The Nineteenth Byte

4:31 AM

No answers yet. Easily fixed?

I'm guessing you mean because it always terminates at 100?

If so, maybe make it 100 lines each time instead, so 3-102 for the first example.

4:44 AM

Thinking of posting a physics challenge...
are physics challenges well-accepted on PPCG?
I would of expected more...

@Geobits: It's a bit strange that your avatar almost matches the favicon of the company I work with

@grovesNL apparently Google thinks your company is an orange :/

It made me do a double take at least...

@vihan1086: Very close :-)

It's no coincidence. I'm pretty much a stalker. I did the whole thing with a twist. Down is opposite up, blue is opposite orange, little triangle instead of big (relative to circle).

Apparently. I like it even despite the fact that it made me do a double take.

4:57 AM

It also happens to match the 'downvoted' arrow on beta SE sites. That is purely coincidental.

BrainSteel

@vihan1086 If it's a specifically physics-based programming challenge, we'd be happy to have it :D I don't think we get much of them.

@Geobits: That's interesting, perhaps my company's favicon was inspired by the upvote arrow...

@vihan1086 The base topic of the challenge only matters so much. Physics, ascii art, math, pokemon... what matters far more is 1) clarity 2) level of interestingness 3) framing.

I would be interested in some physics-based (dynamic) challenges. Especially motion animations (although that may limit the number of responses you get)

@grovesNL I like that idea. "Hey, that's a cool logo we should steal." "Won't they be upset?" "Nah, we'll make it orange".

5:02 AM

@Geobits: Yeah... I'm just going to pretend I didn't notice this.

Well it's not like it would be the first time something like that happened :P

True, there are only so many ways to combine primitive shapes

Honestly, even if it was straight up stolen and colored, I don't think it would matter. It's not like SE is widely known by their beta upvote arrow or anything. I'm not sure they'd have a case in the "it causes consumer confusion" area at all.

If it was the main logo, that'd be a different story for sure.

Someone should make their company logo a square and see how long it takes for them to get sued

5:19 AM

Squares inside squares

@Sp3000 They'd probably get sued by Square

Ouch - sometimes I wonder how simplistic a name needs to be before it's deemed "too obvious to copyright" (or whether such a rule even exists)

@Geobits: I missed the obvious

@Sp3000 I'd look that up in the copyright record but the website is way too slow. I've been waiting over a minute for the query to load

aand timeout

nvm, turns out Square has been copyrighted many times

5:38 AM

... things can be copyrighted multiple times?

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@NewSandboxedPosts I need help with the title for sure

seems a bit simple too

@Geobits tbh I don't see a problem with you posting it - with a golf this simple it's not surprising that people will come up with the same method

I'm not worried about it. I've seen it happen before (and been part of it), where a bunch of people post the same simple thing in multiple languages. Trying to avoid it lately, no big deal.

6:34 AM

Java and C# are both brutal for code golf. I've written tons of solutions in C# and didn't bother to post them

Yea, I've got a collection of unposted stuff that either didn't work out or ended up too long. I just assumed most of us did :D

6:52 AM

Yeah I just decided to learn Pyth tonight so I can actually post again

One day I'll join you guys with Nim and we can all suffer

Peter Taylor

@Sp3000 You don't copyright names. You may be able to get trademark protection, but that's a very different branch of intellectual property law.

@vihan1086 No, there are many copyright-protected books, songs, etc. with "Square" in their name. That's completely different.

Oh? So copyright =/= trademark?

@Sp3000: Actually Nim may be ok for code golf

I dunno, from the one golf attempt I've done it was pretty bad IMO :P Maybe I was doing it wrong shrugs

7:04 AM

It's obviously at a disadvantage but I could see it destroying C#/Java

Really? What makes you think that?

Mostly the syntax, especially parentheses

Semi-colons, etc.

Peter Taylor

No. Copyright is for a fixed term (modulo the activities of the US Congress and then the US Administration's efforts to force its extensions worldwide by trade agreements) and grants exclusivity over reproduction and the creation of derivative works.

Trademark protection can be indefinite, although it can also be lost if there's evidence that the mark isn't associated with the company by the general public, and grants exclusivity over use of the mark as an identifier within specified areas of business.

Hm... I see...

Winny

7:25 AM

You know what is abhorrent for golfing, scheme. Missing so many features (R5RS). Maybe I should try with Racket instead

Yeah Lisp has some major issues with code golf