The Nineteenth Byte

Maltysen

01:00

wait nvm

mınxomaτ

@HelkaHomba Where is the stream on that?

Helka Homba

@mınxomaτ Show up dead center for me. cbsnews.com/live also streaming it.

mınxomaτ

@HelkaHomba For cnn.com: not outside the use (at least, here). The CBS stream doesn't load at all for me.

Helka Homba

twitch.tv/feldecot

mınxomaτ

nvm

Maltysen

01:05

@orlp but the decoding information is still just a frequency table, right (with your special info if you want)

Helka Homba

Lester Holt for president!

orlp

@Maltysen yep, the decoder has to mirror everything the encoder does

must pass in the exact same probabilities

(which is also why the implementation uses fixed point integers and not floating point)

you need bit-perfect accuracy, and floating point tends to not be consistent on different cpus

now...

I need a large amount of brainfuck code to analyse

Maltysen

@orlp ppcg?

quartata

SEDE is your friend

orlp

@Maltysen I lost the dump/scraping code I had

SEDE?

Maltysen

01:09

data.stackexchange.com

quartata

StackExchange Data Explorer

orlp

yeah but how do I find brainfuck code snippets?

quartata

You can write SQL queries. I'd look for the first <code> in answers that match <h\d>\s+(Brainfuck|brainfuck|bf|BF)

orlp

@quartata I've never used it before, can you do it forme?

quartata

not now but when I have time

DJMcMayhem

01:13

Does anyone have thoughts on this sandbox post?

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

When was this language released? code-challenge polyglot Your challenge is simple. You need to write a program that prints to either STDOUT or a file the year the language it is written in was released. Because this is such a simple task, the twist is that it must be written in as many differ...

(Sorry for sharing it several times, I'd just like to post it sometime soon, and it's a more unusual challenge)

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

@mınxomaτ ded for me

mınxomaτ

Yes. I noticed. Watching elsehwere now.

El'endia Starman

@orlp SEDE has a tutorial now.

orlp

the part I don't know

is how to do a regex match on body

noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC

No love for question asking for canonical method of doing basic DOM implementation

-3

Q: Function to check if element has any of these classes with native JS

<div id="test" class="a1 a2 a5"></div> var element = document.getElementById("test") if (hasAnyOfTheseClasses(element, ["a1", "a6"])) { //... } Looking for a simple, lightweight function to check if a function has any of the listed classes without jQuery or another library. Such function...

DJMcMayhem

01:20

If you're looking to post a canonical question, post your solution as an answer. Don't hide behind it as an excuse to get people to write code for you. — 4castle 18 mins ago

El'endia Starman

The 25 most common reply pairs.

Conor O'Brien

@DJMcMayhem I can't get past the score-by-year-amount

mınxomaτ

@HelkaHomba Twitch thing is dead, too.

They nuked the whole channel

El'endia Starman

I'm not sure how to group them so that A -> B and B -> A are added together.

DJMcMayhem

@ConorO'Brien OK thanks for the feedback. I was thinking about changing that already

Conor O'Brien

01:22

@orlp unwarranted...

orlp

@mınxomaτ everytime I see your profile pic I think of some interesting binary tree shape, but when I click on it it's just antlers :(

@ConorO'Brien no it isn't?

Conor O'Brien

it's rather mean

orlp

why?

did you even look at the context?

Conor O'Brien

yes

whatever.

DJMcMayhem

@El'endiaStarman first name is OP, second name is replier?

El'endia Starman

01:24

@DJMcMayhem Yes, I believe that's correct.

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

@orlp I think he means the use of what he considers to be an offensive term is unwarranted.

@Downgaot I just realized your name is mispelled...

lol

DJMcMayhem

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ hey at least he isn't wrong. :P

orlp

@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ that reveals an attitude that pretends offense is given rather than taken

Conor O'Brien

I need to get a regex replace in text extension so I can do s/goat/gaot

orlp

if he chooses to be offended at a mildly crude joke, so be it

quartata

01:27

Aluartataship confirmed??

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

@ConorO'Brien missing that last slash

@quartata oh god we do not need PPCG fanfics

Sherlock9

@quartata Come up with a better ship name and then we'll talk

Conor O'Brien

@orlp I'm not offended, I just don't think it's the best idea to toss around such terms in light of recent events.

Geobits

Ugh. Debate is painful so far.

DanTheMan

Out of the top 100 reply pairs, Alex A.. is the replier in 13.

