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9:02 AM
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A: Parenthifiable Binary Numbers

MegoSeriously, 20 bytes ,;2@¡@W"""10"(Æ@DWXY Outputs 0 for false and 1 for true. Try it online, with explanation.

 
Anonymous
Curse you @Vɪʜᴀɴ - I'm behind you by 2 bytes
 
That's... kinda longer than I expected from Seriously, considering
 
Anonymous
I can probably do the beginning setup better
 
I sure wish I could get one more stinking upvote on anything, because I have so many things I want to comment on.
 
Anonymous
Ooh duh
 
Anonymous
9:04 AM
Functions!
 
Anonymous
Got it to 18
 
Anonymous
Aaaand into first place I slide, with 17
 
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Q: Make a UTF-8 byte counter!

DJgamer98In this challenge, your job is to write a full program that takes a file from STDIN, and outputs the number of bytes in UTF-8. Example input: textfile.txt > myprogram.py Example output: 16 If you need a byte counter to test your program with, try this one. UTF-8 UTF-8 is a character encoding ...

 
Python, 10 bytes
 
Anonymous
@MichelfrancisBustillos I meant ranking among us mortals
 
9:10 AM
Of course
 
Anonymous
Dennis hardly counts, he is a god among men
 
"mortals", says the one with a 256-char language :P
 
Anonymous
@Sp3000 And it still can't beat Dennis.
 
Anonymous
I really should add a command to push the empty string
 
And I really should go to bed...ngiht yall
 
Anonymous
9:14 AM
Night
 
Anonymous
Sleep time for me too
 
9:38 AM
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A: Are questions in which no answer is the best allowed?

Martin BüttnerI'm with xnor on this one. The purpose of an objective winning criterion is that answers are comparable. Whether that is used to determine an overall winner or a winner per language isn't all that important. In particular, there is no obligation for anyone to mark an answer as accepted, so if we'...

 
Somehow for the last couple days I managed to forget that function answers are allowed.
This means I don't need to implement atoi to post an answer in my C++ template language.
It seems I neglected to add a way to get the first character of a string, so I can't use it anyway haha
Actually I don't need that...
 
9:59 AM
posted on November 16, 2015 by DJgamer98

In this challenge, you need to parse morgue files from the roguelike game Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup and output it to STDOUT. What are these morgue files?? When you die, a text file is generated with that character's data inside. You can see what equipment the character had, what happened during the last few turns, and how many monsters he has killed. You can find

 
10:53 AM
Here's something interesting I didn't mean to implement in Vitsy - it has special cases for x/0.
With the code 0/N, on input 0 it will output NaN. If it's positive non-zero, it'll print Infinity. Negatives, -Infinity.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Howabout that for weird code?
 
Isn't that normal? JS and all
 
Java, and no - it should throw an ArithmeticException or DivideByZeroException.
Oho. It's fine with doubles though. That's probably it.
@Calvin'sHobbies 46 - and also, #blamethebots.
 
11:33 AM
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Q: Make Destarring (or a version of it) Accessible to All Users, Not Just Room-Owners and Moderators

VoteToCloseThe most starred item in ALL of chat.SE, EVER, according to this message, is: okay seriously stop abusing stars (link) (it got more stars after it was posted, it now happily sits at a good 47 stars) Obviously, chat starring is a little abused. The starboard can be filled with spam by star...

That was a quick downvote. o-o
@Dennis There are two Denni?
 
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Q: String to ASCII Art Text

VoteToCloseThe Task You are to write some ASCII Art Text as seen from this website for generating ASCII art! Rules Input will only be alphabetical text and spaces, and will be input as a single line. You needn't fix if the output text is longer than the terminal width. As long as it would be correct if ...

 
12:05 PM
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Q: Remove the hyphenation

sanchisesTime for a new typography challenge! It’s a common problem when copy-pasting between various document formats: hyphenation. While it reduces the raggedness of a left-aligned layout or evens spacing in a justified layout, it’s a complete pain when your PDF is not properly constructed and retains t...

 
12:22 PM
@MrTanBrunet Thanks, I was just about to delete it.
 
12:41 PM
Are you supposed to be able to star your own questions?
 
What would be the point of that?
 
why should your own questions not be allowed to appear on your favourite questions tab?
(ignoring the fact that the favourite questions feature is fairly useless and broken anyway)
 
1:01 PM
And the name is misleading. It is not so much "favorite" as "follow updates".
 
no, the problem is that it's exactly that... it's just favourite... it doesn't really help at all in following updates. of course the featured tab highlights questions with changes since last you opened it, but what I'd really want is to be notified if something gets an answer which I deemed to be worthy of a star.
 
