@KennyLau I would but I don't know what it is

@QPaysTaxes No way, Old French must be younger than Vulgar Latin

@aditsu Programming Puzzles and Code Jam?

@QPaysTaxes I don't get the joke lol

lol

I thought Gaul should be Celtic in 63AD?

@MarsUltor dang, I'm too tired

@KennyLau Probably why he was complaining about the unfamiliar Old French

@QPaysTaxes Well there isn't "Old French" before 9th century.

It must be Latin.

@KennyLau it was discussed above, look for bowties

@QPaysTaxes :D

@aditsu alright, I'll try it first.

I'm trying to come up with a decent Haskell answer to codegolf.stackexchange.com/q/77784/47581, but my lack of Haskell knowledge is defeating me

@Sherlock9 Just translate others' solutions into Haskell

That's the plan, and that's the part that's defeating me :D

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           Jakube     200
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             xsot     130
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         PhiNotPi     116
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@Sherlock9 There's a Haskell answer there too, you can take it as reference

I'm trying to translate my own Ruby solution

Dang, must have missed it

I decided to take a try at aggregating a leaderboard, taking all rounds of GCJ 2016 so far.

(Well, only two of them.)

@zyabin101 ;_; I am last

@Sherlock9 Where are you stuck at?

Well, now I'd rather just learn what nimi meant by <$>

@zyabin101 well, that's not gonna work very well with rounds 1B and 1C

@feersum Nice work :) hifive

Found it in the golfing tips

@Sp3000 Thanks. You got the full points too, correct?

Yeah, but if you were done by the halfway point that means you got C relatively quickly, so nice :)

@Sherlock9 stackoverflow.com/a/1290727/6211883

@QPaysTaxes You'd probably like The Power of Babel. It's a great book on linguistics and wasn't dry or boring at all. (At least, not for me.)

I didn't get it that quickly. I made a wrong solution at first, but it was caught by the examples.

@Downgoat ^^ Babel

I should name the Babble docs The Power of Babble

@MarsUltor Different Babel. :P

@KennyLau Thanks for the help :D

@Doorknob Haha, yes! :P

@El'endiaStarman I know

@Sherlock9 welcome

@Doorknob Next crossover language: Altavista Babel><>

@QPaysTaxes You know I still cruise the Information Superhighway through Altavista on Netscape Navigator, son.

haha

I don't actually use Netscape Navigator or Altavista

or Usenet

I don't know what that is

@QPaysTaxes BBS?

Bing? strawpoll.me/7384742

Aren't the xkcd forums an example of a BBS?

(Speaking of ><>, if anyone's wondering I am doing that code review right now, it'll just take a few hours)

@QPaysTaxes There used to be a link to it from the home page, but it was removed for some reason. forums.xkcd.com

@Sp3000 I actually was wondering. Looking forward to seeing it. :)

Yeah.

Why do all GNU sites look like complete 1990s garbage?

@Sp3000 You can get full points on code jam but it takes hours to review a small bit of code? .-.

:P

@QPaysTaxes Knowing Netscape Navigator and Altavista doesn't make you old. When I started with computers, HTML didn't even exist yet.

Oh yeah, congrats on making it to round 2, @Sp3000!

@QPaysTaxes That's Dennis, not Jesus.

fair enough

@QPaysTaxes Not is that Dennis Jesus

(I disagree. :P)

for the record I stopped working on problem C

@HelkaHomba Dennis Christ. He golfed for our sins.

might continue later, but bored right now

@QPaysTaxes HTML is that young?!

Holy cow. I was born in 1992.

@QPaysTaxes Oh, to be 27 again...

Meh, the Cold War was still happening when I was born

@El'endiaStarman 1992 years after christ?

@orlp Ish. :P

@El'endiaStarman bit late to the party then, 'eh?

@QPaysTaxes right

What's weird to me is meeting teenagers who were born after 9/11.

Like, that was a hugely important event when I was younger.

^

@El'endiaStarman 9 november?

@orlp September 11.

@El'endiaStarman Though I don't feel I appreciated 9/11's magnitude till I was much older

@HelkaHomba Yeah, me neither.

I would've been 8 or 9. Third grade, I think.

