The Nineteenth Byte

quartata

10:00 PM

@AlexA. No contest there.

Dennis

Alex A.

I'm stuck pretty bad. — harshath.jr Jan 9 '10 at 19:57

I'm stuck pretty good. — John Rudy Jan 10 '10 at 7:02

I was very disappointed to find that Welbog's personal blog is much more serious than his Meta.SE contributions.

FlagAsSpam

@El'endiaStarman You told me to refactor it.

So I did.

It's 7.6 kB shorter.

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See: this vs. this

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For this challenge, you need to make some type of file that can stand alone, and the file should be able to play an mp3 file without the mp3 file being there. What I mean by this is i would be able to put an mp3 into it, and when sent to some body else's computer it would play the audio without t...

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@FlagAsSpam refactoring != golfing

El'endia Starman

10:13 PM

@FlagAsSpam I'm having a hard time seeing the difference, actually.

I wish there was a way to see the diff online.

FlagAsSpam

github.com/VTCAKAVSMoACE/Vitsy/blob/master/src/com/VTC/vitsy/…

github.com/VTCAKAVSMoACE/Vitsy/blob/…

Doorknob

@El'endiaStarman There is

FlagAsSpam

^^ Difference.

Doorknob

That's not a diff -_-

FlagAsSpam

No - but it's what I meant by refactoring.

El'endia Starman

10:16 PM

@Doorknob Ah-ha, thanks.

GitHub's help page is old. >_<

Anyway, yeah, looks way better.

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Is factoring not good enough anymore? Does it have to be refactoring for you?

Doorknob

wow, my school wifi is literally an order of magnitude faster than my wifi at home

Alex A.

@Doorknob I think that's the opposite situation for many schools. :P

El'endia Starman

10:32 PM

^ :P

...shoot. I decided last night what command I was going to assign to U in Minkolang...in bed, before falling asleep. And now I can't remember what I decided.

anOKsquirrel

hmm

Thomas Kwa

"Eval code as Unlambda code until the next U".

anOKsquirrel

I haven't been here in a while

El'endia Starman

[gasp] PPCG is down for me! D:

anOKsquirrel

D:

El'endia Starman

10:39 PM

...not anymore.

anOKsquirrel

I like writing cg languages, but not really golfing

know why?

I like CJam.

So does everybody else.

so I always get ninjad

Doorknob

@anOKsquirrel [citation-needed]

El'endia Starman

^

Thomas Kwa

I don't CJam.

anOKsquirrel

@Doorknob okay, a lot of people

El'endia Starman

10:40 PM

I've never written code in CJam. Or Pyth, for that matter.

Thomas Kwa

> Or Pyth, for that matter.

anOKsquirrel

tbh I'm writing my own language so I can be the best at it, and not get ninjad all the time

Thomas Kwa

I thought everyone here Pyth

anOKsquirrel

why would you pyth?

Doorknob

I've almost never used CJam nor Pyth.

Dennis

10:42 PM

@Doorknob I don't think you have ever pythed.

Me neither.

hm

Who created pyth?

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RikerW

Okay.

Alex A.

10:42 PM

I'm one of two people who almost exclusively post Julia answers. :P

El'endia Starman

And CJam was created by aditsu.

Hmm. Neither of them capitalize any of their name.

RikerW

I knew that

And that they don't capitalize their name.

@AlexA. I didn't realize that. I am working on learning julia, but I am horrible.

Alex A.

@RikerW Are you learning it for golfing or general use?

RikerW

Neither really. I sort of know like 10 languages, but I forgot most. I just learn them to see if I like them.

Alex A.

Ah, okay.

It's a neat language.

RikerW

10:45 PM

The only ones I ever stuck with were Python and a couple others.

Alex A.

I'm pretty lukewarm on Python.

Doorknob

Alex has poked me to learn Julia before, but I still haven't gotten around to it. :P

RikerW

I like langs without braces for functions and classes.

Alex A.

@Doorknob ಠ_ಠ

Thomas Kwa

@AlexA. Elaborate?

Alex A.

10:46 PM

@RikerW Have you tried Ruby?

RikerW

@Doorknob I can imagine that.

Yes. I failed miserably.

This is a remnant from when I was 9:

def rot13(value)return value.tr("a-z", "n-za-m")end
C=`stty size`.scan(/\d+/)[1].to_i;S=["2743".to_i(16)].pack("U*");a={};loop{a[rand(C)]=0;a.each{|x,o|;a[x]+=1; print rot13("Is lbh pna ernq guvf, lbh pna ernq! 😸 ")};$stdout.flush;sleep 0.1}

Alex A.

@ThomasKwa I don't like the syntax or its rules but otherwise I have no issues with it.

RikerW

I made that for April fools day.

Alex A.

@RikerW You wrote that when you were 9 years old?

RikerW

Yes.

Alex A.

10:47 PM

How old are you now?

(if you don't mind me asking)

RikerW

stalker much? its okay. Read my profile description.

