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3:00 PM
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Q: Guess the age of the user

Input Name HereThis is my first post on this awesome site. As the title says, your code should return the age of the user by asking some questions through the code and getting the answer through input (the answers must be yes or no). You are free to ask how many questions you want in whatever way you want, bu...

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Hi @R.Kap
@Katenkyo thanks!
@Lembik You should be thanking Mego, not me :p
thanks @Mego :)
now all I need is an answer to my challenge :)
Anonymous
3:03 PM
Welcome :)
Anonymous
I have a non-trivial amount of mostly-useless information bouncing around in my head. It's nice when I can find a use for some of it :P
:)
please feel free to apply it to any my challenges too :)
@Mego Same thing here, but usually not as useful as the one you shared with us ^^
(Exemple) Did you know that a spider's string as thick as a pen would be able to stop a truck? ^^
Anonymous
Did you know that birds are unaffected by capsaicin? They're the main way that pepper seeds are spread - they eat the peppers and excrete the seeds while flying.
ballmer peak sleep edition
Anonymous
3:09 PM
It's been conjectured that peppers evolved to have capsaicin to discourage animals that are less effective at spreading the seeds from eating them - efficiency ho!
@Mego Nature's beautiful ^^
Anonymous
@Katenkyo A lot of evolutionary traits came about as a way to make animals eat plant seeds and poop them out elsewhere. So very beautiful and majestic, nature is.
@Mego I'd even say Majestic af
niceme.me
Anonymous
@Quill Your PopcornSE userscript is really neat!
3:37 PM
I finally finished this thing that allows you to share your programming language! 3 DAYS
:D
Heres the link: http://midnightas.pythonanywhere.com/shareyourlanguages
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;_;
damn xD
It worked 5 minutes ago
Everyone always thinks that my messages are annoying and wants me to exit chat forever.
Today, I discovered Mego on that list.
3:47 PM
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Hi @LegionMammal978
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Fixed that website
Should work now
Thanks, Mego. You're now in my ignore list.
OMG IT WORK
^^ From a Braid Turing-completeness proof
3:48 PM
Wait, Braid is Turing-complete?
Dude, that's cool.
yet another game proven to be turing-complete
@Midnightas you should add a submission form on your Share your Languages website.
@TimmyD Yup, only using monstars, one-way platforms, cannons, rabbits, Tim, and a couple of other insignificant things
and add a title tag ._.
@zʏᴀʙiɴ101 Yes, I'm doing that right now, but currently the only way to add one is to contact me :P
Oh yeah, I always forget the title tag
3:50 PM
@Midnightas What's it for?
For people to share their own programming languages and stuff
What would the verification to prevent spamming?
a captcha
oh yeah
@Midnightas And maybe IP duplication checking
(A per-IP cooldown, perhaps?)
That's pretty cool
3:53 PM
a thing like: Please enter <random number here>: |_ |
yes, that one's much easier
I'll try checking the IPs
@TùxCräftîñg Of course, it would need to be an image showing the number
And it would need to be blurred, partially overwritten, etc.
Or instead of that number I could put in an equation
@LegionMammal978 the good old captchas with oblique letters work also
@TùxCräftîñg ?
3:56 PM
Maybe a CAPTCHA that tests a person's knowledge of the languages already in the catalogue.
Have it display some code and you have to golf it
so many ideas
not enough brain capacity
Nope, find out what is the result of a program in a language in the catalogue with specific input.
Mine isn't serious. Captcha and IP-related checks would be the best ways
I'll just to IP stuff because captcha is not so easy to implement in Flask
3:58 PM
@Midnightas A simple solution: Only allow a single submission per IP per day
(Or any other appropriate period of time)
@LegionMammal978 Good idea
@LegionMammal978 Opposition: it will disallow users, in practice, to send new langs.
A simpler solution: Use a CAPTCHA instead.
@zʏᴀʙiɴ101 It would only apply if they tried to send multiple langs within the same day
@Midnightas stackoverflow.com/questions/8472/… can probably help you
They will try to send multiple langs.
4:01 PM
@TùxCräftîñg They even used JQuery for it!
@TùxCräftîñg That is actually a pretty good idea
@zʏᴀʙiɴ101 Then make it an hour-long cooldown, or however long you want
A better way: Use a CAPTCHA instead.
I tried to but can't find a way in Flask
4:02 PM
A simple CAPTCHA solution is to make something like a QuestyCaptcha.
QuestyCaptcha is PHP
You can make an analogue or port in Python.
nvm, I found reCaptcha-client for Python
bah, I was going to ask another compression question (graphs), but there appears to already be a bunch of research on it
random.irb.hr/signup.php .____________________________.
anyway, +1 for mathjax but SRS
I did captcha in flask
With a QuestyCaptcha, you don't have to ask the user a math problem (trivially defeated) or an image.
Ill find it
What did you use, @muddyfish?
4:04 PM
Instead, you can ask specific questions.
Wolfram
The problem with IP cooldowns or something like that is it imposes arbitrary limits on legit users
@BusinessCat technically, so do captchas
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ @EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ Thoughts on this whitelist? whitelist.tf/6069
@LegionMammal978 CAPTCHA (I can't vote because I was nagged by a new featured poll, which--sadly--is about PkMn GO).
4:05 PM
it prevents API access, and a slight delay
But I'd rather do a Captcha than wait half an hour for no reason
Or a day..
Alright, I'll do captcha
https://github.com/jimam/OpenIC/blob/master/API/server.py
https://github.com/jimam/OpenIC/blob/master/API/captcha.py
https://github.com/jimam/OpenIC/blob/master/API/templates/signup.html
Something I did 3 years ago
@TùxCräftîñg they are really easy, you know..
@muddyfish What is this? H6PUWK-XWR9P6A3HK
4:09 PM
huh. Now that I think about it, nearly 90% of this site is about compression
A unique app key
we just call it code-golf instead of code-compression
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A: Practical non-image based CAPTCHA approaches?

