The Nineteenth Byte

11:29 AM

@Rusher @Rusher I am seriously thinking of putting in the effort to host the challenge. It will require some pretty involved simulator engine to drive the components. Currently I am thinking a rudimentary ray tracing engine but modelling Infra red instead of visual light.

Doorknob

11:49 AM

Hooray; Puzzling only needs 9 more committers :-D

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m.buettner

@Doorknob oh, sounds interesting. I'll have a look later this month when I don't have to revise for exams any more :P

Malachi

12:43 PM

SuperUser Election, 7 hours left to vote

superuser.com/election/3

undergroundmonorail

I'm going to be super interested in puzzling.se when public beta happens but I know that I won't ask/answer 10 questions in the next 3 months.

TheDoctor

12:59 PM

0

A: Should homework be allowed?

New to this site, I came straight to this question as I was concerned that code golf was a thin veneer over answer my homework please. Now I see that those sort of questions will be jumped on by a bunch of elitist asshole alpha-nerds assisted by cruel instinct that can smell homework questions...

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Ummmmm ^^

Rusher

1:15 PM

Quick question... if another users golf's someone else's code, do we accept that edit?

Or reject?

They left the original beneath it. Seems kinda strange though...

undergroundmonorail

I'd reject, personally, on the basis that it's no longer the answerer's code.

If it's a slight modification, it can be suggested in a comment. If it's a significant one, it can be its own answer.

Rusher

Ok. I just skipped it since I wasn't sure.

That's a valid point. I don't see a reason to radically overhaul another answer now that you said that

undergroundmonorail

I'm nervous for saturday because I'm going to a programming competition and I have no idea how we're going to do.

Rusher

What is the name of the competition?

undergroundmonorail

I mean, we made it to finals, which I thought was an unrealistic goal. No matter what, I'm happy with our performance. But still, I'm nervous :P

I believe it's just "ECOO Programming Competition" or something like that

I'll google it

Rusher

1:22 PM

i found it I think

undergroundmonorail

s/mpetition/ntest/

TheDoctor

I recently competed in one of those.

Actually 3

undergroundmonorail

Most of the problems are pretty easy, it's just hard to program quickly and efficiently enough that you get all the results in 30 seconds.

The exception being finals, where some of the previous years have had questions that I don't even know where to begin solving them.

Luckily, 100% of my job on my team is "watch the guy who's actually programming to make sure he doesn't make dumb mistakes", so I don't actually need to know how to do anything. :P

@TheDoctor Which ones?

TheDoctor

2 that were put on by Rocky Mountain College and one in my hometown, a Hackathon

undergroundmonorail

Cool

The ECCO contest only has highschool students as participants, and each board holds its own "qualifying round". We came in first at boardwide (out of 8), third at regionals (out of 55) and finals has 25 teams going

TheDoctor

1:54 PM

-4

Q: Troll a beginner with addition

A beginner asked you to write a program that adds 2 integers. Troll him with a program that either does so, but with a very high time complexity, or a program that looks like it works, but actually doesn't. This is a popularity contest, so be as creative as possible. The code that gets the most u...

Ok, this one deserves deletion

14mRh4X0r

2:12 PM

Sometimes I don't understand how people upvote: codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/26683/20152

undergroundmonorail

Generally I hit the up arrow to the left of the question and let the rest handle itself

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14mRh4X0r

Heh. I meant the reason behind the upvote of an answer :P

undergroundmonorail

I know ;)

Rusher

@undergroundmonorail Good luck in your contest. My third favorite part of high school was programming contests. Unfortunately we didn't have robotics :(

undergroundmonorail

@Rusher Thanks :)

TheDoctor

2:23 PM

Robotics is cool!

undergroundmonorail

@14mRh4X0r I commented with the problems I could see in that post. Did I miss anything?

Rusher

Did stack exchange go down?

