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8:00 PM
That describes me pretty well.
 
:D
 
QED, golf is not a sport.
 
Name change proposition: Code Basketball
Code Swimming
 
orp
Code Tennis
 
Code Football, but we never specify which one.
 
8:07 PM
Code Ping Pong
Code Javelin
At this point I'm just trying to think of all the sports I know
 
Code Bowling
 
Perfect!
 
@PhiNotPi I see what you did there.
 
I C++ what you did there
 
I C# what you did there.
 
8:09 PM
Popularity Contests & Code Bowling
 
orp
I Java what you did there
 
@Dennis Peter will be apoplectic.
 
@Dennis Off Topic & Downvotes
 
Golf is a sport.
 
Not a good one
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Just a bunch of white people who spend most of their time standing around or riding in a little car
 
8:11 PM
@AlexA. Said someone who has no interest in physical sports, neither playing nor spectating.
:P
 
@Dennis Which uniquely qualifies me to declare that golf is not a good sport. Objectively because I say so.
 
> Objectively, because I say so.
GG.
You have defined subjectivity.
 
Subjectivity is an object of class IDGAF
 
@PhiNotPi What is the winning criteria? The one with the most bytes cough java?
 
@JAtkin cough applescript
 
8:17 PM
public class Subjectivity implements IDGAF{...}
 
@PhiNotPi There's only one type of football that is played with the foot and involves a ball, so...
 
The way to get input in AppleScript is bigger than Java boilerplate. :D
And that's for one input.
 
Not possible!
 
@AlexA. I meant that community would auto flag it
 
set x to(display dialog""default answer"")
 
8:20 PM
User robo flags would be really bad
 
@FlagAsSpam Can you omit the default answer argument?
 
class H{public static void main(String[]a){}}
 
@Dennis One involves someone falling over every 5 seconds, and the other is a popular American sport?
 
@SuperJedi224 Nope - otherwise it turns into an alert.
 
Once upon a time I thought about making a language called FARTRAN THE UNGOLFABLE that would have things like BEGIN NUMERIC LITERAL 1 END NUMERIC LITERAL.
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8:21 PM
@Dennis I think you mean class H{public static void main(String[]a){}}
 
That's INTERCAL
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@PhiNotPi Exactly. Especially in Brazil.
 
For a moment I thought you were replying to quartata. It's only INTERCAL in Brazil.
 
It's hard to keep track of a lot of variables at once sometimes.
 
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Q: Symbolic Integration of Polynomials

FlagAsSpamApply an indefinite integral to a given string. The only rules you will be using are defined as such: ∫cx^(n)dx = (c/(n+1))x^(n+1) + C, n ≠ -1 c, C, and n are all constants. Specifications: You must be able to integrate polynomials with any of the possible features: A coefficient, possibly...

Still only one answer...
 
8:23 PM
@SuperJedi224 That's why they should all have descriptive names, like x1, x2, ...
@quartata A goal of the language would be to make INTERCAL look concise.
@Dennis y u jeva in heer ಠ_ಠ
 
@FlagAsSpam Ah, I don't really Java. Still longer though...
@AlexA. If I tell you, I'll get a lot of stars...
 
O__O
Dennis has uncovered the secret to starring
 
Being an idiot?
 
@Dennis Ah - It's 42 vs 45. I digress. But I have to call that every time I want an input.
 
@Dennis Ralph
 
8:26 PM
class JevaInHeer { public static void main(String[] a) { System.out.println("[tag:alex-is-wrong]") ;} }
 
@quartata ono u jeva 2
 
I am on my tablet :/
 
@AlexA. What does my brother in law have to do with this?
 
The whitespace still looks a bit ugly but it looks like it will work now.
 
@Dennis ._.
rofl -> rolf -> Ralph
 
8:28 PM
facepalm -> facepalm
 
face -> palm
 
translate: facepalm
 
translate: facepalm
(from English) facepalm
Bing knows what's up
 
@quartata Nice try, mortal.
 