What does it do?
Does it send emails?
 
it doesn't do anything
except list the question in your favourite tab
 
1:26 PM
@VoteToClose ?
 
There were multiple Denni in the room.
 
@MartinBüttner any thought on the "home work problem" reason for VTC off topic?
 
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Q: How to compile/score answers in .NET languages, specifically VB.NET

JensI recently submitted an answer to a code-golf question in VB.NET, and one comment pointed out that I could omit two System. statements from the code, because it would compile fine without them. See here: http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/63945/20520 The problem here is, that the code would no...

 
@VoteToClose Dennises
@Optimizer I'm not sure that it's the "being homework" that makes it off-topic. I also don't think it's worth using one of our precious custom VTC reason slots for it.
 
1:42 PM
I didn't find anyone perfect fit
or even close
which one you think fits best?
@Geobits the thing is that we use the same scarf. Its colored red on one side and grey/black pattern on other ;)
 
@Optimizer you could write your own
 
@MartinBüttner that's what I've been doing mostly.
 
2:00 PM
does anyone have feedback for meta.codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/7482/8478 ?
 
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A: Defeat SVGCaptcha

DennisCJam, 26 bytes q"x="/2>{'"/1=i}${'>/1=c}/ Try it online in the CJam interpreter. How it works q e# Read all input from STDIN. "x="/ e# Split it at occurrences of "x=". 2> e# Discard the first two chunks (head and container). { e# Sort the remaining chunks by the following key: '...

dennis strikes again
 
@MartinBüttner Just a nitpick: The only meaningful characters are: [...] and spaces. The list already contains a space.
 
Is 0 the complement of 1, or is it -2?
 
Depends if it's logical or bitwise
 
Which is which?
 
2:15 PM
Respectively
 
@Dennis oh, that was an accident
 
.. 0 is logical? Or the inverse?
 
logical_not(1) == 0; bitwise_not(1) == -2
that is, in many languages !1 == 0; ~1 == -2
 
Oh, ok. Thanks to both of you
 
@Dennis looks good otherwise?
 
2:26 PM
@MartinBüttner I'm not sure what exactly counts as optimizing towards the test cases. If I try several ideas, I'll obviously stick with the one that gives the lowest score.
 
It's fine if you include include ideas that are optimised towards test cases which are structured similarly, just not those specific ones at hand.
That is, trying to factor an integer to print it more efficiently as a single number (the first big integer has only small prime factors) seems like a good idea in general and it's fine (and by the test case encouraged) to use that, because it would still perform similarly if I swapped out that test case for a different number generated the same way.
I might try to clarify that.
 
So what's forbidden is just if input == x: print y?
 
I don't like the idea of including an integer with small prime factors.
 
@Dennis or obscured versions of that
 
This really forces one to optimize for the test cases.
The input being an easily factored number is a very specialized type of input.
 
2:32 PM
@feersum since the languages has a "print an integer" command, I think any decent metagolfer should try building up larger numbers and printing them at once, instead of printing each digit separately, and easily factorable integers seem like the best and most generic choice for that
it's not like I'm asking you to metagolf 112358132134...
 
@MartinBüttner And what is the significance of that?
 
that you have a point that one could overdo it with the patterns in the test cases, but ignoring the possibility of easily golfable (individual) numbers seems like losing an interesting part of the challenge to me
(I was sort of hoping for a counter argument)
(Or better suggestion for how to make sure golfing integers remains an interesting part of the challenge)
 
If you really like that, you could make the challenge digit sequences only.
 
I suppose, in a way they characters already cover that, because some code points have smaller prime factors than others.
 
If it was random text I'd probably encode them in base 3 or 4.
 
2:47 PM
Bit of a note with Starry though: encoding is expensive
(Since the cost of pushing is much greater than that of an operator)
 
I've removed the test case with the single integer with small factors now and replaced the one that contained factorable integers in an alphanumeric string with a new one where the integers are just random digits
 
@MartinBüttner What do you get if you use the , instruction?
 
oh, good question
an error, afaict
I'll disallow its use for the challenge.
 
What about outputting char codes >= 256?
 
throws an error, but if it didn't it wouldn't produce the required output because the string is limited to printable ASCII
 
2:57 PM
It could be like C for example, where you get the lower 8 bits.
 
wof wof
 
@Doorknob Congrats for having the most starred message in chat.SE!
 
lolz
 
@feersum clarified both of those things
 
@VoteToClose watch as martin invalidates all the stars
 
3:19 PM
Can someone test this
You'll need to have g++ installed.
 
