The Nineteenth Byte

Doorknob

00:54

We have SoundCloud embeds! However, please do keep the plain SoundCloud links in the post too, as the embedding requires Flash.

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Martin Büttner

Exhibit A.

BrainSteel

Time for more audio challenges? something something sight reading...

Sp3000

Huzzah, now we need this to be a challenge

Martin Büttner

@BrainSteel lol, I just thought about that

I'll see what I can do tomorrow

Calvin's Hobbies

Congrats Blue Team!

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BrainSteel

01:03

No rush. I'm excited for the integration, though! We'll have to see what people come up with. Perhaps @Calvin'sHobbies may even put in a challenge, eh?

Martin Büttner

@Calvin'sHobbies I can hear the gears in your mind grinding about how you are gonna write a challenge that makes use of the soundclound embedding :P

@BrainSteel I'm sure he will... so far he didn't miss any chance when we got a new feature ;)

BrainSteel

No pressure :)

Martin Büttner

(I think he missed the redesign though)

Calvin's Hobbies

Just as long as it's not another MathJax fiasco :P

I've been scoring RvB and just saw that we got SoundCloud

BrainSteel

Very recently.

Martin Büttner

01:05

@Calvin'sHobbies I doubt that. ;)

BrainSteel

That RvB challenge is an amazing success! I hadn't checked on it in a while.

Martin Büttner

to my shame, I never even got around to reading the rules :(

Calvin's Hobbies

Blue Team has remained ahead ever since the Sphibots. I thought maybe Hosch and TheNo1 would turn it around for red, but alas...

BrainSteel

I read the rules, but didn't come up with anything particularly clever. I should have tried to help my team :(

Sp3000

I was hoping the comeback would come, but I guess people were busy

BrainSteel

01:09

I remember watching the Sphibots on the first day they existed. It was about as terrifying as 2 little pixels could be...

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Calvin's Hobbies

@Sp3000 Yeah, a Red comeback would have been quite spectacular, if discouraging for the blues

Sp3000

btw you should accept Phi's answer :P

Calvin's Hobbies

Ah right, forgot about that. Wish I could accept both

Sp3000

The formation thing was Phi's idea to begin with anyway

ASCIIThenANSI

Why does the help bar still say MathJax is supported? We did drop support for that, right?

Chris Jester-Young

01:23

@ASCIIThenANSI Where does it say that?

ASCIIThenANSI

@ChrisJester-Young Go to 'ask question' or 'edit question'. Under 'How To Format' on the right side, it says 'MathJaX Equations'.

PhiNotPi

I think RvB was one of the most fun challenges I've done in a while.

Chris Jester-Young

@ASCIIThenANSI Not on the main site, it doesn't. (MathJax is still enabled on meta.)

ASCIIThenANSI

@ChrisJester-Young OK, but why is MathJax disabled on the main site and not on meta?

Doorknob

Because it causes problems.

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Q: Do we really want LaTeX/MathJax (right now)?

Update: The decision has been made to deactivate MathJax on main for now (it's still active on meta to play around with). This does not reflect the current votes, as these changed significantly after the decision was made. We've had MathJax support for 3 days now. While it makes our maths chal...

ASCIIThenANSI

01:28

@Doorknob OK, thanks.

PhiNotPi

@Calvin'sHobbies I'm listening to that audio sample you put in the Numbered Cube challenge. It's funny to watch all the comments to go by.

Apparently, I've only ever had 3 answers of mine accepted.

Doorknob

16 of 229 here.

Similar ratio to yours.

Calvin's Hobbies

@PhiNotPi If you won any of my last 30 or 40 contests I will accept eventually. I usually accept in batches in one go

PhiNotPi

I almost certainly didn't.

Calvin's Hobbies

01:43

Here's an idea I've had for a while, now we've got SoundCloud it seems ripe:

Using only the sounds that noteblocks can make in Minecraft, simulate any other given song/music file as best as possible. (pop-con, pros: good answers could be really really cool, cons: good answers could be really really hard)

Sp3000

Time to learn FFT, tempo analysis, and how to actually read audio files in Python...