(from FailFish): facepalm
 
8:29 PM
@AlexA. wat
 
Dammit you ruined it
It's really hard to do jokes on my tablet
 
Or in base 13.
Looks like I killed chat.
 
chat
 
8:34 PM
I couldn't even if I wanted to.
dennis-notebook:~$ kill cat
bash: kill: cat: arguments must be process or job IDs
(killall cat would work, but it seems excessive.)
 
@AlexA. Wouldn't palm -> face make more sense?
 
Crucify and Chill?
 
Crucify and Chilli?
 
Mmmmh, chilli.
 
haven't heard of Netflix and Chill?
 
8:38 PM
@flawr You mean you don't keep your palm stationary and slam your face into it? :P
 
@AlexA. All a matter of perspective. But my perspective usually coincides with the ones of my eyes rather than the one of my palm.
 
Your eyes aren't in your palm?
 
This is clearly the approved way:
 
What?
 
@flawr oh god
@Dennis Data delivers Picard some bad news.
 
8:42 PM
Facepalm:
 
@Dennis AHH
 
Palm face?
> "If you're happy and you know it clap your hands..."
 
If your face was on your palm, clapping actually would be the way to facepalm.
 
@AlexA. But you'd never not facepalm.
 
8:45 PM
 
Slightly related is the failpalm:
 
I don't get it
 
Slimming => palm trunk is gone.
 
^
 
meh
 
8:46 PM
Ohh I see.
 
@AlexA. They're rich, they have poor taste, and they're easily amused. Sounds like the perfect market for our product.
 
haha
 
@Dennis FTFY
It won't upload =(
 
-1
Q: Is the number divisible by 7?

JojodmoGiven an integer input, write a program that prints a truthy value to STDOUT or equivalent if the input is divisible by seven. Sounds simple enough, right? There's a catch - you can only use addition, subtraction, and multiplication. No other operators or built-in math functions are allowed. Hi...

 
8:54 PM
 
lolwut
 
this is now face->palm
 
what the..
 
That gif is stabilized on the hands.
That's why it looks a little weird.
 
Oh, yes, we need lower- and uppercase numbers!
 
8:59 PM
In a similar vein...
(From a comment on this - cheetah's head stabilized.)
 
Woah
 
i dont see how its stablized..
 
@Optimizer Look at its tail.
 
you said head
 
I'm dizzy.
 
9:01 PM
7 vs ₇
 
@Optimizer Click on the link.
 
@El'endiaStarman This is hillarious=)
 
Read the text
 
Imagine attaching a gopro to this cheeta's tail=)
 
Imagine riding on the tail.
 
9:05 PM
Under the influence of some addictive substances a friend once made the suggestion of making a movie from the perspective of a car wheel.
 
The world would be constantly spinning. I would barf within the first 2 seconds of the film.
 
@flawr Something like this?
 
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Q: The Kimberling Sequence

AdnanIntroduction Ofcourse, we've got a lot of sequence challenges, so here is another one. The Kimberling sequence (A007063) goes as following: 1, 3, 5, 4, 10, 7, 15, 8, 20, 9, 18, 24, 31, 14, 28, 22, ... This is produced by shuffeling the normal iteration: [1] 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 The first ...

 
Now I'm pondering the evolution of creatures stuck to car wheels...how would their visual system work?
 
Perhaps that is about how my friend percieved the world at that time.
 
9:17 PM
So many answers and no one even knows what the rules are (including the author):
-4
Q: Is the number divisible by 7?

JojodmoGiven an integer input, write a program that prints a truthy value to STDOUT or equivalent if the input is divisible by seven. Sounds simple enough, right? There's a catch - you can only use subtraction and multiplication. No other operators or built-in math functions are allowed. Hint there is...

 
There's a reason the sandbox exists ... le sigh.
 
Yes, anything that takes/returns numbers is a math function - so only *, -, and == are allowed — Jojodmo 1 min ago
.....wat.
 
@TimmyD I just wish people would use it more. :/
 
@El'endiaStarman He also disallowed < and > ...
 
