The Nineteenth Byte

10:09 AM

@Mego meta.codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/8350/… meta.codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/8350/… and meta.codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/8350/…

Anonymous

@muddyfish Oh, somehow I completely failed to connect the dots. Oops.

muddyfish

(sorry for the pings)

Anonymous

It's alright

Fatalize

So that means they are working on it, since those posts weren't active for some time.

Matthew Roh

Anyone needs ideas for new questions?

Fatalize

10:11 AM

Hype

Matthew Roh

Ideas out for giveaway:

1. Teach alphabet to children

2. Fizz, Buzz, FizzFizz?

VoteToClose

@Fatalize It's possible that they saw one, and now that they have a precedent, they're asking multiple such that when the site design does come on November 1st, it comes out to our specifications.

Fatalize

As long as upvotes and downvotes are not goats, I'm fine with any design

Matthew Roh

So.. our site is finally graduating?

Fatalize

It has already graduated

VoteToClose

10:13 AM

Site design is just taking a very very long time.

Matthew Roh

Everything we agree: memes

muddyfish

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Q: Congratulations, you're graduating!

It's a big day, and I know you folks have been waiting a reeeaaal long while. Double waiting, you might even say, since unfortunately we made you wait even longer after initial news. But, let's make it official! You've been cleared for graduation by the Stack Exchange Community Team! Programming ...

(not posted by geobits)

Matthew Roh

Everything we dont agree: swapping the upvote button with the flag button

VoteToClose

Also, November first is a meme

Just so we're clear.

zyabin101

Welcome, me, to my increasingly not forever leaving from TNB. :P

Anyway, I got nothing to do. :(

Matthew Roh

10:18 AM

@zyabin101 would you use one of my question ideas

zyabin101

@MatthewRoh Which ideas? :3

Matthew Roh

"Programmatically teach children the alphabet"

zyabin101

(I've left the main s--- DA FORGET THAT YOUR HATE)

@MatthewRoh Okay. :3

TuxCopter

Hello!

zyabin101

I need a lang where there are 26 reserved words corresponding to each of the 26 letters.

Matthew Roh

10:20 AM

👏

VoteToClose

I clearly have the best site design anyway

Matthew Roh

the only one who claps like 👏 <= this is kim jong un

orlp

@VoteToClose question closed for being too vague

Matthew Roh

@VoteToClose Dont forget changing those 'o's into eyes

zyabin101

@VoteToClose You are a mod with a mod inbox in your SuperCollider? :O

for i in list("ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"):
    print(i + " is for " + i)

Matthew Roh

10:28 AM

can hyperlinks contain javascript scripts?

zyabin101

A is for A
B is for B
C is for C

@MatthewRoh javascript:alert(1) yes

Matthew Roh

um

zyabin101

That's how bookmarklets are made.

Matthew Roh

I mean can hyperlinks contain those

zyabin101

@MatthewRoh Yes.

Matthew Roh

10:30 AM

[alert urself lmao?](javascript:alert(1) )

I mean like this format

zyabin101

@MatthewRoh In chatdown, js links don't work.

[See for yourself](javascript:alert(1))

Matthew Roh

ahh.

Then what about comments?

zyabin101

Idea: conduct a Scalatron Koth, using either PPCG or chat.

VoteToClose

@orlp Let my function f be defined by the function described by this challenge. My sequence is defined such that term n is defined by f(n), where the sequence is one-indexed.

I have no idea how to describe this.

Matthew Roh

@zyabin101 like codingame?

VoteToClose

10:38 AM

The sequence whose members are defined by interpreting n's representation for the sum of distinct elements of a 1-1-2-tribonacci sequence as binary?

zyabin101

@MatthewRoh It's a bot war, like CodinGame, but it's all of cross-platform (Java and Scala, duh), FOSS and easy to get running in.

At least, kinda easy.

You must go through the Tutorial first.

