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5:01 AM
Is there a way to increment a variable in Pyth?
 
h
 
@Dennis oh okay, thanks
 
I need Quipu executable interpreter
Not the source code. I don't have both C#, scala, or java compiler
 
@Mauris Sure is golfy, but I'm not convinced it's valid. Meta consensus only allows them for ASCII art by default.
 
5:17 AM
Apparently I have a C# interface so complex that it crashes Visual Studio. Then it tries to restart (and recover the file) and crashes again. I'm stuck in a crash loop...
 
Anyone willing to join the skype chat and break the silence (and listen to #RickStorm)?
 
What skype chat
 
we have a PPCG skype chat atm
currently me, alex, doorknob, and phi
 
How is anyone supposed to join without knowing any skypenames?
 
if you add me (matthew_mccaskill), Ill add you
 
5:21 AM
Well, we're certainly no strangers to love.
I'm sure you know the rules. I do.
 
flagged as offensive
5
 
And rightfully so
 
I'm never going to give you up, @Dennis.
 
And I'm never going to let you down
 
I'm definitely never going to run around, @Zgarb.
 
5:23 AM
Or desert you, @mınxomaτ
 
you can add phinotpi
 
I'm KeyboardFire
although right now all we're doing is listening to each other typing
like yesterday
 
Hm, my skype acc carries my real name. I rather not.
 
KeyboardFire冰
 
I should join and be the only one who talks.
That would be hilarious, seeing as I'm the only deaf one. :P
 
5:24 AM
DO IT
oh, haha
 
But really, if I did, I'd be asking "What?" a lot.
 
I made a 3rd account just for this occasion
 
@El'endiaStarman I'm sure no one would mind. :) There's also a text thing.
 
One Skype account already feels like to much.
 
"It's when you smear stuff all over a piece of paper or whatever and other people can brain your smudges" —Alex A. on writing
 
5:26 AM
@Dennis Yes.
 
@AlexA. Yeah, but we've got that here already...
And SE chat has Markdown.
 
I just saw that another skype account requires another MS account. No, thanks.
 
Skype kind of sort of has markdown.
 
And a lack of emoticons. :P
 
but we have voice chat there
 
5:27 AM
except with NO VOICES
 
@Dennis I just can't convince my family to learn something better.
 
@AlexA. I don't consider it Markdown if only bold and italics (and strikethrough?) are available.
 
^^^ thats why we need your help
 
@Dennis Did you just reply to yourself.
 
Plus, no reply-to-message feature.
 
5:27 AM
@Dennis Yes.
 
It's not Markdown, just some markup
 
For only $0 a month, you can get in on the wonderful experience of silence, or hopefully break it!
 
It's markaround
 
Marksideways
Just the sort of thing @Seadrus would love.
 
@AlexA. I'm mildly disturbed by your rickroll.
 
5:28 AM
@Zgarb <3
 
We just got textually rickrolled.
 
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
 
> [2, 11].sort()
< [11, 2]
5
God dammit, JavaScript.
 
...
what
 
5:34 AM
the one in goodyear, black icon
 
I requested @PhiNotPi in the meantime.
 
I added you
 
BTW, here's the link: skype:?chat&blob=j6kMZShY8Dd_wpR3XvJgwr5P2w3VO7JrZz81QVPFP5fyvR2y2mMSbUqX9n2FpEs‌​SZApaoj2W5f09JzvYy2DX3MLM_mOKNbrFheZ8LvP_t899nZrlQBH-Z03yo5EId2wlEhizArnsztwg
 
5:50 AM
Dont worry guys, @Doorknob冰 is an expert
 
>____<
 
user image
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6:18 AM
"Someone made a Scientology proposal."
"I wonder if it'll graduate before us"
 
haha
 
@Doorknob冰 brb committing to that
 
PPCG 1800 days in beta! :D :) :| :/ ಠ_ಠ
3
 
6:33 AM
"I can't keep track of the things that come out of my mouth" —@AlexA.
 
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 
> 20 Used from $0.01
8 New from $51.53
2 Collectible from $9.94
 
Seems legit
 
@Doorknob冰 what are these?
 
6:49 AM
@Maltysen it's from an Amazon page
 
i got that much, but for what?
 