Yeah, that's ridiculous.
@AlexA. And then you have cases like what Mego went through yesterday.
 
9:20 PM
any web developers here?
 
Where's the "close-as-too-narrow" button?
 
what is the maximum throughput that you have worked with in your server..
 
@TimmyD That's "too localized", sorta, but if I recall correctly, that was taken out not too long ago.
 
@El'endiaStarman Did he sandbox the post that got downvoted into oblivion and closed?
 
@Optimizer What throughput? Public traffic? Local traffic? File system?
 
9:20 PM
web traffic
 
@AlexA. Yes. It got to +3 score with multiple comments.
 
so incoming requests
 
@El'endiaStarman o__o
 
That was part of his frustration.
 
I can imagine
 
9:21 PM
hi
 
@Optimizer Our companies' servers have about 40GB/s per day. (Inbound + outbound)
 
well.. i was hoping a number/s not an mb/s
 
@TimmyD There are 2 unclear votes. I think the fact that he keeps changing the rules makes it rather unclear. I don't think it should remain open but I'm having a hard time coming up with the most appropriate close reason.
 
@Optimizer You said throughput. Requests are about 1 to 4k unique per hour. (Incoming only)
 
I said throughput for incoming requests.. I think one would more likely associate it with number than payload
 
9:23 PM
@AlexA. Is "Close Reason: wat." a mod-only option? ;-)
 
@Optimizer Lot of it get's cached by our CDN.
 
@TimmyD Haha actually no
Anyone can put in custom close reasons
 
well, then its content hosting, no? not really a web server..
 
Hey look, the score is divisible by 7!
10
 
@Optimizer Yes, a web server. Web app to be specific.
 
9:24 PM
@AlexA. Lol, but negatives
 
@AlexA. its not divisible by 5040
 
@AlexA. I was just going to post that.
 
@mınxomaτ oh, so like a cdn in between caching output for similar input params?
 
@Optimizer Exactly.
 
@Optimizer Yes. The non-web traffic is obviously lot more. We use Cloudflare for DNS-level caching and DDoS protection and there is some internal caching going on (but that's unmonitored and negligible).
 
9:27 PM
well, not what i was looking for then..
 
@Optimizer What are you trying to do?
 
just trying to get the state of art in similar thing to what we have
 
@AlexA. 0/-8 now ... I wonder what's the lowest it'll get.
 
Especially considering that it's not visible on the front page of the main site.
 
-15
 
9:28 PM
It dropped off at -3...
 
@mınxomaτ Not equal is != in Julia (and I think in all of the other languages I know)
 
33 views, 6 edits, ~20 comments, 5 answers, -8 votes ... wow
 
@AlexA. Blitz 2D/3D uses <>.
 
Come to think of it, SQL (or at least some dialects) use <> as well.
SAS uses ^=
 
Well, that one is weird.
 
9:32 PM
@AlexA. PHP? JavaScript? Java?
 
@mınxomaτ I don't know any of those :P
 
@mınxomaτ Yes (I think), yes, yes.
 
@El'endiaStarman There's pretty much nothing not weird about SAS.
 
I wonder if part of the high cost is the privilege of weirdness...
 
@AlexA. It is also common to denote comparison as == and strict comp as === to prevent confusion. In papers it is common to denote assignment as := when the comparison operator is only =.
 
9:33 PM
@AlexA. Pow-equal? Like, meta-equal.
Metaqual.
 
@El'endiaStarman if = 1; if not if then do; end = if; end; put end if; <-- this is valid ;_;
 
Damn, the hate is real xD — Jojodmo 22 secs ago
 
@AlexA. Wow, so, the parser can distinguish if the keyword from if the variable?
 
I think at this point it is clear that it is unclear what he's asking. Just look at the number of comments :D
 
Hammered
@El'endiaStarman Yes. There are no reserved words in SAS.
Also assignment and comparison are the same (=)
 
9:37 PM
@AlexA. Oh, I hate languages like that.
 
if = 1; then = if = 1; do = then = if = 1;
@TimmyD There are other languages like that?
 
hey wombats
 
Hey... kangaroo
 
I believe it was the Pascal family of programming languages that had an optional := assignment operator to prevent confusion. It just looks horrible though.
 
