The Nineteenth Byte

Alex A.

00:00

Oh nice, so are you in Hungary? Like many Americans my heritage is pretty varied, but there's some Hungarian in there.

Nathan Merrill

00:22

You are given a large number of pairs (A, B) where each pair represents a line segment that starts at (0, A) and ends at (1, B).

How do you efficiently find the number of intersections?

Alex A.

I don't, at least not efficiently.

Nathan Merrill

you can assume that the pairs (2,4) (1,5) and (0,6) have 3 different intersections

There are some optimizations you can make

Alex A.

Are there any duplicate pairs?

Nathan Merrill

no

also, there are no duplicate As or Bs

but if we consider (4,4)

it intersects everything where (A<4) and (B>4)

also, everything where (A>4) and (B<4)

oooh, so if I iterate through each of them

and create two massive arrays that contain the number of elements below them

that should be enough to make the algorithm O(n)

where n = number of pairs

Alex A.

Is this a homework problem or something?

Nathan Merrill

00:28

yes

codechef.com/problems/LPAIR

Alex A.

Are you a CS student?

Nathan Merrill

yes

Alex A.

Nice. University?

Nathan Merrill

Utah State University

Alex A.

Cool :)

Undergraduate or graduate?

Nathan Merrill

00:31

undergraduate

I think that graduate work in CS is wasteful

:P

Alex A.

Haha! Why so?

Nathan Merrill

because "research" is really just "theorizing"

either go into mathematics

or be a programmer

mathematics has a much better foundation for theorycrafting

if you want to "research" like the other science fields, then I have no idea why you're a programmer

Alex A.

Okay, I see where you're coming from.

Nathan Merrill

bah, the method I described above won't work

@TheNumberOne so am I

Hosch250

00:47

Snipe hunts, anyone?

Jba Fofi

The J'ba Fofi (Baka: "giant spider"), also known as the Congolese Giant Spider is a cryptozoological creature that is said to exist in the Congo, possibly representing a new species of arachnid. It is considered a cryptid and only in recent years has received publicity. The J'ba Fofi is described as having a brownish body similar to that of a tarantula, with a legspan of four to six feet. Juvenile versions possess yellow coloring that turns brown as they grow older. == History == Sightings of the J'ba Fofi have been primarily in Africa and achieved the most recent publicity due to the wor...

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Quincunx

05:57

Okay, this is totally off topic, but I'm really struggling here. Spotify used to let me copy track titles, but now it only lets me copy URIs. I think I found a workaround involving using Java's Robot to move the mouse, but this only lets me do one track at a time. Does anyone know how I might copy the names of the tracks?

Nathan Merrill

06:16

...be more specific?

you want to copy and paste a title of a track?

@Quincunx

what's the end goal?

Quincunx

Yes exactly that

I want to share my songs with someone who doesn't have spotify

Through email

At his request

Nathan Merrill

on a playlist that has lots of songs

Quincunx

Yes

Actually, several different playlists

Many many many songs. Hundreds

Nathan Merrill

do you have a page that has all of the songs listed?

Quincunx

Playlist?

I could copy to a text file with all the URIs to the songs.

Nathan Merrill

06:19

well, I can quickly write up some javascript that'll take all of the song names off of a page

Quincunx

I don't have the names listed somewhere...

Nathan Merrill

but I need a page to work with

...then how is anybody supposed to know what songs you want to share?

how do you know what songs you want to share?

Quincunx

Because spotify has the names. Here's an example:

spotify:track:4lCHiY2thdE1YuVtsmck23

Nathan Merrill

spotify has lots of songs

Quincunx

That spotify track is Overjoyed by Bastille

Nathan Merrill

06:20

you don't want to share all of them

Quincunx

No I want to share those specific ones

And I need to give just the name and artist

Nathan Merrill

and those specific ones are listed wherE?

Quincunx

In my playlist

Nathan Merrill

ok. Can you give me a link to the playlist?

