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5:00 PM
Once we asked the time from Alex and @ಠ_ಠ replied with the correct answer instantly
and then he deleted that reply, then finally Alex replied the same thing
 
ಠ.ಠ
 
could be an attempt to stage Alex, who knows.
 
That only proves that they both can read a clock, doesn't it?
 
@Dennis assuming they are in same timezone
 
And he deleted it, which is only more suggesting so.
 
5:01 PM
or @ಠ_ಠ remembers Alex's timezone by heart (given the response time)
 
ಠoಠ
 
And their user description:
I cannot confirm but only deny any affiliation with birds.

'_ri*'ಠ_@\ (Thanks to quartata now in 12 bytes)
I remember when quartata was golfing that. Alex was in the room and chatting
 
I tried this in the JS console ಠ_ಠ===AlexA and the result was true
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ಠOಠ
 
@ΚριτικσιΛίθος Uncaught ReferenceError: ಠ_ಠ is not defined(…)
 
@Dennis you are probably doing something wrong:
 
Doesn't matter. I don't trust JavaScript anyway.
 
its okay, JavaScript doesn't trust you either
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5:08 PM
what?
 
This ain't over
 
but what's the point of posting that pic?
 
@Optimizer To show that it's public domain. So identifying user based on sock size is out.
 
Like we could use that to our advantage.
 
5:10 PM
@Calvin'sHobbies oh, you thought that's a custom pic ? :D
even Alex is not that dedicated that he will custom make that sock, wear it on himself and click a selfie to use it as a profile pic
so its settles that Alex A. is ಠ_ಠ
 
He really isn't though.
 
we don't trust you either
 
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Q: Average of a string

indeedYou have been employed by a data analysis company, and have been appointed the task of finding the average character of a string of characters. However, this company has limited funding for code storage, so your code must be as small as possible. Task Write a program or function that takes one ...

 
if you can't say who it is, you should keep off from saying who it isn't either
 
@VoteToClose The image shows that they have access to wikimedia. So they probably can't be in china for example where wiki is blocked/restricted.
 
5:18 PM
Oh! Well then.
 
a quick baidu search should bring up that pic from some other hosting
 
did you guys see my cute keychain??? i posted it like 3 hours ago when fewer people were awake youtu.be/on5_T9zZK8A
 
oh, we both have same :D
I had to zoom in to notice it
 
today's smbc is really good
 
5:24 PM
I want an Alex == ಠ_ಠ proof
 
i'm not usually a huge fan of jokes with this structure but this one is ridiculous enough and does enough different things for me to really like it
 
500 Discovered Exoplanets in One Epic Poster
 
@undergroundmonorail Why does P = 0 imply P = NP?
 
@Optimizer That takes false colouring to whole new levels.
 
@PeterTaylor :D well, some are "real" images and not doctored Jupiter
they are probably only 3-4 px wide though
 
5:29 PM
@Optimizer not exactly an epic resolution though.
 
@MartinBüttner i know, twitter ..
 
@Optimizer I call the fiery medium one on the upper right edge.
 
@Calvin'sHobbies because NP = N*0 = 0 = P
 
there you go:
 
@MartinBüttner Ah. But then you may as well say PIGS = PIE
 
5:32 PM
Yeah, because it's true.
 
@Calvin'sHobbies or Pineapple = Pizza
 
Or ProgrammingPuzzlesAndCodeGolf = PPCG
 
or Puzzling = PPCG
 
@Optimizer Found earth
(the inoplanets are in there too)
 
its just artistic representation derived from the similarities from inoplanets
 
5:37 PM
@Calvin'sHobbies Do you mean "there" instead of "their"?
 
Is that even a term?
 
ino right!
 
fyi, I was punning
 
We are the pityplanets
And I know
 
5:40 PM
Planets = Poop
 
there are a lot of terms starting with P
;)
 
Potimizer
for example
 
o-o
 
Calvin'sPotties
 
here at ppcg we take pride in our mature humour
 
5:43 PM
c:
 
Which upper/lowercase A-Z letter is the least colon-emoticonable? :K :w?
 
