I feel like... Score based on golf language Answer written in golf language Explanation written in Python ... would be acceptable but... Score based on golf language Answer written in Python ... would be unnaceptable. Just my opinion.
Screw daylight savings time. I have no issue getting up at the new 7:00 AM - that took two days to gets accustomed to - but I am so hungry every day by the time the new 12:00 PM rolls around.
@NathanMerrill It's pretty simple: If there's a way to pass a 67-byte file to your interpreter to do what you want, your score is 67 bytes. Whether you invent a code page that displays these 67 bytes as emojis should not affect the byte count.
Which of the following two questions are you asking? I can't keep up. 1. Can I write in one language, but score it in my golfing language? 2. Can I write in emojis, and have each emoji count as one byte?
@NathanMerrill Doing that doesn't make your answer invalid, but it might attract downvotes. There is no hard line for downvotes. They're a personal choice.
Wait, so we decided it was okay to write in one language but score in another? And now we're discussing whether it would be frowned upon? Can we back up to the part about whether this is even valid in the first place?
Because I do not think that it fair. You have to score by the language you wrote in.
If you cheat and get the magnum before you teleport to Eli's lab in the beginning, you can kill Dr. Breen. "How did you get in—" POW! The game doesn't let you continue. You're stuck teleporting in his office forever.
@NathanMerrill Null character or null byte, depending on the context.
@AlexA. Reminds me of GTA 3. If you activated the riot cheat at any point, there was a mission (near the end of the game) you could not pass. You had to save a guy by placing a truck underneath him before he jumped from a building. While "rioting", he would jump immediately.
Oh, by the way (@El'endiaStarman), I had an insight as to how a chessolang (yes, I just did that) could be designed while on the plane. a.) Instructions could be redundantly encoded via a Hamming code or other error-correcting code: this would make it possible to encode an instruction even if you have a few forced moves along the way. (cont...)
b.) There should be multiple ways to encode any given instruction. For example, there should be a way to encode the "+" instruction with only king moves, but that would probably be hopelessly verbose for such a common instruction, so there could be a, say, KBN encoding of the "+" instruction as well.
@AquaTart visiting a cousin here, and just looking around
Currently, Jelly has a code page that maps Unicode characters to ASCII characters to avoid unprintables. Many of the characters used are multiple bytes (in UTF-8), but we score it as a single byte (as it represents a single byte, unprintable character).
Now, lets assume I write another "code pa...
My university is offering a special promotional item for free to its distance students. Should I pick a laptop bag, a set of four drinking glasses, or a blanket?
@AlexA. Me not having a laptop bag, I'd spring for that. I mainly echo what Zgarb says though. Extra blankets are a blessing in the winter if your heating doesn't work too well.
@Zgarb Sell the laptop bag for five pint glasses and a quilt!
I have a laptop bag and two similarly sized bags that function well as laptop bags... I also have so many drinking vessels that I've run out of places to put them. And we have a whole host of blankets. I don't really need any of these items but it's free.
@AquaTart I don't recall snacks. I do remember all we did was watch movies, because you could watch DVDs on Windows 7, and that was a big new feature, or somecrap.
753 pennies.
Doesn't look like it, huh? The median guess was 423.
56,032 people took the survey (wow). 42,035 respondents made a penny guess. 54 of you guessed correct. 37 correct guessers will be getting swag in the mail (they included a user link with their survey responses). 118 more of yo...
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ There's no reason to learn Objective-C unless you do Mac development, and even then I think you can do everything in Swift now that otherwise would have had to be done in Objective-C.
Apple people thinking it's a good idea to use brackets for methods, when it's unreadable and also three fucking key presses to write one on a mac keyboard
> 46% of developers don’t have a bachelor’s in computer science or a related field. So if you’re an employer requiring one of these degrees in order to consider a developer candidate, you may want to reconsider your strategy.
@NathanMerrill then again you can dodo just Huffman encode Jelly and get byte savings without having to write more interpreters than there are atoms in the universe
Currently, Jelly has a code page that maps Unicode characters to ASCII characters to avoid unprintables. Many of the characters used are multiple bytes (in UTF-8), but we score it as a single byte (as it represents a single byte, unprintable character).
Now, lets assume I write another "code pa...
753 pennies.
Doesn't look like it, huh? The median guess was 423.
56,032 people took the survey (wow). 42,035 respondents made a penny guess. 54 of you guessed correct. 37 correct guessers will be getting swag in the mail (they included a user link with their survey responses). 118 more of yo...
