The Nineteenth Byte

Seadrus

3:00 AM

cant use search engines or anything like wikipedia

@Geobits ^

@Geobits carrot.svg

@AlexA. Them's my bookmarks.

Alex A.

@Seadrus Did you learn about binary numbers or binary search algorithms in your class?

Seadrus

3:00 AM

@AlexA. no.

only balanced ternary

Alex A.

Is it not in your textbook?

Seadrus

our teacher is like stoned all the time or something

2

GamrCorps

you learned about ternary but not binary?

Alex A.

^

TheDoctor

0

Q: Can I have more chat stars, please?

I am an active user of The Nineteenth Byte, and in the course of a day, I tend to use up all my stars. Unlike some users, I actually use them for meaningful (if often funny) conversations. However, as much as I love stars, there don't seem to be that many in the world any more. Stars just seem t...

GamrCorps

3:01 AM

no

just no

VTCAKAVSMoACE

@TheDoctor Crap. Now they'll be onto us. >.>

Alex A.

@TheDoctor What did I tell you?? stars status-declined!

Seadrus

@AlexA. Our textbook is a sheet of paper that has a bunch of symbols on it

Doorknob

@Geobits'd

Seadrus

@GamrCorps our teacher is russian

GamrCorps

3:03 AM

@Seadrus I was referencing @TheDoctor when I said no. So you don't understand him?

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

^ >_> <_<

Seadrus

@GamrCorps no, he just likes balanced ternary for some reason. ive been told its because the russians made a bt computer

GamrCorps

@Seadrus ok then....

VTCAKAVSMoACE

And then you realize: It's just because you signed up for a new community. x.x

2

GamrCorps

same

TheDoctor

3:05 AM

clicks star button

VTCAKAVSMoACE

@TheDoctor Note: I upvoted that for you. ;)

TheDoctor

@VTCAKAVSMoACE thanks

Doorknob

Note: I applied a @Geobits to that for you

TheDoctor

@Doorknob no thanks

GamrCorps

VTCAKAVSMoACE

3:07 AM

@GamrCorps You might need to update that. c:

TheDoctor

@Doorknob at least I'm not like this

Doorknob

actually you kinda are

6

GamrCorps

updated:

Doorknob

or maybe, the proportion of your messages containing the word "star" is similar

TheDoctor

@Doorknob only in Code Review

Doorknob

3:11 AM

hey look the meta post got Shog'd

VTCAKAVSMoACE

I wonder what this question alone makes people think of Code Golf. o-o

GamrCorps

strawpoll.me/5845304

Doorknob

no stars allowed is winning

VTCAKAVSMoACE

> Magic 8 ball says "Doubtful".

TheDoctor

ಠ_____ಠ

Doorknob

3:14 AM

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

Magic Recursive 8 ball says, "Magic Recursive 8 ball says, "Magic Recursive 8 ball says, "Magic Recursive 8 ball says, "Magic Recursive 8 ball says, "Magic Recursive 8 ball says, "Magic Recursive 8 ball says, "...

VTCAKAVSMoACE

Woah!

Doorknob

@Doorknob HE KNOWS :O

TheDoctor

meta.stackexchange.com/questions/268489/…

VTCAKAVSMoACE

Doorknob

3:15 AM

you need moar repz

VTCAKAVSMoACE

That went downhill quickly.

Alex A.

What happened? I stepped away

Doorknob

Shog went Shogging

Geobits

It was the only way it could've gone.

GamrCorps

@AlexA. go to the strawpoll strawpoll.me/5845304

TheDoctor

3:15 AM

ಠ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ಠ

Alex A.

@Doorknob This means nothing to me

TheDoctor

@GamrCorps i'm winning

GamrCorps

its tied

between unlimited and none

Doorknob

it's biased because TheDoctor gets to vote. he's losing :P

VTCAKAVSMoACE

31 mins ago, by Doorknob

GamrCorps

3:16 AM

57 secs ago, by VTCAKAVSMoACE

31 mins ago, by Doorknob

Alex A.

^

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

^^^ ; lets go tribonacci

VTCAKAVSMoACE

Carrotception. O.O

GamrCorps

lol

btw, what does the number under our avatars mean?