Quincunx

Uh, this playlist is actually a private playlist...

I'd prefer not to :/

Nathan Merrill

06:21

ah ok

can you view it in your browser?

Quincunx

But you gave me an idea to use the spotify web player and inspect element

Here's the annoying thing. Spotify doesn't make the track name / artist available

I inspected all the way down to the bottom and ... no information. Just grabbing the data from the link. :/

Oh wait nevermind

Now I get to figure out how to parse all the data for what I want :-). Thank you Nathan

Nathan Merrill

you're welcome

Peter Taylor

07:01

@randomra, re your question about languages which can achieve optimal

Asymptotic behaviour.

I think you're essentially after languages which expose a RAM model interface.

Martin Büttner

07:20

@Calvin'sHobbies You manage to keep asking questions for which there already exists an issue for Retina which would make it a breeze. :D

A wild Peter (re)appeared. :)

VisualMelon

07:37

apparently "<><" and "><>" map to Ruby somehow... I am somewhat confused at this time

Optimizer

@MartinBüttner dammit, that is so biased towards regex

Martin Büttner

I can do it in Retina, but I need the fish-matching regex twice

in PCRE I could at least reuse it with (?1)

if only I knew Perl...

also the matching of individual fish might be shorter by interpreting the > and < as binary digits

Martin Büttner

08:00

also @Calvin'sHobbies how do you still not have Socratic? did you really post multiple questions a day that often?

VisualMelon

I don't think the number of types of fish is sufficient to warrant trying to compact it in C#

just going to see if I reverse them efficiently me thinks

Martin Büttner

@Calvin'sHobbies I guess I can't use newlines to separate the fish?

Calvin's Hobbies

@MartinBüttner I've no clue why I don't have Socratic yet. Unless I'm miscounting I should have got it with the phi question and definitely with the fish one :/

And no, should be spaces not lines

Martin Büttner

well with the fish one it's definitely not gonna come in before tomorrow

@Calvin'sHobbies :(

I need to get these features for Retina done :D

@Calvin'sHobbies btw, while you're catching up with gold, I'm close to adding another digit to my badge panel ;) (and it's probably gonna be the last one for a loooong time)

btw, why is the RvB sandbox still on meta and still active?

Calvin's Hobbies

08:19

@MartinBüttner That's ok with me. I'm just holding out for 2 gold before you get any more so I can prove that your rep/badge stats are not undefeatable ;)

Martin Büttner

Programming Languages Through The Years has some good odds to do that

Calvin's Hobbies

Right, and with socratic my goal is complete!

Sp3000

First thing I thought when I saw the ><> question was Retina :P

Martin Büttner

Lab Rat Race is pretty close, but it's slowed to a crawl...

(I do need to run some more tests on that though, so that might bump it for a few more views)

Calvin's Hobbies

@MartinBüttner We kept it open as a test area for bots. It can be deleted when the contest ends.

Martin Büttner

08:21

@Sp3000 I could save 7 bytes with matching instead of replacing, but Retina prints matches newline separated (and I don't yet have output format configuration). I could save even more if I could print the captures of a single group...

@Calvin'sHobbies ah okay

Sp3000

I can match the whole string but I can't separate :( but even so everything needs escaping so it's be longer anyway

Martin Büttner

I hope Programming Languages Through The Years doesn't just die off because people can't be bothered with any language in the next year... I'm still waiting for 2005 ^^

@Sp3000 I'm still contemplating BF to tinyBF in Retina... although that one would benefit from having multi-stage loops

Sp3000

I'm secretly hoping we don't go past 2005 so Piet and Shakespeare can't come along, but then nobody can do JS/Python/C. I'm conflicted

:P being able to replace is so handy

Martin Büttner

@Sp3000 who's stopping you from posting Piet or SPL :P

Sp3000

I don't SPL, but Piet is really annoying to program in, since everything's relative

Martin Büttner

08:28

GCD won't be huge amounts of fun in Prelude either

Sp3000

@MartinBüttner btw ><>>|<<><|><<<>|<>>>< can be written as ><(>|<<)>|<(<|>>)>< I think

Martin Büttner

ah thanks

I'm not good with "normal" regex golf :D

Sp3000

"normal" regex golf, eh :P

Didn't Retina have an ECMAScript mode? Or was that something else?

