that's how I interpreted this, anyway

@trichoplax Might be a natural language problem, but to me, factor implies multiplication.

@Dennis The original wording literally means that, but I suspected it wasn't the intention, and Conor's reply seemed to confirm it

It was the redundant use of "constant" which made me wonder, even though that still means multiplication

I got lost earlier than that, with the difference between "N bytes longer" and "N times as long"

@ConorO'Brien?

N bytes longer: arithmetic progression. N times as long: geometric progression

@trichoplax Ah, of course. Thanks. I had read "N times longer" and "N times as long" :-D

Ah yes - those would be the same :)

I was beginning to suspect of my English-language abilities :-D

@Mego If anyone wants to go through all 30 answers and check whether that rule is actually used, then if it isn't could we just edit out that rule to avoid the need to close?

And maybe remove quine and the reference to quines in the title too...

@trichoplax "N bytes longer, where N is the current length" :P

@Dennis huh?

oh

Wait - Dennis' answer was just accepted, which means PyRulez is active - we can just suggest the edit to them

arithemtic progression

That word sounds strangely therapeutic

Is HQ9+ a programming language by our standards? Can primality be tested just using "increment the accumulator"?

There is no accumulator. The challenge predates our definition of programming language though.

@LuisMendo I'm pretty sure Seriously is a superset of HQ9+

@Dennis But esolang says so...?

@LuisMendo And there's HQ9++, which is object-oriented.

Spolier: It's not object oriented.

Hm. I see :-D

@ConorO'Brien It is. Inspite of its name

There seem to be several answers depending on error messages, so they don't output anything to stdout

@Mego oh. well, it's pretty close

@Dennis Did GS2 exist at the time of the challenge?

@JonathanAllan Uh, I think. Let me check.

trasported to git then?

OK, seems to have, although don't know when it was actually created: esolangs.org/w/…

@Mego You should unimplement seriously's + for backwards compatibility

cool :)

wipes sweat off forehead

oh initial commit on git 25 Dec 2013 I went wrong somewhere there

I thought it must have been transferred to git

Why exactly is this getting closed as "unclear what you're asking"?

But why "unclear"? That's what bothers me. If you're going to close something do it right

"Off-topic" makes more sense by that reasoning

It's pretty cool, but it's not a bug report, feature request, discussion or support question. I guess unclear what you're asking fits the bill if you can't find the question in a question.

I voted it as unclear, because I don't know what it's asking, if anything.

Better close this one

FTR, I don't even think the stats as posted are useful, due to concerns posted in comments.

Well, I suppose that one is a little different

ninja'd

@Geobits Yeah, I read it a bit more carefully...

I don't think it really should be closed though, that doesn't make a lot of sense

@Mego Especially coal miner penguins

Do meta questions need to be questions?

Sometimes. It's stupidly grey.

@Geobits You say "grey", not "gray"?

There was "What are my golfing languages" which seemed a similar post but phrased as a question

@trichoplax Usually. It's my concession to the UK. I like to give back, since they've provided me with quality entertainment.

Intentional entertainment...?

Yes. I like a few British TV series :D

I think site statistics should be on-topic in meta. There are concerns over this particular thread's methodology, but I'm talking about site statistics in general.

I wish Misfits was still decent :/

I never got around to watching that

Stop after a few seasons. It's less painful that way.

I'd say the same for Being Human

Oh, I haven't seen that yet.

It's a great idea but then it drifted off after a while

The "question" can be implicit for informational posts. If there's a graph depicting "bytes per post over number of posts" then the question is implicitly "how does the number of answers in a language correspond to lengths of the answers?"

The Wrong Mans was good too. Saw that thanks to Hulu.

I suspect you've seen more British television than me...

Yeah, I'm all cultural and stuff >_>

> If you represent the central or local administration, you can request the creation of the necessary number of projects. For this purpose, you can contact the department of "Modernization of the administration" of the Administration of the Council of Ministers, or to create a new github issue here.

@PhiNotPi I don't often VTC them, and I didn't this one the first couple times I saw it. I'm just not sure what it's trying to convey (or more pointedly, to what purpose).

Bulgaria's bureaucray!

@noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC Sounds like Brazil.

@mbomb007 Huh, on the side bar, for me, where it says "starred / show all 20041". Maybe that's not all of them.

That's the number of starred messages. The 52k+ is the number of stars.

But clicking on that link does show 52.k

ahhhhhh

Well, we just hit 20k starred messages :P

@Geobits Is Marky up?

Might bring in the Laff-O-Tron after a long hiatus

You want him in beep or block?

Whatever

Ok, I'll put him in The Block. He's an owner there, so he can keep Laffy in line ;)

Good idea

@Geobits you watched Peep Show? Or what about Fresh Meat?

British quality.

Fresh Meat yes, Peep Show no.

Ah, you have a lot there 54 episodes of gold

> [company] has a temporary opening for an expert level computer programmer/analyst with specific expertise and proficiency in the Python programming language fro software development purposes (this is not web application development).

this saddens me

wat