DJMcMayhem

01:28

@Geobits ikr? I'm already fed up with it

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noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC

Debate summary from Coders begins now.

quartata

@Sherlock9 yeah it needs work

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

@quartata TBF, you could also have meglex/algo I guess.

noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC

So, @DJMcMayhem what is the debate? How much bloodshed? Did they get helicopters?

DJMcMayhem

@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ Downmayhem?

Geobits

01:29

I'd just turn it off, but the kid was interested, so we're being all educational and crap.

orlp

@ConorO'Brien ? I have nothing to do with those events, nor are those events related to people getting offended

Conor O'Brien

hey we have a code golf challenge for this

noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC

@Geobits, describe your mortal pain.

quartata

Alexknob

orlp

annoyance is not the same as offense

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

01:29

@noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC Yes, a lot, yes but trump broke his

DJMcMayhem

@noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC I watched about 5 minutes before giving up

I might watch a little bit more later on, just not right now.

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

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Q: Praming Puzles & Colf: Condense a String

Having spend some time on this site I have come to enjoy things being as short as possible. That may be the reason why I'm recently kind of offended by strings containing the same characters more than once. Your job is to write a function or program which condenses a given string according to the...

code-golf string

aha!

Sherlock9

@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ You could have gone with Algo ._.

Conor O'Brien

@orlp I don't feel in the mood for talking further on it. feel as you may.

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

@Sherlock9 aha!

@quartata @Sherlock9 qualex?

Sherlock9

01:31

I don't show up until you get to the first 200. I'm OP and Leaky is replier

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

Alexa Hamba

Sherlock9

@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ Could work

quartata

My solution to progruzzle and colf gives quartex

Sherlock9

@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ Or the older Alex's Hobbies

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

10/10

@quartata him, that sounds a bit better

noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC

01:34

It's a small but vibrant community at TNB :)

Conor O'Brien

Has trump actually said anything new during the debate? :/

DJMcMayhem

Am I the only one who found it very interesting that Trump has a blue tie and Hillary has a red dress?

DanTheMan

@ConorO'Brien Maybe one thing, but I couldn't tell you what it would be.

Conor O'Brien

@DJMcMayhem whoa

DanTheMan

@DJMcMayhem I'm listening to NPR, so I can't see them.

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

01:35

aha! The first recorded reply pair that occurs once is Geobits replying to Oberon.

DJMcMayhem

@DanTheMan Oh. Well, just so you know, Trump has a blue tie and Hillary has a red dress.

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

#8k

Helka Homba

@ConorO'Brien He just said he'd release his taxes if Hillary releases her deleted emails. I think that's new.

quartata

I'm not terribly surprised anyways considering Alex is 1st in messages and I'm 3rd

Conor O'Brien

@HelkaHomba I missed that XD

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

01:36

iirc i've heard that before

DJMcMayhem

@HelkaHomba That's hilarious

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

@HelkaHomba last time I checked trump's taxes weren't a state secret

PhiNotPi

I also think he pretty much just admitted to paying no federal income tax. "That makes me smart."

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DJMcMayhem

BTW @ConorO'Brien I changed the scoring method.

TY for star. :P

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

>_>

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Aug 21 at 23:54, by Dennis

Feature-request: Chat should stop moving when I'm trying to select someting. :P

El'endia Starman

01:37

#TNBfirstworldproblems - starring the wrong message because chat is moving too fast. :P

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

I'd like to think I foiled that star.

lol

DJMcMayhem

On a related note, does anyone know where I can find a leaderboard that ranks by highest score, not lowest?

noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC

Clinton admits the private email thing

Take full responsibility

wtg

Conor O'Brien

Aug 21 at 23:54, by Dennis

Feature-request: Chat should stop moving when I'm trying to select someting. :P

"Quartata + Alex => Quartex" :o

that sounds like a pain medication

Helka Homba

Also he replied "That makes me smart" to accusations of not paying any federal taxes by exploiting loopholes.

Conor O'Brien

01:39

ninja'd by, not the pi, but the phi

Sherlock9

@PhiNotPi This, gentlemen, is why every sitting government and every election process should have some sort of abort/reset/recount process

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Conor O'Brien

abortabortabort

mınxomaτ

Here's a licensed stream that works internationally, from NBC: youtube.com/watch?v=855Am6ovK7s . The CNN streams have been shut down.

noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC

Why CNN shut down?

mınxomaτ

Not their official stream, but other less legal ones. CNN doesn't work internationally.