> Templates Considered Harmful

OH MY GOSH I NEED TO TRY THIS!!!
 
lol
 
@feersum I'd totally upvote it, but I have no clue how that program, or your language works :/
@Dennis I've clarified the hardcoding thing. would you mind having another look?
 
I just want to make sure it works.
I want to write a description of what it does when I post a less trivial program.
 
you could at least mention if it expects finite input and works with null bytes ;)
 
3:24 PM
@MartinBüttner I think it's clear now.
 
thanks
 
All right...I added a description.
 
All right...I upvoted.
 
some languages.... "Half-Broken Car in Heavy Traffic"
"Mornington Crescent"
"𝔼𝕊𝕄𝕚𝕟"
"C--"
"ಠ_ಠ"
 
"You are Reading the Name of this Esolang"
"A programming language is a formal constructed language designed to communicate instructions to a machine, particularly a computer."
"Poochiewuddledumpling-Boobledarling"
 
3:31 PM
"Real Fast Nora's Hair Salon 3: Shear Disaster Download"
 
"itflabtijtslwi" short for "ignore this fancy little acronym, because this is just that slashes language with input"
 
"I hate your bf-derivative really I do"
 
"Wombat"
 
"The Multi-Million Language Project To End All Language Projects And Isn't That A Fine Name For A Language"
^^ that last one is a real pain to score, btw
 
3:33 PM
Guys, I'm scared ... It's only been a couple days, but PowerShell is winning a challenge ... the end times are nigh!
 
"Knight Shuffling Tower"
"My Unreliable Past"
"Ultimate Programming Language to Take Over a Prison, Then He World"
 
teh end is nig
 
check out the hello world for this one: esolangs.org/wiki/…
 
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Q: Fill in the path

EridanWrite a program that fills in the paths of a grid of characters (ASCII 20-7E) according to the following rules. The path is governed by eight directional characters: -, |, /, \, &, @, %, and *, as specified in the table below. The direction of the path will change when it reaches one of the eigh...

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Q: Starry Metagolf

Martin BüttnerStarry is a funny esoteric programming language in which code consists only of +*.,`' where the actual command represented by each of those characters is determined by the number of spaces in front of it. That makes it tricky even to golf fixed-output challenges, because different commands can ac...

 
3:41 PM
while bool one do
  inputc
  print one
done
> This program prints characters out of the standard input. The characters are printed in an approximative order, some of them are lost and a few numbers between 1 and 9 are inserted randomly, but on the plus side, end of file is handled correctly.
 
3:52 PM
That Dennis is not one of ours
Dennis, Netherlands
1 1
Hmm...
 
Its a sock!
 
101 1
Dennis, London, United Kingdom
101 2
Dennis, Rochester, NY
1 1
That's a lot of socks
 
CODEBLOCKS WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO MY SYNTAX HIGHLIGHTING
 
one sock for each foot?
 
._.
 
4:01 PM
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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Christian IrwanList Style Converter [code:golf] Task Given a list, format it into list of the choice of the input. The list will be list of item defined below, but it can be multidimensional. List Styles There is 2 list separators: Space Comma For one dimensional list, only one separator is accepted. Sp...

 
@PhiNotPi How many feet do you think I have?
 
@Dennis ¯\(°_o)/¯
 
WE WERE RIGHT ALL ALONG
 
Octodennipi
 
4:05 PM
ipi?
 
Seems like the right way to pluralize octodennipus to me.
 
ii
Octodennii
 
Why double i? Usually it doesn't make much sense that way, and I wouldn't ever spell it octopii.
 
radius -> radii
 
There ¡s also "octodennipodes"
 
4:09 PM
@Optimizer it's not "radipus" though
definitely "octodennipodes"
 
@MartinBüttner oh, octopus? I was pluralizing dennis
 
Octodennipodes works for sure :P
 
@Optimizer dennises...
 
You should be pluralizing octodennipus.
 
dennisens
 
4:10 PM
dennizen
 
Plural of Dennis is Dennes.
 
^ that sounds about right
 
Plural of Dennis should be Menace
too many dennis -> automatic menace.
 
One Dennis is not a menace?
 
I think that's what you call a group of them. A menace of Dennises.
 
4:12 PM
a menace of Dennes
@feersum times have changed
 
That Dennis is a menace all his own. Kinda like a one man army.
 
Thus, Dennis, The menace
 
@Dennis lmao
 
you guys use vacuum cleaners?
 
4:21 PM
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Q: Figure out the language

thomasmfI recently watched a documentary where they talked about messages sent into space and how they imagined aliens figuring out how to understand them. They used math and geometry in clever ways. I wonder if it may be possible to use programming to send such messages. The question is then if it is ...

