The Nineteenth Byte

Downgoat

7:02 AM

@NewMainPosts omg yes a challenge cheddar can participate in \o/

Destructible Watermelon

I'd do that, but I'm doing stacky logic

soon I will join that one

charredgrass

It seems like a fun one to golf

with JS I'm thinking, .split the string, .map across it to get the first letter? (map bc its less bytes)

@MᴀʀsUʟᴛᴏʀ I was planning on doing setInterval(n,1000); so you can see the cursor do its thing

Destructible Watermelon

I actually golfed off some bytes!

charredgrass

7:17 AM

@MᴀʀsUʟᴛᴏʀ if you haven't noticed I have no idea what I'm doing

but the fact that I was using jQuery is probably enough to know that

@DestructibleWatermelon nice! have you posted your answer yet?

Destructible Watermelon

no, still golfing a bit

New Main Posts

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Q: Programming Challenge - Gaming Console

A new type of computer game is launched in the market, which requires a special type of gaming console. Makers of the games has made a new generation gaming console with a very unique remote. The keys/Layout of remote is as shown below This remote contains 12 keys with 2 nonfunctional keys. Ea...

code-challenge

charredgrass

@DrGreenEggsandIronMan is it possible to pronounce that V answer

Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man

Yes. It's pronounced:

Destructible Watermelon

I'm gonna post my answer now

Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man

7:21 AM

Do you like the answer? I'll add an explanation soon.

Destructible Watermelon

318 bytes

posted it

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Print a Pilcrow Scarecrow Print the following ascii scarecrow using the pilcrow character ¶ ¶¶¶ ¶¶¶¶¶ ¶¶¶ ¶¶¶ ¶ ¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶ ¶¶¶ ¶¶¶ ¶ ¶ ¶ ¶¶ ¶ ¶¶ ¶ ¶ ¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶ Padding must be with (space) and built with ¶ Trailing padding is okay This is code-golf ...

Insane

@NewSandboxedPosts Disclaimer: I'm kind of baked

charredgrass

@DestructibleWatermelon your variable names are perfectly sane

it's code golf

General question: does anyone here use Mathematica and pay for it?

Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man

Is it only pay for?

I'm pretty sure martin uses it.

Mᴀʀs Uʟᴛᴏʀ

7:35 AM

@DrGreenEggsandIronMan Yes

charredgrass

There's a trial but I couldn't find a way to get it at a reasonable price

It seems really fun but I'm not going to use it without a massive discount

Destructible Watermelon

It's not that they are short.

thepiercingarrow

haha lol

Destructible Watermelon

It's that they have nothing to do with what the variable has

except s is always input()

always

I don't know why, but it is

Mᴀʀs Uʟᴛᴏʀ

@charredgrass jsfiddle.net/6usg3uew

charredgrass

7:40 AM

@MᴀʀsUʟᴛᴏʀ 0/10 no jQuery

Mᴀʀs Uʟᴛᴏʀ

@charredgrass jQuery is overkill

charredgrass

@MᴀʀsUʟᴛᴏʀ your face is overkill

Mᴀʀs Uʟᴛᴏʀ

Plus, that's only for HTML input/output, not part of the solution

charredgrass

jkjk

codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/84851/run-stackylogic post here if you haven't already

@DestructibleWatermelon My code golf variables are probably worse. I've been playing with JS and learned I can use stuff like underscores and deltas as variables

Katenkyo

Hi everyone!

Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man

7:43 AM

Further golfed + explanation:

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A: Code golf to make logos for New Stack exchange sites

V 31 29 bytes Óóüì ys$|ÄVr-r+$.YLpp$hrvÓÁ/ Note the trailing space at the end. Explanation: Óóüì This is a compressed regex. It removes everything except for digits and uppercase characters. ys$| "Surround this line with '|' characters. Ä "Duplicate this line...

I love simple ASCII-ART challenges cause they let me use my favorite language. :)

charredgrass

woah that compressed regex

Lembik

hi all

charredgrass

I don't even want to know how that works

Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man

It's actually stupidly simple. Set the high bit of a character, and you get \<that character>

So \A Is just ASCII 'A' (e.g. 65) + 128

Katenkyo

@DrGreenEggsandIronMan I hate simple ascii art because they remind me how bad my favorite language can be ^^

Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man

7:50 AM

Haha, what's your favorite language?

Katenkyo

@DrGreenEggsandIronMan Lua

It has a minimalist core...

Lembik

lua rocks!

Katenkyo

No split function, no real regexes and some other flaws for golfing

Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man

@Katenkyo Oh, nice! I work with Lua!

Katenkyo

@Lembik It does, but not in golfing contest :p. Otherwise, it's a wonderful language!

Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man

7:52 AM

I haven't actually had to learn it yet though...

Lembik

how is luajit these days?

@Katenkyo also the guy is a genius

Katenkyo

@DrGreenEggsandIronMan It's easy to learn as long as you know how C and functional languages works

@Lembik who?

Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man

OK. I know C, but I've never used a functional language.

Katenkyo

@DrGreenEggsandIronMan Not even JavaScript? Oo

or php?

(well, php is less of functional, but still)

Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man

JS, no, PHP a tiny bit ages ago.

Lembik

7:54 AM

@Katenkyo Mike Pall

Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man

These days I code exclusively in C and V. :)

Katenkyo

@Lembik But he's a man who gets angry easily ^^

Lembik

@Katenkyo some geniuses do :)

charredgrass

will I get lynched if I admit I code almost exclusively in JS

Katenkyo

@DrGreenEggsandIronMan Does that help you with you resume (bad puns are best puns)

Lembik

7:57 AM

@Katenkyo but try writing a JIT compiler on your own :)

@charredgrass yes!