Helka Homba

01:44

CNN still works for me

mınxomaτ

@HelkaHomba Well, are you in the US?

noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC

"Get your SuperLight today! Call Now! The number is 911."

Conor O'Brien

lol

DJMcMayhem

Does anyone know if it's possible to make a feed of posts in a particular language?

Helka Homba

@mınxomaτ yeah

New Main Posts

01:47

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Q: When was this language released?

Your challenge is simple. You need to write a program that prints to either STDOUT or a file the year the language it is written in was released. Because this is such a simple task, the twist is that it must be written in as many different languages as possible. Your score is the total number of...

code-challenge polyglot

DJMcMayhem

@NewMainPosts thanks!

mınxomaτ

@HelkaHomba So why does it matter that CNN works for you? I've just told you an hour ago that CNN does not stream internationally. My link is for people outside the US who want to watch a legal stream, because all 3rd party CNN stream are now down. The world is a bit bigger than America ;-)

Helka Homba

I know. Sorry I'm just barely following chat since I'm watching the debate

Dennis

And America is bigger than the US. :P

mınxomaτ

@Dennis Hah, I just waited for someone to say that :D

DJMcMayhem

01:54

@Dennis Do you think it would be wise to change the scoring method back?

Dennis

Personally, I'd resandbox it. It would be a shame to ruin a nice challenge with some unforseen loophole.

DJMcMayhem

But there are no answers yet. It wouldn't be too late to change it

Conor O'Brien

@Dennis I concur @DJMcMayhem

quickly delete it before I finish my epic thing

Dennis

Different years fixes that loophole, but there might be others.

DJMcMayhem

How do I know when it's ready?

Conor O'Brien

01:57

I never did get to see the revised score :P

I'd wait at least a few hours after each major change

Dennis

For unconventional scoring methods, I'd wait at least a week.

DJMcMayhem

:/ I wanna post it now. I do appreciate the feedback though.

Conor O'Brien

patience, young dj :p

DJMcMayhem

Young? I'm older than you are. :P

sigh. It's deleted now.

Conor O'Brien

how old are ya? 17? 18?

@DJMcMayhem thanks, that gives me time to debug reticular :P

DJMcMayhem

02:02

@ConorO'Brien The latter

Conor O'Brien

@Dennis Could you please pull reticular?

@DJMcMayhem nailed it. That makes you... senior in HS?

DJMcMayhem

Nope. I graduated early, and if I hadn't I would have graduated this spring.

Conor O'Brien

oh, cool!

Sherlock9

I'm 21 as of last Thursday. Where does that place me in the PPCG roster, I wonder? Near to the median?

DJMcMayhem

I think mean is 26.

PhiNotPi

02:04

The distribution is definitely skewed right.

DJMcMayhem

It's kinda frustrating to sit on what I think is a great challenge just because there might be some problems with it.

Sherlock9

I was thinking median

There seems to be a large number of PPCG people in their teens

So I would guess that the median is in the late twenties.

Downgaot

@ConorO'Brien I thought green eggs and ham was a pre-school thing :P

Conor O'Brien

@Downgaot green eggs are serious stuff. radioactive, y'know

Downgaot

O_O

You are green dragon. Does that mean you are radioactive dragon?

Conor O'Brien

02:12

I can be

PhiNotPi

@Downgaot No, it means he has an acidic breath attack and poison resistance.

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Conor O'Brien

hey I brush my teeth regularly

:P

Sherlock9

After modifying the SEDE query someone posted earlier, I have figured out that the mode is age 27. Still working on the median, because my SQL knowledge is more full of holes than Swiss cheese.

Downgaot

3

Conor O'Brien

@DJMcMayhem I feel like you should take into account the number of bytes for the polyglot

Downgaot

02:14

i found real picture of conor proving he is radioactive :P

Conor O'Brien

@Downgaot ._. why are you in my room

Downgaot

:|

Conor O'Brien

I only wear that in my room

DJMcMayhem

@ConorO'Brien how? What are you thinking?

Downgaot

@Sherlock9 Trying to find median in SQL is about most painful as coding gets

Conor O'Brien

02:15

@DJMcMayhem I mean, I could write a 2000byte monstrosity that had 50+ langs or something and win because no one else wants to put that much time into it

I was thinking something along the lines of number of bytes / (number of langs ^ N) for some N

and lowest score wins

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

@Sherlock9 OBTW skype told me it was your birthday

happy birthday

Conor O'Brien

happy bday sherl!

