@TheDoctor What's with nested <p> tags?

Quick question @all: what are the most important math functions/array manipulation functions to you?

Sort, Permute and Unique.

(apart from add / delete elements obviously)

What is "permute"? And what kinds of sorting?

bearcave.com/random_hacks/permute.html

^ Permutation.

Ohhh (And thanks @Mego)

What Mego said.

Cool! Thanks for the input. I missed atan2, but I got the rest. (I'm working on Simplex ATM)

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Important array functions: map, fold, filter, sort

@Zgarb "fold" is like "reduce", correct?

Yes (it's called fold in Haskell, reduce in most other languages)

That's interesting! Haskell is also interesting. I need to look into it sometime.

join, drop sort

hint, 1 is real, 1 is trolling

Thank you Japan :D

There's no way to reproduce join with reduce.

@Mego technically, everything can be done via just map

It can't work with each case of 0, 1, and 2 elements.

Strings.

@Mego Python's string.join syntax is weird. I never found out how to join a list with the empty character ;-;

But not with only reduce.

@Mego It throws an error on te empty string.

when we are talking about handy functions that we like, we have to separate join from reduce.

otherwise, everything can be done via one or two for loops

And if it can be done via a for loop, it can be done with while loops. (Or gotos ;))

dude, isn't this your own question that you are trolling now?

@Mego Well would you look at that. ._________.

why would you map it too?

and map with no function creates strings?

oh, that was a comma not a dot

20k!

@isaacg oh wait that's your rep. Nice!

Kk!

woof

so rep

much number

cows quack

@DigitalTrauma your regex only matches tags inside paragraphs...? try example.com

what does the fox say :P

it only matched the link for me

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ moo

also why did someone try to close this??

Yes! Everybody is correct! Hooray!

@TheDoctor IDK, people are jealous ?

huh

but it's not. and they didn't even try to clarify

Close vote > Off topic > Other > Not enough jQuery

I am a part of something bigger now.

Ansewer?

I think you mean A sewer

Thanks @BetaDecay and @ProgramFOX

no problem

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ What ProgramFOX said ;)

Hear hear XD

That depends on the initial quality of the post.

@Mego I just did one in which attribution was added (i.e. link to the interpreter) :P

ignore this

Isn't that why they go through review...? At least for suggested edits, it seems harder to sneak in a malicious link than it would be for the OP where it isn't reviewed.

^

I'd rather someone suggest something more substantive than simple proofreading (from a reviewer viewpoint). If I'm going to take the time to review, I'd rather not just look at your->you're, etc.

@Geobits I enjoy that type of stuff. It makes me feel intrinsically good.

@Mego suggesting edits should not be for typos etc. If you know there are typos or grammar errors, just go for it

@Mego So am I. We just have a different definition of 'too much' :)

then it's for everything

*it's

**it"s

***it«s

if you don't have enough rep, then you don't really have any choice except for suggesting it

I see you all are low rep users

10k network rep mate ;)

@Mego waaaaaaaaat? That's totally legit, using state-of-the-art equipment!

@TheDoctor thanks for pointing it out. Its fixed now

@Lego

@kri

@Mego @CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ is right. JavaScript console was totally not used.

Paint FTW

^

I made the Mona Lisa in paint, but this site is to small too contain it.

Also, what's with the news that bacon is gonna kill us? This is the kind of thing that turns the public against science

Why would you think bacon would do anything except taste good and kill you?

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ link it

@Geobits I wonder the same

@Optimizer I would, but the link would be too small to contain it.

@Geobits Apparently it's carcinogenic

@BetaDecay exactly the point by Geobits

@BetaDecay Can you help me understand your new snowflake challenge?=)

@BetaDecay Sure, along with basically all red meat (or at least, it slightly increases the risk, etc). People just throw bacon in the headline because it sounds better.

why does Japan has all the cutest versions of regular animals?

Shiba Ino, and now this flying squirrel

Anything will kill you at the right dose ;)

Everything is carcinogenic. Therefore, any x in U is carcinogenic. @Mego is in U. @Mego's claim is in U. Therefore, his claim and him are carcinogenic. I can't trust anything that is carcinogenic. Therefore, I can't trust you. But: a contradiction. I assumed what you said was trustworthy. THEREFORE, it can be concluded that PPCG is the best beta evah.

