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9:00 PM
Fun fact: tags cannot be censored
 
orly?
 
orlp?
 
ಠrly?
 
[tag:]
aw
 
9:01 PM
such censor
much fail
wow
 
3 many tabs
 
You have revealed your name, Doctor.
 
sh*t
wait, have i?
where?
oh right
and there's no setting to remove it
 
That's what you get for using Chrome instead of a modern browser like Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator.
 
or NCSA Mosaic
 
9:09 PM
Internet Explorer for Mac (also referred to as Internet Explorer for Macintosh, Internet Explorer Macintosh Edition, Internet Explorer:mac or IE:mac) is a discontinued proprietary web browser developed by Microsoft for the Macintosh platform. Initial versions were developed from the same code base as Internet Explorer for Windows. Later versions diverged, particularly with the release of version 5 which included the cutting edge, fault-tolerant and highly standards-compliant Tasman layout engine. As a result of the five-year agreement between Apple and Microsoft in 1997, it was the default browser...
 
Anonymous
Google Ultron ftw
 
@TheDoctor I've inadvertently revealed my last name on multiple occasions but I've since decided that I don't really care. I stick with Alex A. because it's nice and short but the A. distinguishes it from the hundreds of other "Alex" users on SE. (I used to be one of them.)
 
Anonymous
@AlexA. Isn't it just ".A xelA"?
 
Oh right, I had forgotten. Thanks for reminding me.
 
9:13 PM
still, mine is very distinctive, only 5 people in the entire world have the same one as me
 
Anonymous
Welcome
 
@TheDoctor Last name or first? Your first is rather common.
 
last
lol
 
I can't imagine that only 5 in the entire world have the same last name. That is highly improbable.
 
Anonymous
None of you even know my first name :P
 
9:15 PM
it was invented 4 generations ago
 
@Mego I do. Your full name is on your GitHub page which is linked from your profile here.
 
I know that comments on SE are supposed to be disposable, and are able to disappear when they're no longer necessary. That being said, this makes me laugh every time I see it:
 
Anonymous
@AlexA. Oh right I linked that
 
Anonymous
Disregard
 
9:15 PM
i don't know if any of you know my first or last name. hi i'm scott mcfarland nice to meet you. now you know my first and last name
 
hi
 
Oh hello
@TheDoctor ...Invented?
 
yeah... things happened
 
Ellis Island?
They gave my grandpa and his brother different last names.
 
probably, i don't know the whole story
 
9:17 PM
What's weird though is that I don't think of myself as "Scott" in my head? I am so much more comfortable thinking of myself as "monorail" than any real human name
 
Hm.
Maybe you should legally change your name to Monorail McFarland.
 
I like Scott Monorail better
 
Farlando McMonorail.
 
I always used to think of myself as Kabuso (IRC name)
 
9:18 PM
I would but Monorail looks weird to me and I don't know if they'd let me use a lowercase m
Also that's a lie I still probably wouldn't
 
I've always just used my name for usernames because I'm not clever enough to come up with anything else.
Also I don't care enough.
 
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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Nick TDTMF Decoder code-challenge audio (dsp?) Our spies have intercepted super-secret codes being sent to the enemy in some archaic code! Can YOU decode the captured signals and save the republic? Find the audio clips at this GitHub repo or in this repo ZIP (7 MB). Each audio file is 8 kHz and 1...

 
Besides, enough people already try to make references to me from the simpson's episode that I've never even seen, imagine if people in real life did that too! :Y
 
Now i really want to try this ^
 
I tried to type P but in my keyboard layout P and Y are right beside each other and I typed :Y instead.
 
9:20 PM
up arrow
 
But then I decided I like it, so it stays
 
:I
 
:Y
 
I don't know that I've ever used :Y before. I've used :V but :Y is new to me. I like it quite a bit, actually.
Thanks, typo, for expanding my emoticon library.
 
I've seen it used.
 
