Nyan Cat is the name of a YouTube video, uploaded in April 2011, which became an Internet meme. The video merged a Japanese pop song with an animated cartoon cat with the body of a Pop-Tart, flying through space, and leaving a rainbow trail behind it. The video ranked at number 5 on the list of most viewed YouTube videos in 2011.
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On April 2, 2011, the GIF animation of the cat was posted by 25-year-old Christopher Torres of Dallas, Texas, who uses the name "prguitarman", on his website LOL-Comics. Torres explained in an interview where the idea f...
German declension is the paradigm that German uses to define all the ways articles, adjectives and sometimes nouns can change their form to reflect their role in the sentence: subject, object, etc. Declension allows speakers to mark a difference between subjects, direct objects, indirect objects and possessives by changing the form of the word—and/or its associated article—instead of indicating this meaning through word order or prepositions (e.g. English, Spanish, French). As a result, German can take a much more fluid approach to word order without the meaning being obscured. In English, a simple...
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How's PPCG doing? code-golf internet parsing
As some of you may know, we recently hit 10 questions per day, a big milestone for PPCG. To celebrate this, here's a simple challenge.
Challenge
Write a program that retrieves our Area 51 stats from http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/4570/cod...
In this code golf, you need to get the closest number from another one in a list.
The output may be the closest number to the input.
Example:
value: (Input) 5 --- [1,2,3] --- 3
And, the program may work with negative numbers.
Example:
value: (Input) 0 --- [-1,3,5] --- -1
value: (Input) 2...
Make a sentence continuous
Let's take the word add as an example. We say the word add is not continuous because the couple ad in the word is formed with letters that are not adjacent in the alphabetical order.
We can make add continuous by adding the letters missing between a and d in order, wh...
I've seen a few variations of submissions specifying the ECMAScript version of JavaScript, and this creates problems for leaderboard scripts since they end up being treated as different languages under the "by language" category.
Namely, for JavaScript ES5, I've seen:
JavaScript
ES5
JavaScrip...
