The Nineteenth Byte

Quill

03:00

@Doorknob pretty much the only programmer that comes to chat besides balpha

Pure magic

Alex A.

Shog is a CM though, he's not a dev

Maltysen

@Quill did you see the comment underneath

Quill

^ also that, (I say programmer because he has like 100k on SO)

Maltysen

:O!!! I can't believe you used a filter bypass! I should flag this for moderator attention! — animuson ♦ Dec 23 '11 at 6:20

Doorknob

That was back when animuson didn't have the diamond, but now it's even funnier. :P

Maltysen

03:02

@AlexA. did we ask him to look at your PPCG graduation question on meta?

Hosch250

Area 52? Never heard of that.

Doorknob

It was the unofficial name from... a while ago

Alex A.

@Maltysen Calvin pinged him in here and linked to it but I doubt 1.) he's seen it, 2.) he cares, or 3.) it's his place to say anything even if he had seen it.

Doorknob

^

Maltysen

oh

Calvin's Hobbies

03:04

Jan 10 at 0:11, by Calvin's Hobbies

@AlexA. @Shog9 please take a look at :)

Hosch250

Shog is your CM? Pops is ours.

Alex A.

Grace Note is ours.

Hosch250

Oh. Why was Shog in here?

I don't think I've ever seen him at CR.

Alex A.

Somebody was getting flagged like crazy.

And he just popped in.

Hosch250

Oh.

Alex A.

03:06

He also left a comment on our meta.

Hosch250

Reminds me of the April fools thing.

Doorknob

moral of the story: when in doubt, flag all the things

5

Alex A.

No stubby pencils? What a waste. — Shog9 ♦ Jan 6 at 2:59

@Hosch250 Ah yes, the thing that made literally everyone on the network hate us.

Maltysen

@Doorknob I'm in doubt whether or not I should flag this

Hosch250

Yeah, that was pretty rude of you.

But, I did try to help you win after you stopped.

Quill

03:07

@Doorknob and people wonder why you guys have the most flagged room on the chat.se domain

Doorknob

@Quill we don't?

Alex A.

We really don't.

Like at all.

Doorknob

I remember seeing a table in TL but I can't find it now

Calvin's Hobbies

I would thing anime's room or something

Alex A.

Or Mathematics.

Quill

03:09

I'm surprised you guys haven't done one of these yet: meta.codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/999/…

Doorknob

I would guess The Bridge

or, maybe Physics

@Quill I have

Quill

not to stereotype, but the more non-programmer sites seem to have more flags

I've handled a few from The h bar, You are Here, The Bridge, Mos Eisley lately

Alex A.

@Quill I'm bothered by this statement. What makes you think that?

Hosch250

Mos was so bad they nuked it.

Alex A.

You mean the room no longer exists?

Hosch250

03:11

They re-created it.

Quill

It was made readonly and then reinstated

Alex A.

Wow

Hosch250

I thought they re-created it from scratch?

Doorknob

@Quill Probably just bias. You probably hang out in all the programming-related chatrooms and a very small proportion of the non-programming ones

just because there are so many more non-programming chatrooms

Hosch250

Talking about readonly, rolfl made our room readonly after kicking everyone once.

Alex A.

03:12

Why?

Doorknob

... everyone?

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

Yes.
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Quill

@Doorknob probably

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@Dennis ^^

Quill

12 mins ago, by Quill

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

03:13

ah

Hosch250

@AlexA. Some troll came in and there was a fight over whether a question was on topic.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

that hurts

Alex A.

@Hosch250 Wonderful. :/

Hosch250

Several regulars put their oar in and got kicked.

Then, the room was made so only mods could talk.

Eventually, it was reinstated.

Quill

it's not fun when room incidents happen

Hosch250

03:14

Another time, a bunch of teenagers were acting "like gulls squabbling over garbage", or something. The whole room blew up, and we had to create a second room.

One of the users permanently left chat.

Quill

@Hosch250 s/teenagers/ethan, q and mast/

Alex A.

Despite being wildly off topic at all times, I think this is the tamest public chat room I've seen on the network.

Hosch250

Now, I have that problem sometimes myself, so I'm not pointing any fingers.

Doorknob

@AlexA. More so than TL? :P

Quill

I think the whole 'no-topic' attitude works better

Alex A.

03:15

> public

Quill

Making side rooms when you need to have serious discussions

Doorknob

@AlexA. oh I can't read

Hosch250

Yeah, interesting discussions get killed all the time in the 2nd because a room owner sends us to the other room.

Most of the regulars stay out of that room.

Alex A.

@Quill I made a side room for people who actually want to discuss golfing code and it keeps freezing because nobody uses it. :P

10

Hosch250

I use it as a Dilbert feed.