Doorknob

it's your network-wide reputation

GamrCorps

3:18 AM

ah

oh mine just went up...

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

huh

is there

away

VTCAKAVSMoACE

@Doorknob Wait, so if I just signed up for every site, would I have 14.2k rep? :D

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

to see it without spamming

Doorknob

@VTCAKAVSMoACE no, it only counts sites where you have 200+

VTCAKAVSMoACE

Aw. :c

GamrCorps

3:20 AM

@VTCAKAVSMoACE I was thinking the same thing

Geobits

You could also get a quick 14k rep by joining a bunch of sites and contributing in a meaningful way ;)

GamrCorps

No stars is winning! strawpoll.me/5845304/r

minxomat

There is a laser gun unicode symbol? But why...

VTCAKAVSMoACE

Hmm. This gives me an idea for a challenge...

# Attempt to find when the next carrot will be posted to chat

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

XD

^

GamrCorps

3:23 AM

^

VTCAKAVSMoACE

6 mins ago, by GamrCorps

57 secs ago, by VTCAKAVSMoACE

31 mins ago, by Doorknob

GamrCorps

14 secs ago, by VTCAKAVSMoACE

6 mins ago, by GamrCorps

57 secs ago, by VTCAKAVSMoACE

31 mins ago, by Doorknob

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

<The Tin Carrot Soldier> ^

VTCAKAVSMoACE

Even the bot carrots. o-o

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

<The Tin Carrot Soldier> ^

GamrCorps

3:25 AM

1 min ago, by VTCAKAVSMoACE

6 mins ago, by GamrCorps

57 secs ago, by VTCAKAVSMoACE

31 mins ago, by Doorknob

TheDoctor

@VTCAKAVSMoACE I read that as 'contraception'

VTCAKAVSMoACE

26 secs ago, by GamrCorps

1 min ago, by VTCAKAVSMoACE

6 mins ago, by GamrCorps

57 secs ago, by VTCAKAVSMoACE

31 mins ago, by Doorknob

TheDoctor

@Doorknob HOW IS THIS NOT SPAM

GamrCorps

I wonder how many levels of nesting carrots there can be....

Geobits

I blame you for this Doorknob. The carets were bad enough...

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

3:26 AM

how does I quote :P

VTCAKAVSMoACE

7 hours ago, by El'endia Starman

I once did a repeated quote that got up to 12 levels or so.

GamrCorps

get the permalink of a message and post it @CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

1 min ago, by VTCAKAVSMoACE

26 secs ago, by GamrCorps

1 min ago, by VTCAKAVSMoACE

6 mins ago, by GamrCorps

57 secs ago, by VTCAKAVSMoACE

31 mins ago, by Doorknob

GamrCorps

@VTCAKAVSMoACE wow

Alex A.

@TheDoctor Please use moderator flags for serious issues only.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

3:28 AM

@AlexA. Otherwise, we get a lot of foreign mods coming in

TheDoctor

I prefer not to be bombarded by huge messages tyvm

Alex A.

Then you can ask the user to stop

GamrCorps

I stopped already.

El'endia Starman

.......anyone want to barter that for his stars? :P

2

VTCAKAVSMoACE

@GamrCorps Although, he did say earlier that it was kinda unlimited.

7 hours ago, by El'endia Starman

@VTCAKAVSMoACE Kinda unlimited, I think.

GamrCorps

3:29 AM

@VTCAKAVSMoACE neato

VTCAKAVSMoACE

Wait: can you get the message number of the message you're about to post? That way, you quote the message that you send?

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

vooote (

TheDoctor

@VTCAKAVSMoACE no

El'endia Starman

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ MINKOLANG IS WINNING WOOHOO!!!

(For now.)

VTCAKAVSMoACE

Wait, hold on, should I try it? I can just get a permalink to this post and then try it.

Alex A.

3:30 AM

)

@El'endiaStarman XD

@AlexA. ......"("r

")"r

(Pushes an opening parenthesis onto the stack and reverses it so that it's in front of Alex's closing parenthesis.)

@AlexA. ~~The r doesn't do much in this case. :P~~ Nevermind.

VTCAKAVSMoACE

@El'endiaStarman Just... rotate the stack...?

El'endia Starman

3:32 AM

@VTCAKAVSMoACE That'd make it )().