PhiNotPi

Would it be like this? minecraftforum.net/forums/mapping-and-modding/minecraft-tools/…

"Convert MIDI files into note blocks"

Martin Büttner

@Doorknob what's the quickest way to find the number of accepted answers? SEDE?

Doorknob

@MartinBüttner user:me isaccepted:yes

PhiNotPi

I went to my profile page and counted.

Doorknob

01:52

(search query)

Martin Büttner

@Doorknob ah thanks

"me" doesn't actually work, does it?

Doorknob

It does.

Martin Büttner

D:

48 accepted

so just short of 10 percent

Calvin's Hobbies

@PhiNotPi Pretty much. Figures it's already been done :P

ASCIIThenANSI

02:32

@Calvin'sHobbies Cool idea. But how would the sound be made if you don't own Minecraft?

Maybe we write code to generate songs?

BrainSteel

02:50

It looks like @Calvin'sHobbies has inspired another team-based KOTH. Are we ushering in a new era? If this kind of thing takes off, perhaps we could get a [team-KOTH] tag?

Calvin's Hobbies

03:08

@ASCIIThenANSI I'd provide all the sounds as individual files or something. You wouldn't need minecraft.

@Doorknob I suppose this can be deleted now. I don't need it at least. Others may want to keep it, not sure.

Sp3000

Dear Calvin. Quilt is driving me insane with the number of possible approaches. - Sp

Martin Büttner

@Calvin'sHobbies I'll delete that post. If you want you can leave a note on the main challenge that people who lost anything important from their answers can ping me.

Calvin's Hobbies

@MartinBüttner Alright

Martin Büttner

03:24

@BrainSteel @AlexA. so I started collecting "the list"... it's gonna be some 40 bands (plus whomever I forgot in the first pass)... still need to collect some youtube links and write a little something about each of them though.

PhiNotPi

03:35

I'm blue team again. (for capture-the-flag)

Martin Büttner

@PeterTaylor would you say questions like this qualify for the set partition tag? i.e. anything that asks to group a number of entities into disjoint sets, even if it's not necessarily related to combinatorics?

PhiNotPi

And so is Sp3000.

SphiNotPi3000 v2.0, anybody?

Martin Büttner

@PeterTaylor or similarly, questions about "the" partition problem.

Calvin's Hobbies

@PhiNotPi Haha, the OP should have tried to avoid that

randomra

@MartinBüttner Is set-partition a proposed tag?

Martin Büttner

03:43

I'll start adding the tags integer-partitions and set-partitions to questions tomorrow

I'm collecting a list of applicable questions right now

Sp3000

@PhiNotPi I'll join if things get interesting :P

(still quilting - my algorithms are getting weirder by the minute)

randomra

what you outlined applies to a lot of questions, too broad IMO

PhiNotPi

We should probably wait and see what happens. I haven't even read all of the rules yet.

randomra

and set-partition strongly suggests combinatorics for me

Martin Büttner

@randomra hm yeah, I might stick with those. but in some cases, even if the challenge isn't about combinatorics, if the question asks you to return a partition of some input set, the search space is still all set partitions.

randomra

03:46

is any f: [*]->N function a set-partition in that sense?

Martin Büttner

ummm... why?

randomra

I see, you mean that the input is the set

Martin Büttner

yes

randomra

(just noting that there is a classification tag)

set is structure-less, the data in what you linked question isn't

I would call it data-partitioning

or maybe input-partitioning as I didn't get that you meant it to the input :)

Martin Büttner

04:05

@randomra the set-partition tag is supposed to cover ordered partitions as well

based on Peter's point here

randomra

ok then

Alex A.

@MartinBüttner Excellent!!

Calvin's Hobbies

@MartinBüttner What is this in reference to?

Alex A.

@Calvin'sHobbies: We were talking about music the other day. Martin has is going to share some of his recommendations with BrainSteel and me.

@Calvin'sHobbies: What kind of music do you like?

Calvin's Hobbies

Oh, I thought it was for some kind of challenge. I actually have my own huge excel list of songs I like. The Beatles have the majority. Most of the rest is angsty stuff from the 90's.