 
@NewMainPosts Do you use vacuum cleaners?
 
I normally only use one at a time. Is that good for the purpose of the question?
 
nah :D
what do you mean by 1 at a time?
 
I've just never needed to dual-wield them, that's all.
 
you anyways need two lives to reach level 100 to have dual wield ability
 
4:28 PM
You know, I'm starting to wonder if we should get rid of the tag
I just went through the posts with it
The last non-closed one was a year and a half ago
Makes you think doesn't it
 
You're not the first to wonder about that.
 
It's abused way too much (primarily because people assume it is a primary tag from the title of the site)
 
Ideally, it is a primary tag.
 
emphasis on ideally
 
"ideally"
ninja'd
 
4:31 PM
Well, it's not the tag's fault people suck at writing good puzzles.
 
I think the expectations are different for a first timer wrt the tag
and the rest of the users
 
Agreed
 
its like the "figure of this anime" tag on anime.se
 
"I saw this show once that had robots. It was a while ago. Help?"
 
yeah, I think general conception is that programming-puzzles is also supposed to be like that
:D
but for programming things
 
4:36 PM
is even worse.
 
haha true
 
Plz help, I have challenge writing this codes.
 
2.5*code size? must be code-challenge
 
@feersum The difference as I see it is that is actually a good tag when used correctly. just seems kinda useless.
I haven't seen any good puzzles.
And it just doesn't fit the spirit of the site (at least now)
 
Challenge is worse wrt new users' expectations.
 
4:38 PM
Maybe we should rename to
Since calvinball is different every time... get it?... ha.... sighs
 
Why is there no calvinball koth yet anyway? :P
 
I second this motion
 
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A: What does the puzzle tag mean?

Peter TaylorTags have auto-complete, so the tradeoff between a shorter tag vs a clearer tag is definitely in favour of the clearer tag. With that in mind, I propose eliminating the puzzle tag entirely in favour of programming-puzzle and puzzle-solver. undergroundmonorail's proposed definition suits programm...

 
calvinball?
 
Calvin and Hobbes is a daily comic strip by American cartoonist Bill Watterson that was syndicated from November 18, 1985 to December 31, 1995. It follows the humorous antics of Calvin, a precocious, mischievous, and adventurous six-year-old boy, and Hobbes, his sardonic stuffed tiger. The pair is named after John Calvin, a 16th-century French Reformation theologian, and Thomas Hobbes, a 17th-century English political philosopher. At the height of its popularity, Calvin and Hobbes was featured in over 2,400 newspapers worldwide. As of January 2015, reruns of the strip still appear in more than...
 
4:40 PM
 
@quartata Is that like Phoebeball?
 
Some answers on workplace.se seem like they're trying to teach aliens how to interact with humans...
 
Most of the HNQ questions for Academia are like that.
 
read as "teach clients how to interact with UI"
 
Calvin and Hobbes is a daily comic strip by American cartoonist Bill Watterson that was syndicated from November 18, 1985 to December 31, 1995. It follows the humorous antics of Calvin, a precocious, mischievous, and adventurous six-year-old boy, and Hobbes, his sardonic stuffed tiger. The pair is named after John Calvin, a 16th-century French Reformation theologian, and Thomas Hobbes, a 17th-century English political philosopher. At the height of its popularity, Calvin and Hobbes was featured in over 2,400 newspapers worldwide. As of January 2015, reruns of the strip still appear in more than...
 
4:43 PM
Yes, that sounds exactly like Phoebeball.
 
Its also like a DragonBall
(while we are at it)
 
Shen Long would weep to hear that.
 
Legen... wait for it...
 
Shen Long is long dead
Also, its "Shenron"
 
Eh, that depends on how much romanization you throw at it.
 
4:49 PM
its japanese at its core
@MartinBüttner ...dary
 
Well, it's based on a Chinese dragon, so...
IIRC the English version manga has Shen Long, and the show has Shenron. I could have those mixed up though.
 
@Optimizer so much impatience.
When I said "wait for it", I meant it.
 
Legendary
dary Legen
I am very impatient
 
(could take up to 7 hours, for all I know)
 
or one whole season
 
4:51 PM
legendary -> randy glee
 
@Geobits I knew it!
@MartinBüttner what is it ?
 
Legen-dairy -- noun -- A fantastical and truly remarkable bovine.
2
 
le genderi -> bathroom divisions in France
 
Logan diary! Get your daily supply of fresh milk with healing powers here!
 
