To communicate with a serial-type device over a telnet socket, I need to type the null character (ASCII 0) and all other non-printable ASCII characters.
On Windows, you hold ALT and type the ASCII code.
How do I do this on Mac OS X?
I started using this code from Mark Dotto (http://markdotto.com/2013/01/13/improved-terminal-hotness/) to make my terminal is bit sexier.
I just copied the code without editing it, so in my .bash_profile I added:
export PS1='\[\e[0:35m⌘\e[m \e[0:36m\w/\e[m \e[0:33m`git branch 2> /dev/null | grep...
It can use whatever. It uses Bash by default but zsh is installed as well.
OS X is based on FreeBSD so you can put a lot of standard stuff on it easily.
I certainly won't deny that Apple products are crazy expensive, but I do think it's worth it. This has been the most reliable computer I've ever used. I've literally had no issues with it, even though it's on its fourth OS and has all sorts of crap installed on it.
It's an early 2011 model, so it's about 4.5 years old.
I have never and will never use Insert. When I was young I thought it was some kind of demon that randomly spawned in Microsoft Word that required restarting the computer.
, the Geniux brain training games are not limited to a particular age charity and can be enjoyed by young person and pass. Studies have shown that brain training can shorten the occurrence of invincible diseases, how to prevent Alzheimer's sickness. These games can in addition to be used for the...
The question is
Given k,n,m. where k is no. of coconuts you initially have. n is some no. such that if you have >=n coconuts, you become stressed otherwise you are normal. m is the no. of shops.You go from 1st shop to m-th shop without skipping any shop. At i-th shop, either you buy Si coconuts...
Life: Created or Evolved?
code-golf grid cellular-automata
Given the state of a square Game of Life grid, determine whether it could have evolved from any previous state, or could only have been created. That is, identify whether the state is a "Garden of Eden" state.
Input
A square grid ...
Input the number of pages and the number of pages in a packet.
Cost of packet is 350 and the cost of a loose sheet is 2. Calculate the total costs
Write it in pseudocode
Is there a general reference for how to count bytes in a language in meta somewhere? (again, I have terrible search queries.)
For example, in AppleScript, you can use the ≤ character, but it might be counted as two bytes even though AppleScript is saved in a file that in no way resembles the human-readable source.
The Challenge
You are the owner of an amazing service called Coyote Beta, which magically answers math questions its users send to it over the internet.
But it turns out, bandwidth is expensive. You have two choices, either create a "Coyote Beta Pro" or find some way to solve this. Just recen...
@Sp3000 So I went to the golfing tips for ><> page and thanks to your little tip I've managed to golf my string printer down to exactly 32 bytes using a jump instead of a newline.
I thought you'd made something absolutely impossible because 32 bytes is a lot to play around with, but you were nice and did something actually doable
I also used a little trick that makes it more or less impossible to brute force so that'll be fun
The leaderboard snippet appears to be broken -- it gives a half point off for every cracked submission past the first one. If I'm understanding the rules correctly, you should just get one half point off for having more than one cracked submission. — quartata14 secs ago
Play a RTTTL song
User quartata posted this question, but he neglected the fact that, for whatever reason, he's not able to play midi files on his computer.
Let's help him out by writing a full program that reads a song in RTTTL format from the standard input and plays it (at the right speed an...
@Doorknob were you collecting potential content ideas for a PPCG blog/medium thing? Here is one: reviews of new language releases (with respect to how the new features/changes can shorten common idioms in the language).
This never happened to me: I did not read the specs of a challenge carefully enough, and as I had to implement something I omited before, it actually shortened my code by quite abit=)
I can't count the number of times I wished there was an easy way of rotating the entire stack in CJam. Now that I thought of one, I can't find a challenge where I could use it. :/
Rotating an array (or the stack) one unit to the left
CJam has the rotate left operator m<, which is normally what you should use to rotate an array an arbitrary number of units to the left.
In some cases, you can also use (+ to shift and append:
[1 2 3] (+ e# Pushes [2 3 1].
[[1] [2] [3...
@Dennis I just thought of :\ like three days ago (although I didn't think about using it to rotate the entire stack). I was just wondering whether you'd actually ever used it, but apparently not.
It occurred to me a few minutes ago. Like most of my ideas, it occurred to me when I was trying to do something else entirely, which didn't work as expected. :\
One of my favorite golfs by accident has to be your xkcd page numbering challenge.
> Dammit, I got the indexes wrong again... ooooh, that produces the output I'm after!
To communicate with a serial-type device over a telnet socket, I need to type the null character (ASCII 0) and all other non-printable ASCII characters.
On Windows, you hold ALT and type the ASCII code.
How do I do this on Mac OS X?
><> (Fish)
Length <= 8
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
The output is 23 >'s and the program produces no error.
The question is
Given k,n,m. where k is no. of coconuts you initially have. n is some no. such that if you have >=n coconuts, you become stressed otherwise you are normal. m is the no. of shops.You go from 1st shop to m-th shop without skipping any shop. At i-th shop, either you buy Si coconuts...
Life: Created or Evolved?
code-golf grid cellular-automata
Given the state of a square Game of Life grid, determine whether it could have evolved from any previous state, or could only have been created. That is, identify whether the state is a "Garden of Eden" state.
Input
A square grid ...
Input the number of pages and the number of pages in a packet.
Cost of packet is 350 and the cost of a loose sheet is 2. Calculate the total costs
Write it in pseudocode
The Challenge
You are the owner of an amazing service called Coyote Beta, which magically answers math questions its users send to it over the internet.
But it turns out, bandwidth is expensive. You have two choices, either create a "Coyote Beta Pro" or find some way to solve this. Just recen...
Play a RTTTL song
User quartata posted this question, but he neglected the fact that, for whatever reason, he's not able to play midi files on his computer.
Let's help him out by writing a full program that reads a song in RTTTL format from the standard input and plays it (at the right speed an...
Rotating an array (or the stack) one unit to the left
CJam has the rotate left operator m<, which is normally what you should use to rotate an array an arbitrary number of units to the left.
In some cases, you can also use (+ to shift and append:
[1 2 3] (+ e# Pushes [2 3 1].
[[1] [2] [3...
