Sorting makes no sense for a 2-dimensional array... or does it?
Your task is to take an input grid and apply a bubble-sort-like algorithm to it until all values in the grid are non-decreasing from left to right and top to bottom along every row and column.
The algorithm works as follows:
Each...
At a party, I was introduced to the game LCR. Now it's not a great game as there's no skill but only random chance. But it got me thinking, I could code this, and I made a quick program in R to model the game.
Rules of the game modified from Wikipedia to match how we played:
Each player rec...
Which meta post should I link to for convincing a participant that code-golf requires forgoing code quality/best practices (e.g. avoiding undesired side effects like setting the computer on fire, or generating spurious files/global variables.) to shorten the code?
@Adám Is the tag not enough? It begins with Code-golf is a competition to solve a particular problem in the fewest bytes of source code. - "the fewest bytes" sounds pretty singular and not open to interpretation, at least to me.
200-500 Rep for Japt Solutions
To celebrate hitting 20k rep, I'm offering bounties of 200 rep to anyone who posts 5 Japt solutions in a 30 day period with an additional 300 rep to anyone posting a total of 10 solutions within the same timeframe.
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Inspired by, and in memory of, our beloved genius,
He invented, implemented and taught the dfns notation — the subject of this task:
Task
Given an ASCII source code, answer in which of the following four categories it belongs:
Dyadic dop
Monadic dop
Dfn
Other
You may return any four cons...
Note: It happened though I don't know if there will be other question that meet this problem
Consider this question:
Solve XXXXX. Removing some characters should break the problem. Most kind of chars win.
and its answer
Lenguage, xxx kinds of chars
Consists of yyy chars
Now that...
Does anyone know of a language which supports nested block comments like /* /* */ ... still part of the comment ... */ (example uses a C-style comment flavour)?
Save the Trees (by printing booklets)
code-golf
Lets say you have a printer that can print double sided but doesn't have the booklet-printing feature (like the one I have), then you have to specify the order in which the pages have to get printed manually. Given the page number n that is divisi...
@moonheart08 Because 1. it's deliberately invalid, 2. all invalid solutions should be deleted while they're being worked on (unless it's a quick fix), and, 3. a ~370 rep gain from a deliberately invalid solution is hardly in the spirit of the site.
@moonheart08 Are there any other instances of this specific situation; such a massive rep gain from such an invalid solution? If we allow it then we're sending a message that posting any old crap as a solution is valid and should be upvoted.
@ThomasWard Yeah, I may do in the morning, when I get back to a computer. My original question, though, was was there a reason (that I may have missed) that it hadn't already been deleted.
@Shaggy It would have been deleted if they didn't edit the valid solution in. The reason it hadn't been deleted by then was because it had a positive score, so only a mod could delete it, and generally we like to give a bit of time (48 hours usually) before deleting an answer to give the user time to fix it
@DJMcMayhem Do you not agree, though, that such a significant rep gain from such a blatantly invalid solution doesn't seem to be in the spirit of the site?
It's just how the site is that memey answers get a lot more votes and I don't know if there's a whole lot we can do to change that. It's definitely valid now though (although it could use an edit to make the valid solution the primary one)
@Shaggy As I understand it, that'd be a tricky thing, though the Great and Powerful Shog would know how hard this would be more than we would. shot for taking the name of Shog and using it
@DJMcMayhem Yeah, it'd be a divisive suggestion, alright, but still worth bringing to Meta, I think. (My own opinion is that it does us more harm than good).
@ThomasWard There is a weighting given to each site to allow each site equal opportunity to be featured (otherwise it'd be all SO, all the time) so it should, at least, be possible to reduce that weighting for PPCG.
Anyway, I'm off to get caught up on some wrestling. I'll bring both issues to Meta tomorrow.
I'm sure there's some way to bootstrap it, but that's probably more trouble than it's worth?
I recall back in ... 2004? 2005? ... I built a Debian (?) machine from the ground up. Started with just a floppy and a prayer. So, I know it's possible.