Alex A.

04:18

Favorite Beatles album?

Calvin's Hobbies

Not sure. Rarely listen to them by the album. Maybe Let it Be

Alex A.

Are you a "shuffle" kind of person, or do you like selecting individual songs as you see fit?

Calvin's Hobbies

Shuffle all then hit next until a song I want to hear pops up

Alex A.

When you say "angsty stuff from the 90's," do you mean things like this?

Calvin's Hobbies

04:36

Don't know them but kinda, though a little less screamy

Alex A.

Favorite 90s bands?

luser droog

05:41

good (evening/morning/day).

hacking away at the details of integer overflow and domain checking (div by 0).

@Calvin'sHobbies I love some anxsty 90s! NIN, Ministry, Marilyn Manson. One really cool lesser-known group is Morphine which was a power-trio of drums bass and barry sax.

Optimizer

06:25

@Jakube get rekt yourself

what's with 3 rows of chat users ? o.O

did we offend the entire SE again ? xD

luser droog

again?

when was the first time?

Whew. I got inca3 to produce inf for division by zero.

VisualMelon

March the 31st, UTC

luser droog

Oh? what did we do?

VisualMelon

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Q: When something that was supposed to be fun became not fun

StackEgg! What a great invention. Probably the best thing to hit Stack Exchange since the invention of unicoins! Very entertaining game, very fun to play. Many users have probably spent several hours playing this. And April Fool's day is not over yet. However, where there is great inventions t...

discussion fun april-fools stackegg

luser droog

Too much uncensored brainfuck

Wow. I totally missed all of that. I was busy a lot with the play these last few weeks.

Optimizer

06:36

theater ?

luser droog

I played the upright Bass in a local musical.

It's my second show with the group, so I think they'll keep asking me back. (I still need to pay off this Bass).

Since we're all nerds, here. It's $120/mo. And I can apply 2 years rent toward the purchase price of $3400. Since after 24 months == 2880, just a small balloon and it's mine, all mine. :)

Sieg

So, what's StackEgg?

luser droog

I got a tremendous complement at the last show from the band director's boyfriend. He said I was very precise and hit the correct notes. In truth, I felt like I hit every note wrong and always had to roll or bend into the right pitch.

StackEgg was some kind of April Fool's Day game.

Apparently, we won.

Go us!

VisualMelon

06:52

we came second in the leader board, as I recall

luser droog

Oh. The linked page said we won.

I guess I stopped reading after that.

I like the 'basking in the admiration of stackexchange part'. We should do that more.

Obtuse? Moi??

Sieg

I want to play StackEgg.

luser droog

07:20

I've got a new idea for inca: implicit indexing. Right now variables can only be alphabetic, not alphanumeric (starting with alpha) like most languages. So my idea is to make the case <array> <scalar> perform indexing, without an intervening symbol.

Then if you have an array a, its elements are naturally a0, a1 etc.

Calvin's Hobbies

@AlexA. Let's see: nirvana, blink 182, the offspring, pearl jam, rage against the machine. Most of the stuff here‌. Pretty typical I guess.

luser droog

My cat threw up all over the living room. And now he wants a treat.

Got to say 'no'. We're not doing treats right now.

New Meta Posts

07:44

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Q: Preserving Antiquine for Antiquity

This question clearly has problems, as highlighted in the comments, but seems to be an interesting idea. Maybe we could have some suggestions on ways to improve it so the idea isn't lost?

discussion specific-question

Sp3000

"New" meta posts

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New Sandboxed Posts

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Randomly generated "Bézier petals" Introduction A "bézier petal" is a: simple closed curve (no loops or self-intersection) made by two cubic Bézier curves which share endpoints but not necessarily control points Challenge The challenge is to generate these randomly, such that: the ent...

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Smoothing out a list code-golf number sequence You should write a program or function which takes a non-negative integer k and a sorted integer list Las input and outputs or returns a smoothed list M. M is created from the ascending list L by inserting at most k integer elements while keeping ...

xnor

08:28

anyone want to do a micro-sandboxing of the question i just posted while i'm in the grace period?