Martin Büttner

yes

(well .NET has)

how does that help?

Sp3000

It doesn't have recursion?

Martin Büttner

08:38

lol no

the only reason I can think of to ever use ECMAScript is [] and [^]

rcrmn

@Calvin'sHobbies How do you obtain the socratic badge? because the definition is unclear to me: does it mean 100 different questions in 100 different days, or 1 question well received for 100 days?

Sp3000

Maybe it's the "maintained a positive question record" part :P Doubt it though

Calvin's Hobbies

@rcrmn The former. "well received" means the avg score needs to be positive

The average might have to be above some limit, but I don't think a single negative question changes anything

Martin Büttner

@rcrmn 100 questions on 100 days

Sp3000

Stealing a random query from somewhere says you're on 97/100

Calvin's Hobbies

08:47

I know, but that's updated only on Sunday. I should be around 101 by now

Martin Büttner

@Calvin'sHobbies Didn't you delete a question recently?

like, this week

Nathan Merrill

hey, I've written a djikstra algorithm, but its apparently too slow. I'm marking visisted nodes...what else can I do to speed it up?

Martin Büttner

@PhiNotPi I think your starred message about stars would look even more convincing without the comma ;)

Calvin's Hobbies

@MartinBüttner I did delete this since I thought it would be too tediuos for anyone to complete. Hmm..

Martin Büttner

it probably is

Calvin's Hobbies

08:58

Did you know because of some mod tools or are you just extremely attentive?

Martin Büttner

"coincidence"

Sp3000

09:20

@Calvin'sHobbies For the fish question does no output mean no output or can it be an empty string followed by a newline?

Calvin's Hobbies

no output means no output

Sp3000

k

Martin Büttner

@Sp3000 oh crap

btw you should totally answer this in ><>

Sp3000

Ahaha what's this, second answer-in-the-respective-language question in two days? :P

Optimizer

what is the first ?

Martin Büttner

09:27

extended BF?

Sp3000

Ruby

Martin Büttner

ah that

Optimizer

oh not u na

Martin Büttner

@Optimizer wat?

Optimizer

he didn't answer that

Sp3000

09:27

It's doable, just... lack of string comparison will mean a lot of stack shifting, and I'm not sure I have the time

Optimizer

don't worry, stack shifting will be done by the language itself

Martin Büttner

you should rather focus on getting a 2008 language in :P

Sp3000

Who?

Martin Büttner

you :P (or anyone, really)

Sp3000

I did 2009

Martin Büttner

09:31

oh

Calvin's Hobbies

Why was the ruby question so popular? It didn't seem all that special to me.

Sp3000

The different approaches? Maybe

I think it was less the question, and more the answers that the question gave rise to

Martin Büttner

also, I noticed that /// isn't even possible for languages through the years

Calvin's Hobbies

I guess. Not to mention Chris answering in Ruby itself for the first time in ages

Martin Büttner

you'd have to use Itflabtijtslwi

Sp3000

09:37

Just got +1/-1 on CJam Ruby in the space of 2 minutes. Good to know.

VisualMelon

oh no, I have access to Mod tools suddenly, now I will feel even worse about skipping all the reviews because I don't trust myself

Calvin's Hobbies

@MartinBüttner I'd allow a constant or something for languages that absolutely don't have input.

But you may as well use Itflabtijtslwi

Sp3000

Oh, Optimizer's got -1'd as well. The usual golfing language hate I see

(and Pyth, and ... Slip?)