Matthew Roh

meh

zyabin101

@VoteToClose Make the sequences apart.

VoteToClose

@zyabin101 What do you mean by this

zyabin101

Wait...

Not much sequences are used in the challenge. :/

VoteToClose

10:43 AM

@zyabin101 Uh, it's defined by summing distinct members of the tribonacci sequence.

Fatalize

@VoteToClose Decimal value of n in the Tribonacci base

zyabin101

Ah, sum distinct members!

Like a[1], a[1] + a[2], sum(a[1..3]), ...?

VoteToClose

@Fatalize Not accurate, I don't think. It's the decimal value of the tribonacci base interpreted as binary.

And "base" is not the correct term for this, I think.

@zyabin101 Please read the challenge. xD

That's just the tribonacci sequence.

Qwerp-Derp

I've got a game KoTH idea :)

zyabin101

@VoteToClose Oh k....

VoteToClose

10:45 AM

@Qwerp-Derp Sandbox away!

Qwerp-Derp

Uhh so you're a player on a grid with a "producer" that spawns 1 soldier/turn

You can either: make/upgrade producers (which in turn creates more soldiers), or move soldiers around

Or you can conquer surrounding lands

With your produced soldiers

zyabin101

@Qwerp-Derp How?

Qwerp-Derp

Uhh you can move your soldiers to the land, and it will be conquered

VoteToClose

I assume "attack".

zyabin101

@Qwerp-Derp What does the former cost?

Qwerp-Derp

10:47 AM

@zyabin101 Thinking about it

mınxomaτ

Someone here with an Intel GPU and Windows 8.1 or 10?

Qwerp-Derp

Probs starts off with 5 to make, and then 10 for upgrade (2 soldiers/turn), 15 for 3 soldiers etc.

zyabin101

@mınxomaτ I'm here with ATI Mobility Radeon and Win7!

So no.

Qwerp-Derp

@mınxomaτ How do I find out what GPU I have

zyabin101

@Qwerp-Derp RTD.

mınxomaτ

10:49 AM

How do you not know?!

Qwerp-Derp

@mınxomaτ Shut up i'm bad with hardware stuffs :(

Uhh I have an intel processor

VoteToClose

@Qwerp-Derp Look in the "Computer" dialog and find the specs for your device.

I don't use Windows often, but iirc that's how you get to it.

mınxomaτ

Open the device manager and look under "display adapters"

Qwerp-Derp

@VoteToClose I know how to do it in Win7 but Im not sure if it's different in Win10

VoteToClose

I did not remember correctly.

mınxomaτ

10:51 AM

@Qwerp-Derp ^^

Qwerp-Derp

@mınxomaτ Yup it's Intel

What havoc do you plan to wreak on my innocent laptop? (jk)

mınxomaτ

@Qwerp-Derp Can you try this: workupload.com/file/aWzW7dG? It should just show a fullscreen grey window (exit-able with ESC).

zyabin101

Experiment: choose five random letters

Any letters.

VoteToClose

Well if that isn't sketch I don't know what is

@zyabin101 sktch

Qwerp-Derp

@mınxomaτ I'm half scared

@zyabin101 qwerp

@mınxomaτ Do you have source for the thing I'm pretty scared :(

What is it meant to be even?

Uhh nothing happened I'm really scared :( :( :(

My mouse just moved up diagonally to the left

mınxomaτ

10:54 AM

That's good. Nothing displayed?

Qwerp-Derp

Yeah, I don't think so

mınxomaτ

Hm.

Qwerp-Derp

@mınxomaτ What is the program meant to be for? What did you write it in?

mınxomaτ

C++. It's a simple GLSL renderer.

Qwerp-Derp

Oh.

orlp

11:06 AM

@VoteToClose sequence already exists

oeis.org/A000073

only thing different is the indexing offset

they start at 0, 0, 1

you start at 1, 1, 2

no, the hardest part of submitting an OEIS sequence is finding an interesting sequence that doesn't already exist in OEIS ;)

VoteToClose

@orlp That's not what I'm doing. :I

I know that the Tribonacci sequence is already in OEIS.

