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7:00 PM
So glad I never got hooked on PHP.
omfg
 
@QPaysTaxes Right=)
 
cat
sounds like me
 
@QPaysTaxes Endless hours of trying to approximate Pi=)
And trying to render the mandelbrot set^^
Which calculator did you have?
For me its about 8 years=)
 
stats are up at go-hero.net/jam/16
code jam statistics
yeah, you can look up people, languages and stuff
 
@HelkaHomba Does that look good, or not enough contrast?
 
7:12 PM
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ not enough contrast
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ looks good
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ is there a reason you don't want a white background?
 
Yeah.
It's ugly :P
 
@QPaysTaxes "I won't. :P"
 
7:15 PM
so, I had to be 6 minutes faster; I could have easily saved 6 minutes if I noticed B had 200 test cases rather than 100 :/
my first B small timed out (by less than a minute)
 
@QPaysTaxes because my code was fast enough for 100 but not for 200
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Look! And said, "It's ugly." :P
 
:o
wow that's great
@zyabin101 it's not #ffffff it's #f2f2f2
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ It looks white.
 
7:18 PM
but it's not
For example, Michael Jackson
 
huh, there are 2 winners in this round (same second)
 
@QPaysTaxes Want some ?
:P
\o/
 
Hilarious GCJ fact: @aditsu used 12 langs. Including four CJam sets.
 
I wanted to use more, but I don't really know more…
DarkKnight. used 16
 
its more hardcore if you just use 1 language
 
7:27 PM
nah, that's the easiest way
I used to do all in java
 
and stills score the same?
 
probably better :p
as I can code faster
 
oh, then you are just showing off :P
 
well, I'm competing for no. of languages too
although it's not an official category
some brute forces are faster to code in CJam though
oh well, I'll have to actually practice for 1C
don't want to fail again
 
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Q: Calculate the a ^ b WITHOUT using *, / and ^

user6245072Challenge Your goal is, given two positive integer numbers a and b, to calculate (and output) a ^ b without using either multiplication, division and the power itself (not directly, at least). And, of course, built-in exponentiation functions. Scoring This is code-golf, so the shorter, the bet...

 
7:39 PM
possible duplicate ^
 
I think so too
 
@aditsu That one is also a dupe. Why not go straight to the original?
 
@DrGreenEggsandHamDJ I think that one is not really a dupe of the tetration one
 
Reopen it?
I assume we're talking about this one.
 
@DrGreenEggsandHamDJ meh, not sure I want to get involved in that
 
7:53 PM
Now I get to work on the codingame contest.
 
@aditsu Reopening: Not Even Once
 
I've reopened things before (or tried to)
 
Was yolk
yolk ≈ joke
 
Concerning the state of the info.
Anyone wanna start a meta?
 
8:03 PM
that stupid thing is crazy popular for some reason ^^^
 
@flawr I've been wanting to for a while.
The discussion has been productive and useful, but there's no clear consensus.
 
@DrGreenEggsandHamDJ I think there has?
 
And what is it?
 
the consensus is that there's no consensus
 
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Q: Will it ​float?

Dr Green Eggs and Ham DJThe challenge Given a 2d string representing the bottom of a boat as an input, you must determine whether or not the boat will float. Print a truthy value if it will float, and a falsey value if it will sink. A boat will tip over if the bottom has an inconsistent density, so every character of t...

 
8:08 PM
@DrGreenEggsandHamDJ We now require a validity-criterion. And we need to narrow down what is allowed in the description, as this is still quite open in the tag description.
 
@aditsu Most of meta in a nutshell
 
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ Tʜᴀɴᴋ ʏᴏᴜ ғᴏʀ ᴛʜᴇ sᴍᴀʟʟ ᴄᴀᴘs.
 
Well then, let's do nothing about it. That's probably the best we can do.
 
Is anyone genuinely proud of their highest voted PPCG answer?
I can't say I am
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A: Evolution of "Hello World!"

Helka HombaAnswer 1 - Python print("Hello World!") There's got to be dozens of languages this could morph into.

 
@HelkaHomba no
 
8:15 PM
@HelkaHomba I am.
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A: Expand a C array

Dr Green Eggs and Ham DJVim, 54, 52, 49 47 keystrokes 2wa0<esc>qqYp<c-a>6ldf @qq@q$dT]dd:%norm dwf{xwC;<CR>gg"0P Explanation: 2wa0<esc> 'Move 2 words forward, and insert a 0. qq 'Start recording in register Q Yp 'Duplicate the line ...