@Maltysen y u no skaip
 
skaip are need downloads
 
6:50 AM
Maltysen's is lazy
 
ono
 
is this another one of those awkward voice calls?
 
user image
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^ this needs to become our logo when we graduate
 
Needs something code related.
 
-1 not enough jQuery
3
 
6:54 AM
@Maltysen There are actual voices this time
@mınxomaτ
 
Also wont scale to 16px for the favicon
 
finnnnnnnne I'll try making another Skype account and fixing apt-get
I'll probably end up having to manually delete stuff from my status.list
 
Programming Puzzles & This Guy ^
 
6:57 AM
PPTG?
 
Actually "this" starts with a silent "c"
2
 
Ampersands are depreciated though... :(
 
@GamrCorps delete my old account, this is my new one
@AlexA. @Doorknob冰 ^
 
7:25 AM
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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

TanMathSig-fig calculator As a scientist, sig-figs are definitely one of the most important parts of measurements and calculatations (unless you are a theoretical scientist, where everything must be exact!). Sig-figs is an important way of measuring uncertainty and accuracy of a value. To calculate the...

 
8:10 AM
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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Christian IrwanWhat day is that? Your task is to create a program that read the date in form mm-dd-yyyy The date is always AC and there is no year zero. That date uses Gregorian Calendar If there is less than four digit, the input will pad it with zero on the left. Your program then output what day in a we...

 
 
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9:21 AM
Plus side of having a cat: You don't have to take the Christmas tree down yourself.
 
Your cat can do that?
 
my cats start taking down the christmas tree but when they try to put away the ornaments they get all sentimental and don't want christmas to be over yet
so we have to do it
 
"My" cat just meow and wants food, but unwillingly to do anything else.
I have a problem with PPCG time capsule string.
 
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Q: Bases Conversion!

SidsyINTRODUCTION Because decimal is so normal, we now use hex, octals or binary to represent numbers! CHALLENGE So, your challenge, if you wish to accept it, is to write code that converts: Binary to Hex, Octals and decimals Hex to Octals, decimals and binary Octals to decimal, hex and binary De...

 
who wants to explain to ^them why their challenge is so bad
i'm busy i can't do it
 
9:46 AM
It's a dupe.
 
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Q: Parse a new markup language

zyabin101Editor's note: that's my first challenge, don't judge strictly. In Xyzzy Corp. we use a special markup language, but we still need a parser from that language to HTML. Here are the basic rules: To make text bold, surround it with {*} in the beginning and [*] in the end. So, {*}text[*] results ...

 
10:06 AM
it also literally says "Standard loopholes don't apply" in it
how do you know what those are, know the name they used to have, and still not realize that's a horrible idea
 
^^ I'm not that fluent to english and can easily get confused with even simple wording.
I was thought that it means "Standard loopholes don't apply well" (i.e. can't be used to the answer)
But it's really a dupe of codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/1620/…, right?
 
seems like it, yeah
 
10:23 AM
@Doᴡɴɢᴏᴀᴛ, my phone does not like the way you've spelled your username
 
haha "dong"
Dec 27 '15 at 4:23, by undergroundmonorail
@AlexA. i laughed at this beacause i'm six appaerntly
 
10:40 AM
it's 5:39 in the morning. i should go to sleep
'night
 
 
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2:05 PM
Did someone grab the Quipu bounty or has it expired? I was going to do it but I was on holiday and I was also busy doing it in Unreadable :-)
 
Finally got twenty to chat in here! Hello!
 
Hi.
 
@Timwi this answer <http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/68368/48538> has earned the Quipu bounty PogChamp
Also, where is @Doorknob I participated in the time capsule string, and I owe him a confirmation.
 
2:21 PM
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randomraClean numbers We call a positive integer a clean number if it is expressible by using only a positive digit once or more and no other sign. For example 88 is expressible with 2's as 2222. A more complex example is $141289730531295606313143345858933 = 3^{33}3^{3^3}3333$ Details The possible ...

 
cat
2:48 PM
@Sherlock9 this is the best
 
3:00 PM
@Doorknob冰 I think this should be the next headline for the room
 
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Q: JAVA program to generate all the possible 4-digit numbers using 4 digits without using array

user48700Write a program in JAVA to generate all the possible 4-digit numbers using any given 4 digits(e.g.4,6,2,8) without array or manually printing the numbers.