@HelkaHomba ><> code reviewing is srsbsns

@HelkaHomba Was that the same year as the Nisqually Quake?

2001? I think so

why is 9/11 so important if 10x the amount of people die in car crashes every year

@Sp3000 @Mego Feature request: Package manager for Seriously called srsbsns

@orlp Terrorist attack on a world superpower?

@orlp Car crashes are almost always accidents

@HelkaHomba That was a rough year

A superpower that's protected in part by two massive oceans on either side.

@El'endiaStarman nothing that'll stop a plane

wait

@orlp and that's a really insensitive and ignorant thing to say imo

@El'endiaStarman And soon a wall to the south!

@AlexA. And a wall to the north! Built by the Canadians...

@El'endiaStarman :D

@AlexA. Did you see that video that I'm referencing?

@El'endiaStarman Of course

Okay, cool. :D

@orlp It's like saying "Why does the Holocaust matter if the bubonic plague killed millions and millions of more people?"

"It's not that Canadians don't see race, it's that we can't."

@HelkaHomba don't think so, the holocaust is literally a 1000x worse than 9/11

with all due respect to the victims, I'm really sick of terrorism being given such attention

statistically terrorism is just not significant

if we'd spend even a fraction of the attention to terrorism to cancer research, diet awareness, safe driving, etc, we'd save a lot more lives

@QPaysTaxes Probably a big part of it is that there was less attention given to the Chinese. It's just like how terrorist attacks in Paris and Brussels are big news, but terrorist attacks in the Middle East aren't as widely publicized.

The deaths attributed to Mao are mostly indirect aren't they?

Bad policies causing famines etc.

No way

@El'endiaStarman +1 for using babel :P

> In 1957 he launched a campaign known as the Great Leap Forward that aimed to rapidly transform China's economy from an agrarian economy to an industrial one, which led to a widespread famine whose death toll is estimated at between 18 and 45 million. In 1966, he initiated the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, a program to remove "counter-revolutionary" elements of Chinese society that lasted 10 years and which was marked by violent class struggle,

(From Wikipedia.)

Anyone who speaks Pyth?

hi

Why does m<VJ[1 2 3)J8 not parse but m<V[1 2 3)[1 2 3)8 does?

> critics consider him a dictator comparable to Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin who severely damaged traditional Chinese culture, as well as a perpetrator of systematic human rights abuses who was responsible for an estimated 40 to 70 million deaths through starvation, forced labour and executions, ranking his tenure as the top incidence of democide in human history.

@KennyLau what is the V supposed to be doing?

@Doorknob For example, +V[1 2 3)[4 5 6) gives [5,7,9].

oh, I didn't know V had a pfn definition

A yiss, cold pizza.

In that case, that should work...

@Doorknob so...

@isaacg Please see above when you are here.

@QPaysTaxes ary[threshold..-1].index { ... } + threshold?

@KennyLau this is weird. m+VJ]1J8 fails to parse, but +VJ]1J works

... and even weirder, +VJ]1J inputs to Q (???) and then never uses it

@Doorknob I was told that V is equivalent to MC, (Map C join).

@Doorknob I have no idea what the C means.

@Doorknob pyth.py, lines 165-169:

            if sugar_char == 'V':
                vmap_target, post_vmap = next_n_segs(2, remainder)
                full_vmap, rest = parse(sugar_active_char + 'MC,' + vmap_target)
                assert rest == '', "Sugar parse V failed"
                return full_vmap, post_vmap

Oh, the C is transpose

@QPaysTaxes that's not what I said

you can scroll up and see exactly what I said

@Dennis My father's first computer was a PDP-10

Hey, I just got the first safe submission on the cops-and-robbers challenge!

the reason I said what I said is because I want to invoke a thought

why is terrorism given so much attention by media and politicians?

He took a Computer Engineering in the 1970s. If that's not old, there surely isn't a lot that predates him

Haha, yeah I thought that would be a fairly easy sequence to guess.

@Sherlock9 OK, that is old. :P

Man, I keep posting vim answers. I need to get V up and running so I can start using that...

Neovim and python.

@orlp Phrasing things as a question of "degree of <quality>" rather "<quality> should be completely removed/ignored" is likely to more mellow and more conducive to civil and productive discussion