Optimizer

10:02

where ?

oh, ruby inspecter

so apparently, haskell is fine ?

even though its shorter than other golfing language answer

SLIP

Sp3000

Slip isn't a golfing language though :P

Optimizer

oh yes.

i wonder why then

Sp3000

They pretty much DVed every non-"standard" language... except they missed ><>

Optimizer

they ?

Sp3000

Whoever the DVer was. I assume it was one person.

Optimizer

10:08

then he*

Sp3000

Singular they

Singular they is the use of they, or its inflected or derivative forms, such as them, their, or themselves, to refer to a single person or an antecedent that is grammatically singular. It typically occurs with an antecedent of indeterminate gender, as in sentences such as: "Everyone returned to their seats." "Somebody left their umbrella in the office. Would they please collect it?" "The patient should be told at the outset how much they will be required to pay." "But a journalist should not be forced to reveal their sources." A reason for its use is that English has no dedicated singular personal...

Martin Büttner

That subtle sexism...

Sp3000

I wish Unihedro was here :P

Optimizer

I prefer (s)he

or she/he

s?he

Martin Büttner

@Calvin'sHobbies I don't think I will use either. Decimal to unary conversion would be huge pain, and it would block me for Prelude (2005)

@Optimizer that's always awkward to say though and some people don't identify with either gender

Optimizer

10:14

calling them they is equally offensive :P

"I am not that fat"

Sp3000

Would the parsing tag be appropriate for the fish question

(and does chat even do tags? parsing)

(apparently yes)

nhahtdh

10:33

@MartinBüttner: Why did you remove your Retina answer for the Fish question?

nhahtdh

10:43

(I'm just curious, since it looks like a winning answer)

Sp3000

Martin took it down after this: chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/20998515#20998515

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SVG file optimization Yep, I got my idea off of this question, and it's amazing answer. All credit for this question goes to Illmari Karonen's answer Now, for the challenge: Write a program that removes unnecessary clutter from SVG files in order to reduce their byte counts. Remove comments <...

rcrmn

I just posted this meta.codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/5048/30686 what do you guys think?

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Solve a jigsaw puzzle codegolf I've just bought a new jigsaw puzzle but, as a programmer, I'm too lazy to do it by myself. So I've devised a way to encode the pieces, and now I need a way to solve the puzzle itself. Challenge A puzzle piece will have from 2 to 4 connecting corners, defined by...

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Hardcoded Webserver Currently, webservers are pieces of code that translate requests into files on the server, which contain pieces of code that require still more pieces of code to be interpreted, connecting to pieces of code that interface to a database, and finally all this interpreted code i...

VisualMelon

11:25

@rcrmn what does "The color of 4-adjacent pieces will differ at most by 1." mean?

rcrmn

1 2 3
2 3 4
is okay

while
1 2 3
4 3 2
is not

VisualMelon

oh, I see, 4-adjacent rather than 8-adjacent, is that a common-term?

rcrmn

It's to avoid the case where two pieces could go in the same spot

VisualMelon

(I don't remember seeing it before, but I could easily have just not noticed)

rcrmn

It is in image processing, as far as I know

VisualMelon

11:30

if you allow rotation, then there will be a minimum of 4 correct outputs, that would need to be clear, but I think it's a nice challenge (probably too much effort for me to personally)

Sp3000

(2008 is in, let's see how long it takes for someone to post LOLCODE/Clojure)

VisualMelon

I missed the bit about allowing any valid output, ignore me

rcrmn

If I allowed rotation I might add, to simplify, that the first input piece would always be in the expected ouput rotation, so as to minimize the valid outputs

Sp3000

11:50

Hey @Unihedro! Wish you were here earlier :)

Unihedro

@Sp3000 Hello :)

Haha, my gender agnostic pronouns ;D

Sp3000

Well I didn't realise I normally did that as well until someone pointed to it, aka you :P

Optimizer

12:24

@Unihedro still there is a "he" in "they"

but not a "she"

@Calvin'sHobbies trailing space allowed ?