9:21 PM
I'm sure it has been used.
 
E:
 
D:
 
@undergroundmonorail I meant to say that I've seen it used but haven't used it myself.
 
I bet : with any printable ascii character on either side of it has been used before :P
 
:K
:6
 
9:22 PM
:
the tab character didn't survive SE formatting. rip
 
 
@AlexA. I know someone who adopted the name of a character of his from an RPG.
 
yo that's really cool actually
 
@PeterTaylor Did he legally change his name or did he just decide to go by that colloquially?
 
9:23 PM
i miss brawl in the family
 
So do I
 
@SuperJedi224 ...?
 
:
 
@AlexA. In England there's not much distinction. But it's the name by which he appears on the electoral register and in the census.
 
:
 
9:24 PM
@PeterTaylor I assume that requires some kind of registration.
How unusual is the name from an RPG?
 
What should I do? (as in, challenge)
 
Scale of 1-10, 1 being "John," 10 being wtf.
 
@SuperJedi224 i remember how bittersweet it was when bitf ended the day sm4sh came out. after a while i realized that i don't like sm4sh so looking back it's only bitter
 
@TheDoctor Eat a lot of grapes.
 
i meant question of ppcg
 
Anonymous
9:26 PM
Either of mine
 
@AlexA. A quick Google search suggests that it's not entirely uncommon in Russia.
 
I'm still waiting for feedback on my sandboxed challenge
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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

SuperJedi224The Death Of Low-Resolution Pixel Art (Or, Draw That Death) code-golfgraphical-output This is an Irregular Webcomic! themed task. Death is a rather extensive orginization, and, although Head Death has had no trouble telling his employees apart, certain other entities connected to the org...

 
Something to cheer me up: javascript:r=Math.random;w=$(window);setInterval("$('<b>★</b>').css({color:'gol‌​d',position:'fixed',top:r()*w.height(),left:r()*w.width()}).appendTo('body')",9)
 
@PeterTaylor Ah, okay. My last name is quite uncommon in the US but for whatever reason it seems to be like Tukey's equivalent of Smith. (Not sure why Turkey because it's not Turkish.)
 
aaaugh its making me lag so bad
 
9:28 PM
@TheDoctor Something to cheer you up: weshouldblamedoorknob.tk
 
lol
but run that script...
its great
 
I'd really rather not if it's making you lag.
 
run it in a different tab, it takes a while before it'll make you lag
 
not it's fine unless you leave it running a while
 
and you can just close the tab
 
9:30 PM
but its better overlaid on chat
 
it took me a while to figure out why it wasn't working at first, but i realized i was on a page that didn't have $ as the jquery shortcut
 
Error: SyntaxError: DOM Exception 12
 
tried it in this tab?
 
No
I don't want to have to close this tab
 
you just have to refresh, it will only lag after several minutes
 
9:33 PM
Nooo so many star
 
:D
 
No, I don't eat cheese.
No
I do not
 
I do not what?
 
(removed)
 
@quartata I'm not sure. I've used the language once for the PLQ...
 
Oct 14 at 5:51, by Dennis
(removido)
@Optimizer haha that's amazing
 
0
Q: Calculate the bounded cumulative sum of a vector

Stewie GriffinThe cumulative sum of a vector is calculated by simply taking the sum of all previous elements. For instance: vec = [1 1 1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 1 1 1 1 -1] cum_vec = [1 2 3 2 1 0 -1 -2 -1 0 1 2 1] Now, impose an upper and a lower limit, meaning that you stop increasing the cumulat...

 
the lag is real
 
Anonymous
Damnit
 
Anonymous
I'm out of stars too
 
Anonymous
@AlexA. :P
 
@Mego i would star you but y'know
 
Anonymous
@TheDoctor <3
 
:)
 
9:39 PM
So much love in this room.
 
:( why does EBSCO not have audio files
(yeah i'm supposed to be doing homework)
 
why am I the only person here who doesn't have a website?
 