2

Sherlock9

Thanks :D

Downgaot

:O It's his birthday?

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

Cheryl's Birthday

Cheryl's Birthday is the unofficial name given to a mathematics brain teaser that was asked in the Singapore and Asian Schools Math Olympiad, and was posted online on 10 April 2015 by Singapore TV presenter Kenneth Kong. It went viral in a matter of days. The quiz asked readers to determine the birthday of a girl named Cheryl using a handful of clues given to her friends Albert and Bernard. == Origin == The question was posted on Facebook by Singapore TV presenter Kenneth Kong. The posting drew thousands of comments, including several humorous ones—many aimed at Cheryl who apparently didn't want...

Downgaot

02:16

Happy birthday @Sherlock9!!! (sorry about late birthday)

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

@Downgaot last thurday

Conor O'Brien

I read that as "last birthday" ._.

DJMcMayhem

@ConorO'Brien @EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ ninjad by five days

Sep 22 at 22:05, by DJMcMayhem

@Sherlock9 Happy birthday!

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

aha! I win by the time

Conor O'Brien

@DJMcMayhem ._. I even starred that

Downgaot

02:18

screw hillary and trump, we should all:

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Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

@DJMcMayhem

20:26 to 22:05

Conor O'Brien

"1 )"@@*n;
'6102'<;o

Pretty proud of this (><> + reticular)

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

what lang?

DJMcMayhem

@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ UTC bruh

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

polyglot?

@DJMcMayhem still win

Conor O'Brien

02:19

won't work until reticular updates on TIO

DJMcMayhem

CMC, C&R style: print the year your language was released, other users guess the language

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

2016

Sp3000

@ConorO'Brien I don't know the Reticular half, but {*n; can be used instead of @@*n;

Geobits

> My strongest attribute, I think, is my temperament.

^ Guess the speaker lol

Conor O'Brien

@Sp3000 reticular uses @@ as a conditional ternary mirror, so that's why that works. thanks though :D

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

02:23

@Geobits donald knuth

mınxomaτ

@Geobits Just burst out laughing. At 4:30 AM.

DJMcMayhem

I'll start. i0£€ where £ is 0x1b and € is 0x01 repeated 2016 times

Sp3000

@ConorO'Brien Ah, that makes sense now, nvm :P

DJMcMayhem

@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ FOG? :P

Conor O'Brien

I have nice gifs let me show you

confusedandamused

02:24

@Geobits my sister just tweeted that too

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

@DJMcMayhem no

Sherlock9

@DJMcMayhem @EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ is right. He has 3:26 am on my end and we already discussed how you were five hours into Friday

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

try again

@Sherlock9 :D

Sherlock9

DJ, that reminds, what timezone are you in again?

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

@confusedandamused hey there, what brings you to our chat?

@Sherlock9 mountain time, colorado iirc

1 hour ahead of me

DJMcMayhem

02:25

@Sherlock9 MST (8:25 PM right now)

Conor O'Brien

@Sp3000

Downgaot

The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.

Tweeted by realDonaldTrump on November 6, 2012 at 7:15 PM

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> Trump 2016: I did not say that

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

hahahaha

confusedandamused

Hello @EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ I've been hanging around here trying to get into code golf xD

Conor O'Brien

CMC: name a language that you are able to outgolf people in ~95% of the time.

Geobits

02:27

@Downgaot IIRC he was saying that earlier this year, too.

Downgaot

@Dennis Can you help me out with something?

Geobits

@ConorO'Brien Oh wait I think I misunderstood you >_>

Conor O'Brien

@Geobits yeah I was about to say

Downgaot

@Geobits yes, but this time he said it in front of the whole country.

Conor O'Brien

don't you have something against C#?

Geobits

02:28

@Downgaot I meant repeating the "it's a hoax thing" this year, not the denial.

Downgaot

oh

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

@confusedandamused :D welcome to PPCG then!

Geobits

> I would never take the first strike. But I can't take anything off the table.

confusedandamused

@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ Thanks! any tips are appreciated ;)

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

@ConorO'Brien im dennis sock jelly

Conor O'Brien

02:29

>_<

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

@confusedandamused welcome!

first tip: ask @ConorO'Brien how to learn Jolf

Sherlock9

After running the SEDE query on reported ages, I have mean of 30.77249, a mode of 27 and a median of 35.

