" to find and delete the <img> node

Ah, ProgramFOX already suggested that. GMTA.

Q: Are well-studied or classic problems suitable for PP&CG?

@PeterTaylor I had the same advice from ProgramFOX - yes you noticed already... Thank you all the same :)

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3:58 PM

Brainfucked Bots is a clone of BF Joust Bzzt is very similar to FizzBuzz FizzBuzz Compiler was effectively FizzBuzz before its scoring was changed etc. In challenges like this, where years of thought have been put into optimal solutions during competitions elsewhere, it is very unlikely that ...

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abdellah mansur

7:13 PM

testing console

echo [i for i in scrVal]

from time import time

time.time()

why it doesn't return nothing

-_-

oh my god .. this is the chat .. not the console

Q: Would PPCG user interface design contests be out of place?

yep

Peter Taylor

7:33 PM

@cjfaure As requested

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9:32 PM

We are still in beta and, as far as I know, stuck with the standard beta user interface of stack exchange sites. But clearly other stack exchanges have custom layouts and graphics for their logo, favicon, buttons, etc.: In my quick search I've found very little definitive information on how th...

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10:52 PM

ok, I broke down and entered the brainfuck bots contest, despite my objections to it

Martin Büttner

@Sparr which were?

it's a problem that's already been thoroughly exhausted in competition. none of the bots we are writing are remotely close to competitive against the best bots written for bfjoust over the last ~4 years.

I posted to meta about this. Similar to posting fizzbuzz golf, which is a problem already probably-perfectly solved on other golf contests

there's no way we can know if someone cribs strategies or whole bots from bfjoust

Martin Büttner

I see

good point