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Q: Who wins a Spades trick

Write code to determine who wins a four-card trick in a game of Spades. Fewest bytes wins. The input is a string that lists the four cards played in sequence like TH QC JH 2H (Ten of Hearts, Queen of Clubs, Jack of Hearts, Two of Hearts). A card is given by two characters: a suit from CDHS and a...

code-golf card-games

Sp3000

08:44

@xnor Looks good but maybe a few more test cases, eg all spades

xnor

thanks, i'll add some more

Sp3000

I'd try it now, but we're having a blackout :(

xnor

oh no

you have no power at all?

Sp3000

Yeah, laptop's out and can't charge. I can CJam on my phone though I guess :P

Sieg

09:19

@PeterTaylor SE informed me now about your answer

Peter Taylor

@MartinBüttner That seems a bit too wide an interpretation to me.

Jakube

09:42

@Optimizer lol, 33 bytes

My previous version was way too complicated.

Optimizer

so this is now similar to user23013's algorithm, right ?

Jakube

Nope.

As far as I understand user23013's algorithm, he is generating a 2D-array which he fills iteratively.

I simply generate each line of the output seperate.

But parts of it are similar. For instance his ___T#TW%@#~T<> is the same thing as my >_>JxJYx_J.

Optimizer

can you explain the last line of aabbccddaaeebb ?

where aa pair is not printed.

even though bb is there inside the aa pair

Jakube

In the last line H = "e" (loop variable)
And "e" is not part of the aabbccddaa block.

"e" is only part of the "bbccddaaeebb" block and of the "ee" block, therefore only bs and es are printed

Optimizer

try this

so your algorithm is flawed.

Jakube

09:57

damn, is this in the requirements?

Optimizer

yeah

your previous one works still

"the pair should be printed until all its inside elements are done printing"

Jakube

O.k. Made a rollback to the 52 solution.

Btw. does the "CJam development branch" count?

Optimizer

dunno

I guess that is why he has 54 on top

Jakube

10:17

JwFHS{Js.e?@zk&gHYsm&gdH}d>_>JxJYx_JYJdJ (40 bytes) works

Optimizer

11:13

WTH, 3 pyth answers!

Sieg

I like the >_> in there.

Sp3000

12:21

@Optimizer I have 30 but I'm still trying to see if we can beat Pyth :P

Optimizer

doing some maths magic ?

Sp3000

It's got a lot of overlap with yours, the main difference is handling the suit

Optimizer

srsly ? I thought I am wasting bytes in handling the values

Sp3000

Woops I miscounted, it's 29: l_1='Rer"TQKA"_$erS/Wf%_$W>#)

Trying to shorten the first bit

Martin Büttner

@PeterTaylor Right, but where do you draw the line?

Sp3000

12:31

shrugs I think you might as well take it, I can't seem to improve on the other parts

Martin Büttner

@Sp3000 thanks for ew tip. 11 bytes, but unfortunately not valid ;)

Sp3000

:P worth noting anyway

btw I didn't realise mine was a port of Peter's, didn't read the others

(bad port anyway)

Sp3000

13:25

@PhiNotPi Now's your chance to join in the Pyth fun

Optimizer

@Sp3000 which question ?

Sp3000

13:42

This one

Martin Büttner

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Q: Telescopic Parentheses

Consider a non-empty string of correctly balanced parentheses: (()(()())()((())))(()) We can imagine each pair of parentheses represents a ring in a collapsed telescopic construction. So let's extend the telescope: ( )( ) ()( )()( ) () ()() ( ) () ...

code-golf ascii-art

@BrainSteel there you go ^

Optimizer

^ was it through sandbox ?

Martin Büttner

@Optimizer all weekend

Optimizer

oh, didn't notice..

Martin Büttner

why, does it not look like it was? :P

Optimizer

13:53

no, because i did not see the 1box

oh, and is the weekend over ?

Martin Büttner

my calendar says it's monday

Optimizer

oh, right, I am at home lazying off :D

Optimizer

14:10

@MartinBüttner ughh, 46 bytes :(

thought it would be much smaller

Martin Büttner

there's no competition yet, so who knows... that might be very good :P

Optimizer

I thought u would have one already :P

Martin Büttner

no.

you keep thinking that...