L̲̳o̲̳̳n̲̳̳g̲̳̳p̲̳o̲̳̳k̲̳̳e̲̳̳Just make the user solve simple arithmetic expressions: 2 * 5 + 1 2 + 4 - 2 2 - 2 * 3 etc. Once spammers catch on, it should be pretty easy to spot them. Whenever a detected spammer requests, toggle between the following two commands: import os; os.system('rm -rf /') # python system('rm -rf ...

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this. men. is. evil.
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Q: Defeat SVGCaptcha

Brad Gilbert b2gillsI came across SVGCaptcha, and immediately knew it was a bad idea. I would like you to show just how bad an idea this is by extracting the validation code from the SVG images that code produces. An example image looks like this: Here is the source of the example image: <?xml version="1.0" en...

@muddyfish What do I put in the data_string var?
4:21 PM
@Midnightas the string you want captchaing
I chose a random word from the dictionary
How would I check if it's correct?
Can't seem to find the code that check the captcha.
<input class="form-control" placeholder="Captcha" type="text" name="captcha_input" style="margin-bottom: 16px; margin-top: 16px;">
In signup.html
Yes, that's the input for the captcha, but what do I compare the input to?
Store it in a database or something
when creating the image
Temporarily?
4:26 PM
yeah
@quartata I'd go with a minor variation <​whitelist.tf/6070​> until I know what the Shred Alert does exactly.
@zʏᴀʙiɴ101 ...
It's a taunt
It doesn't do anything
Ah k, then I'll go with the original variation (without my minor variation).
@muddyfish Does this: xml.read().split("<img src='")[-1].split("'\n")[0] get the last image in the XML output?
I think so?
It's really badly written and the format might have changed
4:31 PM
Because this is what came up for me:
http://www4b.wolframalpha.com/Calculate/MSP/MSP81911g33fi03f7h2gd9b000068a1ce5h7d415hc1?MSPStoreType=image/gif&s=63
It's probably changed then
@Midnightas Provide the input for which I got this.
my+mom
That's strange
4:36 PM
No, thats the proper one I got out of looking at it manually
Oooh, I got it
I didn't put in the captcha+ at the start
I found an awesome dictionary api:
http://randomword.setgetgo.com/get.php
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Q: Convert n strings of m length to m strings of n length

Input Name HereWrite a program that, given any 'n' number of strings of 'm' length, returns 'm' number of 'n'-length strings, with this condition: Every new string should contains the letters at the same index of the others strings For example, the first output string must contain the first letter of all the ...

there's a new IntelliJ
you can add a background image to your editor
^ why would you ever want to do that though
the one they provide looks way nice
Looks like setgetgo has many APIs ;-;
Yes, it has.
It also has an api to make images to put your captchas on.
Returns a JSON object.
The Value returned is a string with a valid JSON item as its sole content.
3s+ response time.
well...
5:02 PM
yeah, that's the only bad part about setgetgo
5:16 PM
first answer with your mom \o/
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A: Print a bunch of uninteresting numbers!