^ sounds something like what Beta Decay would say

I was with you up to "I can't trust anything carcinogenic". That doesn't hold for me.

@BetaDecay That one's for you.

@flawr What you have to do is detect each corner (each x which has two or more faces on the outside) and put a shape on it. It's hard to explain

Harsh star(s)

well, cancer is wrong

@Geobits Thankfully, you can't downstar anything to my knowledge.

>_>

Geobits is a secret mod

@BetaDecay I think now I see with the help of MartinBüttners answer.

Lets just assume that all those stars are down stars

@flawr Yeah, I hoped Martin's answer would help :)

@BetaDecay Something something on the grounds that I may incriminate myself.

Bloody hell guys, you are star-happy tonight :D

tonight today

tonight today tonoon

Eww, no :P

I was about to post tonoon but I didn't wanna get flagged

tonoon is offensive?

oh, you meant coz of -15?

down stars cost 10 times

@Mego What's the star limit?

-15

only for you

Aww

Ugh. It took 45 minutes to write an answer on SO, by which time the OP and everyone else viewing the question were apparently gone

@Rainbolt This pretty much sums up answering 98% of non-FGITW questions on SO.

@BetaDecay what's it do?

@Geobits Well I was the fastest answerer. I am the only answerer...

@ThomasKwa Martin's answer for the Snowflake question

trrr trrr

How does this not state the star limit?

@Optimizer How do you post CJam permalinks? :P

Well, by FGITW questions I meant where it's actually a race to answer because they're so simple and people would rather try for some quick rep than find the dupe.

@BetaDecay have you visited the site at all?

@Optimizer cjam.aditsu.net/#code=1%5D%5D%7B%7B0a2*f%2BzW%25%7D4*%7B%5B2%2C_m*%7B~W%2‌​4m%3Efm%3E%7D%2F%5Dz%3Az2ffb1ff%3D__1m%3E%5C1fm%3E%5D%3AzWf%25(%5C%3A..%7C%7D4*..%‌​7C%7Dq~*%22%20x%22ff%3DN*&input=10

It screws up :(

oh that is different. either short url it or escape everything

@BetaDecay Yea, not like that :P

not exactly escape, but those %XX form

@Mego starr flagged

> Everything on Stack Exchange is rate-limited in some way.

Off to help the non-tech-savvy! Wish me luck!

Let's try again :D

Well this was prettier than I expected

@Mego This typically works ^_^

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ how do you turn people back on? I think creating zombies is almost impossible

Defibrillator typically.

4
7
1
4
.
8
5
4
5
4
2
5
8
9
5
1
9
3
2
8
2
3
2
6
4
4
2
1
4
8
2
5
2
7
8
9
7
6
2
8
0
8
2
0
7
1
1
2
8
2
3
2
9
2
8
2
7
6
5
3
1
5
4
7
6
0
5
2
0
7
2
4
9
5
7
7
3
9
9
8
0
2
4
3
4
3
4
1
8
3
2
2
8
8
5
5
0
4
1
6
8

@Optimizer Truth

@Optimizer Like this:

cool story bro

Mini-challenge: what number did I just post?

I won!!

I told the exact number he posted

@Dennis nice, I had no chance with the 8-long J, I was too focused on things like 8!/:!i:9, as i:9 is just the right length

@Mego Hmm. This is not what they taught us when we were trained on them. Must research now :)

@Mego ewww no

Disclaimer: Bringing people back from the dead has never gone well in stories and won't in real life so don't try it

I don't want to have to learn how to chop a zombie up with a chainsaw

@Calvin'sHobbies Is it pi^(e^2) ? My calculator only goes so far.

@Geobits Outstanding

wolframalpha.com

@randomra I didn't know i: existed. You really shouldn't have told me that. :P

@Calvin'sHobbies S'ok, I cheat ;)

@Dennis why?

Because now I know how your cop works.

oh, I forgot I had one :)

I had figured out everything, except how to get the _9 ... 9 sequence in three bytes.

lol, I guess, i: can help a bit in that case :D

the weird thing is that i:x and i.(x+1) both has the top element x

*mini-challenge* Given a string, format it into a space-lined octagon. For example, if your input was `hello world`, then your output would be:
      h e
    l l o #
    w o r l
      d .

