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7:00 PM
I also hate wasting all of the time I spend not eating broccoli.
 
@AlexA. Hence the reason to use tabs.
 
@Calvin'sHobbies No
 
Yes
 
No
 
Anonymous
 
7:01 PM
^
 
Anonymous
 
:(
 
Anonymous
<3
 
You'd obstinately ignore a factor of 4 (or 8) in whitespace productivity?
3
 
Yes
 
Anonymous
7:02 PM
If you're talking about the language then productivity is out the window anyway
 
What did I miss?
 
everything
 
I just noticed that the minimal nethack challenge requires that the player be represented as @ and the amulet as "
That's probably 3000 bytes down the drain right there
This is going to be difficult
 
Anonymous
It's amazing that TI-BASIC beat CJam in that challenge
 
7:05 PM
@AlexA. Just go with the flow. Maybe even start using vertical tabs instead of multiple line breaks.
 
Anonymous
@trichoplax ಠ_ಠ
 
Ooh that reminds me I wanted to try and golf down my ಠ_ಠ generator
I know for certain it will be shorter in Golfscript.
But I also want to see if I can get it any shorter in just CJam.
 
Anonymous
print'ಠ_ಠ'
 
Anonymous
12 bytes, python 2
 
No this one takes a number and outputs ಠ_ಠ with the appropriate amount of underscores.
 
Anonymous
7:07 PM
Err, 14
 
@quartata Do you play nethack on the nethack server at www.alt.org/nethack, or do you play the installed version on your computer?
 
@KritixiLithos NAO
 
Er, 10?
 
Anonymous
@trichoplax 10 chars, 14 bytes
 
7:08 PM
So an input of 30 gives ಠ______________________________ಠ
 
@Mego Oh yeah...
 
Anonymous
ಠ is a 4-byte character
 
'ಠ'_ri*'ಠ is my current code (13 bytes)
 
@Mego All that angry disapproval takes a lot of bytes...
 
Anonymous
@trichoplax worth it for suggestions like using vertical tabs
 
7:09 PM
@AlexA. Hey, I've convinced almost 3333 people that you are sometimes right
 
@Dennis Not yet, was going to start a version log today
 
Anonymous
print'ಠ'+'_'*input()+'ಠ'
 
@Vɪʜᴀɴ I'm giving TeaScript a try
It looks cool
 
@Mego Hopefully my sarcasm came across - I don't even use horizontal tabs unless under duress
 
Anonymous
28 in python 2
 
Anonymous
7:10 PM
@trichoplax Yep, I'm having fun :P
 
Anonymous
I'm 'avin a giggle m8
 
Hey I got it down to 12 bytes
'_ri*'ಠ_@\
 
Cyborg angry face
 
There we go
Stupid backslash
@ಠ_ಠ I golfed my ಠ_ಠ generator, you should consider changing the one you have on your profile
 
7:12 PM
coreutils, 7
yes ಠ_ಠ
 
@TheDoctor It's actually more than that
ಠ is 2 bytes
 
echo -n ಠ;yes "echo -n '_'"|sh;echo -n ಠ
 
I learned a thing or two from Dennis.
The secret to good answers is to be polite and give people a link to run it online.
 
ಠ___ಠ
 
enum ಠ_ಠ {°□°╰=1, °Д°╰, ಠ益ಠ╰};
void ┻━┻︵​╰(ಠ_ಠ ⚠) {exit((int)⚠);}
 
7:16 PM
 
Anonymous
@TheDoctor ಠ_ಠ
 
WHAT
MY HEAD HURTS
It has that little iOS smiley face too.
 
Anonymous
KILL IT WITH FIRE AND KINDLY-WORDED COMMENTS
 
It already got deleted.
 
Anonymous
GOOD
 
7:18 PM
Too bad. It could have received the honor of the most downvoted question of all time.
 
> nude.js
My head
 
@Mego Do you mean KINDLE-Y WORDED COMMENTS, kindle means to set something on fire...
 
@Mego Guys, we have 4 or 5 pure pages of these
 
Anonymous
@KritixiLithos of course, I never typo
 
7:20 PM
There's so many of them that Chrome offers to translate the page for me.
I'm not kidding.
 
Anonymous
@Calvin'sHobbies We must go deeper
 
I am anti-ಠ_ಠ
 
They all translate into Thatha
What
Ok apparently ಠ_ಠ = Thatha
 
Anonymous
But @ಠ_ಠ is such a nice guy
 
I don't even what
 
7:21 PM
Thata?
Theta?
 
@Calvin'sHobbies Chrome offered to translate the page for me.
That's what it turned into.
@Calvin'sHobbies Nope, spelled Thatha.
 