:R
 
:ಠ
 
 
5:45 PM
you know what, now that i've posted it i've started to identify with the :a face
so never mind
 
A-Z I mean
 
we all knew that
 
5:46 PM
:W
:G
 
:K can kinda be a cat. :R is almost :P. :W is a bird facing down
 
:V
:N
I guess its :N
 
@ΚριτικσιΛίθος That one I'm not sure
 
:H
:h
 
5:48 PM
i feel like the best way to do this would be to use one of those sites where you are given two choices and choose the one you prefer, and eventually it's compared enough of them to enough other ones to show you the ranking you made
 
:QWERTYUIOPASDFGHJKLZXCVBNM
 
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A: Average of a string

VoteToCloseVitsy, 11 Bytes This was what this was MADE for. IVzV1-\+V/O I Get the length of the input stack. V Save it as the final global variable, popping it. z Push the input stack to the program stack. V1-\ Repeat the next item global variable size - 1. + ...

 
@undergroundmonorail Do they have those where you can make your own and have a lot of people run it?
 
Why doesn't my Matlab answer get any love?? I was the first to answer, and it was quite short=(
 
@Calvin'sHobbies i bet there are custom ones, but it would probably only analyze one person's data. they'd have to be combined manually
 
5:53 PM
@undergroundmonorail Make it a codegolf challenge.
 
Or we could just run the emoticons through facial recognition and see what has the weakest correlation
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0
Q: there is error in this code ?

ibeer Abeerpublic static void main(String[] args) { // TODO code application logic here double hypotenuseLength, hypotenuseArea; Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in); System.out.print("Enter length of hypotenuse: "); hypotenuseLength = input.nextDouble(); hypotenuseArea =...

 
cr
 
"I know how to code. I just don't know how to... *program*." #CodeDay
 
Mini challenge: print all a-z and A-Z colon emoticons, space separated in any order. e.g. :a :b :c :d.... (code-golf)
The colon can be on the other side.
 
5:59 PM
My colon already is on the dark side.
 
My colon is on the dank side.
 
No takers :C
 
@Calvin'sHobbies 26{':\'A+' }%_el
 
half vamp
 
6:08 PM
oh, colon on the other side? one byte less: 26{'A+':' }%_el
@Optimizer looks more like a duck (or some other bird) to me
 
@Calvin'sHobbies I can think of 10 ways to do it in Java, but it's so verbose ;(
 
Whats the 9th way?
 
Just different structures of the same loop
 
@Calvin'sHobbies Vitsy: d5*2\[d2*\[Dv':'aZv1+]6+]
 
6:16 PM
( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) ͜ʖ ͡°) ͡°)
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Why was ^ that starred?
 
feeling slightly sorry for the guy without a mouth
 
:D
 
@Calvin'sHobbies This rule doesn't account for :c vs c:
Which is a major difference.
 
yeah
:D D:
 
6:19 PM
@MartinBüttner there you go, though there is extra space, but it looks better than no mouth
 
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A: Average of a string

VɪʜᴀɴTeaScript, 14 bytes ÇU(x¿lÅ)x¡/xn© Probably can be golfed using a reduce Ungolfed C(U(xs``.m(#lc())x()/xn)) C( // Char from code from... U( // Round xs`` // Split input .m(# // Map over input lc() // get char code ).x() // Sum up array /xn // Di...

Anybody know why ^ this was down voted?
 
The weird encoding?
 
It appears to be an accepted encoding - the question doesn't specify UTF-8 and is established and used.
 
@Calvin'sHobbies it's not that weird actually
it's just Latin-1
 
its less weird than my latest starred message
 
6:22 PM
Absolutely true.
In every way.
 
@VoteToClose No more carrots. Parsnip if you have to.
 
@VoteToClose Voting to counteract other votes is considered harmful
 
:c
@ThomasKwa I thought it was a good answer. I upvoted because I liked the answer as well, not simply because I thought it didn't deserve an downvote.
 
If that is true, your phrasing of the comment "have a counteractive up vote" was misleading.
 
Fixed.
 
6:31 PM
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Q: Multiple program Quinecatenate!

Faraz MasroorYour task is to give three different languages A, B, C, and write two different programs P and Q such that: P is a quine in language A, but not a quine in B nor C; Q is a quine in language B, but not a quine in A nor C; and Q concatenated after P (without any new characters added in between...

 
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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Stewie GriffinCops and robbers (haven't figured out a nice name yet) Cops: Create a program with at least 2 bytes that prints an output of at least 3 printable ASCII characters. You must post your code, the language name, and the output, but can remove 20% of the characters in your code. You round down, so: ...

 
Woot woot, golfed 24 bytes off my "Reverse and Invert a String" answer
(Also known as "I successfully golfed off enough characters that we can fit the current esolang leader in comfortably and have some leftover")
 
@TimmyD Do you think it's now close to optimal?
 
