I don't know IDL but if you post an answer those who do will probably add comments with suggestions (especially if you can find them in here when they're online)
We're having a queso (cheese dip) cook-off today at my company and our CEO is in the break room tasting and yelling "WOOOO..... WOOOO.... this is some GOOOOOD stuff!"
@Optimizer @MartinBüttner Anyone up for implementing my algorithm in CJam. You both waste way too much bytes for parsing, which isn't necessary using my alg.
Apparently, my company decided that 1900-1-1 was the epoch. Then I found out that there are a ton of epochs in computing. I stand by my original decision to use 1970 though, because it appears to be the most notable epoch used in programming.
Instead of using epoch and timestamp, just use an object representing the current position of 50 or so celestial objects. Then to run a comparison/calculation, you just have to feed it into your astro-simulator method.
Also, knowing how easily seduced I am by technology, I am afraid of overindulging. So I set broad limits for myself. ... Perhaps it's time to push this one.
In databases I've used, the name is input as (last,first) so whatever is to the left of the comma is the "surname".
Years ago I wrote a perl script to convert ALLCAPS names to Title Caps. Trying to account for Mc Mac al- el- III IV etc was a pain (and I probably never quite got it right).
The pizza guy a few months ago made fun of me because I wrote my name in all caps on the form when I was filling out my credit card information. He mock yelled my name when reading my order to me. But that's how it appears on the card... all caps
Exactly, you never know how powerful their backend is. If they try to run your card wrong too many times, it can trigger a suspension of service on the card.
Where the exactly details of wrong can only be surmised by observing the effects.
It must be tough for mods, having that extra diamond everywhere.
@Rainbolt You wish you could read right to left? In a public speaking class last week, we were asked to read children's books out loud, as we would to children. A student read the book--fluently--from right to left, upside down. Just wanna throw that out there.
(Probably nothing that bad) codegolf.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask "You should only ask practical, answerable questions based on actual problems that you face."
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you're given p & q as inputs, and it's a "drawing guide" because you draw it in ascii, using a digit 1->p for each line, giving an order to draw them in
for example, for {5,2}, you'd draw a star; say you did the traditional starting with the bottom left, you'd go BL-111111111->Top-2222222->BR-3333333333->ML-44444444->MR-555555555->BL
@PhiNotPi @Doorknob it turns out "a dev" could actually customise help/dont-ask for us. I'd like to crowd-source the new wording on meta, like Doorknob did with the post he linked, but there's also this question by @Calvin'sHobbies which is sort of competing with Doorknob's and mine would also be competing with that one.
@MartinBüttner not sure if I understand it correctly, but that would be still just 256 byte data a most
Context: "Challenge idea: print the longest prefix of a given text with an N-by-N codeblock (N is arbitrary) while there is no row or column with two of the same character in it."
yeah. Pyth ignores everything after the first line, so if you can solve it without repeating characters (on the first line) you can fill the rest of the grid with whatever you want.
@PhiNotPi "Challenge idea: print the longest prefix of a given text with an N-by-N codeblock (N is arbitrary) while there is no row or column with two of the same character in it."
@MariaTidalTug Would you mind asking him if any of that is useful for shortening code as opposed to obfuscating it to see if he has anything to say in his defence? :)
I've made a couple of suggestions for improving the antiquine question. I'm not sure if it's enough. Does anyone have any more suggestions, or opinions on mine?
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