I have an idea for an auto-golfing program. I would take a known solution and work in order of levenshtein distance, rather than starting from nothing and finding an ideal solution.
I feel like somebody would have already created something like that.
I came in here, saw the spinning loading circles, and thought my internet was having a problem. I was about to get up and check my modem before I realized one of them was starred. ಠ_ಠ
@AlexA. I know what you mean. I like La Dispute a lot (partly becaue of the vocals), and I think it's probably an objective statement that Jordan Dreyer simply can't sing.
@MartinBüttner I had never heard La Dispute and I agree with you about the vocals. Reminds me a bit of Steve Sneer from Kill Sadie and These Arms Are Snakes (the latter of which I like).
@PhiNotPi Really? Haha why?
Can you manually set thumbnails in Chrome or is that a coincidence?
@AlexA. I don't know either. But yeah La Dispute is something to get used to. But Somewhere at the Bottom of the River... is an amazing concept album, and his vocals fit the emotional lyrical content perfectly. Also, I'm generally a fan of vocals that go in and out of talking/singing/screaming like that.
I don't know what song you listened to but Said The King To The River is a great example.
@MartinBüttner Listened to Said the King to the River. I like the instrumentation but the vocals are kind of off-putting for me. I would probably have to let it grow on me. ;)
if you're on facebook, Post-Rock Essentials are an amazing source of new music. their praise for bands is sometime slightly exaggerated, but they do share a lot of really good stuff.
@randomra I don't think not having repeats is comparable to Sudoku, which seems to refer to a much stronger property to me. Better would be Latin square, but even that's still stronger.
Sudoku programming
code-challenge restricted-source source-layout
You should write a program or function which outputs as much of Chapter I of The Little Prince as it can. Your program or function has to be an M-by-N block of code containing only printable ascii characters (codepoint from 32 to...
It's okay :) What I mean is, even if you can't think of a better title (not that I can either, admittedly), I'm just not sure that "just like in a Sudoku puzzle, i.e ..." is the best phrasing (you can probably just drop the rest of the sentence starting from the i.e.)
@Zgarb for the shift interpreter, so chain(f,g) puts on the stack a function h that calls f (which alters the stack in some way), then g (which alters the stack in some other way)?
if anyone else wants to chime in on that, since Z isn't active, feel free
ASCII Robot Wars
This idea is based off of the game "Besieged" (which I've never played) and a previous sandboxed idea of mine called "Epic Customizable Tank Battle."
The main idea is that your program is the AI that controls a robot equipped with various weapons. In this challenge, however, y...
@sirpercival Yes, that's essentially what happens, but if g has larger arity than the length of f's output list, then applying chain(f,g) is undefined (because it has the same arity as f).
Here's some logic: two squares (edit: of different rotations) can intersect at 8 points, so those 8 points cannot define a square, so it takes 9 points to guarantee a correct answer.
Recently, I had people go crazy with escape codes on one of my ASCII art challenges.
This x86 machine code answer was able to save some bytes by throwing a few colour codes at the console. At some point along the way the OP even had a version which left the output blinking.
Both the above, as w...
Task
Create a program that calculates the factorial of a number using no built-in factorial functions. Easy? The catch is that you must write your entire program (including testing it) in haiku form.
You can use as many haikus as you need, but when pronounced, they must follow the 5-7-5 syllab...
Sudoku programming
code-challenge restricted-source source-layout
You should write a program or function which outputs as much of Chapter I of The Little Prince as it can. Your program or function has to be an M-by-N block of code containing only printable ascii characters (codepoint from 32 to...
ASCII Robot Wars
This idea is based off of the game "Besieged" (which I've never played) and a previous sandboxed idea of mine called "Epic Customizable Tank Battle."
The main idea is that your program is the AI that controls a robot equipped with various weapons. In this challenge, however, y...
Recently, I had people go crazy with escape codes on one of my ASCII art challenges.
This x86 machine code answer was able to save some bytes by throwing a few colour codes at the console. At some point along the way the OP even had a version which left the output blinking.
Both the above, as w...
Task
Create a program that calculates the factorial of a number using no built-in factorial functions. Easy? The catch is that you must write your entire program (including testing it) in haiku form.
You can use as many haikus as you need, but when pronounced, they must follow the 5-7-5 syllab...