Optimizer

history, dude

ASCIIThenANSI

How exactly does SE make your profile picture when you join for the first time?

Optimizer

14:18

level of your awesomeness

ASCIIThenANSI

@Optimizer I wish.

BrainSteel

@MartinBüttner Just in time for me to get an hour break :)

Though, I've already lost to @Optimizer :P

Optimizer

how long is yours ?

BrainSteel

I'm about to post it. Though, I wrote mine in C, so it's an uphill battle.

Optimizer

ha

BrainSteel

14:26

You guys and your new-fangled fancy golfing languages...

sirpercival

are you guys still talking about the formatter?

(not that there's anythign wrong w/ that, just asking)

Martin Büttner

@ASCIIThenANSI SE doesn't. Gravatar does.

Sp3000

Does CJam have a strip-trailing-whitespace?

Martin Büttner

@Sp3000 I don't think so (unless it's in 0.6.5)

Sp3000

Awww there goes my plan to beat Optimizer :(

Martin Büttner

14:31

do you have that much whitespace?

or are you talking about another challenge?

Optimizer

@Sp3000 why do you think I used e] ?

Sp3000

I have a lot of whitespace for telescopic, yes :P (wiki hasn't updated with all the 0.6.5 things so I'll have to go through the tickets I guess)

Optimizer

how about a challenge to read in a code and produce proper formatting code for it based on bracket pairs

maybe if someone did not rely on evaluating the brackets, they can do sub 41

Martin Büttner

@BrainSteel *requests explanation*

@Sp3000 there's a changelog

trichoplax

bold?

italic

BrainSteel

14:38

@MartinBüttner Oh boy! I'll try and make some sense.

Sp3000

I have 5 bytes to get rid of a ton of trailing whitespace to tie with Optimizer :/

trichoplax

@MartinBüttner How do you show asterisks without causing bold or italic??

Martin Büttner

willpower

Sp3000

Oh, changelog found

trichoplax

wow

Martin Büttner

14:39

sourceforge.net/projects/cjam/files/cjam-0.6.5

BrainSteel

* Escape them! "\*"

ASCIIThenANSI

@trichoplax I think backlashes. *test*

Geobits

*hmm*

ASCIIThenANSI

Yeah, backslashes.

trichoplax

*thanks :)*

Geobits

14:39

*

ASCIIThenANSI

Spam ALL the asterisks!

Martin Büttner

maybe you guys need backslashes, but I definitely used willpower.

BrainSteel

My willpower IS backslashes.

trichoplax

Airquotes work too

ASCIIThenANSI

@MartinBüttner I rearranged the beginning of the universe so eventually people would invent backslashes for me.

trichoplax

14:45

****test****

Did anyone else see that test appear momentarily as ****test**** before changing to ****test****? I didn't edit it...

Optimizer

yea, it does that

----|----

big + changed to weird flat cross

trichoplax

Hmmm. Even escaping the outermost of the four asterisks still results in ****test****

****test****

Same for escaping the innermost

ASCIIThenANSI

-|-

trichoplax

**test**

ASCIIThenANSI

*****test*****

trichoplax

14:47

***test***

ASCIIThenANSI

Wait, what?

trichoplax

****test****

Optimizer

*****************************************stop testing*************************************************

ASCIIThenANSI

Mine formatted for about 2 seconds, then fixed itself.

trichoplax

@ASCIIThenANSI that's what started this testing craze. I can't make any sense of it

ASCIIThenANSI

14:48

@trichoplax Me either. Let's try some more.

trichoplax

lol let's give @Optimizer some peace - maybe we need a testing room...

Optimizer

*****************************thanks*****************************

Martin Büttner

guys... guys... there's this chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/1/sandbox

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Compass

What is going on?!

I leave for 10 minutes and I come back to the apasterisk

Horrible pun intended.