ಠ_ಠ WROTE AN ANSWER.
 
@ThomasKwa Pretty dang close. The only thing I could maybe see would be some different way of converting between binary and integer, as those .NET calls are killer
 
6:42 PM
fangirls
 
@VoteToClose what, right now?
@VoteToClose ?
 
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A: Average of a string

ಠ_ಠJulia, 25 bytes a->char(sum(a)/length(a))

 
Alex is the one who uses Julia the most!
 
Thanks for the upvote, whoever, that bumped me over 2000 rep. :D
 
6:44 PM
@TimmyD Congrats!
 
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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

flawrFind pattern in pixel carpet [insert story why this needs to be as short as possible] Given an image the goal is finding the biggest* connected* pattern of pixels, that occurs more than once. If there is more than one distinct pattern of maximum size, find the one that occurs more. The output...

Any recommendatiosn?
 
The question is hard enough as it is; I wouldn't include rotation/reflection.
You might want to do some research into what builtins could solve this, if you want to disallow any.
 
@ThomasKwa I could be easily done by correlating the image with itself, I think.
Ok perhaps not as easily.
 
@flawr See my comment. ;D
 
@VoteToClose Haha, thanks=) But the camera is not so terrrible, as it captures every pixel exactly=)
 
6:56 PM
Every pixel, but it's a low-res photo nonetheless.
 
Well this was just a quick and dirty example I photoshopped together.
 
Ah. Okay. Feel free to use/edit my ridiculous reasoning as you see fit.
 
Hm hm the reason "tiny harddrive" is somewhat to generic.
 
@flawr The only computer you have is a Raspberry Pi and you only have a tiny SD card between the camera and the Pi?
 
@ThomasKwa You solve my challenge in the space of two (ish) minutes. You are too good for me XD
 
7:01 PM
I'd like it more along the lines of "because the only means of communication is via messenger pigeons."
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Only in TI-BASIC.
 
yeshhhhh I got routines working on my VM :3
 
@ThomasKwa That's still pretty impressive!
 
@flawr ...why?
 
If the code was too long, all the paper would be too heavy.
 
7:03 PM
"Oh by the way Pinout on the Raspberry Pi makes absolutely no sense." #CodeDay
On a related note, we are very bad at thinking of ideas for what to make
 
we?
are you married too??
 
Is today code day?
 
our group
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Thanks ^_^
 
My pleasure @ThomasKwa ;)
 
7:04 PM
Learning TI-BASIC was really the least useful programming time I've ever spent, though.
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ yes, I'm currently at it
 
@Doorknob Nice!
 
@ThomasKwa It was my first language=)
 
SE rooms should have octothorpes.
@flawr mine too ;)
 
And I still use it quite a lot for doing stuff on my voyage200
 
7:05 PM
Mine too, actually
 
@ThomasKwa Then again, it's still handy for performing area integrals.
 
@flawr That TI-BASIC can do slightly more than 84+
 
My first programming language was BASIC. o-o
 
But it does not automatically close parenthesis! / Throws an error.
 
^ why use it even?
 
7:07 PM
It has a few string manipulation commands; string manipulation kills my TI-BASIC answers as soon as I try it
 
Converting a number to a string though!
So [][][][]ing long
 
really?
 
Wait, does Voyage 200 BASIC have vectorized math operations?
 
isn't there somethign like string()?
char()?
 
7:08 PM
Yes?
 
Yeah, there's no builtin for the 84+
You need to do...
 
You have to perform a linear regression
Store that to Y1
 
And parse up to the X
^^
 
I just learned that shoe polish has silver nitrate in it. o-o No wonder it's expensive.
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7:10 PM
@ThomasKwa Good gravy.
 
The one thing that ticks me off about TI-BASIC is that it can do basic Calculus, but it doesn't have built-in prime-checking. WTF, TI!?
 
@TimmyD That's why I had to do...
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A: Format the given number of bytes to a human readable format

Thomas KwaTI-BASIC, 44 Would be the right tool for the job if TI-BASIC had halfway decent string manipulation (I had to resort to overwriting the exponent of the number, displayed in engineering notation, with the unit). As it is it rounds and outputs correctly, but it's not even close to winning entries....

Pretty much any workaround is better than converting a number to a string in TI-BASIC
 
^ funny enough, it's the highest-voted answer
 
^that displays the string on top of the number, if you were wondering
 
Output(1,15 Are you using a CSE?
 