Basically: Take the 1-2-3-tribonacci sequence representation of a number, interpret it as binary and the interpreted value is the member of the sequence.

The sequence looks more like the asymptotic density of the zeta(2) - 1.

@orlp I start at 1, 2, 3, by the way. ;P

zyabin101

Scalatron is super dumb.

It wants to die.

It doesn't know what is "Build" at all.

So pro tip: Don't use Scalatron. If I must use that sometime, I'd QUIT programming if that were the case.

zyabin101

12:02 PM

WarriorJS is super dumb when things come to level 4.

So pro tip: Don't use WarriorJS. If I must use that sometime, I'd QUIT programming if that were the case. (Hey, that's too much hate from programming games.)

TuxCopter

Bro, even games hate you now?

You should stop all the drama.

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zyabin101

and leave the Internet forever. well played.

TuxCopter

what?

zyabin101

12:17 PM

The hate and drama have grown to an uncontrollable level.

It ends only abruptly, with me leaving chat or being forced to leave chat. This effectively cuts me from my right to be able to contribute to the Internet.

All chats should have been private from the beginning.

TuxCopter

...

zyabin101

...... ...... ...... This could continue forever. I can only do one thing.

mınxomaτ

@zyabin101 No it doesn't. We gave you many chances to improve yourself which you ignored. You didn't make any effort to change. Until you do, we'll keep showing you the door if things get to excessive.

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flawr

@mınxomaτ Today I read an article in a swiss consumer magazine about insecam.org but it seems they (the magazine) did not have any clue what they are talking about...

mınxomaτ

Yeah, that's a neat site.

They at least claim to check the content before publishing a new link.

orlp

12:32 PM

@VoteToClose ah

zyabin101

12:59 PM

Is anyone here interested in Magic: the Gathering?

flawr

1:09 PM

@zyabin101 Do you have a bot asking this question at a regular interval?

zyabin101

No.

Fatalize

I was interested in MTG for about 5 minutes, before I saw the price of cards

Kritixi Lithos

@VoteToClose That is the name of a school I used to go to :D

VoteToClose

Realized what you said. nvm :P

zyabin101

1:35 PM

in Minecraft and Minetest, 10 secs ago, by zyabin101

I have two ideas: one at a large scale, and one a not-so-large scale.

Which to start with?

TuxCopter

The medium scale.

Fatalize

There's no point in creating chat rooms for specific topics if you then copy paste messages from that chat room in here...

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orlp

@VoteToClose can you elaborate on this?

@VoteToClose maybe this sequence can inspire you a bit? oeis.org/A005351

@VoteToClose also why don't you start your sequence with 1, 1, 2?

LliwTelracs

1:58 PM

I think because starting with 1,1,2 doesn't quite fit with the sort of binary like representation due to repetition

orlp

@LliwTelracs that doesn't really mean anything as there already isn't an unique representation if we drop the 'bigger numbers first' rule

for example 6 could be 6 or 1+2+3

VoteToClose

@LliwTelracs There will always be a binary-like sequence for any given member sum that abides by the conditions.

@orlp That would also be valid, but it would have different outputs.

There are 4 tribonacci sequences which are valid in this way.

No 4-term or more fibonacci sequences exist that satisfy this.

orlp

@VoteToClose no, infinitely many

VoteToClose

@orlp It must start with 1, and must always be positive.

orlp

e.g. 0, 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 6, ...

oh no, not infinitely

you do need 1

but 0, 0, 1 also works

(0, 0, 1 is the same as 1, 2, 3, just the first three digits in tribonary will always be 0)

VoteToClose

2:14 PM

And also, the ratios between must always be 2 (with a few exceptions: see Exceptions to Brown's Criterion)

@orlp It's the same as 1, 1, 2. :P

orlp

oh wait, I thought 3 would come after 1,1,2

>.<

but obviously it's 4

VoteToClose

Yeah, it's still a valid sequence, but different outputs.

orlp

@VoteToClose but can you elaborate on the zeta thing

VoteToClose

@orlp Oh, it just happens to be accurate to this sequence for 30 members, then it differs every once in a while.