@AlexA. .....Blitz 2D/3D.... >_>
 
9:38 PM
I got a new laptop with Windows 10. Immediately wanting to switch back to XP.
 
@phase Uninstall Windows and install some kind of Linux.
 
@phase Well, XP -> 10 is a BIIIG jump.
 
^
 
You didn't get the time and opportunity to learn the new features in 7 and 8...
 
Much has changed since the early 2000s when XP was relevant.
 
9:40 PM
He's still editing the question.
 
coz -8 is not enough
 
I can't imagine it will get reopened
 
@AlexA. BASIC, SQL both come to mind
 
Oh yeah
And PL/1 I think
(SAS's syntax is modeled after PL/1, its original implementation language)
 
Getting a little feisty ...
@Codefun64 Yes, because there's no way to use multiplication only to achieve division... You're a little late to the criticism, you tried — Jojodmo 37 secs ago
 
9:43 PM
@TimmyD Lol. This sound more like elaborate trolling now.
 
Actually, all languages doesn't need to use != for not equal. E.g. x<y||y<x
 
Speaking of which, | is or in SAS, and || is string concatenation.
 
But then again, || means something different in almost every language.
 
@AlexA. ew
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@phase ikr
 
@mınxomaτ || will make PowerShell cry
 
@TimmyD PowerShell is the one thing I seriously dislike.
 
@flawr are the cc subtitles correct?
 
Here goes.
Fortran: .NE.
 
> 2ew
 
9:47 PM
@mınxomaτ ಠ_ಠ
 
sounds like tew
 
@Optimizer Let me check=)
 
Algol 68: , /= or ne
 
@TimmyD I'd rather Java than PowerShell.
 
APL:
 
9:47 PM
awk is so fast, it calculated average of 150 M values in under 5 seconds
it had to read those values form file and parse them too
 
@mınxomaτ Depends on the usage. I wouldn't want to use Java and try to interface with Exchange or AD...
 
Basic/Visual Basic.NET/OCaml/SQL/StandardML/Other basic like languages : <>
 
@TimmyD I use AutoIt for that. But that's where I'm biased.
 
MUMPS: '=
Lua: ~=
Algol, Simula, Modula-2, Delphi, OCaml, Standard ML, Eiffel, APL/Pascal Like languages: <>
 
We've reached -10
 
9:50 PM
@Optimizer Well the english subs are somewhat smoothed out. (Like, not as strong worded.)
 
I stepped away for a second and now we're naming the not equal operator in every language?
 
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Q: Binary Run-Length Encoding

Zach GatesOverview Run-length encoding — sequences in which the same data value occurs in many consecutive data elements are stored as a single data value and count When using run-length encoding: Input: ABBBCCACB Output: 1A3B12C1A1C1B This sample has an output that is larger than the input. I...

 
@TimmyD There should (not) be a badge for that. Badge: Terrible Question.
 
^ in regex
 
@AlexA. English language: Alex
Dennis Alex Doorknob
> True.
grump grump stupid multi-line code blocks grumble
 
9:53 PM
Shells: -ne
Batch: NEQ
MATLAB: ne(x,y) or ~=
FORTRAN 90: /=
Mathematica can be !=, but it can also be Unequal[x,y]
 
It sure is great to know the not-equals operator in several dozen languages I don't know and will never use. :P
 
@BlockCoder1392 Brainfuck?=)
 
Does BF even have equality?
No, you'd have to subtract one from the other and then do something based on whether the result is 0 or not.
 
Why all the inequality?
 
Inequality Alex Equality
> True.
 
9:57 PM
Because we are disenchanted.
 
@NewMainPosts Does anyone agree that this is a dupe of the regular run length encoding challenge? The only difference is converting to binary first, which is trivial in most languages.
 
I disagree /:
 
What do you think is different about it?
 