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

((()(()())))(()((()()(}(

([{<])>}

GAH.

(:)

Mini-challenge: given two integers, output the mod of the divmod of them. Example: divmod(34,5) -> [6 4] then mod(6,4) -> 2.

VTCAKAVSMoACE

3:34 AM

divmod?

GamrCorps

infohost.nmt.edu/tcc/help/pubs/python/web/divmod-function.html

Geobits

(n/m)%(n%m)

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

Simplex, 15 bytes iiR2y*y%LVYR%o @GamrCorps

GamrCorps

why does it keep getting bigger @CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ?

VTCAKAVSMoACE

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ I'm sorry, this is missing Vitsy. I can't answer. c:

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

3:36 AM

@GamrCorps I made a mistake.

GamrCorps

Ok, just checking.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@VTCAKAVSMoACE ?

VTCAKAVSMoACE

Vitsy is my favorite language. Not any of those.

GamrCorps

mod of the divmod of them. So divmod(34,5) -> [6 4] then mod(6,4) -> 2(Output). Example 2: divmod(a,b) -> [c d] then mod(c,d) -> n(output)

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

poll 2

VTCAKAVSMoACE

3:39 AM

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ You missed ><>. ;)

Geobits

Quick software rec (for my mom): Windows batch converter from wma to mp3. For some reason she's trying to use realplayer and it's crashing on her.

Alex A.

@GamrCorps Julia, 26 bytes: f(a,b)=mod(divrem(a,b)...)

GamrCorps

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@VTCAKAVSMoACE wait that was made by PPCG user?

VTCAKAVSMoACE

I thought so...? Unless I've been mistaken this entire time.

GamrCorps

3:40 AM

So far its @CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ (15 bytes), then @AlexA (26 bytes).

VTCAKAVSMoACE

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Nevermind. I was under a misconception. Odd.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@VTCAKAVSMoACE Oh. :P

VTCAKAVSMoACE

GamrCorps

@VTCAKAVSMoACE you can do that?!?

VTCAKAVSMoACE

Do what?

Alex A.

3:43 AM

YOU CAN ADD NUMBRS??

GamrCorps

specifically in spotlight

VTCAKAVSMoACE

Yeah...? It can do trig, too.

GamrCorps

no way

Alex A.

@Geobits If you had asked me about 10 years ago I might have had an actual recommendation, but anything I could come up with now would just be from a Google search. :/

VTCAKAVSMoACE

Geobits

3:45 AM

@AlexA. Yea, same here :(

GamrCorps

@VTCAKAVSMoACE thats so cool, thanks for showing me this!

VTCAKAVSMoACE

@GamrCorps It actually uses the values for pi and e, not just approximations. ;D No problem.

Alex A.

@Geobits I had honestly forgotten that WMA ever existed.

@VTCAKAVSMoACE u r uz  so nao wer frend

VTCAKAVSMoACE

@GamrCorps But to be fair, Grapher can do way better stuff than this - it can do u-subbing, families of anti-derivatives, unknown constant graphs... if you haven't looked into it, do.

Alex A.

Grapher is the COOLEST.

GamrCorps

3:48 AM

best builtin on any os ever

Alex A.

Truer words have never been spoken.

No more

VTCAKAVSMoACE

Ahhh. Okie.

It was good while it lasted.

Not really.

Geobits

@AlexA. Not to mention realplayer ;)

quartata

What did I miss?

VTCAKAVSMoACE

@TheDoctor The worst thing about stars is when you try to remove them to use them somewhere else and it says "It's too late to undo this operation." ಠ_ಠ

@quartata Carrotception.

Or at least the end of it.

Alex A.

3:52 AM

Definitely read "carrotception" as "contraception." >.>

VTCAKAVSMoACE

=.=

Why am I awake? It's 4 AM.

quartata

nineteenth-byte status-foreverofftopic

4

VTCAKAVSMoACE

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Your language is in the top two. :o

Alex A.

@VTCAKAVSMoACE What? It's 9pm.

VTCAKAVSMoACE

...England, my friend. England. Plus, Daylight Savings already changed, too.

quartata

3:55 AM

Time zones

lookem up

GamrCorps

is DST over?

Alex A.