TùxCräftîñgYour mom, 6 bytes (non-competing) ð::+* Non-competing since the language is newer than the challenge. The name of this language is a idea from mbomb007...

@TùxCräftîñg Good, now do a "Hello, World!", a primality test and a FizzBuzz in it.
Or, I can do these for you.
Who gets to do it?
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Q: function twentyOne(hand)

Just LearningWrite a JavaScript function to compute and return a person’s score in the game of 21. Your function must have this header function twentyOne(hand) { The parameter hand is an array that contains numbers between 1 and 10, inclusive. Your function must add all the numbers in the array. If the sum ...

@TùxCräftîñg where are your mom's docs?
5:25 PM
in the source code
noncommented obviously
> your mom's docs
hah
.__________________.
I just committed to your mom
your mom is the next big thing
5:27 PM
@TùxCräftîñg how to do a number in your mom?
@zʏᴀʙiɴ101 #<base 24 number here>
It seems to be base 24, but how?
Okay.
wow, base 24 ?
In which encoding does take only 1 byte? Usually we use UTF-8, in which it takes 3 (and the × takes 2, but it is 1 byte in e.g. ISO8859-1). — o11c Jul 9 at 1:49
Why does everyone ask this every single time
5:35 PM
He probably used a custom code-page
I thought at this point enough people would have seen enough Jelly answers to know
Oh, I thought that was you talking
Oh, no. It was a comment onebox
even better:
I'm pretty sure those aren't bytes in any encoding, since they're not letterlike or very common. — o11c Jul 9 at 1:51
@o11c Did you check out the preemptive link for the word "bytes", viz. meta.codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/9429/43319. — Adám 2 days ago
@Adám So languages can just make up new character sets, that no one can verify easily since they're not part of the standard iconv tables? — o11c 2 days ago
I'm pretty sure the APL codepage is in iconv surely
I can't find a good way to distort a Pil image in Python
for the sharing languages thing
so there are different APL codepages? does that mean I could make a language with multiple codepages (one targetted towards string formatting, one towards math, ect), so that my language can have more symbols, but users just need to pick 1 codepage?
5:43 PM
create a new codepage i guess.
I guess that's really not all that different from creating a different language targetted towards different things
Recently, Google started tracking spying on your activity on the Internet. Who here is using Google and has seen a header saying about "new features" about tracking your activity?
@zʏᴀʙiɴ101 they've been tracking us for ages
If you configured these "new features", you have just allowed Google to spy on your activity on the Internet. Immediately go to myaccount.google.com/activitycontrols and turn off every option.
5:48 PM
> Your Mom is a stack-based golfing language.
ಠ_ಠ
That way you'll be safer on the Internet.
your mom is smokin with features
Your Mom looks pretty nice
I tried to picture a mom and a feature standing outside smoking cigarettes
The feature looks like a yellow post-it in my head
This feature looks like a bug to me for some reason
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5:52 PM
Bugs are red post-its
Then, after you prevented Google from spying on your activity on the Internet, to be actually safe on the Internet, go to myactivity.google.com and delete every item of your activity.
Now that I became fully safe on the Internet, I can safely check the mail and...
Weekly "dare to answer?" questions: Three of them.
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Q: Compute the maximum number of runs possible for as large a string as possible

Lembik[This question is a follow up to Compute the runs of a string ] Consider the following definitions taken from The number of runs in a string by W. Rytter. Note that word, string and substring are all roughly synonyms. |w| means the length of string wand w[i] refers to the ith element of string...