 
@MartinBüttner At least you have answers to be proud about :P
 
I think my top voted answer is the cheaty quine so definitely no.
 
mine is not too bad… but it's weird that I keep getting upvotes from time to time
 
Although I'm generally more proud of my challenges. The scores on what I submit to the site clearly reflect that I'm better at writing challenges than answering them. =D
 
@HelkaHomba thanks :) ... I guess the first one (in order of decreasing votes) where I think the votes are proportional to the quality/effort of the answer would be Versatile Integer Printer.
 
8:16 PM
My top voted answer is my R showcase which is probably the answer I'm overall most proud of.
 
@HelkaHomba I am indeed.
 
Although I'm much more proud of this one:
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A: Expand a C array

Dr Green Eggs and Ham DJV, 37 Bytes (noncompeting) 2Eé0òYp6ldf ò$dT]ddÎdwf{xwC; gg"1P V is a 2D, string based golfing language that I wrote, designed off of vim. This works as of commit 17, which was published after the creation of this challenge, making this a non-competing answer. Explanation: This is pretty muc...

 
@HelkaHomba If I don't count answers to closed questions, my highest voted answer is my very first, which I am quite proud of even though it's a graphical output pop con...
 
the turtles, isn't it? :)
 
@Phrancis O HAI PHRANCIS
 
8:18 PM
@MartinBüttner Yes - from my avatar :)
 
oh I thought your avatar was from that answer :P
 
Does anyone else mentally say "at" when they read a message that contains a ping? E.g. "at phrancis oh hi"
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@MartinBüttner Um, yes - I got my English mixed up...
 
@trichoplax Your silly computer graphics modship gets in the way of easily finding your ppgc profile :I
 
@AlexA. chat gets more fun when you read it as "yo" instead.
 
8:19 PM
@trichoplax Unforgiveable for an Englishman :D
@MartinBüttner brb doing this forever
 
@HelkaHomba I just ran into that problem myself...
 
Actually I guess I don't need to brb to do it
 
@HelkaHomba I am. :P
 
At Alex: yes.
 
Glad I'm not the only one
 
8:21 PM
@@@AlexA. wassup @
 
@HelkaHomba (I could still have PPCG as my linked profile from chat, but I felt it would be more helpful to my moderatees have Computer Graphics there)
 
:P
 
Not much at quartata
@trichoplax If your chat parent profile wasn't computer graphics then you wouldn't have mod abilities in chat
 
@trichoplax Err, doesn't your mod site need to be the parent of your chat profile so you have mod powers?
 
@AlexA. I'm not technically English, but it is my first (only...) language so certainly unforgivable :)
 
8:22 PM
@@s are my favorite toy
 
@El'endiaStarman ( ͡nin ͜ʖ ͡ja'd)
 
@El'endiaStarman I always thought that was a weird limitation
 
Too many mods in here...
 
@AlexA. Really? I must have changed it so early that I never found out - thanks for the warning.
 
@trichoplax You're not technically English? :O
 
8:23 PM
Time to escape to The Twenty-first Bite
 
@trichoplax It's part of the mod instructions that we got when we became mods...
 
@AlexA. I'm British, but I didn't grow up in the median country of the UK
 
Shoot, a mod needs to unfreeze it....
 
British =/=> English?
 
@AlexA. I don't. Actually...I don't think the @ symbol even has a sound in my head.
 
8:24 PM
@AlexA. Sarcasm?
 
No... ._.
 
._.
 
@HelkaHomba Too bad it's a "no mods allowed" room :P
 
yeah
 
The United Kingdom (UK) comprises four countries: England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Within the United Kingdom, a unitary sovereign state, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales have gained a degree of autonomy through the process of devolution. The UK Parliament and British Government deal with all reserved matters for Northern Ireland and Scotland and all non-transferred matters for Wales, but not in general matters that have been devolved to the Northern Ireland Assembly, Scottish Parliament and National Assembly for Wales. Additionally, devolution in Northern Ireland is conditional...
 
8:24 PM
So I guess it's fated to be frozen for all eternity
 
Room owners can't unfreeze rooms?
 
Chat minigolf: Given a string 's', output the average ASCII value of the characters in 's'
 
Iwas just about to say that it will never be unfrozen haha
 
@AlexA. Um, I was sure I had read everything they sent. I guess I either missed something or forgot...
 
@DrGreenEggsandHamDJ Julia, 18 bytes: s->map(Int,[s...])
@trichoplax ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 
8:26 PM
@El'endiaStarman no >.>
 
>:D
 
Holy shit, I just got a good answer badge. I think that's literally the first good-answer badge I've gotten on the whole network.
 
@DrGreenEggsandHamDJ I feel like we have that as an actual challenge.
 
@HelkaHomba Such a pity you banned mods...
 
@HelkaHomba No problem - just create a new room each time the old one freezes
 
8:27 PM
@trichoplax Right, but I thought "British" was synonymous with "English," I didn't think "British" meant "from the UK."
 