Sherlock9

@Katenkyo I think you mean procedural languages, when talking about C. Functional languages are languages like Lisp and Haskell

Lembik

@charredgrass unless someone pays you to do that :)

Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man

@charredgrass No. There's a nearly 50/50 split of people who like JS and people who hate it.

Katenkyo

@Sherlock9 That's why I spoke about C AND functional languages, as Lua is eavily based on how C works, but is a functional language by essence

Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man

Python's the same way, with the opposite people.

Lembik

7:58 AM

do people actually like JS??

charredgrass

Yes!

Katenkyo

@Lembik I will never be able to \o/

Lembik

@DrGreenEggsandIronMan Hmm.. I am not sure I agree :)

Sherlock9

@charredgrass We make fun of JS, but we're not burning the heretics :D

Lembik

@Katenkyo nor can any normal person!

Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man

7:58 AM

PHP is more universally hated.

Lembik

there is a great website called wtfjs but it seems to be down right now

Sherlock9

@Katenkyo JS isn't functional, last I checked (isn't a functional programming language, I mean)

charredgrass

I'm a node.js guy though

Lembik

@Sherlock9 lots of languages have snuck in functional features over the years

Katenkyo

@Sherlock9 (I forgot how my definition of functional is wicked and should correct it)

Sherlock9

7:59 AM

@Lembik But that's not to say that it's entirely a functional language

Lembik

@Sherlock9 true.. but most functional programming languages also include non-functional parts these days too :)

Sherlock9

Structured programming has many items from Lisp, but that's not to say that all languages that use structured programming are dialects of Lisp

Fair enough

Katenkyo

@Lembik Most functional languages are Multi-Paradigm

Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man

@Katenkyo s/functional//

Lembik

of course everyone should always do everything in Haskell :)

Sherlock9

8:01 AM

@charredgrass That's probably fine :D

Lembik

offering a bounty in 48 minutes.. but how large should it be?!

Sherlock9

@Lembik Don't know whether to go "hear, hear!" or "har har"

Katenkyo

@DrGreenEggsandIronMan sure, nowadays, you can easily do everything with anything

Lembik

@Sherlock9 :)

Katenkyo

@Lembik 5k rep

charredgrass

8:02 AM

@Lembik all your rep

Lembik

@Katenkyo ?

@charredgrass I can't do that!

you only get a limited set of options

Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man

What's the bounty on?

Katenkyo

@Lembik 10k rep? ^^

Lembik

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Q: Compute the maximum number of runs possible for as large a string as possible

[This question is a follow up to Compute the runs of a string ] Consider the following definitions taken from The number of runs in a string by W. Rytter. Note that word, string and substring are all roughly synonyms. |w| means the length of string wand w[i] refers to the ith element of string...

math code-challenge optimization

@Katenkyo isn't 500 the max?

Katenkyo

@Lembik yes it is

Lembik

8:03 AM

but I am not sure that works

Katenkyo

You just have to find a way to hack into SE's back-end to change that

Lembik

what I would like is to auction the rep :)

ok I'll do that :)

thanks for the upvote

charredgrass

oh woah since when did I get these privileges

Lembik

@charredgrass which?

charredgrass

...all of them

I joined PPCG yesterday, lol

Lembik

8:11 AM

I just saw your picture

I feel it needs some explanation :)

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Normal Text Write a program or function which, given an input string and a standard deviation σ, outputs that string along the normal distribution curve with mean 0 and standard deviation σ. Normal distribution curve The y coordinate of each character c is: where σ is given as input, and wh...

Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man

There were a lot of challenges today! Like 5 of them all came in at once.

Alright, it's getting late. Good night everyone! And new users!

Lembik

byee

Katenkyo

@Fatalize That's a nice challenge

Fatalize

@Katenkyo thanks

I feel like I've done billions of those "write this string in this shape" challenges

Doorknob

8:18 AM

@DrGreenEggsandIronMan Hmm. Do you have the character space to spare to have both?

Fatalize

This, this, this, and now the one in the sandbox

Katenkyo

@Fatalize Yes, but even if I still didn't do a challenge of this type, I like them (or at least, the concept :))

Fatalize

They're cool to look at

Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man

@Doorknob Theoretically yes. I have lots of characters still open. Although I was planning on mapping to :g and :g! so then I'd have to use four.

charredgrass

Anyone else just lose connection from StackExchange chat?

Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man

8:22 AM

Not me.

charredgrass

I lost it for like 10 mins and just reconnected, weird

Super weird since I still had connection to other SE sites

charredgrass

8:43 AM

so uh

whats goin on people

Sherlock9

Clothes are going on people. Sometimes other people, too

Lembik

bounty about to be added... that's it really

Sherlock9

Commas are very important :P

Lembik

and apostrophes :)

charredgrass

@Lembik what question are you putting a bounty on?

Sherlock9

8:48 AM

45 mins ago, by Lembik

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Q: Compute the maximum number of runs possible for as large a string as possible

[This question is a follow up to Compute the runs of a string ] Consider the following definitions taken from The number of runs in a string by W. Rytter. Note that word, string and substring are all roughly synonyms. |w| means the length of string wand w[i] refers to the ith element of string...

math code-challenge optimization

Lembik

in 60 seconds

charredgrass

oh I was going to answer that challenge

but it was too difficult for my tiny JS mind

Lembik

@charredgrass noo.. and now there is code to look at

in the comments

and a bounty

charredgrass

ok i did it here's my code bpaste.net/show/2aa056c1e9f9