Here's the sequence

This isn't the tribonacci sequence I'm referring to, but the sequence whose members are each a binary interpretation of the tribonacci representation as the number represented by the tribonacci representation increases.

I'll make a spreadsheet for you.

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2:35 PM

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Q: Is today a real weekday?

Feb. 6 was a real weekday. Because it lies in the 6th week of the year. So a real weekday is a day with a a day number that equals the week number. But not all country have the same counting of weeks. in Germany a week starts with Monday and ends on Saturday in the US they start on Sunday. Writ...

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LliwTelracs

for the unique binary-like possible ones would it be 1,2,4 1,2,3 1,2,2 1,1,3

LliwTelracs

3:08 PM

in Germany a week starts with Monday and ends on Saturday

mınxomaτ

Can confirm.

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Q: Decimal to Tribonacci to Binary to Decimal

Background The Tribonacci Sequence Imagine for a second that you could make a fibonacci sequence by replacing the standard iteration formula with the following: Basically, instead of summing the last two to get the next, you sum the last three. This is the basis for the Tribonacci sequence. ...

code-golf number number-theory fibonacci

Business Cat

So Sunday doesn't exist?

mınxomaτ

What's a "sunday"?

LliwTelracs

It's a day when the sun is out and shining

mınxomaτ

3:11 PM

You are not supposed to look at the sun. You must concentrate on your work.

muddyfish

wait. There are places where the start of the week isn't Monday?

Riker

yes and they are very nice places

muddyfish

why is Sunday a logical start of week?

mınxomaτ

@muddyfish It isn't.

AdmBorkBork

'Murica

mınxomaτ

3:20 PM

Sunday is supposed to be the closure. We even have a saying for that: Erst die Arbeit, dann das Vergnügen (work before joy basically).

LliwTelracs

Because people decided to call saturday and sunday weekends and therefore there is one at either side of the week

AdmBorkBork

I think colloquially, most people in the US treat Monday as the start of the week. It would seem odd phrasing if someone said "Next week I'm going to do X" and meant Sunday.

mınxomaτ

@LliwTelracs You are abusing a plural of a word rarely if ever used in this context.

flawr

@LliwTelracs But if both end a week, why should they be at a weeks beginning?

muddyfish

@AdmBorkBork When I say I'm doing something next week, I don't have a day in mind

AdmBorkBork

3:25 PM

Very true. But suppose I say that I'm going fishing next week. It would be very odd for that to mean "Sunday."

Almost assuredly, that would be "this weekend" instead.

So Monday is the start of the week.

LliwTelracs

@flawr The start and the finish of something are the two ends of it. @mınxomaτ I wasn't really serious about that.

mınxomaτ

@flawr Right? Because as we all know, only sausages have two ends(source).

muddyfish

@AdmBorkBork If I were to hear that, I'd assume you're doing it this weekend

mınxomaτ

Finished by next week = realize Sunday night, panic, and finish 4am on Monday.

flawr

@mınxomaτ I did not want to mention that XD

AdmBorkBork

3:40 PM

The relative size of our sun compared to VY Canis Majoris is roughly equivalent to a donut compared to the London Eye [via]

user165474

Our sun is very tiny...

muddyfish

@AlexL. compared to you, it's rather large

user165474

@muddyfish Well, yes... I was talking relatively to other stars. You know what I mean -.- :P

zyabin101

No one caught on the hook, so re-asking. Is anyone interested in Magic: the Gathering? :D

flawr

@zyabin101 If nobody answers then probably nobody is interested.