The Development Cycle of my tolerance of programming languages: 1) This language looks gross, I hate it 2) Now that I try it, this language is alright 3) Wait what do you mean I need to do that? That's horrible, I need to find a workaround 4) Okay doing that isn't that bad I guess 5) I like this language
For me it's more like 1) Yo this feature is hella nifty 2) Find any reason to justify using the language and said nifty feature 3) Oh ok I know this language know
yeah that's not great either, stuff like that should never be forced
Java and C# are my 2 "IDE languages" in that I just can't work with them in VSCode or Vim, meaning I have to use an IDE, and that comes with all the bells and whistles IDEs tend to have, including making any sort of forced directory structure pretty much irrelevant
@Skidsdev My argument was that if you want nested projects, the folders won't correspond 1:1 with namespaces, as they'd have to skip the container folder of the APLSource folder.
sure all my java code is in myProject/src/com/skidsdev/packageName, but in my IDE that just shows as a single directory because all the intermediate steps are otherwise empty
@Adám I much prefer it over python personally (although I'd still use python for server scripts, it always has and always will be my "duct-tape" language)
But C# is far too strong for TypeScript
the issue with TypeScript is they're very adamant on not modifying any JS behaviour
type only exist at compile time
meaning no structs, no operator overloading, very awkward generics
My 3 for TypeScript, however, was namespaces
See, TypeScript has namespaces. But they're not at all like C# namespaces. In TypeScript, every file is its own "external module" (or just "module", these days), and must be imported as such by any other files needing to reference its contents. Namespaces (or "internal modules" as they used to be called) are only used for separating parts of a single file.
Which is the opposite of how C# does it, in which Namespaces are used to group multiple files
This means that if you use namespaces in a C# manner in TypeScript, you can't compile your source down to a single JS bundle, despite TSLint (the syntax checker) considering namespace references perfectly valid
The alternative, not specifying namespaces and using import statements, which directly reference filepaths to import, left a bad taste in my mouth for a long time, to the point where I started working on a pre-processor that would convert my namespace system
but then today I just gave up, and switched to the import system, and it wasn't that bad, because of course it wasn't that bad, it's no worse than how most languages handle cross-file interaction.
Quick opinion needed. I have a stat block that shows successes, fails, and skips. What order seems more natural: Success, fail, then skip or Success, Skip, then Fail?
For example, I'd find it more natural to say "Message read by user, Message blocked by user, Message not delivered" rather then "Message read by user, Message not delievered, Message blocked by User"
@Οurous I try not to curse in programming language names, because my parents look at them
If I want to give someone a bounty for finding a way to golf down one of my programs, what's the best way to do it? In this situation their contribution would not be in the form of a submitted answer, but rather a golfing to my program, so where should the bounty be placed?
Sorting makes no sense for a 2-dimensional array... or does it?
Your task is to take an input grid and apply a bubble-sort-like algorithm to it until all values in the grid are non-decreasing from left to right and top to bottom along every row and column.
The algorithm works as follows:
Each...
At a party, I was introduced to the game LCR. Now it's not a great game as there's no skill but only random chance. But it got me thinking, I could code this, and I made a quick program in R to model the game.
Rules of the game modified from Wikipedia to match how we played:
Each player rec...
200-500 Rep for Japt Solutions
To celebrate hitting 20k rep, I'm offering bounties of 200 rep to anyone who posts 5 Japt solutions in a 30 day period with an additional 300 rep to anyone posting a total of 10 solutions within the same timeframe.
In order to qualify for these bounties you must e...
Inspired by, and in memory of, our beloved genius,
He invented, implemented and taught the dfns notation — the subject of this task:
Task
Given an ASCII source code, answer in which of the following four categories it belongs:
Dyadic dop
Monadic dop
Dfn
Other
You may return any four cons...
Note: It happened though I don't know if there will be other question that meet this problem
Consider this question:
Solve XXXXX. Removing some characters should break the problem. Most kind of chars win.
and its answer
Lenguage, xxx kinds of chars
Consists of yyy chars
Now that...
Save the Trees (by printing booklets)
code-golf
Lets say you have a printer that can print double sided but doesn't have the booklet-printing feature (like the one I have), then you have to specify the order in which the pages have to get printed manually. Given the page number n that is divisi...