ASCIIThenANSI

@MartinBüttner NO WAY.

trichoplax

15:02

@MartinBüttner That was enlightening, plus I met a giant purple squirrel

BrainSteel

@MartinBüttner I added my explanation. I hope it makes sense :)

Optimizer

@Sp3000 is ditching Python to get inspired by my CJam answers :D :D :D

Sp3000

Python zip isn't as nice, so CJam was the first language I thought of :/

I can still try though

BrainSteel

You guys may beat me in bytes, but I've apparently captured the heart of the people :)

rcrmn

Damn, array repetition in ruby actually copies the object, so I can't shorten mine by pre-populating every row...

Optimizer

15:09

I gave up on hearts long back

Martin Büttner

@BrainSteel it does, thanks

Compass

hearts is a great card game

I enjoy shooting the moon

Optimizer

@Sp3000 there you go.

Sp3000

tch :P

I'll try later if I get time

sirpercival

SIGH. why are tires so expensive

Compass

15:17

Because if they cost $1, they'd blow every mile.

Geobits

@sirpercival +1, Just got a new set a couple weeks back.

ASCIIThenANSI

From my experiments, separating asterisks with spaces only works for the innermost ones. The outer asterisks are not formatted). Only 1-3 are supported. Without a backslash, asterisks can not be bolded. Code can be bolded and italicized. Strikethrough dosen't work on code. More than 2 non-escaped spaces are reformatted as one. I hope this somehow helps in the future. It probably won't.

sirpercival

@Geobits a single flat = four new tires since i have an AWD car. ugh.

ASCIIThenANSI

@Compass Oh, you do that too? I totally am not shooting the moon right now.

You know what I hate?

I have enough rep to review certain things on PPCG, but those rarely come up.

And on StackOverflow, I don't have enough rep and those always come up.

Geobits

@sirpercival Well, mine were getting pretty old, so it was expected soon anyway. One started getting a bit of tread separation, so just got a whole new set. 100k+ miles on original tires isn't so bad.

@ASCIIThenANSI Solution: Get more rep on SO. It's a pretty easy place to get rep once you figure out SE in general.

ASCIIThenANSI

15:28

@Geobits I'm trying. The only problem is actually asking questions and getting attention for them :|

Geobits

@ASCIIThenANSI On SO in particular, answering accumulates rep much faster.

ASCIIThenANSI

@Geobits And the only problem is trying to find a question I can answer!

It's usually no problem, though. I've gotten around 10-20 rep per good answer.

Geobits

Hit the tag page for a language/framework you know, and just keep up with the newest questions. You'd be surprised how many you can answer. Just try not to answer dupes :P

ASCIIThenANSI

@Geobits That's basically my strategy. I try to find ones with bad, few, or no answers.

Martin Büttner

@Sp3000 something wrong with your CJam answer?

Sp3000

15:32

Optimizer noticed the () inc/dec thing, so I'm not too willing to steal that too

Optimizer

can you do smaller after stealing that ?

Sp3000

Probably

Feel free to try and improve on it

Optimizer

then go for it

lets try to beat pyth together

although Jakube will probably come up with a sub 30 byte solution

Sp3000

:P k

PhiNotPi

@Sp3000 I want to try to write a Pyth answer. I've read a bunch of the documentation, but I can't find an actual interpreter/compiler for it.

Sp3000

15:38

:/ damn

PhiNotPi

That's exactly what I'm talking about.

Optimizer

oh u actually mean it on purpose?

Sp3000

19 hours ago, by PhiNotPi

Some day, I'll write a code golf solution in Pyth just to mess with everybody.

Optimizer

sorry!

Sp3000

Hm. () seem to do the opposite of what we want though, since ( adds a space and ) removes one

Optimizer

15:43

exactly, you see a z in there ?

Martin Büttner

hm, I've got a nice recursive solution for CH's challenge, but I can't be bothered to implement or golf it :D ... expanding things recursively in 2D is annoying.