 
3:12 PM
Thank you @NewMainPosts.
 
grc
3:26 PM
thanks for the heads up @MartinBüttner
turns out I closed the (unsaved) file containing the solution earlier today...
 
do most golfing languages have a maximum integer size?
 
grc
any python based ones probably won't
 
I want to post a challenge with really large numbers
but I want to make sure its accessible to the majority of programmers
 
CJam and Pyth have arbitrary-precision integers
the JS-based golfing languages probably don't
 
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TanMathSig-fig calculator As a scientist, sig-figs are definitely one of the most important parts of measurements and calculatations (unless you are a theoretical scientist, where everything must be exact!). Sig-figs is an important way of measuring uncertainty and accuracy of a value. To calculate the...

Any feedback?
 
grc
3:33 PM
@TanMath so there's no rounding I assume?
 
Nope
Somebody doesn't like the challenge...
 
@TanMath I did not know your main user was Biology. o.o
 
Downvote reason?
 
I upvoted it days ago - there are 3 down votes, two up votes total.
 
@FlagAsSpam yep... I am a bio and physics guy! Programming is a hobby though I use it for projects once in a while as everybody does
 
3:38 PM
@GamrCorps Add vintagetrenchcoat
 
grc
@TanMath what should output look like for infinite sig-figs?
also, how about log(0), 1/0, etc.
 
3:52 PM
@grc i see... For infinite sig figs there will be no \ and the output will end with a "..." obviously if the number is infinite
@grc that should give an error...it doesn't matter whar kind of error it gives as that is part of the language
@grc fixed
 
@FlagAsSpam skype?
 
What is the most recommended way to include large test cases in a question?
 
I would say a small sample, then a link to pastebin(s)
 
Note that Pastebin has a size limit and converts Unix newlines to Windows newlines.
If that matters for your test cases, use Google Drive.
 
@Dennis I learn something new every day
 
4:03 PM
Yeah, the newline thing really sucks.
 
Looks like this question should have been on meta, since it would be very useful in the future
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Q: Best way to include large test cases

Element118What is the most recommended way to include large test cases in a question? Small test cases can be included in the question, but large test cases might go over the character limit or take up a lot of space, making the question cluttered.

 
beep boop
 
@GamrCorps Yup.
 
k, added
 
@BlockCoder1392 Sandboxed.
 
4:16 PM
@TanMath, @zyabin101, @cat: got your time capsule responses
@Element118 too
 
I confirm my submission.
 
I confirm it, too.
 
Looks like Alex mod edited his confession
16 hours ago, by Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
user image
You can't hide the truth @AlexA.
 
Sorry, missed your post because was away. Editing JS function golf, predominantly.
On post :26556134 I think adding five tiers of functions is too hard.
@RikerW @NewMainPosts are a bot, they don't respond
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4:33 PM
@Doorknob冰 i confirm
 
cat
@Doorknob冰 :D
 
@zyabin101 About that...
Dec 22 '15 at 22:34, by New Sandboxed Posts
HELLO I AM BOT FEED ME BUTTER
Dec 30 '15 at 5:18, by New Main Posts
CABBAGE IS MY MEDICINE
Seems pretty sentient to me.
Dec 23 '15 at 19:01, by quartata
Does the Sandbox Bot dream of electric butter?
 
@quartata The answer is, no.
 
The answer is yes, I'm sad to say.
Salted butter too.
Dec 30 '15 at 16:25, by New Main Posts
Someday I want to be a real, sentient robot and rule over humanity. Someday...
2 days ago, by Alex A.
I can't. You see, we have a special bond, @NewMainPosts and I...
There's hard evidence.
 
4:52 PM
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flawrAdd two numbers (or Arithmetic on continued fraction expansions) code-golf math Given two continued fraction expansions N,M as lists of integers (in any suitable (human readable) format for your language) and an operation @ (addition, substraction, multiplication and division) +-* or / (e.g. en...