@VTCAKAVSMoACE England doesn't exist.

england-is-wrong

alex-is-england?

haha

3:56 AM

england-is-better-than-us-although-i-live-in-us

Geobits

Mind you, I'm not saying Alex is right. Because he's not. It's about midnight.

VTCAKAVSMoACE

In an alternate universe where Alex A. is the queen of England...

Alex A.

ಠ_ಠ

Queen?

Geobits

Very alternate...

quartata

@AlexA. that reminds me of a Get Fuzzy strip where Bucky says Canada doesnt exist

Alex A.

3:58 AM

Well it doesn't

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@VTCAKAVSMoACE :D

quartata

@GamrCorps They got the biggest apple store for one

Alex A.

It was a nonfiction comic strip.

GamrCorps

@quartata True that

Alex A.

@quartata We have the whole Apple

VTCAKAVSMoACE

3:59 AM

The Limit Does Not Exist!!! Mean Girls

►

Only 5 seconds of that is necessary. >.>

Geobits

Much less, really.

quartata

I went to the Covent Gardens apple store once. Its a good example of Jobs's OCD

VTCAKAVSMoACE

@quartata You've been to Covent Garden? :D

quartata

Yes. My favorite part of London.

Home of the Tintin shop

Alex A.

I went to London once. It was very English.

VTCAKAVSMoACE

4:02 AM

(the NW bit is the best. :3)

quartata

@AlexA. would you prefer it to be very Spanish?

GamrCorps

youtube.com/… So I'm not the only one!

VTCAKAVSMoACE

^ Well... yes.

quartata

This isn't off topic enough. Let's talk about Skittles.

VTCAKAVSMoACE

Their new ads are really weird.

quartata

4:07 AM

I don't like the red ones.

And their ads have always been weird. The word you are looking for is weirder.

well, I'm out for the night, good night everybody!

quartata

I see a cat. Golden rule of ads in the 21st century: if it has a cat, you've already sold the product.

VTCAKAVSMoACE

Night!

quartata

night

Alex A.

4:12 AM

Yes, it is currently night.

11

...wat

^ and ^^

This image covers up multiple messages for me on my tablet

feersum

Change of coordinate system is a powerful technique.

quartata

4:16 AM

You wizard

Who even posted this

VTCAKAVSMoACE

A mod. :P

quartata

The name is covered up

Alex A.

orlp

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

LOL I jost lost 145 rep for being serial voted

VTCAKAVSMoACE

orlp, Leiden, Netherlands

44k 17 101 185

c++ python c algorithm string windows php

Alex A.

4:17 AM

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Brutal

VTCAKAVSMoACE

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ :c

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@AlexA. Ik; its the second time it has happened

Whyyyyyy

Alex A.

The second time?

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

I should at least get an achievement :P

@AlexA. Yeah. I got like +230 rep and I'm like YEAH and then I lost 230 rep and I'm liek noooooooooooooooo (that was the first time)

VTCAKAVSMoACE

> Pushover - Get a negative score due to the system counteracting serial votes.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

4:19 AM

^

Dennis

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Interesting bonus.

3

A: The jQuery showdown

CJam, 160 139 13.3 bytes 00000000: 22 cf 97 d9 d1 85 82 89 8d d1 db 8d 80 a8 af b3 a3 b0 "................. 00000012: b7 82 8e 80 bd c3 ca 89 85 d6 89 84 80 b2 c6 c7 d1 7e .................~ 00000024: ce d0 cd c5 d0 bf cb cb c3 d0 7e c7 d1 7e c5 d3 c7 ca ..........~..~.... 00000036: d2 d7 7e ...

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@Dennis O-o well then.

Congratulations?

Alex A.

congratudennis

El'endia Starman

4:38 AM

I think my quine trick here is clever.

@GamrCorps nn$d:1R%%N. 11 bytes.

VTCAKAVSMoACE

4:52 AM

@El'endiaStarman I left an edit suggestion on your post. ;)

El'endia Starman

@VTCAKAVSMoACE Thanks. Wow. How'd I mess that up? :P

VTCAKAVSMoACE

You're tied with me. :c

El'endia Starman

lol

VTCAKAVSMoACE

I'm pretty much tied to the extreme of my language's capability. :P

El'endia Starman

5:08 AM

@Sp3000: Standard deviation in Minkolang. 51 bytes versus your 42 bytes. Dang.