How did codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/71631/upgoat-or-downgoat become the second highest voted image-processing challenge? o_O
 
^dank memes
sadly
 
@AlexA. I was under the impression it means "from Great Britain" which is technically different from "from the UK"
 
(no offense @Downgoat.....)
 
@MartinBüttner Yeah I thought Great Britain == England
 
8:28 PM
ummm
no
 
It's a code challenge but there's no challenge, any state-of-the-art supervised classifier can get 100%
 
I don't know shit about all of that crazy Europe or whatever
 
Great Britain = england + wales + scotland
 
+ Ireland, no?
 
And NI
NOT IRELAND
 
8:29 PM
sure
 
Just Northern Ireland.
 
otherwise it's the UK
 
@AlexA. Ah OK. Britain is the island, with 3 countries on it. The United Kingdom is made up of 4 countries - those 3 and Northern Ireland. So it's "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland"
 
And UK = Great Britain + Northern Ireland?
 
UK = GB + Uk no?
 
8:29 PM
Great Britain is the islands
 
@Fatalize UK != Uk? Uk = Ukraine?
 
confusion abounds
 
_UNK
 
Oh wait I thought we were talking about UK not GB.
 
"Great Britain, also known as Britain Listeni/ˈbrɪ.tən/, is an island "
an island
 
8:30 PM
It's simpler in this hemisphere. US = USA = the States = America = 'merica
 
Ireland + NI + GB is the British Islands I think
 
Great Britain is England, Wales, and Scotland.
 
okay, turns out I was wrong about that
 
UK is NI + GB
 
Great Britain is pretty great but not very Britain
 
8:31 PM
 
A Frenchman knows more about those damn rosbeefs than all of you, I'm not proud
 
British Isles is Republic of Ireland + UK.
 
> rosbeefs
wtf is that
@MartinBüttner Oh no the cute thing is so sad D:
 
Alternative names for people from the United Kingdom include nicknames and terms, including affectionate ones, neutral ones, and derogatory ones to describe British people, and more specifically English, Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish people. == Terms for the British in English == === Brit === Brit is a commonly used term in the United States and elsewhere, simply as a shortened form of "Briton." It was considered offensive historically, but has become somewhat more neutral over time, and is increasingly used by the British themselves in international contexts. === Britisher === A...
 
@AlexA. The English are mocked by the French for eating nothing but roast beef
 
8:32 PM
Why do you eat so much roast beef...
 
They don't only eat that, but the rest I wouldn't call it food
 
But you don't like food
 
@Fatalize Like Toad in the hole?
 
@AlexA. Uh... I'm not English. I feel we have entered a loop :P
 
Walesian?
(I know it's Welsh but I prefer ^)
 
8:34 PM
@AlexA. By birth, yes. Half English by blood.
 
tea drinkers are the same
 
@AlexA. I actually care very little about nationality. People are people
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Is drinking Boveril a real thing?
 
@trichoplax I wish the majority of Americans agreed with you :(
 
"I don't care about nationality but don't call me English!"
 
8:35 PM
XD
 
@Fatalize :)
 
"The Roast Beef of Old England" is an English patriotic ballad. It was written by Henry Fielding for his play The Grub-Street Opera, which was first performed in 1731. The lyrics were added to over the next twenty years. The song increased in popularity when given a new setting by the composer Richard Leveridge, and it became customary for theatre audiences to sing it before, after, and occasionally during, any new play. The Royal Navy always goes in to dine at Mess Dinners to the tune, which is also played at United States Marine Corps formal mess dinners during the presentation of the bee...
This song may not have helped the stereotype
 
@AlexA. The majority of Americans don't live in the US :P
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@VTCAKAVSMoACE OHAI
 
@trichoplax On one hand I absolutely agree with that, and on the other it kinda makes me sad that we (as a society) have arrived at a point where it can be awkward to ask someone where they or their parents are from, because I'd never ask that to judge people but because almost certainly people from other parts of the world have interesting different experiences and parts of their culture to share.
 
8:37 PM
@trichoplax In the US, we usually say "American" to refer to US citizens.
 
@AlexA. and that right there is the problem :P
 
@AlexA. Are you saying they care about their Americanism or where their ancestors emigrated from? Lot's of US people I've known like to emphasize the fact that they're Irish or Polish or Russian or w/e
 
@AlexA. In the UK we do too, but I know people in other parts of the Americas aren't always happy about that... :)
 
@HelkaHomba which is completely dumb
"I'm 1/64th Irish I like beer, I'm so irish~~~"
 
@trichoplax I always wonder where the african america is.
 
