The goal is to write a program that learns from its own mistakes, and improves itself based on it. This means, that later attempts at the problem should be either faster or more accurate, than earlier ones.
To deny trivial solutions, here is a set of rules (they are rather obvious):
you can c...
What are the rules/community consensus about participating in your own challenge?
Does it differ for each of code-golf, popularity-contest and king-of-the-hill?
The person that asks the question isn't the one who picks a winner so...
Shell and gedit - 27 characters
timeout 3 gedit Hello World
timeout utility runs a command for the duration specified. It ensures that gedit runs for 3 seconds, assuming minimal startup time.
Any editor can be used in place of gedit. If a shorter named editor is used like gvim, the leng...
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Every now and then, I see an edit where somebody does some golfing (most recent). From what I can tell, our standard is to reject those edits as invalid and post a comment saying what was suggested, because we feel that golfing tips should be comments. And I have always done so (after I learned)....
