@Rusher I noticed, but like Geobits just fixed it and moved on (still on JDK7 here).

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@Geobits Positive. Above you is row 0 (the first row) column 1 (the middle column).

Results posted (finally). codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/25347/…

Gareth, I'm not sure what to do with your files. I dropped all 6 class files in the src folder, added scala jar to my project, and built the project. I could see the class files move to my dist folder, but I can't reference your classes in my main. Not sure what I'm doing wrong.

@Rusher You mean 9 class files?

I've not got Netbeans, so I'm compiling directly at the command line. I'll have to have a look later.

Gareth, maybe it would be easier to drop him a jar?

@Rusher I've posted the outline. I've also realised that it will take a lot of work before it's ready to go, so if someone has a simpler KOTH it will probably fit in before I get round to writing and testing the framework.

@PeterTaylor I'll look into that.

I don't like this guy... Improving an idea is fine, but copying code (and naming the wolf similar) is just wrong in my opinion... codegolf.stackexchange.com/users/10588/ilya-gazman

@Manu You mean his Pro Alpha Wolf? If you don't like it, downvote his answer.

@ProgramFOX Yes... But well, learning from other submissions is a characteristic of KOTH, so I shouldn't say anything against him...

I see.

@Manu By the way, congrats on your nearly 90% survival rate with AlphaWolf, very impressive.

@plannapus Thanks! :) Took me 3 hours, most of the time analysing... That's why I choose paper more often, as stone seems to be choosen more than everthing else.

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Hey guys, remember the time I said this?

IT FUCKING HAPPENED I'M SO MAD

is tempted to clear stars on all of @undergroundmonorail's messages >:D

> It's too late to undo this operation

You can clear stars from the transcript?

How much rep to do that?

I don't think you can.

You have to be room owner.

(Sorry for the late response, accidentally forkbombed myself)

How does one accidentally forkbomb themself?

By not looking over your code and forking too many times :P

Okay, so technically it wasn't a forkbomb, more of a forkgrenade or something

Ohhh, right. I keep forgetting that :{}( :|: &);: is an example of a fork bomb, but not the only one.

I hope the robot uprising happens in Unix because I haven't memorized any way to kill a Windows machine.

They generally do that themselves. ba dum tish

:D

Jesus I'm stupid. I just read a puzzle, got the answer wrong, and looked at the actual answer for about 15 minutes before figuring out why it worked.

Suppose you have 100 pounds of potatoes and these potatoes consist of 99% water. You decide to leave the potatoes outside and let them dehydrate until they consist of 98% water. Now the potatoes should weigh a little less than they were before. How much do they weigh now?

Just a guess: 98.989898989898989898989898989898...?

50 pounds.

Huh?

looks for explanation

I'm so confused lol

I can't even explain why it works, I sort of intuitively figured it out after staring at it for a while but words are hard

Wait I think I figured out words

I get it now

Ah, I found a good explanation here:

rinkworks.com/brainfood/s/math.shtml

> If 100 pounds of potatoes is 1% potato matter, then that means there is one pound of potato matter. After the potatoes dehydrated somewhat, this one pound accounted for 2% of the total mass (with the remaining 98% being water). One pound is 2% of 50 pounds, so the total mass of the potatoes after sitting out in the sun is 50 pounds.

If it's 99% water, that means it's a 1:99 ratio. 98% is 1:49, which is 2:98. There's twice as much potato per x amount of water as there used to be, which means there has to be half as much water as there used to be.

I think that if your potatoes are 99% water, you should just throw them out.

link, why you do this

Oh, good, the edit timer ran out while I was working on fixing the formatting

Hah... when I click your link, it goes away

If I refresh, it comes back.

Can anyone tell me how to prettify inline code for java posted on stack?

I think it's lang-java

Wait, inline, nevermind

I can't read

<!-- language: lang-java -->

oops

me too ^^

:P

Yea, I have that part nailed down. I even expanded it to <!-- language-all: lang-java --> to prettify ALL the code blocks in one post.

Then you can exclude the blocks you DONT want prettified with <pre> </pre>

Fancy.

Hmm, I didn't know you could prettify inline code? If you can find where someone's done it, just hit the edit button to see.

Yea, I searched on SO for tips and couldn't find any.