7:13 PM
No
 
Question: why not have a bot that automatically edits every question and adds the scoreboard on it?
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oh wait nvm
I thought that's how you displayed the result XD
@ThomasKwa Does a program in TI-Asm cost less bytes than a TI-BASIC program?
 
what do you mean?
For what type of challenge?
 
@VoteToClose we have much more important tasks at hand currently, like finding out the owner of @ಠ_ಠ
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@ThomasKwa Just in general.
 
7:16 PM
No.
 
<(*.*)> (>*.*)> <(*.*)> <(*.*<) <(*.*)>
 
@ThomasKwa Huh. Okay, thanks.
 
System calls take three bytes each, and you need to do tons of stuff yourself
 
Oh. That's expensive.
So only use ASM for speed contests, right?
 
So, six times as large, or so
More if you need to loop over a list
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ TI calculators have a 15 megahertz processor
They're not winning any speed contests
 
7:18 PM
Well, yeah. So... never use TI-Asm on this site.
 
I've used z80 machine code once, but it wasn't code-golf
 
What was it?
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Do you know a good reference for ti asmemmbly?
 
@flawr XD Not any good ones. I picked up on some. But first, I must say this: learning TI-Asm is a chunk of your life that you will never get back and will regret.
Unless you're making games.
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ This
 
7:25 PM
I remember trying to make Pong once with TI-BASIC
Gave up trying to read the spaghetti code :P
 
It could be optimized further, but it was winning and it looked like everyone else gave up
 
@ThomasKwa Cool!
@LegionMammal978 That's a common problem with TI-BASIC coding.
My best game was Yahtzee for the TI-84
 
@LegionMammal978 I made Pong with TI-BASIC, and gave up because it ran at 0.2 FPS
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Even designing a simple maze game is long and moves slowly, without the use of ASM
~2kb w/out optimization
 
@LegionMammal978 I once made a 2 player pong in ti basic!!=)
 
7:32 PM
I've got a one player pong on my calculator and everybody thinks I'm a god at school.
 
^ so true
I made a clock, and everyone be liek OMG UR SO SMARTZ
 
Yeah, I made a simple game on my calculator and everyone thinks I'm a hacker even when I tell them I am not.
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o-o
"Such hax, omg, he programmed something on something that has no internet access and he's hacking the interwebs."
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This will sound so snobbish, but... everyone is so daft
 
^ Agreed.
With the daft bit.
 
7:39 PM
^ Agreed ^
 
I was working on an HQ9+ program (HQ9+!!!) in Batch and people were like "Whoa, you're programming? That's so cool! I've never seen anybody do that before!"
 
Is HQ9+!!! a language?
 
No, just emphasis.
 
Oh. Upsetting.
 
7:41 PM
WHAT.
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Working on an interpreter?
 
@phase Yeah, whoops.
 
@TimmyD Damn, son, where'd you find those?
 
♫main.♪hw.☼♫hw.☺a.Hello, World!.◙a.
That creates a routine which calls another routine which prints "Hello, World!"
 
In what language? o_o
 
7:42 PM
Bytecode for my VM github.com/flower/fvm
 
@VoteToClose It was big news a couple years ago - TechCrunch, Gawker, etc.
 
only 34 bytes :3
the best one is 19 tho
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Some people ask me to hack into NASA or CIA and stuff like that. And I'm like I don't do server-side programming...
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I feel so good when I do 10 pullups and whip out the "I don't exercise--I program" card.
@ΚριτικσιΛίθος HAHA YEAH! My friend said, "Hack into the government. Y'know, like Iron man."
 
7:46 PM
lol. People reaction to programming...
 
I set up a script at school to spew random data to the console in green and opened it up in three consoles. I got attention.
 
Hi @Cᴏɴᴏʀ
 
You guys are my people XD
 
7:48 PM
@phase How did you get the output in green?
 
@ΚριτικσιΛίθος Just normal bash coloring misc.flogisoft.com/bash/tip_colors_and_formatting
has has Windows XP for the past 6 years but still has Java 8 installed
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@phase And what about Eclipse, do you have Eclipse Mars?
 
@ΚριτικσιΛίθος ofc
 
@phase I could not get it to change colour in my terminal...
 
7:59 PM
My mom just told me her work computer system is compatible with Internet Explorer but not Google Chrome.
 

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