I can't get to Board and Card Games or PPCG

or SO

14mRh4X0r

Works for me

Rusher

:(

14mRh4X0r

@undergroundmonorail Maybe the regex, r'[/\S/g]' can be changed into r'\S'

undergroundmonorail

2:35 PM

Ah, see, I barely know any regex so I didn't catch that :P

14mRh4X0r

And thanks for writing that comment, I tend to be really bad at constructive comments.

undergroundmonorail

No problem. It's something I'm actively trying to get better at, so i get practice where I can. :)

I really like reading people talk about stuff that they're super into, while I just kind of know about it.

Reading about high-level chess, for example, despite only ever playing chess for fun a few times in my life. I have no idea what's going on but it's super interesting.

@Rusher isup.me

Rusher

@undergroundmonorail Oh it came back right after I asked. No idea why :-/ Thanks for that link though. I didn't know about that

undergroundmonorail

@Rusher No problem

TheDoctor

3:03 PM

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ProgramFOX

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Rusher

It's sad how easy that is to read for anyone younger than 50

But ProgramFOX lost me..

ProgramFOX

@Rusher robertecker.com/hp/research/leet-converter.php?lang=en

Doorknob

"Hi @TheDoctor"? :-P

TheDoctor

Hi

Rusher

3:07 PM

Oh I see. Ultimate leet. brenz only does basic leet

TheDoctor

‮I like U+202e

‮It's pretty cool

‮Someone star that ^^

Rusher

I wish the MTG questions on Board and Card games were more frequent

TheDoctor

I might have an account there if i had any decks

you play?

‮ @Rusher

m.buettner

3:25 PM

I was considering if something MTG-related could be turned into a challenge for here... maybe something like the chess/monopoly game state encoding challenges. But I think it's just too complex to convey in a code golf challenge, even if you try to limit yourself to some self-consistent subset of the rules.

Wait, @Rusher, what do you mean by "I wish MTG questions were more frequent" boardgames.stackexchange.com/tags ... That seems to amount to "I wish boardgames.SE was more active"?

TheDoctor

MTG KOTH!!

^^ waaaaaaaay too difficult

undergroundmonorail

I don't know, I could probably write a bot that runs a turbofog deck. :P

TheDoctor

Then again, people have had challenges to write emulators

I wonder if we could bring back code-tennis?

Rusher

3:42 PM

@m.buettner After you explain why what I said amounts to what you said, then I'll respond that very leading question(s?).

Doorknob

walks around asking random strangers if they like puzzles

Geobits

Because MTG questions make up a bit over 1/4 of all the questions on the site?

undergroundmonorail

@Doorknob I do! I'm just not knowledgable enough to promise n appropriate questions and 10-n answers in the next three months.

Doorknob

It's only less than one post per week @undergroundmonorail! :-P

m.buettner

@Rusher what Geobits said... it's by a wide margin the most used and most active tag.

@TheDoctor what's code tennis?

Rusher

3:51 PM

@m.buettner I don't care about the other 3/4 of the site, and so my reply to your question statement is "0.25 times Yes" or "0.75 times No"

If my wish comes true and mtg grows more active, that fraction may change

This site does well because everyone is generally interested in the cool things people do in other languages. I don't understand how B&C games will ever get out of beta though when everyone only cares about their own game

Their chat room has like 24 hour gaps sometimes

Does anyone want to start a MTG stack site?

undergroundmonorail

If a == [1, 2, 1, 22, 3], a[3] += 1 doesn't syntax error.

Geobits

Well, that's just an inherent difference in the subjects. You can easily apply algorithms written in one language to another. It's hard to apply an answer from an MTG rules-question to any other game.

m.buettner

I'm not playing actively any more (for 6 years now), so I don't think I could really contribute.

Geobits

Same here, haven't actively played in 8+ years.

Rusher

It needs to be standardized anyway. The questions there all go out of date when a rule changes

So I went to CR today and some mod started spouting an endless stream of information at me. He was going over site policies, how to identify a mod, how only mods can do certain things, etc.

I was a little overwhelmed and didn't want to tell a mod "Hey guy, I can read FAQs on my own."

Plus he seemed like a nice guy. He obviously thought I was a brand new user or something.

Rusher

4:18 PM

@TheDoctor Oh yea, sorry. I play. Didn't notice that you pinged me backwards.

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