Unihedro

@Optimizer \bhe\b

Optimizer

what ?

Unihedro

Word boundaries.

Optimizer

read that sentence like "They includes he but not she"

Unihedro

GTG see you around

Optimizer

12:43

too much anti-feminism ?

Runer112

this question is really starting to piss me off

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Q: Print the first character of the previous answers

I'd like to give credit to randomra, who helped me with my old idea and gave me this new one. Next bytes: 10 (congratulations isaacg, on going beyond everyone's expectations!) EDIT: In 24 hours (of the time of this edit), we will potentially be restarting. In other words, you have 24 hours t...

second time I was just about to post a novel solution, and get ninja'd by a plain and simple one

and by the same guy

with the same solution

Sp3000

@Optimizer Since this is CJam, surely a lot more bytes can be saved by encoding the string :P

Optimizer

@Sp3000 i know, but for now, improving the algo first

also checking if a "generate all combinations" will work out

but looks like its too damn slow

Geobits

"Round 2"? We're doing that now? Not sure how I feel about this....

Runer112

I think it might be okay if there were a bit more restrictions imposed

but it's a lot of the same people posting the same solutions, just with longer strings

and I can take a pretty good guess at what's going to "win" each round

it's just going to be the fastest person to post the 7-bit ASCII encoding of the current string

Geobits

13:03

Yea, unless they coordinate and get an actual pattern going (not likely), I assume it's just going to be a repeat each round.

It also doesn't help that the only mention of this is in comments. The post doesn't contain any rules at all about it.

Oh wait, there is a small edit at the top, but it doesn't really explain it well.

-1 Why didn't this challenge just die with dignity after the 15-byte solution? It seems disingenuous to change it after a good, "winning" answer has been given just so you can keep playing by different rules. — Geobits 1 min ago

Runer112

I dunno

Rainbolt

@Geobits Close as a duplicate of itself.

4

Runer112

I already downvoted the question long ago

because it rewarded fast, not well thought out answers

Geobits

I didn't downvote originally, because although it was "simple", there wasn't anything I saw wrong with it, just harmless fast answers. Changing the rules after 15+ answers is just wrong, though.

Rainbolt

I'm not against fast answers. All of my "good" challenges to date have fast, funny, good, clever, and cheaty answers.

Runer112

13:14

well, there's an important stipulation

Rainbolt

This challenge at least allows for maybe one clever answer per round (during crunch time)

Runer112

which is that the fast answers disallow well-thought-out answers

because once a spot is taken, that's it

yeah, it really only allows for one clever answer per round

the rest mostly just cookie-cutter code that seems a bit too circlejerky in the number of upvotes they got

answers that are basically just print "string" getting multiple upvotes

also, good thing nobody actually tried to decode the 7-bit ASCII answer

after 26 upvotes, I tried, and it's wrong

Geobits

Nice :)

Runer112

it should be a simple fix, but it does then make all the round 2 answers wrong

Geobits

13:30

I guess it should be obvious from the initial p without even looking at the rest.

Runer112

yes

he has a bit of padding at the start which shouldn't be there

also, this encoding is just patently wrong, even if he starts with a 0 bit of padding

the hex values of the first three chars are 70 70 75

Geobits

I haven't looked at it thoroughly, just noticed the first char once you said something. Maybe you should leave a comment so people stop upvoting.

Runer112

so the first two bytes should be 70 E1

I'm doing it now

I should've also put a bit more weight on the fact that packed 7-bit ASCII isn't actually a format

sure, you can do it, but afaict, no organization has standardized it

that one dude's blog post is the only support I can find for its existence

Rainbolt

You seem to be very involved in this challenge despite calling it a circle jerk only moments ago.