Riker

3:45 PM

if nobody answered, and you've asked a bunch of times, maybe it's not such a great idea to re-ask

flawr

As it was for the last 1000 times you asked.

muddyfish

3 hours ago, by flawr

@zyabin101 Do you have a bot asking this question at a regular interval?

zyabin101

@muddyfish NO!!!

Riker

it was a rhetorical question I think

he's trying to show that people are getting somewhat frustrated

VoteToClose

@Dennis The third step is the main point of the problem. o.o It's not to generate the tribonacci sequence, or describe a number using the tribonacci "base". It's to generate an output that comes from interpreting a number in the tribonacci base as a binary number.

It makes an interesting sequence that looks similar to this sequence.

Dennis

3:49 PM

Your challenge, your call. I just think converting a number to Tribonacci base is more interesting that converting from binary to decimal.

zyabin101

@Riker So where do I search for people with interest in MtG that don't hate (somewhat frustrated is already hate, and enough hate and drama already!)?

Riker

listen

we're not the ones causing drama

everybody needs to shut up about drama, both sides

muddyfish

I actually liked drama at school

zyabin101

Aha. :(

Now, where do I search for people with interest in MtG?

Nowhere, is it?

muddyfish

@zyabin101 your local game shop?

Riker

3:56 PM

and it's not about posting that/searching for people, it's about the fact that you've repeatedly posted it in here, got no response and apparently decided "oh nobody responded imma post it again"

quartata

@PeterTaylor Good

orlp

@VoteToClose so if you use the default tribonacci sequence

(1, 1, 2)

Mike Bufardeci

orlp

r = sqrt(33)
c = cbrt(102*r + 586)
d = (1 + cbrt(19 - 3*r) + cbrt(19 + 3*r))/3
p = 1/log(d)
q = -log(3*c/(c**2 - 2*c + 4))/log(d)
log(n) * p + q

zyabin101

Of course.

BCG.SE.

orlp

3:57 PM

then integer part of the final expression gives you the tribonacci index for that number

Riker

@zyabin101 just make sure that if you don't get a response, don't keep asking, all it's going to do is frustrate people

zyabin101

Aha. :(

VoteToClose

4:13 PM

@orlp Yup, I've seen this. Still not as short as iteration, I think. ;)

AdmBorkBork

Wow, salty.

It seems that you mistakenly posted your homework here rather than on your own computer where you can take a stab at solving it yourself. — Suever 3 mins ago

Business Cat

What is it with certain fonts having the intersection symbol but not union ಠ_ಠ

AdmBorkBork

Use a capital U?

Kinda like how old typewriters used lowercase L and numeral 1 as the same character.

Business Cat

That's probably why they don't have it

Riker

@AdmBorkBork oh snap

VoteToClose

4:18 PM

@AdmBorkBork oh snap indeed

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Q: Loading from SYS in SmileBASIC

(SmileBASIC is a BASIC interpreter for the Nintendo 3DS) SmileBASIC has a special "folder" named SYS that contains built in resources, such as the default sprite sheets, font, and sample programs. It cannot be modified, since it's not actually a folder; it's stored in the game's ROM. (It's jus...

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VoteToClose

@Riker linkify plz

Riker

I don't always not source my gifs, but when I do, they're always from the FP of imgur

VoteToClose

Given the recent votes I've been casting, my name is kind of a misnomer. In reality, to make it accurate, I should make it "VoteToDelete".

