The Nineteenth Byte

Q: Two level run-length + Rot47 decoding

2:47 PM

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Decoder: Rot47 ( character rle (binary rle) ) Introduction Create a decoder from a prototype ( which was published under Complex Hello World), where Key:"V922/G/,2:", bunch:"114 11122 112111 11311 1213 15 21112 11311 1123 2121 12112 21211" give the string: Hello world! The bunch is enc...

Delv^^

Done

and this: codegolf.stackexchange.com/q/26380/16472

Also done

and... codegolf.stackexchange.com/q/26496/16472

Lots of deletevote-fodder today. :D

ProgramFOX

2:53 PM

@TheDoctor Done, done and done.

Aaaand they're all gone

3:14 PM

DELETE! meta.codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/1515/16472

That's like saying "hmm, let's post programming questions on Cooking Stack Exchange so that there are more posts." Quality > Quantity, especially when the posts are so low quality that we don't even want them here. Would you rather have 100 banana peels and 10 strawberries (which smell like rotten banana), or just the strawberries? The Area 51 requirements are guidelines, and dumping a bunch of "filler" posts on the site isn't going to help (in fact, it will tear apart the community even more and be detrimental to the site). — Doorknob 17 hours ago

ProgramFOX

@TheDoctor Shouldn't we keep it alive to avoid it to be reposted?

code-golf graphical-output animation

3:36 PM

@TheDoctor I agree with ProgramFox. The point of the question is to gather a consensus on the community's stance on code trolling. Downvoted pro code-trolling posts are just as expressive as upvoted con code-trolling posts (in fact, so are posts the other way round!). Let's keep the process for "taking an official stance" fair.

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Trimsty

7:27 PM

Hey :D Worked on a bukkit plugin all day, ready to get a strategy and implement a Wolf! #slowpoke

Trimsty

7:51 PM

Just remembered I need NetBeans to build the test program

sigh

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Quincunx

9:05 PM

Any thoughts:

Q: May the 4th be with you!

In honor of Star Wars day, write a program to display the following text, scrolling like the Star Wars opening crawl: It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from a hidden base, have won their first victory against the evil Galactic Empire. During the b...

10:01 PM

@Quincunx Very interesting! I'm working on it.

@Quincunx Yep, I like it. Although I find the order of the requirements a bit weird. I probably would have put them roughly in reverse order but that's just personal preference. ;)

Quincunx

10:33 PM

@m.buettner The order is roughly the order that I thought of them in. :-). I figured that since the list is a bulleted list and not a numbered list, it would be fine.

Q: Unique Base 64 Incrementor With Substituion

10:48 PM

Do we need to close/delete this: codegolf.stackexchange.com/q/26078/16472 ?

codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/26434/… codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/26469/…

cv-pls ^^

The goal is to write a script that will use your (Base 64) numbering system and never repeat any character within the string while incrementing. When you rollover a big number that jumps to the next place value you need to substitute it with the next unique in place... example (in Base 10) 0985,...

code-golf number repeated-transformation

should we delete?

I understand it now. Voting to reopen

@PeterTaylor regarding your meta comment about the allrgb question. If that was too vague, how do you propose should image-processing challenges be asked, as it's near impossible to define an objective criterion for what makes a submission valid?

Peter Taylor

11:04 PM

@m.buettner Sorry, I'm off to bed now so I'm not going to hang around for an answer, but at least two of the three most recent image-processing questions have pretty tight specs.

11:22 PM

@PeterTaylor okay I suppose the one that doesn't is the dithering one. The steganography one falls in a slightly different category of challenge (in my opinion), because it's not about the visual result but just about implementing a given steganography technique which happens to use pictures. the miniature faking one is good though I agree. but at the same time I'm not that the all rgb question really needed more than "make an image with all colour values; vote by visual appeal of the results".

in particular I don't think it's like restricting the kind of image/algorithm further would leave room for future (slightly different) allrgb questions which would still be interesting. so I think it was absolutely valid to just shoot for "generate the most interesting allrgb picture you can". I do see your point though that there is some room for a tighter spec while still leaving room for creative freedom.