@BlockCoder1392 Math: Universal ternary condition. Compares l to r and returns t if true and f if false:
 
9:59 PM
@AlexA. It's not even converting to binary
The input is a string of 0's and 1's
 
Oh!
brb dupe hammering
 
@AlexA.: I don't see where conversion to binary will actually happen, and besides, I think that the shortest way to run-length encode a binary string will be appreciably different from regular run-length encoding. There might be some tricks or the like available w.r.t. binary that isn't there for other inputs. — El'endia Starman 16 secs ago
 
If answers can be copied verbatim from another challenge, it's a dupe
 
@mınxomaτ What if t is a 2x2 matrix and f a 3x3 matrix?????
 
I agree with @El'endiaStarman comment
 
10:01 PM
There may be some tricks in this case but the actual task isn't sufficiently distinct to warrant a separate post
 
@flawr If they evaluate, use a sum to iterate over the matrix. Still works.
 
@flawr No.
 
 
^ much easier than the exponent thing
 
^
 
10:03 PM
@BlockCoder1392 But not executable. Mine is a regular function, flawr's is an implicit function.
 
@AlexA. The program used in the "original" question couldn't be used to solve the "dupe". In fact the code would be much different after considering that there are only two values, and not having to account for multiple
 
It's just a neat math trick :)
 
What do you mean by not executable?
 
@ZachGates Answers don't have to be copied verbatim, but if they can be (which they can in this case), that's a clear sign of a duplicate challenge.
 
10:03 PM
It is a function just like any other?
 
@flawr I mean it can be evaluated by a single line expression parser (or a very simple calculator). It doesn't use conditional operators.
 
XD
That is a mean one=)
 
The unknown function :D
 
What is unknown about it?
=)
 
10:07 PM
No one knows
 
@mınxomaτ Try to evaluate it using your definition =P
 
@flawr BTW, you can just use !http://latex.codecogs.com/gif.latex?<putyourlatexhere> in chat.
 
(And I think many simple calculators will not get some of the 0^something right.)
Oh thanks, let me check
=(
 
10:10 PM
What did you change nwo?
LOOOOL, I just copied the link from your image and pasted it here!
 
Source: !http://latex.codecogs.com/gif.latex?%5Cbegin%7Bpmatrix%7Da%20%26%20b%20%5C%5C%‌​20c%20%26%20d%5Cend%7Bpmatrix%7D
Really, just click on the "download" link and copy-paste that.
With a ! in front.
 
You can use the editor here and copy the encoded URL :)
 
On a different subject, are there any last changes I should make to this?
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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

El'endia StarmanSpacewar! king-of-the-hill If you've ever played Spacewar!, you know it was a fun game. If you haven't, know this: it was (and is) one of the very first and most important computer games. And it's still fun! The clone I grew up on is this one, which is, apparently and unfortunately, Windows only...

 
@flawr I clicked because I thought it wasn't a crash. I was wrong. D:
I guess the battery must've run out.
 
10:21 PM
lol wut
 
Did you already see this one?
(No crashes, promised.)
 
@BlockCoder1392 Use brackets
 
@El'endiaStarman what a massive KoTH
 
I did
Whats U+007C?
 
@El'endiaStarman About the single-threadedness, what about workers?
 
10:25 PM
@flawr Not sure what you mean.
 
@flawr Ooooh...I'm definitely looking into that.
Later, though. I think the effort to implement that in Spacewar! outweighs the advantages.
@NathanMerrill Well, that's mostly because I was kinda exhaustive in terms of how everything works...
 
@BlockCoder1392 Vertical pipe
 
10:53 PM
123908218731 hours later...
 
@BlockCoder1392 Bored? Play!
 
Stuff
2
 
@quintopia So profound
 
Also, SunAvoider vs RighthandedSpasms really varies a lot. One game was 4-4, quite surprisingly, and a couple games later, it was 7-0, which is also surprising. :P
 
Hi again
 
10:59 PM
@BlockCoder1392 Hi
 
:O I just saw SunAvoider loop around the sun more than a dozen times, very close to it.
 

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