Quill

03:16

@AlexA. I meant like specific events, like meta posts or whatever. but that's hilarious

Hosch250

Dishes time, see y'all later.

Quill

@Hosch250 o/

Doorknob

@Hosch250 o/

Alex A.

@Hosch250 o/

Maltysen

@Hosch250 o/?

Calvin's Hobbies

03:18

@Hosch250 \o

Alex A.

I can't believe you've done this

2

Doorknob

too bad @GamrCorps isn't here for his trademark o? :P

Alex A.

Ah fuck. I can't believe you've done this.

►

@Doorknob Hah I was just thinking that :D

Quill

some stats on chat flags would be good for 10k users

in JavaScript on Stack Overflow Chat, 19 mins ago, by rlemon

Doorknob

wut

Alex A.

03:23

^

Quill

pizza

Doorknob

I... see that, yes

Ashwin Gupta

I dont get Quil's picture.

Doorknob

43 secs ago, by Quill

pizza

:P

Ashwin Gupta

Oh.

LOL

Now i see it.

Do the chatrooms have like rules on SE?

I have never actually been in one really. I just joined since I was looking at doorkobs profile after viewing one of his answers.

PhiNotPi

03:26

I just started a new Dwarf Fortress world.

Doorknob

@AshwinGupta Some of them do. This one is pretty lax, though; pretty much anything is on-topic. :P

Ashwin Gupta

Whats the topic?

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

I am ashamed. Jolf is the probably the most verbose golfing language ;-;

Doorknob

@AshwinGupta In theory, "General discussion for codegolf.stackexchange.com "

In practice, anything and everything

2

Ashwin Gupta

I can't imagine that codegolf includes pizza xD.

okay got it

Doorknob

03:27

@AshwinGupta Precisely. :P

Ashwin Gupta

Okay well bye

Doorknob

Oh, there are a few chatroom-wide rules, though, but nothing out of the ordinary: chat.stackexchange.com/faq

@AshwinGupta Bye!

Ashwin Gupta

I was just dropping in.

Maltysen

@AshwinGupta don't leave us....

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

Your solution has O(n^2) space complexity. Need to do better — Kshitij Jain Oct 6 '13 at 3:54

Alex A.

03:29

@AshwinGupta Thanks for stopping by! You're welcome to join us in here any time. :)

@Doorknob You and I are absolutely dominating the starboard at the moment.

Doorknob

Haha, everything except Martin's pinned message

My pinned message still has my old username. Just realized that. o.o

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

Hurry, star this message. Equality!

2

Doorknob

Speaking of which...

@DanTheMan @phase @Hurricane996 @LuisMendo, got your time capsule entries

Alex A.

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ equality status-declined

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

status-freaking-accepted

Alex A.

03:32

>:O

Maltysen

@AlexA. for the non-mods!!!

Ashwin Gupta

The title of this question cracks me up: codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/69354/…

Alex A.

@AshwinGupta Me too XD

Ashwin Gupta

I dont know if you all have seen it yet.

Doorknob

@AshwinGupta :D

Ashwin Gupta

03:33

I dont know what I expected.. I have to admit though I was a bit disapointed when I found out what it actually was.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@AshwinGupta me too :"D

Calvin's Hobbies

oh, I see

Doorknob

@Calvin'sHobbies I'll tell you a secret

I'm not actually a doorknob :O

I know, hard to believe

Quill

NO wAY

Doorknob

But it's true

Alex A.

03:35

OH GOD DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT THIS MEANS

Ashwin Gupta

Hey wow. One of the answers to my question is nominated as best answer of 2015. meta.codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/8007/… (diamond puzzles).

Quill

whoops backward case

Ashwin Gupta

Too bad I can't actually understand his answer since I don't know Jelly LOL

Quill

Come on @Doorknob, @Alex is actually a bird, and Martin is actually (not) butter. Why can't you assimilate too?

Doorknob

@Quill What? Really?! I can't believe he's not Büttner!

Calvin's Hobbies

03:36

@Doorknob You're attached to a gate not a door, aren't you?

Alex A.

@Doorknob grooooooaaaaan

Ashwin Gupta

@AlexA. thank you

Quill

@Doorknob somebody should've bought him a tub

Alex A.

@AshwinGupta For what?

Ashwin Gupta

for the groan.

Alex A.

03:37

Oh haha

Doorknob

@Calvin'sHobbies I might not even be attached to an immobile object. :O

@AlexA. heh :D

Ashwin Gupta

So I guess by all of this logic I am the planet mars?

Calvin's Hobbies

(no one is going to make watergate jokes? :/)

Alex A.

@AshwinGupta Yes!

Doorknob

@AshwinGupta Are you saying that you're not?

I personally find that very doubtful

Ashwin Gupta

03:38

@Doorknob dont be silly, see the little earth in the background? I am the planet earth.