I should make mean and standard deviation built-ins.

VTCAKAVSMoACE

I have Gamma built into mine. XD

Basic trig and their inverses, factorial, powers... ^-^

El'endia Starman

@VTCAKAVSMoACE ...this gamma?

VTCAKAVSMoACE

Correct.

Or, rather, I have an approximation of it.

Alex A.

@VTCAKAVSMoACE Why are you still awake

VTCAKAVSMoACE

If I went to sleep, I'd have no benefit at this point.

Alex A.

5:21 AM

There's always a benefit to sleep

Hi, Vdsfkjsdfkl. This is your bed. I want you in me.

VTCAKAVSMoACE

...I wake up in 30 minutes.

Alex A.

So you're already asleep?

VTCAKAVSMoACE

Yes, I'm sleep typing. =.=

Alex A.

wow
    such talent
  sleeping
very type
       amaze

DankMemes

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A: The jQuery showdown

PHP, (159*1.5 + 5) * .1 = 24.4 I'm confused about the order in which to apply the bonus/penalty, so I assumed order as written. <?=eval(~šœ—.ß..š˜ ’ž‹œ—×ØÐ¤•ŽŠš.†££Û‡Ï¢Ð–ØÓÛž.˜‰¤Î¢ÖÀØ«—–Œß...˜.ž’’š.ß–Œß˜Š–“‹†ß.™ß·š.šŒ†Ñß·šß’ŠŒ‹ß.šß.Š.‘‹ÑØÅØ¯..˜.ž’ß‰ž“–›ž‹š›Ñß¼“šž.ž‘œšß“š‰š“ßÍß˜–‰š‘ÑØÄ); This ...

At first I thought, this question makes it impossible to use PHP

turns out I did pretty well :P

Alex A.

5:32 AM

And then you realized that if you know PHP you should rethink your life.

2

PHP = Pretty Hellish Peril

I mean, nice job, @Dank!

DankMemes

yeah pretty much

the only way to git gud at golfing in php (which I am not) is to go memorize the standard library

which is a complete mess

to put it lightly

Alex A.

PHP is a complete mess.

I tried to learn it a while back. That didn't last long.

Dennis

@DankMemes Does your code allow dollars after digits?

Alex A.

No, only ¥ may come after the digits.

Perhaps the occasionally euro or pound.

DankMemes

@Dennis PHP (afaik) doesn't

the whole point of the inverting thing was to avoid those characters

unfortunately eval has e so I had to add the penalty

Dennis

5:39 AM

No, I mean, what would it return for the input 42$?

DankMemes

I keep thinking I missed a part of the rules for everything

Sp3000

@El'endiaStarman Hah, surely there's a lot more important functions to implement first? :P

DankMemes

now I actually missed part of the rules

whoops

El'endia Starman

@Sp3000 Well, yeah, but I want to do it in 2 characters instead of 45+ characters. :P

Sp3000

You could say that for basically half the problems on this site :P

El'endia Starman

5:45 AM

haha, true

DankMemes

6:04 AM

0

A: The jQuery showdown

PHP, (204*1.5 + 5) * .1 = 31.1 I'm confused about the order in which to apply the bonus/penalty, so I assumed order as written. <?=eval(~šœ—.ß..š˜ ’ž‹œ—×ØÐ¤•ŽŠš.†££Û‡Ï¢Ð–ØÓ..š˜ .š.“žœš×ØÐ¤ÎÒÆ¢Ô×££Ñ¤ÎÒÆ¢„Í‚ÖÀ££ÛÐØÓÝÝÓÛž.˜‰¤Î¢ÖÖÀØ«—–Œß...˜.ž’’š.ß–Œß˜Š–“‹†ß.™ß·š.šŒ†Ñß·šß’ŠŒ‹ß.šß.Š.‘‹ÑØÅØ¯..˜.ž’ß‰ž...

yay, I fixed this

there has to be a shorter way but I'm really tired at this point

New Main Posts

0

Q: Code the Huffman!

Or else he will huff and puff and blow your house down! That was completely irrelevant. This challenge is actually about Huffman coding. The gist of it is the frequency of characters in a given text is utilized to make its representation shorter. In other words, let's say that our alphabet is a ...

code-golf

El'endia Starman

@NewMainPosts Oh hey, there you are.

