@Calvin'sHobbies: If you were hoping task #3 would be based on recursion, Fibonacci may have been a more iconic choice. GCD is more interesting IMO though.
Earlier I came across The Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock Tournament of Epicness, and I decided to submit an answer. To my disappointment, the question was apparently last edited 6 months ago. No one appears to be using it, so I was wondering - Is it OK to copy this question (and not have it...
Basically, the web app thing, which I'm trying to figure out how to use, requires a ruby gem.
But I get some stupid certificate error.
ERROR: Could not find a valid gem 'rhc' (>= 0), here is why:
Unable to download data from rubygems.org - SSL_connect retur
ned=1 errno=0 state=SSLv3 read server certificate B: certificate verify failed (
api.rubygems.org/latest_specs.4.8.gz)
@AlexA. Next feature I should tell you about (if you don't already know about it and are just too lazy to use it ;-)) is replying. On the right-hand margin of each message (that isn't yours), there's an arrow icon. Click that and you'll reply to it. That way, when someone mouseovers the comment, they can see which comment it was in reply to. Really handy! :-)
@ChrisJester-Young: I was hoping to go the function route for the ruby challenge since it's typically quite a bit shorter than reading from stdin in my language of choice. (Note that my language of choice isn't Ruby.)
They are in order spiraling ccw outwards. Maybe you can offset them so the center is the origin and measure the arg of the complex num (probably a long shot)
Like 50% of the characters in my code are just defining a vector of indices. :/
@Sp3000: Sounds like you had a similar idea to me. Try taking a look at my solution--if you know the positions and you have them in an order, you can use the index as the defect number.
I know most of you are asleep, but I have a question regarding this consensus on output and my answer to the recent ruby challenge. The consensus was that modifying arguments was a valid form of output. Technically, my answer stores its output in the first element of b. Now, it is storing a value of the wrong type in a quite large array. Is this valid? If not, where is the deciding line?
It's not vital to get an answer immediately. The return statement is there, so it's definitely valid as per the spec. I'm just curious if I would be allowed to remove it :)
I'm not sure if there's a consensus, but I think default arguments are okay (like def f(x,y=1):, since you can call with one argument f(5)) but you can't do something like requiring the user to input twice (e.g. taking f(x,x) as input)
@BrainSteel I would not consider this valid. That's like returning b instead of its first element. In the case of a return value we don't return larger objects containing the result either, so I think the same should go for output via arguments.
@Sp3000 nice Slip answer, I was thinking about doing something similar in Retina
hm, I'm not sure I can be bothered now that you've already done it ;) ... I also can't think of a more interesting way to do it than listing all pairs of matches and distinguishing with a bunch of ?
Sometimes when I'm doodling, I draw a rectangle, start with a diagonal from one of the corners, and then just trace out a line by "reflecting" it whenever I hit a side of the rectangle. I continue with this until I hit another corner of the rectangle (and hope that the aspect ratio of my rectangl...
I use -e and do it all PowerShell when writing submissions. but the escaping is a pain.
@ChrisJester-Young would be neat if you could actually look into that. the last info I had was this message which balpha didn't follow up on, and I don't feel like bothering him again. ;)
The minmod function is a variant of the familiar min, which appears in slope-limiting high-resolution schemes for partial differential equations. Given a number of slopes, it picks out the flattest slope, while taking care of relative signs between the slopes.
The function takes an arbitrary num...
@ChrisJester-Young Thanks :) Seeing as we have strong competition this year, I'm almost certain that I won't win, but I'm also really glad the people I treasure are running for mod. I hope they win at least!
I'll still take my coming-soon Yearling badge in honor. :p
@MartinBüttner That's reasonable. So, modifying an argument is valid if and only if the argument is the same type and size as what is acceptable by the spec? (Also, congratulations on moderator-dom!)
Cool! I'm not German myself, (unless you trace the ol' family tree back a couple generations) but I've always found the culture fascinating. Mein Deutsch ist sehr schlecht.
@MartinBüttner I wouldn't speak any German at all if I hadn't taken 3 years of it in High School, haha. I know just about enough to keep up with basic German literature and German music. I can't really hold a (grammatically correct) conversation. My brother has a minor in German, though, and he'll be teaching it next year I think.
Brainf*** to tinyBF converter
code-golfbrainfuckconversion
You don't need to know these languages to participate. Every necessary info is in this question.
You should write a program or function which given a brainfuck (BF) code as input outputs its tinyBF equivalent.
BF has 8 instructions ch...
When on the 'Top Users' tab of the Stack Exchange website, you can see the reputation rankings (that is, 1st place has the most reputation, 2nd place has the 2nd most, etc.) of different users. Recently, I searched for my name, and nothing came up. (Probably because I'm rather new.) However, when...
@Optimizer Is this in beta or graduation end game?
If beta, just cycle through all four in any order. As far as I can tell, it's impossible to complete an entire cycle (four rounds) with maxed stars in beta. If graduation, alternate like Ask, Downvote, Answer, Downvote, Ask, Downvote, Answer, Downvote (you get the idea). Traffic will almost keep users floating, but after maybe 10-15 rounds, you'll have to upvote once. Then you're good to go for another 10-15 rounds.
Omg a blue flag just showed up. And before I could click on it, it disappeared.
Does that mean it's in this chatroom, or just any chatroom?
A New Kind of KOTH - Work with other bots
This is just an idea, let me know if it won't pan out well.
The year is 2015 (plus or minus a few thousand years). All the PPGC challenges have collapsed, with the wave of code-troll ambushes. All that remains are the bots, executing their small challeng...
@MartinBüttner Probably... but I don't mean just the sandbox (although 7 in two days has to be some sort of record) - I mean posting on old challenges/meta posts as well...
So, when at full hearts, all will be decreasing at the same rate, -0.3, except when in the last phase and having full hearts in traffic, which will make Users increase by 0.2 every day and will make Quality drop by -0.9 every day.
This means that it's good to try to increase all the stats up to that number, so they will drop to 3 hearts more slowly, but the most important is to try and keep them all at 4 hearts, and that is done by selecting the option that would drop to 3 hearts the next
If that is not enough for him, having a look at the code is the best option, and as the code is quite clear he shouldn't have a problem
I received a shipment of prefabricated skinned rabbit last week and the shipment seemed unusual. Rabbits have a very close resemblance to cats once their “hair” and skin have been removed. Is there a telltale sign that I’m working with Bugs Bunny, not Sylvester?
I have a suspicion that Elmer Fud...
Ruby 2.0, 79 bytes
#!ruby -Kn0
require'digest'
p '×ñF< ìX‚ɲŸ_'.index Digest::MD5.digest(gets)[0]
Hexdump (to faithfully show the binary data in the string):
00000000 23 21 72 75 62 79 20 2d 4b 6e 30 0a 72 65 71 75 |#!ruby -Kn0.requ|
00000010 69 72 65 27 64 69 67 65 73 74 27 0a 70 20 27...
Brainf*** to tinyBF converter
code-golfbrainfuckconversion
You don't need to know these languages to participate. Every necessary info is in this question.
You should write a program or function which given a brainfuck (BF) code as input outputs its tinyBF equivalent.
BF has 8 instructions ch...