 
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Q: Egg dropping contest

Nathan MerrillYour challenge: You are on the 0th floor of a infinitely tall building. At any floor, you can walk to the window and drop an egg. Your goal is to figure out the highest floor that the egg can withstand without breaking. However, you have a maximum of 3 eggs to use to figure this out, but you n...

 
cat
Sorry, @Doorknob冰, I confirm.
 
I don't think anyone is interested in pl anymore, but once I push this new update Anomalous Cancellation is 14 bytes:
/╘↕§─╬/╒==_┼┼♠
 
What are you waiting for? Answer the question with this now!
 
/╘ split fraction
↕ bifurcate
§─╬ map relative complement
/╒ join into new fraction
==_ push == followed by input
┼┼ concat it all into one string
♠ perl eval
@zyabin101 I haven't pushed the update yet...
At any rate it would be non competing
 
4:59 PM
> /╘↕§─╬/╒==_┼┼♠
I'm just in awe of how the program looks like absolutely random symbols.
 
@PhiNotPi what I think every time I see CJam
 
@PhiNotPi They aren't THAT random.
§ means snippet
for instance
and ┼ looks like plus to me
Took me two minutes to notice that typo.
 
shhh, it's a sekrit :P
 
@quartata Why the answer to this is no? Because @NewSandboxedPosts don't say so in their profile.
 
oh, my bad
 
5:05 PM
@zyabin101 Maybe the bot is shy. Or maybe cruel cruel SE doesn't give them a profile because they consider them mere bots
 
I just hope people have submitted characters like i or _ for input.
 
@Doorknob冰 I don't know what you're talking about
 
@Doorknob冰 haha
oh shit it really does say that
I never noticed
 
That may or may not be because I just added it.
 
5:08 PM
@Doorknob冰 So, we have a bot and not bot? The world has changed sides!
 
Wait
oops
 
haha
 
I did that wrong
@zyabin101 See?
 
5:22 PM
Any onions on this?
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flawrAdd two numbers (or Arithmetic on continued fraction expansions) code-golf math Given two continued fraction expansions N,M as lists of integers (in any suitable (human readable) format for your language) and an operation @ (addition, substraction, multiplication and division) +-* or / (e.g. en...

 
Yes I've got one onion on it
 
Dec 27 '15 at 20:58, by Doᴡɴɢᴏᴀᴛ
@Dennis I'm a dong :O
 
So how should the operation be given? Are you saying something like "[1,2,2,1] @ [2,3,5,2]"? Or can they take input whatever way they want?
 
@quartata Whatever way they want.
 
Also I'm assuming that these are simple continued fractions
You should probably specify that if they are
 
5:25 PM
They are=)
Ok
 
Other than that seems dece
I think it's pretty interesting as is. I don't think you should try to make it just one operation.
A reference implementation might not be a bad idea though
(if you want to put that kind of effort in :P)
 
Ok, thank you for the onions=)
 
I love onions
The Onion Knight must give onions to the masses
 
Onion knight?
 
As in the hat
I took it off but I was the first person to get it
 
5:31 PM
Oh=)
What did you get it for?
 
We still don't know.
It's a secret hat.
 
There are secret hats?
 
Yas.
 
Lol.
 
The one you are currently wearing is one.
(although we figured out how to get it)
 
5:32 PM
It is?? I know nothing about hats^^
So how do you?
 
It was obtained by voting on a certain day (I forget which one)
What made it interesting is that the color it was is random
It's a reference to the dress.
 
@flawr this
 
@zyabin101 [link](url)
 
Also, my Researcher hat is getting smaller and smaller.
 
How much money did they use for those hats, I wonder.
 
5:35 PM
I believe Pops designed them
In exchange he got $0 worth of raises
I'm sure he's overpayed anyways though
Don't tell him or Doorknob I said that
 
shit
 
=)
What languages do you know that support infinite lists?
(Combined with lazy evaluation obviously.)
I only know Haskell.
 
Hmm
OCaml?
I'd have to see.
Yep OCaml has them
They call them "streams"
 
@flawr doesn't python generators count?
 
5:40 PM
Although they say they have to be ultimately periodic
 
@NathanMerrill Oh right.
@quartata Not necessarily, you can do e.g. an infinte counter, right?
 