9:49 PM
that's not you???
 
nope :Y
 
@TheDoctor I don't have one.
 
i don't have one
 
lies!
both of you
 
9:50 PM
i used to but i stopped paying for the domain name lmao
 
lel\
I had a VPS but i got broke
 
Currently checking the registration status on my handful of free domains...
 
free? how?
 
Okay, they're good for another month.
freenom, formerly my.dot.tk
Not as good as it used to be
 
how long do they last?
 
9:53 PM
A year, but if you register an account you're allowed to renew them as needed
 
@TheDoctor obligatory yo momma joke
 
At least that was the status as of the last time I renewed them...
 
hmm
wonders whether to get DigitalOcean vps or OVH
 
doesn't know what those things are
 
they're cool
that's what they are
 
10:06 PM
ok
 
why did someone star my "hmm"
 
it was a good hmm
i didn't star it but that's my guess
 
that, or the star meme
 
why did you unstar it, oh great and powerful god?
 
guilty has starred
 
10:18 PM
I'm not sure whether i'm buying 3 VPSs for one month or 1 VPS for 3 months
 
I am not sure whether you are still trolling or haven't started yet..
 
0
A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

sanchisesI would love to hear your thoughts about the following challenge. Too difficult or contrived? Or should we actually want more complicated and challenging tasks? Concert Harp: Pedal Meddle Sometimes I hear people say, ‘Why would anyone outside the ICT business learn how to program?’ Often, they ...

 
10:38 PM
@Dennis Looks like it works.
I'm just going to put it in. If you don't know whether it makes it fully unusable then I doubt anyone does
 
@Dennis How did you lose 11 reputation from a user being removed yesterday? It seems unlikely to me that they upvoted a question and an answer and downvoted you twice, or something like that.
 
I did notice a few problems with it which I've fixed
 
hey I have a challenge that figures that out @ThomasKwa
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Q: Calculate your stack exchange reputation

TheDoctorBackground: I often find that, when browsing a Stackexchange site, I begin to wonder how people get the amount of reputation that they have. I know I can always count on codegolf SE to solve my problems, so here it is: Create a program that will accept a positive integer which represents a pers...

 
0
A: Make your language unusable

quartataEnema :OQ::!Q: Code can come any place after this. This language is similar to Emmental in that it is capable of redefining itself. Essentially, what we're doing here is redefining O (which normally is for output) to do nothing (thus making the language no longer have a transformational model)...

@TheDoctor Wow that's an old question
 
i was really active like 2 years ago
 
10:46 PM
I know how it's possible, but when the solution requires multiple downvotes and multiple upvotes, it seems unlikely. I was asking if I misunderstood the rep system.
 
Could use a breath of fresh <s>air</s> CJam mwahahaha
 
From the page it seems like users don't get back downvote rep on the deleted users' posts, but I'm not sure of that.
 
Err
0
A: Arithmetic... tock... tick... tock

gahraeJava 8, many bytes My solution is hosted and described at https://github.com/gahrae/synchronicity Its not small but it works :-) Thanks for the challenge.

This isn't valid, right?
Heck, this guy seems to have hosted all of his answers on GitHub.
And they aren't short either.
 
I don't think he quite gets the "golf" part of "code golf"
 
10:49 PM
I think byte counts and inline code are required.
 
Anonymous
I flagged that one as NAA, @quartata
 
@ThomasKwa Yeah they are.
I don't want to overflag but all of his answers are like that.
 
Anonymous
We need a user->flag option
 
Anonymous
"does not get the point of this site"
 
@Doorknob @Dennis
Oh he did one of them right
 
10:51 PM
why i like codegolf:
17 answers and counting! I'd like to see more questions like yours on cg, doc. Often I'll see something interesting here, but don't have the several hours of time needed to produce a decent solution... — Cary Swoveland Feb 15 '14 at 19:00
 
Anonymous
> several hours
 
Anonymous
I spend like 10 minutes on my golfs
 
Anonymous
Either I come up with a solution or get bored
 
Anonymous
The pie proof is the exception
 
@quartata huh?
 