Trimsty
Jun 2 '14 1:50 PM
Thatha
This is so weird..
And funny at the same time.
Thatha. What could it mean?
@ಠ_ಠ please explain
 
tha_tha, but google removes the underscore
 
But it capitalizes it correctly. Of course.
It's still funny, especially considering ಠ_ಠ 's username translates as well.
I'm looking at several pages of Thatha: Thatha
 
Thatha or Thathi is a type of cloth used by some Sikhs to fix their beards after spraying them with Taft, Fixo, Swift, etc. Many orthodox Sikhs prefer to keep an open beard as a sign of their dignity and respect, but some Western-minded and modern Sikhs prefer tying beards for fashion and appearance. This consists of spraying the beard with hair spray or beard spray, and a thathi is tied after that on the chin to set the beard properly. This process takes 30 minutes to an hour to fix properly. The issue of having an open beard versus a fixed beard is not seen as worthy of debate, according to some...
gets stranger and stranger
 
0.89% of all our starred messages contain ಠ_ಠ
That's too much
 
Not enough Thatha
 
oh no: "You have fully used your vote allowance for today"
 
Look at this website for the origin of ಠ_ಠ: here
 
7:33 PM
@TheDoctor Thatha
 
Anonymous
@TheDoctor I have that problem now too
 
ಠ_ಠ
 
@AlexA. vim: :retab
 
@Doorknob ;;;;;;;;;;)
 
you have too many eyes
Dear C:
Y U MAKE ME INCLUDE STRING.H JUST TO CALL MEMMOVE??!!?!?!
Regards,
Doorknob
 
7:37 PM
^ ★
 
;;;;;;;;;; looks like a bunch of tiny people leaning forward.
 
★_★
 
nice ipad
but Y U use safari??
 
@TheDoctor Thanks.
@TheDoctor I usually use the SE app
 
7:42 PM
The SE app on android is utter crap (at least on my Note 3).
 
@TheDoctor I showed the pic to show the JS answer.
 
@minxomat get an ipad
 
I rather use spaces for indentation than buying an iPad.
2
 
> This is what's known as "cheating" ;)
 
@minxomat Same here. The SE app on my Galaxy A3 is not as good as the app on iPad.
 
7:43 PM
Instadownvote
 
 
7:55 PM
Good Night!
 
gn
 
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Now the starboard star board is rightfully starry. ^_^
 
:>
 
srsly? do ppl even know what flag is for?
 
8:06 PM
NO
oops capslock
 
@TheDoctor Link?
 
gemsfromstackexchange.tumblr.com/page/2 it's probably deleted by now
 
I shall now bookmark that site
 
0
Q: Is using a non-standard preprocessor permissible?

SuperJedi224It would appear to have been decided that the use of non-standard libraries is permissible (unless the question specifies otherwise), on the condition that the library being used is freely available and predates the asking date of the question. Would requiring a non-standard preprocessor be perm...

 
8:09 PM
Oh lol, I actually saw that one before it was removed I think
 
did ou secretly regret that you missed your chance of dating her?
 
lol
Some people, I swear
 
what?
 
8:11 PM
users who post those kinds of questions
 
well at least that one is somewhat about programming
 
> Who am I to not obey orders from a donut.
 
"my girlfriend doesn't understand c++"
 
nobody can
 
8:16 PM
> "Everyone knows that the best way to a girl's heart is to shower her with JQuery."
lol
 
lol
 
Oh, now this one is gold:
 
@TheDoctor I submitted the newest one on there! (And one other)
@El'endiaStarman ^
 
I need a big data
 
8:28 PM
Who doesn't
 
small data is so underrated
 
@AlexA. :D
 
World Big Data
 
World Big Dennis
I should make World Big Dosa 2: World Bigger Dosa.
World Big Dosa 3: Beyond Thunderdome
 
0
Q: Implement xkcd ineffective sorts

DuhHelloYou recently had an argument with your boss over which sorting algorithm to use. Your company has been using bogosort for decades, and the boss is tired of his employees complaining to him about "O(n!)" and other stuff. You suggest that the company go for a sane sort, but your boss, who takes the...

 
8:41 PM
> The standard loopholes are allowed, but such submissions will be discounted.
?
 
This is really neat
 
I've seen neater.
 
No Rust? :(
 
I don't see Befunge on there. :(
 
How old is that? It doesn't have Go or Dart either.
 
8:44 PM
Befunge is 1993.
It was updated a bit in 1998.
 
It has PHP but it really shouldn't.
 
@El'endiaStarman I don't think it's fair to expect it to contain esolangs. :P
 
Does anyone know why the most upvoted and accepted answer in this challenge doesn't even meed the specifications?
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Q: Generate a mandelbrot fractal?

