Can anyone please help me find a meta SE or blog post that I remember reading: it talked about how the worst user in a group could drag the whole group down, and that one of the most common complaints about management was unwillingness to address a few problem workers
Some questions like Significant Whitespace disallowed string literals. But what are string literals exactly? If I interpret this literally, almost everything in Bash or Tcl are string literals. For example, this program in Bash:
echo -n "Hello World!"
is the same as:
"echo" "-n" "Hello World!...
How many towers can you see?
code-golf
This question is based on Towers, a number-placement puzzle by Simon Tatham, which you can play online. Your goal is to take a solution to the puzzle and determine the clues -- the numbers of towers visible along each row and column. This is code golf, so ...
Challenge
You task for this question is to split an input array of integers on the second occurrence of every integer in that array.
Not clear enough ? Here is an example to help
Input array:
[2 1 1 2 3 2 2 4 5 6 7 3 7 0 5]
Output:
[[2 1] [] [3 2 2 4 5 6 7] [] [0] []]
Explanation:
Here ...
yeah I always allow any reasonable format... just because you mentioned a few explicitly (which included CJam) doesn't seem like biased towards CJam to me.
If I had written that question, I would consider that the language-neutral way to do output would be space-separated integers with newlines for the splits.
@MartinBüttner, it's true that it's not uncommon. It rather favours golfing languages in general. But certainly your rewording is less biased than it was.
@Optimizer, the original wording would have required GolfScript to do manual formatting for the correct whitespace, while including a special case which was obviously aimed at CJam. That's why it looked extremely biased.
From description of Bill Lumbergh hat -
answer 5 questions on a Saturday (in UTC time)
Two questions:
Do all 5 answers have to be on the same Saturday ? (or can they spread across various Saturdays)
Do we need at least 1 upvote per answer for all 5 answers ?
If yes, then do we need the u...
CJam, 25 bytes
q~{_L+:L1$a/,3={;][}*}%]p
Takes input from STDIN like
[ 2 1 2 1 0 2 2 1 1 3 4 3]
and outputs like
[[2 1] "" [0 2 2 1 1 3 4] ""]
I am basically iterating over all elements of the array, one by one putting them into another array. Then I get the count of the current element ...
Direct Line insurers have a Christmas Memory Puzzle.
The best I could do by hand is 42.9 seconds, and the best using a computer program was 16.14 seconds (bash script).
Any language, any method. All the clicks (including the word "Play") must be done using the computer. Don't submit your speed,...
but I can't find anywhere that is says I can't ask that. I'm not saying it is off topic, but (as a new user who read the [help] and a few meta posts) I had no idea, and I don't like having to try something out to find out it's wrong
I don't understand "Don't submit your speed, as it technically breaks the rules, but it's fine to play it." either. If we don't submit our speed how are you going to score by it?
a clever solution could save some time though by not clicking again if pairs were already found, or by redoing pairs right away, and maybe working out the last tile without clicking it earlier
in that case the actual amount of clicks does depend on the placement of the tiles
CJam, 18 bytes
"1n¯]"245bHb{'B+}%
This answer prints the result instantaneously without consuming infinite system memory :)
It is just base conversion of the string CODEGOLF to both save bytes and to avoid using any of the restricted characters.
Just try it out here
but its not showing up, I even tried editing the question
Some questions like Significant Whitespace disallowed string literals. But what are string literals exactly? If I interpret this literally, almost everything in Bash or Tcl are string literals. For example, this program in Bash:
echo -n "Hello World!"
is the same as:
"echo" "-n" "Hello World!...
How many towers can you see?
code-golf
This question is based on Towers, a number-placement puzzle by Simon Tatham, which you can play online. Your goal is to take a solution to the puzzle and determine the clues -- the numbers of towers visible along each row and column. This is code golf, so ...
Challenge
You task for this question is to split an input array of integers on the second occurrence of every integer in that array.
Not clear enough ? Here is an example to help
Input array:
[2 1 1 2 3 2 2 4 5 6 7 3 7 0 5]
Output:
[[2 1] [] [3 2 2 4 5 6 7] [] [0] []]
Explanation:
Here ...