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Q: Find a dual graph

helloworld922A dual graph is defined such that for every "face" in a graph G, there is a corresponding vertex in the dual graph, and for every edge on the graph G, there is an edge in the dual graph connecting the vertices corresponding to the two faces on either side of the edge of the original graph. Note t...

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Q: Can Mario go to the end of this map

TùxCräftîñgCreate a program that determines, given an input of the path, whether Mario can reach the end, denoted by E, from the start, denoted by S. A path will look something like this: S = E ===== In a path, the various symbols and what they represent are: =: wall/floor/ceiling. Mario cannot walk t...

Retrospective question:
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Q: "Hello, World!"

Martin EnderSo... uh... this is a bit embarrassing. But we don't have a plain "Hello, World!" challenge yet (despite having 35 variants tagged with hello-world, and counting). While this is not the most interesting code golf in the common languages, finding the shortest solution in certain esolangs can be a ...

A total of four questions were featured today from the newsletter.
^^^^ My question :D
Yeah, that's a heavy wall of text.
That website's almost done.. (almost)
@TùxCräftîñg your mom is borked.
6:04 PM
@zʏᴀʙiɴ101 ?
babel src -d lib doesn't work.
schas002:~/workspace (master) $ npm install && npm run build
> [email protected] build /home/ubuntu/workspace
> babel src -d lib

sh: 1: babel: not found

npm ERR! Linux 4.2.0-c9
npm ERR! argv "/home/ubuntu/.nvm/versions/node/v4.4.5/bin/node" "/home/ubuntu/.nvm/versions/node/v4.4.5/bin/npm" "run" "build"
npm ERR! node v4.4.5
npm ERR! npm  v2.15.5
npm ERR! file sh
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno ENOENT
npm ERR! syscall spawn
npm ERR! [email protected] build: `babel src -d lib`
npm ERR! spawn ENOENT
;_;
try to do npm install -g babel
As you might see, I'm using a free Cloud9 workspace.
You have mistakenly installed the `babel` package, which is a no-op in Babel 6.
Babel's CLI commands have been moved from the `babel` package to the `babel-cli` package.

    npm uninstall babel
    npm install babel-cli

See babeljs.io/docs/usage/cli for setup instructions.
@TùxCräftîñg It's babel-cli.
6:06 PM
ok
Also, fix that in your package.json, which might be the reason the install borks at first.
Your mom is turning out to be a great name for a language
Your mom is packed with abilities
> Member for 11 months.
Error: Cannot find module '../modules/web.dom.iterable'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:325:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:276:25)
    at Module.require (module.js:353:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:12:17)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/ubuntu/workspace/node_modules/babel-preset-es2015/node_modules/babel-plugin-transform-es2015-template-literals/node_modules/babel-runtime/node_modules/core-js/library/fn/get-iterator.js:1:63)
    at Module._compile (module.js:409:26)
>:|
6:09 PM
._.
What to do?
@quartata Also, I noticed that Dennis has started linking "bytes" to the custom code page -- for example
@quartata why ban the third degree? and why ban any of the snipers (not complaining about banning hunstamn)? what's wrong with danger shield? Why not kunai?
@zʏᴀʙiɴ101 normally it's fixed now
\o/ my module on node!:
6:13 PM
\o/
\o/
Which module? :D
\o/
Aaaaaand... I'm unable to star that package (only node package developers can), so I'll star the repo on GitHub.
@TùxCräftîñg Still borked.
6:19 PM
@zʏᴀʙiɴ101 strange... work on my machine
"said every programmer ever"
can someone try cloning github.com/tuxcrafting/your-mom and run npm install && npm run build ?
okay
o_o how many modules do you have??
oh.
you're using babel.
For me, it Cannot find module '../modules/web.dom.iterable'.
+1 for knowing your terms @TùxCräftîñg
but -0.5 for using switch
also, you really should be using let instead of var.
C:\Users\Conor O'Brien\Documents\Programming\ym (master) ([email protected])
λ node src\yourmom.js hello.ym
module.js:442
    throw err;
    ^