Runer112

what's your point

Optimizer

13:46

"I am against you"

Runer112

I'm involved in trying to make it less of a circlejerk, yes

Runer112

14:00

he tried to fix it, but it's still wrong :/

guess I'll have to post another comment or something

Sp3000

@Optimizer Why not 255b5b" ><,."f=S/?

Rainbolt

@Geobits How legal exactly is Rainiertamayo? I'm trying to decide whether I should alert the Arqadians that their movie of choice is available here in 720p.

The only source I could find said it was technically legal but it looked very unauthoritative. I thought maybe you might have looked into it since then.

Geobits

I'd guess it's not legal at all and that whatever the site owner has said about his access/authority is probably BS. I haven't looked at it much, but I assume if it was legal legal, it would be a bigger story than it is.

Then again, I'm naturally distrustful of random claims from people I don't know :)

It's just one of those things that sounds too good to be true, ya know?

Rainbolt

14:16

Yes, exactly. That's why I need you to tell me it is legal even if it isn't.

Geobits

So you can post it on Arqade and point back to me? No thanks :P

Optimizer

@Sp3000 already done

Rainbolt

@Geobits No, so I can blissfully believe you.

Sp3000

I see er

Optimizer

@Sp3000 I mean in my copy. updating now.

Sp3000

14:19

Oh... ok...

Geobits

@Rainbolt You're asking the wrong person. While I don't have many qualms about "piracy", I won't explicitly tell someone it's legal unless I know for sure. You need someone nicer for that.

Rainbolt

♪ I've got an iPod like a pirate ship. I sail the seas with fifty thousand songs I've never heard. ♫

Geobits

iPod? Do people still use those?

Runer112

sigh, people

Rainbolt

Latest generations were released in 2012. Second to latest editions in 2010, when that song came out. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod#Models_and_features

Runer112

14:25

I just posted a comment on an answer saying that it's wrong and needs to be fixed, and since then, someone has upvoted the answer

Geobits

I don't doubt that, it was a serious question though. Most I know just use their phone now.

Rainbolt

That's like asking if I'm really on a highway to hell.

Geobits

@Runer112 Don't feel too bad, it's hardly the first wrong/bad/off answer that's been upvoted a bunch, nor will it be the last.

@Rainbolt I'm fairly certain many would say you are (as am I).

Optimizer

@Geobits phone ? Do people still use those?

Geobits

If by phone you actually mean computer-in-your-pocket with telephony, then yes ;)

Runer112

14:27

unfortunately I'm naturally a justice warrior, so I'm always going to end up feeling bad about people's ill-gotten gainz

Rainbolt

@Runer112 I will feed your campaign against unjustly upvoted answers. Here you go. Here's another.

I put more work into the comments than I did the actual code.

Runer112

those are equivalent to like 1/3 of all the upvotes I've gotten

Rainbolt

What can I say. I plug my stuff more than Lembik does.

Sp3000

Here's another to add to the list - it's gone now though :P

Rainbolt

@Sp3000 Clicked on that link... loading... loading...

Ah, there we go

Sp3000

14:35

I forgot what the deleted post rep threshold was

Rainbolt

I wonder why that took so long to load.

Runer112

we need two upvote buttons

one for funny/witty, and one for actually helpful/correct

Rainbolt

Gah I had it!

Sp3000

Ninja'd

Runer112

the funny/witty upvote should actually be a sidevote

so you've got two axes for an answer's score and can plot its score in 2D space

Rainbolt

14:38

You do realize that 95% of the material on PPCG is not actually making the Internet a better place?

Runer112

hey

one day, a situation like disarm the bomb will occur

and they'll need to quickly search PPCG for the shortest solution to some evil genius' computer puzzle lock

Rainbolt

Or maybe one day angels and demons will battle for mankind, and we'll need to take sides

Runer112

why did that guy delete his post anyways

it must take a lot of strength to delete your own post that's responsible for like half of all your rep

Rainbolt

He doesn't lose the rep does he?

