This challenge is based on Downgoat's Adjust your chair.
Challenge
You just adjusted your new chair! It fits you perfectly. However, the wheel is squeaky and you know the repair people will change the adjustment. Problem is, you don't have a ruler, so you'll have to write a program to measure i...
Scratch
The when [timer v] > (0) will run as soon as the code is initialised, which if you're in the editor is before you even start the code. The when I receive (join[][]) will cause an error to be thrown every time anything is broadcast, pausing code execution if you have Developer version of...
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The Rules
Each submission must be a full program.
The program must take input as two comma-separated dates in the form YYYY-MM-DD, and print the number of days that has passed since the second date to STDOUT as if today was the first date (if the second date would be in ...
dennis-home:~$ python3
Python 3.4.1 (default, May 23 2014, 17:48:28) [GCC] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> 12/25
0.48
As you have already discovered, the characters resulting from character codes between 0 and 255 depend entirely on the encoding that is used.
Windows doesn't use neither extended ASCII nor ANSI (usually Windows-1252); it actually depends on the application.
For example, Alt + (2, 2, 4) gives on...
There is win in Windows! Windows is brilliant. It uses a propriety executable format, which it's illegal to create a parser for. It has the best browser ever, Internet Explorer, and the late-coming but still brilliant Firefox. (Unfortunately it still supports the legacy, outmoded and useless Chrome, so it's not all win!) It also... code-troll
Because it increases the processor speed without asking you, using more power and making Chrome "run faster". It opens more processes when the OS tries to throttle it.
In connection terms, where the connection is a small doorway: Internet Explorer is like an over-polite group of people, constantly saying "After you" and not really moving quickly at all Firefox is an ordered group, getting all the people / connections into a single-file line and being efficient (actually, IE requests faster just with FF in the background) Chrome is a group of jerks who elbow everyone out of the way, which is great if you're using Chrome, but if too many people on the same network are using it, it's like two people trying to shove through a door at once.
I do hate online discussions of browsers and OSs though. I think there isn't a very good way to determine "the best" considering the innumerable standards for good (e.g. Nice UI, supports my favorite add-ons, doesn't crash because I haven't thrown my bullcrap toolbars on there yet) and the conversation just devolves
How long ago was this?
The Rules
Each submission must be a full program.
The program must take input as two comma-separated dates in the form YYYY-MM-DD, and print the number of days that has passed since the second date to STDOUT as if today was the first date (if the second date would be in ...
As you have already discovered, the characters resulting from character codes between 0 and 255 depend entirely on the encoding that is used.
Windows doesn't use neither extended ASCII nor ANSI (usually Windows-1252); it actually depends on the application.
For example, Alt + (2, 2, 4) gives on...