I wish there was a language filter for things being starred to transcript

But I guess everyone who can program is not a child

sorry

@undergroundmonorail Don't be. I didn't mean to discourage profanity. I was merely thinking that anything that got starred should be filtered. Profanity has this kind of one time "shock" factor that tends to wear off really quickly.

I guess that makes sense.

unless someone is particularly inventive, it wore off on me in general years ago

made up a curse last night that surprised my wife, when some guy cut us off and almost forced an accident

I don't recall what it was, though.

I watched Misfits a couple of years ago and renewed my appreciation for profanity

Wanker is by far the best one ever.

But only because British people can't pronounce "er"

^.^;

"Wanker" is weird to me because literally it's like "Hey, you masturbate!" "...uh, yeah?"

Well, fucker means "Hey, you have sex." It is equally as offensive in the US as Wanker probably is in GB

True.

I just noticed you could star the chat room to favorite it

Lol Dan was that your star? Did you watch misfits?

lol it wasn't my star

Mine. great show

Without it the IDE would complain?

it's inside of page_load, which is void return

Oh, ok. I think I get it now. They probably copied and pasted code from a method that WASN'T void return.

Good catch monorail.

@undergroundmonorail What's the bug on lv 9? I got across, but not sure what bug you're talking about.

ReferenceError: player is not defined

Just use map.getPlayer().

...

Yeah, I'm stupid.

I copypasted the getPhoneCallback code from level 7, which has var player = map.getPlayer().

I wonder how many bug reports they get for that game

Nice... I copied from 8, which did it with getPlayer(), lol

To be fair, when I tried it the first time I got TypeError: Object #<HTMLCollection> has no method 'setPhoneCallback', which I'm pretty sure is wrong. I went to bed and when I woke up I started getting the other one. :P

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@Rusher Any particular accent you mean here? There is a wide variety of pronunciation in the UK. I guess you mean either cockney/mockney or that faux upper-middle class accent that female american actors like to use.

Youtube Kelly from Misfits if you are in a place where you can listen to the sound

I can't, so I'm just guessing that this is a good example google.com/…

But even though that particular example is white trash, nobody else in the series can pronounce the letter R.

Unless it is at the beginning of a word

Word comes out wuhd

Wanker comes out wankah

@Gareth I think @Rusher's referring to non-rhotic accents in general.

@undergroundmonorail Interesting game, although a bit disappointing in places. (I repeated at least two solutions character for character).

@PeterTaylor Is squeemishossifrage playing dumb?

Why would a person edit a deleted comment?

codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/8649/…

@Rusher No, not specifying the number of inputs is a minor slip-up in the spec.

Joe's previous logic-gates questions seem to specify that they're two-input NAND gates.

@Gareth Good question. Let's ask @Timtech , who edited the post.

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I'm glad to see someone overtake LazyWolf. I felt bad winning with a barely-though-out, posted 20 minutes after the challenge entry that does nothing. Now I'll have to take another look to see what I can do to beat it ^^

hah that boss level of the javascript code-to-win game was fun.

@Rusher I've included a jar of my wolf class with my answer now. Could you let me know if that works any better?

@Gareth Yea, as soon as I get home I can test it.

@Gareth I finally figured out why I was having problems. I can't include classes from an unnamed package (like default) in a named package.

@Rusher I included my Wolf in the animals package. Is there something you need me to do to help get it running?

In the jar, all of the class files are in the default-package.

@Rusher Ah. I know nothing about jar files really. I'll go and fiddle with it some more.

I don't either. Did you manage to get it working on your machine? How did you test your wolf?

I downloaded all your files and compiled them using javac. Once I got that runnning I created my scala file in the animals directory with the source as in my answer. I compiled that in situ with 'scalac PassiveAggressiveWolf.scala'. That created the class files that I previously included with my answer in the animals directory. Then I added PassiveAggressiveWolf.class to the list of classes in the Wild.java file and recompiled that. Then when I ran it it included my Wolf.

@Gareth I think you just need to put all of your *.class files into a folder called 'animals' inside the JAR

@FGreg Yeah, I'm just trying to get it to do that without giving me daft errors. :-)

cd classes
jar cvfM mywolf.jar animals

@PeterTaylor Thanks, that did it.

@Rusher I've just uploaded an updated version of the jar. Could you try it again when you have time? Thanks.

@Gareth Will do.

Does anyone remember the speed that AOL 5/6/7/8/9 would always say you connected at?

Was it like 56 KB?

I never had AOL, but 56 kB was a high-speed modem.

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