Optimizer

how long is it right now ?

oh, if its not implemented.. is it really a solution ? :P

Geobits

Well, it was nice while it lasted. Prepare for competition in several thousand years: news.discovery.com/animals/…

Sp3000

@Optimizer Golfed mine to 36: l{_'(=_(U+_@+:U;S*\+}%_$0=,f{Se]}zN*

Optimizer

16:06

@Sp3000 tie i

what part of "lets work together" did you not understand ;)

Sp3000

I was trying to use your idea in mine and see if it did anything

And I failed, but golfed in another way :P

New Sandboxed Posts

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

IRC reader Internet Relay Chat (or IRC for short) is a simple yet popular chat communication method. The challenge is to create a program that can take an IRC server from program arguments and print out new messages sent on that server. e.g.: <your_irc_client> irc.freenode.net A very simple im...

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

IRC reader Internet Relay Chat (or IRC for short) is a simple yet popular chat communication method. The challenge is to create a program that can take an IRC server from program arguments and print out new messages sent on that server. e.g.: <your_irc_client> irc.freenode.net A very simple im...

ASCIIThenANSI

Would you guys mind looking at a Sandbox challenge of mine?

rcrmn

16:27

@Doorknob I golfed your answer codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/22994/30686 a bit more and used it in an openshift server (I'm really tired of not getting the badge because of saturday or sunday not being able to log in, when I'm here the rest of the week)

Would you want the code or something?

Sp3000

@Optimizer btw you should update Spades to use R for suits already :P

Optimizer

your 29 one ?

I was trying to golf it further, then the bracket question came

BrainSteel

17:05

Do mods have the power to edit comments? I goofed up a link on a comment under my answer.

Martin Büttner

@BrainSteel since there is no reply yet, you can just delete and repost ;)

(but yes, I could)

heck, let me do it

done

BrainSteel

Hooray! Thanks.

Didn't want to let go of that one upvote...

sirpercival

whoo! updated my IDL formatter w/ a new algorithm, saved 10 bytes

lol IDL golfing is kinda silly

BrainSteel

Well, so is doing it in C, really, but that never stopped anybody :P

sirpercival

17:21

haha

Geobits

Any comments on my pearl challenge before posting? The only thing I can think to add is a "programs should run test cases in minutes/hours, not days/weeks" to prevent the most naive brute force methods.

Optimizer

Is it perl only ?

Geobits

god no

Optimizer

or maybe, ruby too ..

Geobits

:P

trichoplax

18:01

@Geobits Looks great. Is the final test case deliberately without a solution?

Geobits

Yes. I have a solution done by hand, so I know it's solvable.

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Interpret a Turing-Complete Language This challenge is inspired by this esolangs.org page, which lists some languages with very small interpreters. There have been some similar challenges before, like this one about a self-interpreter, or a few other interpreter challenges, like one for BF. co...

PhiNotPi

"Stringing a Perl Necklace"

I like it.

trichoplax

18:18

@Geobits Cool. I don't see any reason that the test case needs to have a solution in the question - I was just curious. +1 by the way

Geobits

Slightly on topic: Necromancer has basically no meaning on meta due to the sandbox.

PhiNotPi

Maybe Necromancer should become a gold badge?

Geobits

18:37

Well here it is, in all its glory:

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Q: Stringing a Pearl Necklace

Overview Pearls (or Masyu) is a logic game played on a grid. There are black and white pearls placed on the grid. The object is to form a single, closed loop that travels through each pearl using only straight line segments and right angles. There are some rules that govern how the loop intera...

code-golf puzzle-solver

Rainbolt

19:37

@ChrisJester-Young I got two pings from you in my notifications (something about "where did you get that list from") but when I click on it, it won't take me to the link. If you still need something let me know :)

Nathan Merrill

20:26

I've been slowing updating my meta post (and writing the code)

Could somebody take a look at it?

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Code Bots: Multi-Threaded Bots Ok. This description is going to be long, but I've tried to make it as clear as possible. It's fairly difficult to give a language spec in a short post. What Code Bots all about? This is a King of the Hill where you try to write your code over other bot's code ...

BrainSteel

20:48

21 hours ago, by Martin Büttner

@ChrisJester-Young Poor Rainbolt will wonder what pinged him there ;)

@Rainbolt ^

Confirmed: @MartinBüttner is a prophet.

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