I think other than that the most frequent issue you'd have would be things like multiplication * being rendered, but I'm sure you could math your way around that.

I'm not entirely sure how you'd escape markdown doing funky things even with just the #!/bin/bash header.

Eww, I'd never bid into that until everyone else had dropped out.

If it were a two or three person thing, then sure, I'd agree there are better ways to play it. But with ten or more submissions, the odds that any bot will actually win money over the long run goes down dramatically, I think. If you bid at all, you have to win the bid or lose money. The only time I think you could realistically make money is if you bid only when facing a bot you know will not bid back (and the bid is under 1.00).

I don't think there is any general strategy to ensure you make more than not ever bidding. If I were allowed two entries, I'd make one never bid (A), and the other always bid up .05, no matter what (B). That would ensure that all entries who play against B lose some amount of money, while A sits at zero.

Although it does appear I technically still own this room :D

@Adám I'd rather have kept it the same, or significantly shortened it, personally. Not that my opinion probably matters much any more :)

If I want an actual type system, I'd use something more strongly typed than python :P

I'm trying hard not to be offensive :D

Hopefully :D

D-, only one F-word :P

Depends on the flashlight. A penlight maybe not. A 4-D-Cell Maglight? Absolutely.

Nah, no hate here :D

I have no interest whatsoever in Jelly or D or Ruby or Lady-Octopi, or whatever the newest fad is :D

@Mego Normally I'd agree with you, but these aren't exactly "modern features" I'm talking about. It'd be more right to say it doesn't support a lot of legacy features in this case

Looks like a broken image to me :D

@flawr You can hold an informal, non-binding poll if you'd like. I reserve the right to refuse any name chosen, and most likely will :D

Details, details. Just assume it's good news and all will be well :D

Lookup table for the win :D

Yeah. I'd assume you'd just start at 100 and work back from there

It will either a) make me less frequent in chat b) make me more frequent in chat c) make me chat the same amount d) all of the above

Minibits is my son :D

Yeah, that's most likely it. It's a crap Dell work laptop like you'd find in a bulk-discount bin lol

I don't know what just happened, but that link froze up my chrome for a good 45 seconds and then the tab auto-closed itself :D

I think you'd just need an index to start the comparison sweep as an additional input.

@HelkaHomba I'm fine with that, but it'd be a lot harder to ping me. Come to think of it, I like that too.

I might get around to it :D

Yeah, I tend to put my pocket change in a cubby in the car, and it would amaze me how quickly I'd end up with a pile of money there.

@Pavel For the record, I'd just started posting with the empty case, but it was 96 instead of 86, so thanks :D

@muddyfish Holy wow. That's not an answer, it's a book. I'll have to peruse it more later :D

Return a square array from a flat one :D

No, that'd be fish

I guess I learned the right way. At home with good ol GW-BASIC :D

I have enough thunder to share :D

I'd rather not.

Not an exception in sight :D

You can find him on soundcloud at the least. I'd link, but it's blocked here.

void c(int[]a){int b=a.length-1,d=0,c=0,e;for(;d<b*b;c=++d%b)if(a[c]>a[c+1]){e=a[c];a[c++]=a[c];a[c]=e;}}

Difficulty for humans: Hard. Difficulty for robots: 15 years R&D.

@Qwerp-Derp It's easy. Just build up your vocabulary and wit, and they come naturally :D

They always do :D

I'd think you want to reduce them either way.

Expecting college test to mimic the real world is silly anyway. I mean, it'd be nice, but not normal.

Much better :D

If it was important they'd change their name so it wasn't so demon-lord sounding.

If he called me, I'd definitely pick up, out of sheer curiosity.

@HelkaHomba Unambiguously? If not, I'd use something like 'block', especially if referring to a diagram.

@mınxomaτ I'd have to look it up again, but I think it was 1920/30s. So. Many. Vacuum. Tubes.

I'm fully aware of that, but you'd have to be purposefully obtuse to think I meant current in that context. Very.