Riker

lol

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4:31 PM

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Q: Tips for golfing in SmileBASIC

SmileBASIC deserves more attention. I've only seen 3 users here (including myself!) providing SB answers, and while that doesn't surprise me, it disappoints me. It being a paid lang as well as being a BASIC dialect certainly turns people off, but for those who own it it's actually pretty flexible...

code-golf tips

Downgoat

@Riker O_O oh my

Riker

yes

this is why goats are cool, they just eat the octopus

whereas cats somehow manage to get everything stuck on their face

I know this because one of mine is currently trying to remove honey from hers

Downgoat

XD but what about dogs

Riker

90% of dogs are dumb

often cute, but dumb

muddyfish

@Riker depends on the type of dog

Downgoat

4:40 PM

@Riker s/often/always

Riker

not necessarily always cute

muddyfish

IMO the cuteness of a dog is directly proportional to it's intelligence

Riker

THE?

muddyfish

caps lock and backspace had an argument with me

orlp

the last 21 messages have all been noise

cmon guys

Riker

4:42 PM

what else is going on though

it's not drowning out anything

muddyfish

I was only being involved in a conversation about how dumb dogs are

orlp

@muddyfish yeah and I would consider that noise as well as it has no relevance to ppcg, math, programming, or anything similar to that

@Riker that doesn't matter

or rather, that doesn't make it ok

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Divisors Table (title suggestions welcome) code-golf ascii-art primes Something I've played around with in recreational mathematics has been construction of a divisor table to compare/contrast the prime divisors of a set of numbers. The set of input numbers are across the top as column labels,...

Riker

@Downgoat imgur.com/gallery/298xD

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Downgoat

@Riker :D goats are best

Riker

5:10 PM

@Downgoat imgur.com/gallery/QYd6cFL

mınxomaτ

I need a rubber duck.

orlp

@mınxomaτ I misread this at first

Riker

@mınxomaτ lmgtfy.com/?q=rubber+duck+for+sale

Kritixi Lithos

@mınxomaτ Do you mean something you can talk with about your code? Or something else entirely random?

mınxomaτ

@orlp Eh, still not as bad as betseg's inquiry about the size of our disks.

@KritixiLithos The former.

Here's the problem anyway: stackoverflow.com/questions/42095938/…

Kritixi Lithos

5:14 PM

Woah, ninja downvote. I hate it when that happens

@mınxomaτ Have you tried talking to yourself? :P

Riker

@DJMcMayhem tfw you are so bored you made it to the 6th page of imgur

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Sum of a Geometric Series Create a program/function that takes three numbers (p, q and n) as input/parameters and outputs the sum of the values of pq^x where x ranges from one to n. Make your code as short as possible. Inbuilt 'sum(list)' functions are not allowed, so that people think of creati...

Downgoat

5:30 PM

Did cat/squid gif get flagged?

Kritixi Lithos

5:44 PM

@KritixiLithos Hmm... meta codegolf doesn't have https, while codegolf has http.

Dennis

Using https for chat is kind of a bad idea, as it will break all links to per-site metas.

DJMcMayhem

@Riker accurate

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Q: Output numbers up to 2^n-1, "sorted"

Take a positive integer n as input, and output all decimal numbers that can be created using n bits, ordered in the following way: First list all the numbers that can be created with only one 1, and the rest 0 in the binary representation (sorted), then all the numbers that can be created with t...

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Riker

@Downgoat idts I think a mod just nuked it

Stewie Griffin

6:01 PM

@muddyfish, sorry...

muddyfish

@StewieGriffin don't worry

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Divinacci Perform the Fibonacci sequence but instead of using: f(n) = f(n-1)+f(n-2) Use: f(n) = sum(divisors(f(n-1))) + sum(divisors(f(n-2))) First 13 terms (0-indexed, you may 1-index; state which you used): 0 | 0 # Initial | [] 1 | 1 # Initial | [1] =>

DJMcMayhem

This might be a really dumb question, so forgive me if the answer is obvious, but how can I optionally display an HTML item depending on the value of a JavaScript variable?

FWIW, it's a <tr> item

Riker

the hidden property

object.style.visibility = hidden or object.style.visibility = visible

@DJMcMayhem

Kritixi Lithos

I think JQuery has a .hide()(or something like that) method for hiding elements

DJMcMayhem

6:06 PM

@Riker Ah, perfect thanks

@KritixiLithos No jQuery for me.

