Task:
Make a program that prints a smiley (:)) indefinitely.
Rules:
Your program must print :) as fast as possible until interrupted
This is code-golf, so the shortest answer wins.
Well, it is annoying. I worked to reopen that question (and I was not the OP), just to see it being quickly closed after we reopened it. Got angry with this.
so you're suggesting that when there's a dispute, you just leave? no, the whole point of there being a reopen system is so that there is a way for other users to reconsider a previous decision.
that's the whole reason the reopen system exists in the first place, and by ignoring questions that you think might create dispute, you're undermining the whole point of the system.
Oh, now I am seeing, you were one of the second round close voters. :)
Well, the only one to talk something in the second close round was Peter Taylor with this comment: "That's a really rubbish (not to mention ambiguous) definition of random."
And my experience shows that closing things is easy and quickly, reopening is hard and time-consuming. And even if it manages to be reopened, the question already lost momentum.
@Doorknob The question does not requires answers passing in any die-hard test, and was a code-golf. So if you post an answer from the old question in the new, it would be a really bad golf in the new question.
I'm quite new to Programming Puzzles & Code Golf, and my question Calculate all the squares up to x using only addition and subtraction has been closed as a duplicate, who say it's a duplicate of Most optimized algorithm for incrementing squares.
I don't think that my question is a duplicate, as...
@Doorknob It is an interesting phenomena. I already saw people posting placeholder answers when the question was being closed. I already saw people posting answers as comment after it was closed, but this is the first time that I see someone editing somebody else's answer to add his own because the question was closed.
And, @TheDoctor approved the addition to his own answer. If the answer was mine, I would approve it too.
I am a member of the community. SE is run by the community. I will gladly rollback any invalid or incorrectly used edit, no matter who the approver may be.
@Doorknob Well if someone edited my answer in a way that I approved, it is my answer afterall, isn't it? And by the way there is a good reason that SE is designed in a way that if the author of a post approves an edit, it does not needs further approval.
"it is my answer afterall" No, now it's licensed under Creative Commons. It is by no means your property anymore. And by the way there is a good reason that SO is designed in a way that allows rollbacks.
@Doorknob I am still the author though. Being licensed under Creative Commons don't means that I am not the author and that I can't decide if I approve modifications to my work or not that are published with my name.
You can approve modifications, but others can roll them back. For example, would it not be valid to rollback an edit to someones post that replaced it with "potato," which they approved (for any reason)?
@Doorknob By the way, if I approved a changed to my work that is in the Creative Commons License and authored by me and somebody rollbacked it without my consent, would not this be something like saying that I can't decide what I choose to accept in my work or not?
Yes, I wouldn't rollback. If the author decided that his text gets better by being simply "potato", he is the author and should know how is the better form for his text.
okay, I have to sleep now. I might continue this discussion later, but to put it bluntly this is getting sort of ridiculous. you seriously would ignore blatant vandalism? anyway, bye all
Alas, in wikipedia, people always do radical changes all the time. Here, they are starting to be incentived to be censored.
@Doorknob I would not consider that vandalism. But anyway, if the author approves a vandalism to his own work, so he is just agreeing with the vandalism, so downvote and flag.
@Victor "radical changes ... are starting to be incentived to be censored" Good! That's how it's supposed to be. Edits are not, not, and NOT meant for radical changes. Anyway, I'm leaving now.
@hicris123 If the author approves that his work is replaced by simply "potato", so downvote + flag. He agreed that would be the best form for his work, it is as the he did it himself.
@hicris123 But fortunately that was not the case in that answer.
There is no clear criterion. But as Quincunx said somewhere, if it gets +3 probably it is a sign that it is ready.
And by the way, answering to @Doorknob: "so you're suggesting that when there's a dispute, you just leave?" I am starting to change my mind to "yes always", I am starting to get too much trouble here for nothing. At least this is the reason that I don't post much information about myself in my profile.
By the way, I participated actively in the Computer Science community in its private beta and in the start of the public beta. After getting into a lot of useless disputes with other members for nothing i just said "screw up" and leaved.
@mniip I think that this is some accidental complexity. It used to be in the profile, separated by site. Then they glued it altogether in the notification bar without removing it from the profile. Anyway it is not bad afterall.
"The answer with least bytes and most upvotes wins!" If a valid answer has 3 bytes and -2 votes and another one with 650 bytes has 25 votes, who wins?
Possible this is because he does not speak engilsh natively, so it messed with that. (nor I do, this is the reason that my writings have a poor vocabulary and are full of grammar errors).
@mniip I started to code it yesterday, but it become more complex than what I was thinking for it and gave up.
@miniip Clarification: Gave up not because it was complex, but because I figured out that it would be too much work for me at that time and my approach won't work.
Inspired by the Google Code Challenge:
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Find a prime
In 1946 Erdos and Copeland proved that a certain number is a normal number, i.e. the digits in its decimal expansion are uniformly distributed.
Users will input a sequence of digits and you will find the smallest prime that contains that string in base 10.
Example:
input -> out...
Task:
Make a program that prints a smiley (:)) indefinitely.
Rules:
Your program must print :) as fast as possible until interrupted
This is code-golf, so the shortest answer wins.
Inspired by the Google Code Challenge:
The Latin alphabet contains 26 characters and telephones only have ten digits on the keypad. We would like to make it easier to write a message to your friend using a sequence of keypresses to indicate the desired characters. The letters are mapped onto ...
Find a prime
In 1946 Erdos and Copeland proved that a certain number is a normal number, i.e. the digits in its decimal expansion are uniformly distributed.
Users will input a sequence of digits and you will find the smallest prime that contains that string in base 10.
Example:
input -> out...