What about you?

103?

Doorknob

@AlexA. I'm working with Sugar for GCI, and they use Python for everything. PyGTK/PyGObject is actually really pleasant to use.

quartata

Hm, do I have any code from another era I can show

RikerW

@Doorknob @Doorknob, never used that. What do they do?

Thomas Kwa

@RikerW I think I'll go to Claremont, CA and ask everyone I see how old Riker W is.

Doorknob

10:49 PM

@RikerW They're GTK bindings for Python.

Alex A.

@RikerW It just says you're from California... And I don't mean to stalk, I was just impressed that someone 9 years of age could write coherent code.

RikerW

Okay. I don't really care too much.

Define coherent.

Alex A.

@RikerW Close! Subtract 3 and divide by 4.

quartata

@Doorknob BINDINGS THAT WE WERE SUPPOSED TO HAVE BUILTIN

PYTHON 3 WHY

RikerW

@AlexA. Younger than I expected

quartata

10:50 PM

;_; ;_;

@RikerW ?

Alex A.

@RikerW O rly? Did you think I was some old curmudgeon?

quartata

That's about the average age of us filthy plebians here at PPCG.

@AlexA. I think it was because of the obsession with Julia

RikerW

@AlexA. Yes actually. Given that alex-is-wrong

quartata

@RikerW Well sadly he isn't. @Geobits is a different story though.

Doorknob

@quartata Sure about that? I actually know that there's quite a few people here who are around my age.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

10:51 PM

@quartata wait wat

quartata

> average

anOKsquirrel

github.com/an-OK-squirrel/scg isn't good enough for actually cging but I dont know what else it needs

Doorknob

yes, I can read

RikerW

@Doorknob Including me.

Alex A.

And then there's edc65.

Doorknob

10:51 PM

@Doorknob (sometimes)

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@Doorknob how old are you iydmma?

Doorknob

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ iydmma?

RikerW

@quartata That is the coolest emoticon I have seen.

quartata

@Doorknob Well, if you weigh in the old curmudgeons Peter and Geobits it balances out about

Doorknob

haha

Alex A.

10:52 PM

@quartata Geobits is a lot younger than I expected. He's my sister's age.

anOKsquirrel

who owns this room?

quartata

@AlexA. Really?

RikerW

How old is your sister?

quartata

But... he has Minibits

Alex A.

@quartata My sister is significantly older than me, granted. Eight years, to be exact.

RikerW

10:52 PM

She is 33

Alex A.

Yes

quartata

@AlexA. That makes more sense

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@Doorknob If you don't mind me asking

Alex A.

@quartata My friend from high school has a son a few years ago.

RikerW

So does geobits downvote everything because he is so old?

quartata

10:53 PM

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ He's 14. Just pre-empting you

Alex A.

Haha 33 isn't old.

If it is, don't tell my sister.

Doorknob

What quart-of-potatoes said

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Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

whoa

and you're a mod! congrats!

Alex A.

And he's been a mod for quite long thyme

anOKsquirrel

who?

Thomas Kwa

10:54 PM

@RikerW Geobits actually upvotes almost as much as he downvotes.

RikerW

If he disagrees with that name, delete him.

Alex A.

@anOKsquirrel Knobs

anOKsquirrel

@AlexA. oh

RikerW

@ThomasKwa That is a scary thought.

Doorknob

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ thanks :)

Alex A.

10:55 PM

@ThomasKwa Yep. His proportion is about even.

Dennis

That's odd.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@Dennis I see what you did there.

Doorknob

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According to urban legend, his single upvote was a misclick

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Alex A.

@Doorknob Were you even old enough to legally be a Stack Exchange user per the TOS when you were appointed moderator?

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

wat

Alex A.

10:56 PM

@Doorknob SEATTLE REPRESENT

anOKsquirrel

@AlexA. afaik there is no age limit?

Doorknob

Dennis

Whoa!

Alex A.

@anOKsquirrel Yes there is.

anOKsquirrel

@AlexA. which is?

Dennis

10:56 PM

The minimum is 13.

For legal reasons.

anOKsquirrel

as with other sites, i suppose

Alex A.

@Doorknob @Geobits has a new life goal.

RikerW

How long has @Doorknob been a moderator?

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@Doorknob sᴏ... ɢᴇᴏʙɪᴛs' sᴏᴄᴋ?

RikerW

@AlexA. He needs a new account for that.

Doorknob

10:57 PM

@AlexA. Yes. Technically I created my account before I was 13, but through some hand-wavy stuff with my parents creating my account for me or some other, it ended up alright

Dennis

@RikerW He was appointed May 9, 2014.

RikerW

So he was very close to my age...

Alex A.

@Doorknob Nice. :) Well regardless of how it happened, I'm quite glad to have you here.

anOKsquirrel

I can't see why being under 13 is actually a problem. legality and stuff, but it's not something that you could get banned for :P

Doorknob

@anOKsquirrel yes it is

coppa.org

Alex A.