7 minutes.

Alex A.

He was hiding in your bushes.

El'endia Starman

ಠ_ಠ

Alex A.

Biding his time.

Waiting to strike.

DankMemes

6:07 AM

seriously?

No one's made a huffman challenge yet?

Alex A.

Hasselhuffman coding

El'endia Starman

@DankMemes There's Huffman golfing, but that one asks for the Huffman tree.

Alex A.

3 hours ago, by Seadrus

@Doorknob whats binary

Not sure if trolling

DankMemes

lol

lol wait, you can reply by using partial names like @Dank?

@Alex

nope

Alex A.

Yeah you can

@Dank.

@Dan.

You need at least three characters though. So @Da won't work.

DankMemes

6:16 AM

@Ale

Alex A.

Yep, that pinged me.

DankMemes

lol

Alex A.

Just like I get to call Doorknob Scooby @Doo, I can now refer to you as @Dan the Man.

DankMemes

How about Ginger @Ale

:P

Alex A.

It might make more sense if I had red hair but yeah, that works.

DankMemes

6:25 AM

Alex A.

Also not Canadian

DankMemes

- Not Canadian

- Not strictly ale

- Not dry

Alex A.

Well Greenland Wet just sounds foolish.

DankMemes

Greenland Wet Ginger Soda

Alex A.

Boom. Next big thing.

New Meta Posts

6:31 AM

0

Q: Is there simple example or demo to show how to play with this community?

I read questions at this community for while and feel they are funny:) But I really don't know what the questions are playing with, especially the meaning behind the title:( I have no idea what they are talking about, is there any beginner instruction to join this community?

discussion

DankMemes

^ I fear that will get closed or something

Alex A.

Hm

I posted an answer but now I'm not sure I understood what he was asking

DankMemes

me neither

> what the questions are playing with

I feel like OP there is foreign

Alex A.

Yeah

DankMemes

anyways I gtg

Alex A.

6:44 AM

(Technically we're foreign to anyone not in the US :P)

DankMemes

it's past midnight here

Alex A.

Almost midnight here

Have a good night

Beta Decay

7:11 AM

@AlexA. Technically, due to the internationality of PPCG, anyone not on Earth is foreign

Pietu1998

I @Bet people are still coming up with great ways to ping people

El'endia Starman

@PeterTaylor: I do wish I had been told that my Huffman coding question would be a duplicate while it was in the Sandbox! Also:

yesterday, by Thomas Kwa

It would not be a duplicate, because you can't trivially modify answers to that question to answer your new question.

I also think my question is better, though obviously I'm biased.

Also, what about this pair of questions?

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Q: Operations with Lists

Inspired by this question. Given a list containing numbers, print: The sum and product of the numbers in the list The average and median The differences between each term in the list (e.x. [1,2,3] -> [1,1]: 1+1=2, 2+1=3) The list, sorted ascending The minimum and maximum of the list The standa...

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Q: Calculate Standard Deviation

Challenge Given a list of numbers, calculate the population standard deviation of the list. Use the following equation to calculate population standard deviation: Input The input will a list of integers in any format (list, string, etc.). Some examples: 56,54,89,87 67,54,86,67 The number...

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By your standard, the latter question should be a duplicate of the former.

Also, if I wrote an answer in Minkolang for either Huffman coding question, I would not be able to trivially modify it to answer the other question!

There are also no Pyth or CJam answers on the older question.

I should probably explain why I think my question is better. It demonstrates Huffman coding. The spec is more thorough. It has several input/output examples. It's more amenable to use in other situations because the output is binary representation instead of a tree.

aditsu

7:32 AM

jeez, I wast^H^H^H^Hspent sooo much time on the binary-looking problem >_<

anyway, I'm done with it (hopefully)

let's see what I missed

aditsu

7:46 AM

apparently, you guys have no life :p

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Q: Write an interpreter for Lines

Lines Write an interpreter for Lines, an esoteric language which I reckon could be used for some golfs. Description Lines is an esoteric language just like /// (Slashes), but has the added command \|, meaning 'Get next character from STDIN'. This makes it more ideal for golfing. Any command th...

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