I'm actually doing something very obscure/strange/funny. I'm writing a website in C that runs a little dev-board

wat

@DJMcMayhem C?

DJMcMayhem

Yessir

That includes all the TCP-stuff you need to be able to send stuff over Ethernet

Business Cat

@DJMcMayhem object.style.display = "none" and object.style.display = "inline"

Or maybe block instead of inline

mınxomaτ

6:28 PM

20(!) bytes saved just by reusing registers...

Erik the Outgolfer

@DJMcMayhem If that is true, I am a-m-a-z-e-d. My opinion: PHP is much easier and much happier than C.

VoteToClose

Use NodeJS. c:>

Riker

@VoteToClose make sure it's serverside though

VoteToClose

Node is serverside js.

Riker

yeah

serverside serverside js

wat

6:37 PM

I really hate node.js

DJMcMayhem

@EriktheOutgolfer Maybe, but PHP isn't really capable of running firmware haha

wat

First you need to use JS on the browser. If that wasn't bad enough now people are using JS on the server.

Have some sense people

AdmBorkBork

C:\javascript> gets you both C and JS ...

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VoteToClose

@wat Actually, I really like NodeJS. Not for the language specifics, but because of the backend stuff that comes packaged with it. Like, a simple static HTTP server is 300 odd bytes.

Without trying to golf it.

wat

@VoteToClose THat's true I guess, however the HTTP server thing is true for other languages like Python and Ruby

mınxomaτ

6:41 PM

And bash, C#, many scripting languages etc. pp.

VoteToClose

@wat I also learned how to program first in Java, so it's easier for me. ;)

wat

@VoteToClose Then use Java. how does Javascript relate to Java?

It was originally called Livescript and then the name got changed to attract Java developers. No common history whatsoever

VoteToClose

@wat Similar syntax. JS is better for scripting though. In Java, HTTP servers are hard. :I

Erik the Outgolfer

> Similar syntax.

VoteToClose

It is similar syntax. Don't know why you quoted that.

wat

6:44 PM

@VoteToClose OK I guess. For scripting I prefer Ruby but that's your choice/preference

VoteToClose

Ruby scares me. :P I can't handle :: syntax.

quartata

@VoteToClose The problem is that if you want to use anything other than the built in server it is almost impossible

You might be interested in Flask by the way

VoteToClose

@quartata Flask?

@quartata Very true - but that doesn't bother me, since I like the built in one. ;)

quartata

PHP is web server agnostic more or less which is great

Erik the Outgolfer

@VoteToClose I think the syntax is visibly different enough to consider it different. No main classes, no public static void main, uses var` for all types of variables, way less verbose, function f(){} instead of <datatype> f(){}, Java can't be used on the web as effectively as JS, etc...

quartata

6:46 PM

@VoteToClose Can't use it in production. Poor scaling.

mınxomaτ

Been slowly drifting from PHP to Hack lately.

quartata

Flask is a Python library that provides a little web server like what you're describing

VoteToClose

@EriktheOutgolfer Yeah, but most of what you've mentioned is just scripting vs. OOP programming. I refer to the symbols for definition, comparison, manipulation, and separation.

@quartata Good thing I don't write production code. ;)

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Q: Twisting Sentences

Rules The program should receive a string/array of words as input. For each word in the string/array, it will reconstruct the word by taking characters in alternating fashion from the front and back of the word. For example 12345 -> 15243. It will then print words alternating between the earli...

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DJMcMayhem

@NewMainPosts Didn't we just have this exact same challenge a few days ago?

LliwTelracs

6:51 PM

@DJMcMayhem the other challenge was swapping between pairs of capitalized and lowercase letters.

Erik the Outgolfer

Yeah, I don't remember a dupe.

DJMcMayhem

@LliwTelracs No, there was a different one I think

I can't remember where though

LliwTelracs

There was another similar challenge posted in sandbox after mine in this past week

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