Geobits

Pretty sure you do.

Maybe you should go delete one of your answers and find out :P

Rainbolt

14:42

I'll just flag Wolf for deletion.

I bet that would look awesome on the rep graph for PPCG. Because all of those answerers would also lose their rep.

Geobits

"Flagged for: trolololol"

Runer112

you know, one not terrible solution would be to CW non-serious posts

Rainbolt

I thought about that. I decided that 1) my reputation doesn't actually hurt you 2) it wasn't a community effort and 3) I can (and I did) post a 300 rep bounty for the top answer (which is saying a lot when there are 96 answers)

Runer112

stop it at the source, ban everyone who upvotes a simple/comedic answer!

in case it needs clarification: </sarcasm>

Geobits

So... the sarcasm tag indicates it doesn't need clarification? This is why opening tags are good :P

Rainbolt

14:50

Fun fact:

Geobits

2 days ago, by Geobits

That wasn't fun or a fact

:D

Nathan Merrill

15:19

you guys going to participate in google code jam?

Sp3000

Oh it's today, isn't it

Let's do this

Martin Büttner

It's time for golfscript (for CH's challenge)

TheNumberOne

@NathanMerrill Thanks for telling me about it.

Nathan Merrill

I get an instant A if I get past the second round

Sp3000

Aww I wish my courses worked like that :P

Nathan Merrill

15:29

only one of them. Its an algorithms course, so if I'm proficient enough with algorithms to make it into their second round, then I'm probably proficient enough to pass the course

Sp3000

Woop my bad, it starts UTC 11pm on Friday 10th. I got excited because it's AEST 1:30am on Friday 10th.

Ahaha k :P (You could just have been lucky though!)

Nathan Merrill

lol I can represent a different country than my residence

Nathan Merrill

15:46

from google code jam faq:

Our contestants have used a wide variety of languages to compete in Code Jam, though we aren't certain that we'd recommend LOLCODE and Piet.

rcrmn

Challenge accepted?

It will start at 1am here... so either I'll go to sleep really soon and start early saturday morning...

Sp3000

Nabbers once polyglotted the qualification round, if anybody wants to try that

Optimizer

oh school/college students :D

Nathan Merrill

polyglot would be great

submit a bug report that you can't designate two languages

rcrmn

Oh okay, it will be my first cj, I thought that you had all weekend for it, but it seems you have 2h30 to do the challenge and then it's over?

Sp3000

15:50

Qualification is all weekend

Optimizer

we might have here the most starred chat message ever

Sp3000

All the other rounds are shorter though, but there's three round 1s so you get a few tries

Nathan Merrill

it seems that Phi's comment goes up by the thousands

TheNumberOne

That is way too many stars for just a joke.

Optimizer

^ literally and non-literally too

Geobits

15:52

Flagged for beating my personal most-starred record.

Optimizer

2?

Geobits

I believe it's this one (13):

Mar 31 at 17:09, by Geobits

This April Fool's Day game sure could've used a run through The Sandbox.

Runer112

even with that +10000 Optimizer gave it, it's still not first, though

loses to 14351

Optimizer

@Runer112 my +10000 was optimized

Nathan Merrill

so, reading the FAQ in code jam, found this interesting tidbit:

With the exception of the Qualification Round, you are not allowed to collaborate with other participants

Optimizer

15:56

how would they know ?

oh, Google!

Nathan Merrill

Google knows everything

Geobits

It says "other participants", not "other people" ;)

Nathan Merrill

the interesting part is that they are allowing collaboration in the qualification round

I cut that part out

With the exception of the Qualification Round, you are not allowed to collaborate with other participants — or with anyone else, for that matter — during a contest

Geobits

Awww

Optimizer

haha

Geobits

15:58

Standard loophole denied

Nathan Merrill

"This problem has a similar idea, but it does not assume you have played Cookie Clicker. Please don't go play it now: it might be a long time before you come back."

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