The Nineteenth Byte

Bálint

8:06 PM

@TimmyD (a,b,c)=>a.match((r=RegExp)(b,"g")).length*a.match(r(c,"g")).length;

68 bytes

Python?

Javascript

JavaScript ES6

Shows how much I know of either language ;-)

Bálint

I know javascript, PHP and java, but the last 2 aren't the best for golfing

Pretty straightforward BTW

(a,b,c)=> //Anonymus function wich takes in 3 arguments
((r=RegExp)(b,"g") //Create a new regex, and set the variable r to it at the same time
a.match(...) // Match the regex with the string
.length //get the length of the array
a.match(r(c,"g")).length; // Do the same with c
* multiply them

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

8:13 PM

b=>a=>eval(a.map(e=>b.match(RegExp(e,"g")).length).join`*`)
b=>a=>(c=a.map(e=>b.match(RegExp(e,"g")).length),c[0]*c[1])

59 bytes each

takes letters as a list

Bálint

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ I think you can save 1 byte by doing b=>a=>...

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

true

TimmyD

Naïve implementation in PowerShell is 68 bytes -- param($a,$b,$c)($a-replace"[^$b]").length*($a-replace"[^$c]").Length

Oh neat, spellcheck automatically substituted the double-dot over the i

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

the wonders of spell check

Bálint

Ahh, I attempt it in java

You're going to laugh at this

zyabin101

8:21 PM

@HelkaHomba Is your project ongoing? >_>

Bálint

public int a(String a,String b...){return a.replaceAll("[^"+b[0]]+"]","").length()*a.replaceAll("[^"+b[1]]+"]","").length()}

124 bytes....

Really, really inefficient BTW

TimmyD

Dang ... tried going another sneaky way and it's a byte longer

param($a,$b,$c)$o=1;[char[]]$a|?{$_-in$b,$c}|Group|%{$o*=$_.count};$o

RenderSettings

I know you can't use a language that was created after a challenge was posted, but that doesn't apply to versions of a language, right?

Bálint

@RenderSettings It does

zyabin101

dammit, ninja'd

TimmyD

8:32 PM

Aha, here we go ... PowerShell, 54 bytes

param([char[]]$a,$b,$c)($a-eq$b).count*($a-eq$c).count

RenderSettings

@Bálint Hm, that's kinda a pain. So I would have to track down a version of the language from it was posted? :/

Bálint

@RenderSettings Yeah

esolangs.org/wiki/MGIFOS

> Hello, world![edit]
The program which prints out the words Hello World! consists of (approximately?) 4.5287549098E+168 stars.

It has been noted that there are more stars in the Hello World program than there are particles in the observable universe - but this is just a minor setback.

TimmyD

> minor setback

Bálint

Anyone wants to port lost kingdom?

trichoplax

@PhiNotPi Just realised that your tetris challenge doesn't have a winning criterion other than "first to post". Once the first solution is posted, it may lower the barrier to entry and result in more solutions. Maybe it would be worth adding a winning criterion before the first solution comes in. Like starting position that fits in the smallest rectangular area, or fastest run speed in terms of arena ticks

That would allow for a basic first solution using existing components for pixels and logic gates, but still leave the competition open for more innovative customised solutions later

Bálint

8:37 PM

Seriously, no one?

reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/33cuie/…

Poke

8:54 PM

Any input on meta.codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/2140/… before i post it?

ev3commander

Sup

Poke

probably will wait until tomorrow to give people a chance to review

ev3commander

Any input on meta.codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/2140/… before i post it? (which will be in about 2 days)

Irksome Bits

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ that question is open again.

PhiNotPi

@trichoplax Personally, I think the challenge is difficult enough that I don't really see the need to declare a "winner" at all.

Helka Homba

9:03 PM

@ev3commander I dislike how it's just a "tediously organize these slightly-related terms" thing. At least put the solids.txt in a consistent format.

RenderSettings

@Poke One of the test cases should have mixed-case input, since you say not to assume it will always be lowercase

Poke

@RenderSettings good thinkin'. I was crunched for time when I wrote those test cases which is why they're pretty small and lame

El'endia Starman

@PhiNotPi And even if you did, you'd have to credit multiple people for the work they put into the solution. :P

Irksome Bits

@ev3commander I wouldn't answer or vote.