HanneshYour task is to draw the mandelbrot set in ascii. It should look something like The complex number 'C' lies in the mandelbrot set, when the function z = z^2 + c remains bounded, z starts at 0. For us, the point lies in the set if |z| < 2 (: abs(z) < 2) after 32 iterations of z = z*z + c, starti...

 
Pretty picture.
 
8:47 PM
</mods>
 
?
 
all of you are mods except me
 
@flawr OOOH PRETTY! (That's why.)
 
And flawr
 
Congrats to me for becoming mod!
 
8:47 PM
And GamrCorps.
 
P:
 
@flawr we had a brief conversation about that in The Other Room
Basically, we have no clear rule for answers that "intentionally violate the spec"
which seems strange
but our policy as per meta is "don't delete invalid answers"
 
@Doorknob That sounds like TVTropes' "The Other Wiki".
 
it's unclear whether that also means "don't delete intentionally invalid answers"
 
@Doorknob Really?
 
8:49 PM
@Doorknob Isn't it "don't intentionally delete answers"? =D
 
@AlexA. see the blue room
 
Also, does anyone have feedback for this first time user's challenge?
 
actually I'll just link it here
 
@El'endiaStarman Wait mod where?
 
blue... room?
 
8:49 PM
I'm blue babudibabudaaaa
 
@AlexA. I don't really like it very much. Hard for me to articulate why though.
 
@El'endiaStarman Same. :/
 
@flawr !!!!
 
Perhaps it's the fact that it's not really a serious challenge? Even by the low standards of this site...
 
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Q: Should answers that break the rules be deleted?

FraxtilI'm new to the review queue and I don't know what our policy is on well-intentioned answers that happen to break some of the rules stated in the question. For example, this answer was recently flagged as low-quality for including forbidden characters in the source. This particular answer might be...

cc @AlexA.
unsurprisingly, @Geobits recommends downvoting
 
8:51 PM
@TheDoctor =D
 
Does c.xkcd.com/random/comic work for anyone here? I get a timeout - main sit works though.
 
still confused on this whole mod thing
 
@minxomat status-reproduced
 
@minxomat nope not working either
 
in :chat!, 24 secs ago, by TheDoctor
vi is so hard it needs its own q/a site
 
8:52 PM
@GamrCorps @TheDoctor claimed that there were only mods in the conversation at one point. He missed flawr's message just a few messages up, and yours a few more messages up.
 
ah ok
that makes much more sense
 
> +1 for summing it all up. One thing to add: We have to be careful about deleting, because the poster may have put a lot of effort into writing their post and not saved it elsewhere.

It's been a long time since I couldn't see deleted posts so I might be remembering wrong but can't you always see your own deleted posts anyway?
i did not want that all to be a quote. oh well
 
you can
 
^
 
but there's no list
as in, you can only see your deleted posts if you have a link to them
 
8:54 PM
@undergroundmonorail All users can now see their own deleted answers from their profile page and also their own deleted questions if they have the link.
 
(or a link to the question that they were on)
(of course you can always ping a moderator, too, if you really want to find a deleted post of yours)
 
Lemme verify the deleted answers part.
 
@El'endiaStarman wasn't it "recently deleted [answers|questions]" or something?
 
@TheDoctor On first glance I thought this was about Vi Hart=)
 
8:55 PM
<3 vi hart
also vi
 
> Since June 2013, deleted questions and answers that were posted in the past 60 days, can be seen using the "deleted recent questions" and "deleted recent answers" links on the questions and answers tabs in your user profile.

For older posts: as of 23/Apr/2013 you can view your own deleted questions if you already have a link to them, but they still aren't linked from the user profiles (not even just for you). Nor do you see inbox notifications for comments on them if you come back a few hours later. You have to have thought to bookmark your question, or you have to go digging for it in y
 
/me abuses ♦ powers
 
hart = tough, not though.
 
@El'endiaStarman yeah that's what I thought
 
@flawr Same. :P
 
8:56 PM
1
A: Simulate a game of Craps

ThathaJulia, 221 bytes r()=rand(1:6)+rand(1:6);x=r();(x<4||x==11?print("Crapping out: $x"):(x%4==3?print("Natural: $x"):(println("Point: $x");while true y=r();println(y);(y==x?(print("Pass");break):(if y==7 print("Don't Pass");break;end))end)))

What
 
I bet it's @Alex's sock
 
??
 
I think I might have found Alex's true sock
 
0
Q: Simple regex parser

Filip HaglundLet's parse some regex. Not quite the regex you are used to, but the formal regular expressions taught in courses on automata theory. Wikipedia knows what I'm talking about. We have four operations. In order of priority, from highest to lowest: Parenthesis. (a) The contents of the parenthesi...

 
@Doorknob It is not.
 
8:58 PM
Alright alright it's mine don't hurt me
 
Please delete the account. I'm growing tired of people making sock puppet accounts and claiming them to be mine.
 

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