Anonymous
10:58 PM
0
A: Arithmetic... tock... tick... tock

gahraeJava 8, many bytes My solution is hosted and described at https://github.com/gahrae/synchronicity Its not small but it works :-) Thanks for the challenge.

 
Anonymous
That user has exactly one answer formatted correctly
 
Anonymous
Everything else they have hosted on github and failed to post byte count
 
and they've all got upvotes...?
why?
 
Anonymous
Socks?
 
Anonymous
I dunno
 
Anonymous
11:00 PM
Been here for over a year O_O
 
nope, his account looks clean after a cursory glance
 
Anonymous
Year and a half
 
Two things to note: This is code-golf, so you want your answers to be as short as possible. Second, we really prefer that you put both your code and explanation here, not on Github. It makes it easier to judge. — TheDoctor 7 secs ago
You sound like a great software developer but your solutions aren't really designed to fulfill the challenge of making small code. — TheDoctor 6 secs ago
alright gtg
bye
 
Anonymous
Bye dogtor
 
Anonymous
Your rep challenge has some sad answers
 
Anonymous
11:06 PM
I should submit a python answer
 
Anonymous
One that doesn't horribly suck
 
ok nuked a bunch of things
cc @quartata
 
@Doorknob which things?
 
the things you flagged
and others
from that user
 
sheds a tear
 
11:14 PM
rip never forgetti
 
@TheDoctor I have that link memorized
 
:P
I should create a keyboard shortcut
 
What for?
 
11:17 PM
...
public static <T> T[]generate(Class<T>clazz,Supplier<T>source,int length)
 
someone should pin that message...
 
Which one?
 
nvm
 
ok done
 
HAHA
 
11:23 PM
:)
 
Unpinned rip
 
:(
 
And he undid the star on it too
 
Pinning a message makes you automatically star it as well
I just remove my star :P
 
P:
 
11:24 PM
oic
So, has anyone tried showing why my Enema answer is hopelessly invalid and why I should just stick to making dumb challenges
 
a wild @El'endiaStarman appears
wait where'd he go?
 
I don't know.
 
@TheDoctor ^
 
So I think I learned that a language with a name like Enema isn't a good choice for pop-con
Then again it could be part of my answer curse
 
@quartata imaginary star
 
11:36 PM
3 hours ago, by Doorknob
if you say "star" one more time I'll kickban you
I'm warning you... :P
 
what am i supposed to do?
 
... not say "star"?
 
spar? scar?
 
If you look at the top 15 most highly voted questions 20% of them are Calvin's
 
CALVIN
 
11:39 PM
Someday 100% of them will be mine
 
162
Q: We're no strangers to code golf, you know the rules, and so do I

PolynomialWrite the shortest program that prints the entire lyrics of "Never Gonna Give You Up" by Rick Astley. Rules: Must output the lyrics exactly as they appear in the above pastebin. Here's the raw dump: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=wwvdjvEj Cannot rely on any external resources - all lyrics must ...

 
11:53 PM
0
Q: Gif - Jif, Jif - Gif

VɪʜᴀɴGif - Jif, Jif - Gif The point of this challenge is to (not) settle debate on the pronunciation of "gif" The pronunciation of gif is debated and while it's supposed to be (and should be) pronounced jif, it's still commonly disputed. In this challenge you will be given a set of words that ha...

 
i just wrote code with an ascii fish in it and commented it "collapse the wavefunction"
so that's somethnig
it's brainfuck and the tape looks like maybe 0 | definitely 0 | definitely not 0
depending on how it branched i'm on one of the first two cells
i want to be on the last one
>[<]> collapses the wavefunction :P
 
@Doorknob can we rename the room "The Nineteenth Bite"?
 
no
 

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