Might downvote though, but not upvote.

Helka Homba

9:23 PM

0

Q: Generate Wordenticons

Identicons are visual depictions of hash values, often made from symmetrical arrangements of geometric shapes. Your default Stack Exchange avatar is an identicon. This challenge is about creating "wordenticons", simple text-based versions of identicons that apply to strings of lowercase letters, ...

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Q: Generate Wordenticons

Identicons are visual depictions of hash values, often made from symmetrical arrangements of geometric shapes. Your default Stack Exchange avatar is an identicon. This challenge is about creating "wordenticons", simple text-based versions of identicons that apply to strings of lowercase letters, ...

code-golf string ascii-art

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@IrksomeBits link me?

Irksome Bits

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Q: Proving you are the best StackExchange-User

Write two programs/functions: The shortest possible that returns a truthy value if given your Stack Exchange username. An obfuscated one (as explained below) that does the same thing. Rules for number 2: May be no more than ten times the byte-count of number 1. Must be written in the same l...

popularity-contest obfuscation

slightly changed though

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

meh

I changed upvote to a downvote

I have to either golf my program, or trash it

Irksome Bits

okay

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

9:33 PM

or perform some sort of antigolf on the shortest possible answer

Irksome Bits

:( that changed it a lot.

Nice program though.

You want to play PPCG server? PvP?

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

aha! I can say that my answer is encoded in plain ascii!

then my name becomes

n=>n=="C\u1d0f\u0274\u1d0f\u0280 O'B\u0280\u026a\u1d07\u0274"

Irksome Bits

lol

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

so I only have to golf 300 bytes off of it

Irksome Bits

o_O

try string compression

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

9:36 PM

I have a lot of antigolf in my obfuscation

@IrksomeBits maybe later

Helka Homba

> He said he would “cancel” the Paris Agreement to address climate change that was adopted last year by more than 190 countries and stop funding of any international efforts to address climate change.

Quill

monring

Helka Homba

If anyone here is a Trump supporter, please help me understand how you can also be a rational, intelligent human being. ;_;

7

I truly don't get how this guy got so popular.

Quill

wasn't there a blog post a few weeks ago about this

Irksome Bits

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ okay

@Quill hai

Adnan

9:47 PM

@HelkaHomba wat.

Fatalize

@HelkaHomba You're assuming above that people that vote are rational intelligent human beings

El'endia Starman

@Adnan To be expected when you have 1 Republican and 2 Democrats on that poll.

Fatalize

big mistake

Helka Homba

@Adnan Yeah. At least Bernie + Hillary > Trump

Fatalize

^ from what I understand, there is a non-negligeable number of people that support Bernie that wouldn't vote for Hillary if he doesn't win primary

Quill

9:51 PM

I get the feeling 4chan spike every poll in favour of Donald Trump to piss people off... and the gag went too far

quartata

@Adnan part of the problem is that this got posted on /r9k/ and /pol/

> DO NOT LET THE BERNIEKEKS CATCH UP

direct quote from one of the many /pol/ shitposts

@quartata ninja'd

Hahahaha

@Quill Yeah :P

I get the feeling that explains many things

quartata

9:52 PM

4chan is an explanation for every phenomenon on the Internet

Fatalize

until Trump actually gets elected

quartata

I highly doubt he will

Fatalize

you have too much faith in americans

they elected Bush twice in a row

Quill

that'll be their final gift to the world.... /b/ and /pol/ will come together in glorious union to all vote for their leader, Donald ~~Duck~~ Trump

El'endia Starman

Partially excusable given that we were in the middle of a war. Usually a bad idea to change leadership in such times.

Fatalize

9:55 PM

lol

don't change the leadership when that war was a complete disaster

makes sense

also completely unjustified

El'endia Starman

I think he was reelected before that was apparent.

Fatalize

that was apparent before the war even started

quartata

> Bush's margin of victory in the popular vote was the smallest ever for a reelected incumbent president

something else to consider

Fatalize

When is the debate between Trump and Sanders?