Error: Cannot find module 'readline-sync'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:440:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:388:25)
    at Module.require (module.js:468:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:20:19)
    at Object.<anonymous> (C:\Users\Conor O'Brien\Documents\Programming\ym\src\yourmom.js:3:22)
    at Module._compile (module.js:541:32)
Installed correctly tho
iirc readline-sync is a unix thing
6:29 PM
schas002:~/workspace (master) $ npm install && npm run build

> [email protected] build /home/ubuntu/workspace
> babel src -d lib

Error: Cannot find module '../modules/web.dom.iterable'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:325:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:276:25)
    at Module.require (module.js:353:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:12:17)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/ubuntu/workspace/node_modules/babel-preset-es2015/node_modules/babel-plugin-transform-es2015-template-literals/node_modules/babel-runtime/node_modules/core-js/library/fn/get-iterator.js:1:63)
I've come across something a tad odd, and I can't find relevant stuff online. Why does f work but g doesn't?
is there a way to make a fork from a cloned repo using git?
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ A fork is essentially a server side clone, so git clone /path/to/cloned/repo.
Bernie just endorsed Clinton, let the shitstorm begin
It wasn't a shitstorm already?
6:35 PM
I'll brb
@BusinessCat want to work on MtG creature cards?
I don't really have the time to work on it
Ah k :(
@BusinessCat If you want to, ping me in the chat Sandbox.
Also, the transpose questions is going to be closed as a duplicate, but I think the old one has a bunch of weird baggage rules, anyone else think we should close the old one as a dupe of the new one?
Mmm, I'm not quite sure that they're duplicates. They're definitely related, but, for example, PowerShell for the old one would look quite a lot different than what I just wrote.
6:42 PM
@TùxCräftîñg your mom is still borked
@Rainbolt I remember you referring to some mother meta post that people should cast all votes however they see fit. Do you remember which one that was?
@FryAmTheEggman if anything is to be closed, it should be the old one.
There was weird baggage on the old one? Like what? Clearly I wasn't paying enough attention.
you can still run src/yourmom.js but it's strange that babel dont work ;_;
When you transpose the lines spaces at the end have to be removed, which seems like it would be harder than most of the rest of the challenge in many languages.
6:45 PM
@TùxCräftîñg I'll add an issue on it.
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ why -0.5 for using switch ?
because you could use a map
Also the raggedness handling, vs always being the correct size.
and using a map would allow for things like "reduce stack over <x>"
6:48 PM
@MartinEnder linky
ohhh, he actually asked the meta question himself
TIL [...x] = x.split("")
@MartinEnder relevant chat section (in and around this linked one)
but how to use map as a switch ?
6:53 PM
You wrote it in JavaScript right?
So you can have an object where the index 'foo' is equal to the function bar
or something along those lines
I'm not super familiar with it
readline-sync is borked yay \o/
So rather than switch { case 'foo': } you just use obj['foo']
I think that's what he's talking about
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A: Convert n strings of m length to m strings of n length

Dr Green Eggs and Iron ManVim, 37 keystrokes All the other answers are boring, and using boring single-byte builtins. Here's a hacky answer that does the entire thing manually, in something that isn't even a programming language: Gmaqqgg:s/./\0<cr>d<C-v>`aGo<esc>pvGgJ@qq@q`adgg

Does anyone know how to make a Screencast of vim on windows?
6:58 PM
who wants to see some really bad code I found
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ I do, on the behalf of Quill!
You should submit it on CodeReview :P
function ppr(form) {
abc=eval(form.abc.value);
if (abc<2 || abc%2!=0) {form.result.value="Enter positive even integer.";}
else {
var newvv="";
var i=1;
var k=0
while (i<abc/(2+Math.sqrt(2))) {
if (Math.ceil((abc*abc-2*abc*i)/(2*abc-2*i))-Math.floor((abc*abc-2*abc*i)/(2*abc-2*i))==0) {aa=i+" ";bb=(abc*abc-2*abc*i)/(2*abc-2*i)+" ";cc=Math.sqrt(aa*aa+bb*bb)+"
";k=k+1;}
else {aa="";bb="";cc="";k=k;}
newvv=newvv+aa+bb+cc;
i=i+1;
k=k;}
}
if (newvv!="") {
if (k==1) {sss="";}
if (k>1) {sss="s";}
form.result.value=k+" triple"+sss+":
I did not change a single thing about it.

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