We've known it for quite some time, but now it's official: @MartinBüttner is legendary. Congratulations!
17
 
5:00 PM
...dary
@Dennis thanks :)
haha, "Awarded 17h ago"
 
scratches head
Seems like the cronjob also thinks it only runs once a day.
 
and before the condition is actually met :P
 
Congrats, Martin!
 
thank you
 
Congratulations, @MartinBüttner!
 
5:08 PM
Is there something like a portable version of Ruby? (Something that I don't have to install and where I can run Ruby programs...)
 
phusion.github.io/traveling-ruby or if you're looking for online interpreters ideone is running 2.1, as is codingground and repl.it is running 2.2
 
is that the "I have no life" badge? ^_^
 
And, how would I get github.com/mbuettner/labyrinth to run on one of the online interpreters?
 
@Stefnotch oh right, that's an issue because you'd need to put the Labyrinth source file somewhere (although I think codingground can do that)
 
Also, can somebody give me a quick description of Haskell?
 
5:18 PM
@Stefnotch what's wrong with installing ruby?
(oh my total rep has rotational symmetry, at least on a 7-segment display :))
 
I would have no big problem with installing it, the problem is uninstalling it. Pretty much any program leaves some stuff over when you uninstall it...that is how I once managed to make my Laptop so slow that you would think Windows is written in Java! :P

Cool!
 
@Dennis I can't believe I didn't realize that echo ^G would work...
Thanks for that.
Hey, now the bash answer is the second shortest.
 
@MartinBüttner Another 500 and you'll hit 100k network wide :D
 
oh, nice :)
 
@quartata Writing production code poisoned you. :P
 
5:22 PM
@Dennis D:
I thought so many unprintables in Rotor would make me better at that
 
@Stefnotch Why would anyone want to uninstall Ruby? :P
 
Damn FakeASM though
I don't think there's anything better than that.
I'd make an SNES assembly answer to that except it doesn't have a stack which is currently the only "acceptable" machine code I/O method apparently
hmph
Hold up I'm an idiot
8
It does have one
It's just a pain in the ass to use
sigh
Now if I could use the accumulator then we'd be cooking
 
Uhm, what command do you have to use to execute a Ruby project from the command line?
 
@Stefnotch ruby
 
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A: Programming in Minecraft (Redstone) - how to measure program size?

Calvin's HobbiesMinimal Bounding Cuboid Volume Only for things without Command Blocks! The volume includes any air blocks, non-solid blocks, and blocks that are supporting redstone dust or other components. This is the simplest and most natural way to score Minecraft submissions. It's a direct measure of spac...

 
5:30 PM
@MartinBüttner Quick description of J
Still don't understand them
Actually strike that I don't understand J's verbs period
Are they like APL's trains? I don't pls
 
There are tacit and explicit verbs. Tacit verbs are like APL's trains, explicit verbs like APL's "normal" functions.
More accurately: APL's trains are like J's tacit verbs. They stole took the idea from J.
 
@Stefnotch ruby labyrinth.rb examples/hello-world.lab
or echo "-10" | ruby labyrinth.rb examples/abs.lab
 
Ok!
 
I think we can safely add "quartata is an idiot" to the PPCG memes.
 
@mınxomaτ I'm an idiot.
 
5:37 PM
Oct 29 at 2:17, by quartata
I'm an idiot
The only one that counts :P
 
LOL! XD
@Mods, read the rest! (Reverse psychology)
Why don't we add the profile pics of the mods to the memes?
 
@Dennis Also this
 
Prior art:
Apr 18 at 2:19, by Doorknob
I'm an idiot
 
HAI 1.3
OBTW
GIMMEH A N
GIMMEH A I
GIMMEH A N
GIMMEH A E
GIMMEH A T
GIMMEH A E
GIMMEH A E
GIMMEH A N
GIMMEH A T
GIMMEH A H
GIMMEH A B
GIMMEH A Y
GIMMEH A T
GIMMEH A E
TLDR
VISIBLE "NINETEENTH BYTE"
KTHXBYE
The song of my people
I hope the reason why chat just went silent is because you're all laughing
 
@quartata song of idiots?
 
5:45 PM
The song of us
Our cheer
Our battle cry or somethin
 
war against bytes
volume 19
 
LOL! XD
How do you use the -D flag?
^^Labyrinth
Oh!
 
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A: Implement a Truth-Machine

VoteToCloseMinecraft, 18 Bytes (MC Version 15w45a) As you can see, there is a lever directed into the repeating command block, which has the command say 1 in it. There is an signal inverting torch on top of that, which directs power into the single-run command block with the command say 0 in it. Wheneve...

I didn't notice this until today
I like dis
 

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