Helka Homba

@Fatalize I do believe that. I know you're kinda joking but that kind of talk is all too common and unhelpful. I've known plenty of left and right leaning people, none of which I'd call incapable of intelligence or rationality.

Quill

9:57 PM

@Fatalize twitter.com

Fatalize

@HelkaHomba You're biased, you don't meet a lot of incapable people because you're not one yourself

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

only 100 more bites to go!

El'endia Starman

@Fatalize Doesn't change the wrongness of your statement.

Quill

On the subject of Bush....

Bush - Chemicals Between Us

►

quartata

@Fatalize I know a lot of what you're thinking here is based on what you see in our media/press, but you have to keep in mind that the American media wants us to be scared of Trump so that we'll watch the pundits and get exposed to more ads

Take what they say with a grain of salt

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

10:01 PM

@Fatalize I'm in high school and meat plenty of incapable people. And we're all biased :p

Rainbolt

I love meating people

Irksome Bits

._.

@quartata didn't you say you used to spend a lot of time on 4chan?

quartata

No, that was a joke

Irksome Bits

okay

Quill

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Cannibalism is NOT okay

Irksome Bits

10:05 PM

^

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

.______________________.

Irksome Bits

;____________________________________________;

Quill

no.

Irksome Bits

yes?

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

I finally golfed it to 588 bytes

and now I'm done with that sighs

Bálint

10:12 PM

0

A: Generate Wordenticons

Javascript 239 bytes _="abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz".split``;_.i=_.indexOf;n=>{a=n.split``;h=s=a.map(b=>a.map(c=>_.i(c)-_.i(b))).map(d=>d.map(e=>e<0?"|":e>0?"-":" ")).map(f=>(f.concat(f.slice().reverse())).join``);alert((h.concat(h.slice().reverse())).join` `)} Map-ception! Test suite: _=...

Any ideas to shorten it?

Helka Homba

@Bálint Take advantage of direct char comparison. e.g. 'a' < 'b' -> true

Bálint

Don't tell me that actually works..

Helka Homba

It does in most languages

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

^

even in C

Bálint

That's genius, thanks

Helka Homba

10:14 PM

And it's not limited to one-char strings

Quill

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ that's kinda where it started

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

ik

Quill

chicken feet

wait I think I'm imagining things again

Dennis

@trichoplax Since PPCG ensnared me, my activity on other SE sites has dropped close to zero.

Bálint

@Quill :P

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

10:18 PM

@Dennis we like it that way, stay with us forever :3

or, until forever ends >_>

Dennis

:)

Helka Homba

@Dennis There are other SE sites?? :O

Bálint

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Don't scare him away...

He's a good guy

Quill

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ I'm curious what that link was that Timwi commented with

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@Quill the esolangs home page >_>

@Bálint If I've scared anyone away, it's that random dude who's just watching us talk

Quill

10:20 PM

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ heh.

Helka Homba

Shoot, I missed my rep being the digits of pi

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

Chat mini challenge: implement "relative sign"; given a,b, return if a < b, -1; if a == b, 0; if a > b, 1

@HelkaHomba offer a 500 point bounty on something

Helka Homba

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ iirc, Ruby: a<=>b (plus function def but I forget how :I)

Maltysen

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ ._-F

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

I can't tell if you're making a face, or submitting a program

Maltysen

10:25 PM

both ;P

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

Pyface

Helka Homba

Wow, codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/78591/… was pretty popular considering it only got 2 answers

Rainbolt

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Python, 11 bytes: (a>b)-(a<b)

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

J, 3 bytes: >-<

lots of faces

Helka Homba

Anyone want to answer this before I accept Martin's lonely answer:

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Q: Symme-Try This Triangle Trial

A string whose length is a positive triangular number (1, 3, 6, 10, 15...) can be arranged into an "equilateral text triangle" by adding some spaces and newlines (and keeping it in the same reading order). For example, the length 10 string ABCDEFGHIJ becomes: A B C D E F G H I J Write a...

code-golf string geometry

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

10:28 PM

I'm good

Helka Homba

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ I'm good

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

ᴏ_ᴏ

Bálint

@HelkaHomba codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/80736/…

Thanks a lot

Helka Homba