@Neil Well, Charcoal is a hard language to program by the looks of it, so I congratulate ASCII_only for programming it without it being littered with bugs.
I tried to make a self-modifying BF interpreter and even that was littered with bugs and probably still is (github.com/MilkyWay90/M.I.C.G.B.F.)
or https://github.com/MilkyWay90/M.I.C.G.B.F., if the link is broken
And does anybody have an idea for a new programming idea? I'm looking for an idea which would be unique or very hard to program (not a Befunge derivative, though)
Like my self-modifying interpreter, that was hard for me to program
Or my Turing Machine But Way Worse language, that was very hard for me to program
@Downgoat Well-written APL code can easily be read left-to-right, but functions are right-associative — have long right-scope — evaluate from right to left.
@EriktheOutgolfer Yes, use AWS to host a (D)DoS attack against regular Amazon. Apparently, Amazon doesn't work with big margins: all the new holiday gift Alexa devices succesfully DDoS'ed them.
It can be pretty hard to accurately predict the level of new traffic. You don't want to shoot too low because then you end up overwhelming your services, and you don't want to shoot too high because that costs money (by running machines you don't really need).
@El'endiaStarman Uh, I'd think Amazon would want to err on the side of apparent reliability of Alexa with a safety margin of, say, 200% of produced Alexa devices.
@El'endiaStarman At this point in time, where OK-Google, Siri, Cortana, and Bixby all are fighting for the personal AI assistant market, appearance of reliability and speed is everything. I'm sure Amazon can afford a dozen more data centres just for that.
@Adám I'm not sure you're aware of how expensive that is. For reference, my company does loadtesting before a new game is launched and we go well beyond what we expect to need to handle the sudden high load at launch. Both of those would cost literally hundreds of thousands of dollars per month, and that's for no more than a few hundred beefy machines. I have no idea how many are needed to handle the traffic for Alexa, but I'm sure the cost is at least in the (tens of) millions.
Of course, the question then becomes: would it have been worth it to scale up more? Did Amazon lose money on the order of millions of dollars because Alexa services went down temporarily? I have no idea at all; that's not my area of expertise.
@EriktheOutgolfer i couldn't remember its english name the first time... here they put a piece of it in each slice and it has some meaning of what your new year will be like, a bit like "fortune cookies"
and, of course, one of the pieces contains The Coin, and whoever gets it will be the luckiest
@EriktheOutgolfer they are not meant to be traps, but sometimes awkward permutations might happen, like a just-married person getting "new love" or a 5-year old "a car" :)
You have to be very careful what you ask for. I remember a Donald duck story where Donald uses an Aladdin-style lamp, but the genie keeps interpreting Donald's wishes in unintended ways.
My rabbi told me how he prayed for and was granted to marry his first date. I wanted to repeat his success but phrased my prayer wrong, asking to only have to date one girl before getting married. So God snickered and let me only date one girl before getting married — to someone else.
@Adám maybe you said "I want to date only one girl before getting married" instead of "I want to marry the girl I first date"? or you omitted the word "girl" as well?
@Adám "to only have to date one girl" - if i was your god, i'd introduce you to yet another one before your wife, and later i'd say "you didn't have to date this one, she was optional" :D