(Period = blank space, # = space; the latter is shown for clarity, and is not to be outputted)

code-golf => shortest code wins

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ How are the lengths of the diagonal sides determined?

@trichoplax All sides are equal length. An input string must be mapped to the smallest possible octagon; this means that the diagonal side length must be equal to the vertical- and horizontal-side lengths

A side 3-octagon:
    . . .
  . . . . .
. . . . . . .
. . . . . . .
. . . . . . .
  . . . . .
    . . .

@Mego Is that a thing? ಠ_ಠ

Hmm, that actually might work.

@randomra Yes, that's a weird decision. Hey, who needs consistency? :P

There isn't a thing people won't star.

Including messages complaining about improper starring.

Also, there's nothing I won't unstar. brb

Alternate accounts (not that I had one)

Did someone say something about alternate accounts?

@ಠ_ಠ

ó_ò

σ_σ

ಠOಠ

ō_ø

I don't get it, I changed my name and it is not showing...

It takes time my dear boy

Φ_φ

Or until aod refreshes your chat profile

*a mod

Λ_Λ

Θ_Θ

The deed is done.

Gah, someone set my browser font to Symbol

@BetaDecay Was it @AlphaDecay?

ϕ_!π

@Dennis Thanks :)

@Dennis Noooo... ;)

Bloody lier :D

Ь_Ь

will we now have RC Decay too?

@BetaDecay So, where does @AlphaDecay lie?

:P

before beta decay

@Γ decay

@Dennis Sofas, beds, floors

I think you mean lowercase gamma

Anywhere that's flat basically

LowercaseGammaDecay?

@NewMainPosts wat

I'm not even sure what he is talking about.

Cacti?

To be fair, the Q&A format kinda gives the wrong idea. If the problem is puzzling...

Only thing is that it isn't a puzzling problem to do with programming

It looks like it'd be suited for the Unix site

It's a programming question about a problem that is puzzling him.

And in its current form, it's off topic everywhere.

Everywhere

Including Yahoo! Answers.

Surely not

What about Ask Jeeves?

I have no idea what that is.

@Dennis en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ask.com

Ew, the guys with the toolbar?

Bad memories from my Windows past.

Yes, the aggressive stealth toolbar

Do AOL cds still exist?

There's nothing like opening the web browser of your computer-illiterate fiend/family member and counting the toolbars in IE.

@Optimizer It'd be great if that showed the means as well

@BetaDecay means?

Mean average?

And how are the numbers assigned?

(-1 to 1 seems like a more natural range)

relative risk

as per the studies

it cannot be 0 ever

@Mego Yes. aka mini Frisbee, microwave experiment, etc.

nor negative

@Calvin'sHobbies I had a lot of them, but I sold them all.

cancer?

techcrunch.com/2010/12/27/aol-discs-90s

AOL CDs.

oh ok. I was starting to wonder why will anyone buy cancer

I was kinda surprised somebody would buy AOL CDs...

well, its almost the same chances

@Optimizer play.google.com/store/books/…

is it art of living ?

I hit the rep cap \o/

earliest mortarboard I've gotten, I think

Aol is still a thing? I thought they had reorganized themselves out of existence.

@ThomasKwa How?

Mostly my Ti-BASIC answer to codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/61781/…

@quartata What is AOL?

America Online

@ThomasKwa Congrats!

They don't take the America part seriously though.

Thanks

@ThomasKwa I'm going to vote your answer up!

@ΚριτικσιΛίθος Vote up the Pyth instead; it's shorter.

"That's the tunnel to AOLholm. We don't go there anymore."

I don't like being the highest-voted answer when someone else has a shorter one.

There's a sweet gold badge for it though.

It is a bugger when you hit your rep cap and then you get more votes...

@ΚριτικσιΛίθος It's an opportunity to get free downvotes though.

Only if you get more upvotes after the downvote.

@Dennis I thought order didn't matter?

It does. It's like the bounded cumsum with upper limit 200.

I you get a downvote now, you'll be at +198.

@Mego I have not hit my rep cap right yet.

(∆)

(v)

I have never mortarboarded. And probably never will.

I consider it a miracle I hit 1k rep

Pulls out upvoting finger