Doorknob

ah, okay, makes complete sense

Ashwin Gupta

Ok now I got to go for real.

Bye.

Doorknob

See you later (if you do stop by again)!

Ashwin Gupta

I like this room though I'll come back soon enough

Doorknob

\o/

Ashwin Gupta

03:39

Yeah maybe tomorrow or something. Next time I log on for a golf

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@AshwinGupta I'm still rather surprised that Jolf made the list.

@AshwinGupta bye!

Ashwin Gupta

cya!

Quill

So, I know the factor of low questions per day is the only underperforming factor on PPCG as far as A51 is concerned, but have the CMs actually given a PSA or a How is code golf doing meta post?

Maltysen

bye!

Doorknob

@Quill no, which is why @AlexA. made his recent meta post

Well... yes, but a long time ago

Alex A.

03:40

Almost 2 years ago now.

Doorknob

Since then, they have had pretty much zero communication with us though

Quill

I would seriously consider pinging a CM and asking what the chocolate brownie fudge is going on

Doorknob

That's what Alex posted on meta for

I may consider poking a CM in TL with those exact words though

Quill

meta != CMs will see it

but yeah

Doorknob

In theory, CMs watch over per-site metas

In theory...

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

03:42

Just how, in theory, we have a topic.

Quill

Like raspberry pi is underperforming two of its criteria even out of grad

Doorknob

The A51 criteria don't matter

at all

not even a little

Alex A.

@Doorknob What about QPD?

Calvin's Hobbies

Yes, a little

Doorknob

@AlexA. A51 says 5 is enough. 5 isn't enough.

Alex A.

03:44

Ah.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

All that matters is that we have this place, that we have each other. That we continue to "put off life" for this place.

#Hippy

Quill

Like, I get that Winterbash is important, and that graduating sites in the middle of grad is important, but two years since a PSA is crazy

Doorknob

We don't even have site self-evals

Quill

I shed a tear for you, my code-brethren

@Doorknob wat?

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@Quill Your tear is well-appreciated, former hat maniac.

Doorknob

03:47

@Quill All beta sites (except PPCG and previously CR) routinely have self-evaluation queues, where users can figure out how well they're doing in important aspects of the site.

For example:

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Q: Let's get critical: May 2015 Site Self-Evaluation

We all love Puzzling Stack Exchange, but there is a whole world of people out there who need answers to their questions and don't even know that this site exists. When they arrive from Google, what will their first impression be? Let's try to look at this site through the eyes of someone who's ne...

Quill

maybe it's just easier to evaluate sites where there's like no comments back asking for things

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

g'night guys

Thomas Kwa

Hey everyone

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

XD

Oh well, one lost, one gained ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Calvin's Hobbies

Thomas == Conor sleep-coding confirmed

Thomas Kwa

03:52

I just won an old challenge, to which the shortest answer was 34 bytes, in 18 bytes

Calvin's Hobbies

Whats a good way to force yourself on a different sleep schedule?

El'endia Starman

Lose sleep.

Disclaimer: hasn't worked terribly well for me.

Quill

@Calvin'sHobbies go swimming during the day

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@El'endiaStarman doing that

El'endia Starman

Hypothetical: suppose in the language X I develop, I make it possible to create two variables x and y such that y = 2x....and y updates when x changes. Automatically. When would this not be a good thing?

And, when would it be a good thing?

Quill

04:03

you're asking about side-effects of variable setting?

El'endia Starman

I guess?

Quill

You can do that in C# with getters and setters, but it's not the best to have side effects as the code should exhibit what's it doing and not be shady, even to those maintaining it

El'endia Starman

Well, I mean as a built-in feature.

I feel like it could be really convenient in some cases.

Quill

I suppose... you can link two setters together

El'endia Starman

Yeah, it'd probably be best to state it explicitly. Like \link(x,y=2*x).

Quill

04:07

var o = {}, b = 3;
o.__defineSetter__('value', function(val) {
    o.value = val; b *= val;
});

o.value = 5; console.log(b); // 15

in JavaScript it would look like that

El'endia Starman

If you then do o.value = 2, console.log(b) will not give 6, but rather 30...right?

Quill

3 * 2 = 6

El'endia Starman

But you're doing b *=.

I'mma try it.

Quill

that just applies it to the variable

El'endia Starman

Actually, I got an error: Uncaught RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded(…)

Quill

04:12

whoops, in the example o.value = val; should be this.value = val

Otherwise it would call itself

LOL

El'endia Starman

Nope, same error still.

Quill

var o = {}, b = 3;
o.__defineSetter__('value', function(val) {
    this.val = val; b *= val;
});

o.value = 5; console.log(b, o.val); // 15, 5

El'endia Starman

Aaaand I was right. b is 30 after doing o.value = 2.