8:38 PM
@HelkaHomba I mean in the US it seems like people care if folks are Mexican or otherwise have a nationality that really shitty folks consider "undesirable."
That was a bad joke, I'm sorry
 
^ He said "LA"
 
shhh >_>
 
@Fatalize Oh? Silly, perhaps, but I wouldn't call it racially divisive or anything
 
I'm proud of my Tatar and Greek heritage. :)
 
*Geek
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8:40 PM
Greek too??
 
@HelkaHomba I don't understand why americans say this though. Even if your grandfather was from somewhere else, chances are you know nothing about his culture or anything
 
But I love people from all over the world because why wouldn't I?
 
I barely even know what my heritage is.
Irish.
And other things probably.
 
@MartinBüttner I definitely don't want to censor it - I have no problem with people asking me where I live or grew up. I just don't see my geographical location as part of my identity. I've had people say "You should like this, because you come from there."
 
^ do you like sheeps?
 
8:42 PM
you know, because you're a turtle
 
@Fatalize I'd say that's probably true in a lot of cases. Speaking only for myself, I'm really interested in Tatar culture and learning about the lives of my ancestors.
@HelkaHomba ._.
 
@AlexA. But why though. Being interested in a culture is cool but what does it have to do with your great-great-grandfather
 
All culture is slowly homogenizing anyway
 
At this point you basically have no link with that culture at all
 
@flawr I guess just all of America - since everyone in America is descended from people who originally came from Africa.
 
8:44 PM
so saying "I am 1/32 Greek" means basically nothing
 
@Fatalize Learning what his life was like. :)
 
@trichoplax Well then we're probably all originally from africa^^
 
@Fatalize He could be your role mode. Emulating his way of life can be a meaningful homage
 
You don't hear australians saying "I'm 1/12 English" (though that may be because they are ashamed)
 
oh dam son, get rekt england
 
8:45 PM
I don't think there's any country beside the US that has this "muh heritage" fetish
 
How are all Americans from Africa?
 
I don't said americans only, i mean all humans.
 
@Fatalize ahem No US Royal Family ahem
 
=)
 
In paleoanthropology, the recent African origin of modern humans, also called the "Out of Africa" theory (OOA), the "recent single-origin hypothesis" (RSOH), "replacement hypothesis", or "recent African origin model" (RAO), is the most widely accepted model of the geographic origin and early migration of anatomically modern humans. The theory argues for the African origins of modern humans, who left Africa in a single wave of migration which populated the world, replacing older human species. A first dispersal took place between 130,000-115,000 years ago via northern Africa, but died out or retreated...
 
8:46 PM
@Fatalize Lots of people choose to study/follow a culture that they wouldn't otherwise be exposed to because they are interested in how their grandparents or further back lived. I know plenty of other people just like the label with no knowledge of the culture but it's not everyone...
 
@trichoplax Yeah, I was leaning towards the explanation that it's an anti-joke. It doesn't really seem to set up the next one.
 
@flawr Yes that's what I meant :)
@El'endiaStarman I thought it was self contained...
(maybe you're trying to see something cleverer than is there)
 
[shrug]
 
I leave and the starboard explodes. -.-
 
Anyway, there was all that discussion about what the UK/Great Britain/etc is, and no one shared that CGP Grey video?! Shame on you all!
 
8:51 PM
@El'endiaStarman Because between two punch lines you get a straight line, so it's the distance between two jokes
 
Eh, that seems like a stretch. Especially compared with all the others.
 
@El'endiaStarman I didn't say it was very good...
 
@Fatalize I think it's because it's impossible to be 1/12 anything without incest.
 
@MartinBüttner well they're English...
 
8:56 PM
I wish I could downvote that after deletion
@Fatalize Sounds like someone doesn't care much for his Engish neighbors... :P
 
Can we undelete it, downvote it, then redelete it? :P
 
You guys are harsh
 
@MartinBüttner You can, if you're the negative "sum" of the natural numbers
 
and cold
like ice
 
I just realized the competition is already over :(
 
8:57 PM
wait how did you downvote that
it was at -2 then it went to -3 o_O
 
@NathanMerrill Round 1B?
 
@NathanMerrill it's been over for a while...
 
yeah, I got to it a bit late
 
for pretty much exactly as long as it's been going actually
 
[text](url) guys... :P
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ really?
 
I got a really good solution to B
 
@El'endiaStarman This trash syntax is unbearable
 
Can mods confirm that?
 
8:58 PM
@Fatalize French people > english people
 
one that is O(n) where n is the number of digits
 
@Fatalize I think it's perfectly fine and that it'd be really hard to do any better.
 
> Sorry, we cannot find the page you are looking for
 
@AlexA. They don't want americans to see that their parents are fighting
 

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