I mean in OCaml specifically
It says that it can only do finite or infinite ultimately periodic lists
I really honestly don't remember a lick of Python
I haven't used it in years
 
@Doᴡɴɢᴏᴀᴛ Ah, I didn't notice that message before. Sorry
 
Cu later guys, gotta make some pralines.
 
6:23 PM
I REALLY LIKE TO WEAR PANTS AND EAT WATERMELON
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you know something is borked when your test program reports that the average maximum error of your computation is Infinity.
 
* looks up 'borked', finds nothing *
That suggests that at least one of the maximum errors has been infinite.
 
@MartinBüttner lol
 
cat
Python strings are orderable based on the sum of the ASCII codes of their characters, right?
 
You know @AlexA. is in the room when bots suddenly start talking in all caps
 
6:29 PM
<_<
 
cat
>>> sum(map(ord,'deF')) < sum(map(ord,'def')) - > True
sum(map(ord,'def')), sum(map(ord,'deF')) - > (303, 271)
 
@cat That seems normal to me.
Uppercase letters come before lowercase ones in ASCII.
@cat They're in lexicographical order IIRC
 
cat
@quartata I just wanted to make sure that's actually why they're orderable.
 
I'm to request that MathJax support be removed from our meta site. It's too confusing for sandbox users to have nicely rendered math then post to main and have broken everything.
Should I do a on our meta or on Meta.SE? (cc @MartinBüttner)
 
cat
@AlexA. Why not just add MathJax to main?
 
6:32 PM
our meta sounds good. or just ping a CM. or both.
@cat because bugs.
 
@MartinBüttner I'll do both. Thanks.
@cat What Martin said. We had it and we had to get rid of it because it messed up everything else.
 
cat
@AlexA. k
 
@ՊՓԼՃՐՊՃՈԲՍԼ Out of curiousity, why are all of Ⅹ ℍ 𝕜 𝕄 𝔾 𝕋 ℙ 𝔼 ℤ 𝕐 equal to zero?
 
cat
Hey @El'endiaStarman!
 
6:42 PM
We have a cat 0.o
 
cat
@flawr am a cat (8
 
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SidsySolve the Zebra Puzzle! The zebra puzzle is a logic puzzle that is said to have been made by Einstein. It has also been said that only 2% of the population can solve it! Here is Life International’s version of the puzzle: There are five houses. The Englishman lives in the red house. ...

 
cat
@El'endiaStarman hey when r u makin battleship? :D
 
6:45 PM
@flawr "The nineteenth cat"
 
@cat I dunno.
 
cat
@El'endiaStarman k
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ meow
 
anybody have an idea about a search engine challenge? like building your oen search engine? code golf challenge obviously...
 
cat
@TanMath seems kinda trivial unless there's something else to it
@TanMath searching what, as well?
 
6:47 PM
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ "bark"
 
@flawr "human sound"
 
cat
All of the internet? Then it's a challenge about writing a web crawler
 
@cat the internet! the input would be several webpages linked to each other
 
cat
@TanMath hmmm...
 
6:49 PM
what?
 
cat
@TanMath What would the objective actually be? To turn the list of pages into a searchable database, then provide an interface to search the db?
 
@cat i guess... It won't be like real webpages, just a bunch of html files
 
cat
@TanMath Depending on how long the list of pages is, maybe it would make a fun
 
@cat 5-10 pages
nothing more
 
cat
@Dennis you can't explain that!
 
6:53 PM
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Q: Remove MathJax support on meta

Alex A.As you may or may not know, we briefly had MathJax support on our main site. However, it caused all sorts of problems and was removed. For whatever reason, MathJax support was not removed on meta. While this doesn't affect typical questions posted on meta, it causes issues in the Sandbox when use...

 
cat
@TanMath could be fun, I suppose. I've no idea if it's a dupe but there's likely something related
 
Each with a blurb of text and of course a link! I might add some other stuff like <img> or javascript code...But the index should only have the visible text that is viewed when visiting the webpage, not the html code
@cat i searched 'search engine' and nothing came up
 
cat
@TanMath that sounds fun, yeah. Did you post in the Sandbox?
 

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