Try it.

Quill

Doorknob

that's a little scary :P

El'endia Starman

04:23

Now do o.value = 5 after that, and look at b again.

Quill

yeah, I knew that

I thought you meant the first time :P

@Doorknob side effects aren't only things you see on horrible webmd articles

El'endia Starman

16 mins ago, by El'endia Starman

But you're doing b *=.

Quill

Yeah, I thought you meant the first time, like 2 * 3 not 2 * 5 and then * 3.

I read your messages wrong:P

El'endia Starman

right

gotcha :P

Anyway, such a thing could be useful. For instance, in my Variations of Life thing, I have to "manually" update all of the blocks when the grid changes. If that was a feature of the language, that could/would be very convenient.

And I agree that unexpected side-effects would be quite undesirable, so I'd make it an explicit choice.

Quill

You could make it a special syntax for them though

El'endia Starman

04:30

I could.

But what?

Quill

or limit it to sibling elements with specific attributes

IDK how you're structuring your language

is it a eso lang or actually readable?

El'endia Starman

.....it should be both, actually.

Gimme a simple problem that's a bit more complex than "Hello world!".

Quill

Uh, FizzBuzz

El'endia Starman

That'll do.

\printLines( \map( 1..101, \if( _%15 == 0 : 'FizzBuzz' ; _ % 3 == 0 : 'Fizz' ; _ % 5 == 0 : 'Buzz' ; _ )))

Quill

interesting

El'endia Starman

04:37

Actually, it'd probably be more like that ^^

Quill

I guess something like \set(_, (_ * 3)) or something similar for side effects

hmm, idk

El'endia Starman

In a sense, yeah.

I don't fully know how it's gonna happen. I've been letting the ideas stew in my mind.

I wrote a gist on a few of those ideas a while back...lemme find it.

link

Huh, I have this example: \map(\square(,[1,2,-5,8,3]). I'd rather write that as \square([1,2,-5,8,3]). It's the most sensible possibility.

Quill

interesting

GamrCorps

@Doorknob I dont want to talk about that...

Alex A.

o?

TanMath

04:46

hello guys!

Yay! 6 upvotes for this answer:

6

A: Spoonerise words

Python 2, 364 352 269 251 bytes EDIT: Thanks so much to @Cyoce for helping me golf 83 bytes! Please help me golf this! Anyway, at least I am the first Python answerer. And I hope I can beat Java, if there ever is a Java answer! i=input() f=l='' A='aeiou' for j in A: I=i[0];J=I.find(j) if ~J:...

I am so proud of it...

highest score answer for me!

thanks all!

Quill

oh hey, I did my first answer on that question

that was fun

TanMath

good golfing...

you got an upvote!

Quill

I managed to get it down to less than 100 bytes, but the solution was messy as hell

El'endia Starman

@Quill Muahaha, the conversion has begun... *ahem* Cool! :D

Quill

and doesn't even run in strict mode (it uses with)

ՊՓԼՃՐՊՃՈԲՍԼ

04:52

0

A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Phinomenal phractions Background As many of y'all may know, Phi, or (1+sqrt(5))/2, is the Golden Ratio, a number with a whole lot of interesting properties. One of these properties are its continuing phraction phorm, or 1+1/(1+1/(1+1/...)). This phinomenal pattern has earned Phi the reputatio...

TanMath

lol

El'endia Starman

@ՊՓԼՃՐՊՃՈԲՍԼ This isn't terribly different from Fibonacci.

ՊՓԼՃՐՊՃՈԲՍԼ

Hmm...

Quill

@El'endiaStarman good luck :P

El'endia Starman

Though there might be some numerator/denominator cancellation that happens...

@Quill If the solution is pretty, you either did fantastically well or horribly.

TanMath

04:55

-5

A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Make a search engine! code-golf Background You are now the first employee of DuckDuckGoogle, a company founded by a Google employee and a DuckDuckGo employee! They have a new vision for search engine! But obviously, they need to make a search engine first! However, they are bad programmers (n...

please help me fix it?

is it truly not interesting?

Quill

writing a scraper is a little, uh, not fun

TanMath

um

really?

so...nobody likes making search engines...huh?

Quill

Yeah, I've written like five or six full scrapers and they're not exactly a breeze

ՊՓԼՃՐՊՃՈԲՍԼ

@TanMath Well... nobody can really compete with Google, so...

TanMath

well, they aren't like full scrapers...

Quill

04:58

I'm not 100%, may want to ask others @TanMath

Sherlock9

Looks to me like that challenge has the fun-to-challenging ratio way off

TanMath

i made it much simpler than it was...

El'endia Starman

@Sherlock9 That's a good way to put it.

TanMath

what is difficult about it?

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