Conor O'Brien

please don't its ill-documented

Helka Homba

Trump likes his superlatives...

DJMcMayhem

@ConorO'Brien out golfing the same language or different ones?

Sherlock9

02:30

All this by downloading the CSV and messing with the data in Excel rather than SQL

Downgaot

"Trump just criticized me for preparing for this debate. You know what else I prepared for? Being president." #DebateNight

Tweeted by HillaryClinton on September 27, 2016 at 2:01 AM

5

damn

Conor O'Brien

roasted

Sherlock9

applause

Conor O'Brien

@DJMcMayhem same language

Downgaot

:D top 4 items on starboard. I am on a roll

DJMcMayhem

02:31

@ConorO'Brien does V count if I'm the only person to have ever used it? :P

Conor O'Brien

also, Geobits, what does your bot know ._.

@DJMcMayhem I wrote this from memory does that count

Geobits

@ConorO'Brien You'd know if you had been monitoring the same time on your time.

DJMcMayhem

@ConorO'Brien It counts if you use that to answer a challenge. :P hint hint...

Conor O'Brien

@DJMcMayhem do I need to know vim to use it

DJMcMayhem

Technically no, but it would help.

I just meant answer the hello world challenge

Conor O'Brien

02:34

oh okay

El'endia Starman

@Downgaot Wow, that is on point.

Conor O'Brien

@DJMcMayhem I now use V

Sherlock9

Does Actually count if I'm basically the only person using it since Mego and Leaky semi-retired?

PhiNotPi

@ConorO'Brien why does that program seem to be so slow?

Conor O'Brien

@PhiNotPi it simulates vim I think

or opens it

@Sherlock9 yes

DJMcMayhem

02:38

@PhiNotPi long story short, v.tio intentionally runs slowly to avoid some weird timing bugs

Sherlock9

Then, Actually

DJMcMayhem

@ConorO'Brien opens. Simulating vim would take years for me to write.

Sherlock9

s/right/write/

DJMcMayhem

That's what I said.

:P

Sherlock9

Took you a minute to say it that way, though :P

Helka Homba

02:43

@mınxomaτ Maybe you tried but would twitter.com/i/live/778347749217406976 work? (The debate is over but still streaming)

mınxomaτ

@HelkaHomba Stream gives an error for me. NBC's still works: youtube.com/watch?v=855Am6ovK7s

~1 Mio. Viewers

Downgaot

Trump commented on how Hillary was vicious to him... I don't think he's in a position to call anyone vicious :P

Sherlock9

I think he's in a perfect position to call people names, and that position is an echo chamber

Sp3000

@ConorO'Brien Digging through Reticular source code and having trouble coming up with better than '11'8-*n$2016O;

quartata

@PhiNotPi Green dragons breathe poison gas not acid. Black dragons breathe acid.

DJMcMayhem

02:51

@ConorO'Brien well thanks, now you've made me want to start working on V again. :P

Dennis

@Downgaot Depends on the something. What's up?

@ConorO'Brien Done.

Conor O'Brien

@Dennis thanks!

@Sp3000 you are a wizard

wtf

my upvote was reversed on HW

Helka Homba

Either way you spin it, the debate was entertaining.

Sherlock9

If I modify the SEDE query to only allow users with rep > 101, I get a median of 22.5, a mode of 27 again and a mean of 30.24515

confusedandamused

@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ yeah I just dont know the first thing about code golf xD thats the main issue lol

Helka Homba

03:03

Hillary Clinton belongs in the White House. Donald Trump belongs on my show.

Tweeted by jerryspringer on September 27, 2016 at 2:55 AM

Wheat Wizard

Does any one know how to run Brainloller code? I wrote some code and I want to test it but I can't figure out how to work it.

DJMcMayhem

@confusedandamused The best way to learn is to right answers!

Or challenges too, but that's harder

confusedandamused

@DJMcMayhem While that sounds like a good idea it seems quite daunting to begin heh

DJMcMayhem

@confusedandamused What language(s) do you know?

confusedandamused

At work I use C#/.NET I've used Python/JS a good bit but not enough

@DJMcMayhem

DJMcMayhem

03:16

OK cool. Python and JS are both pretty popular for golfing.

Geobits

@confusedandamused You can also try some non-golf challenges first. That's how I got started here. I didn't even like golf much, but I got sucked in...

DJMcMayhem

This would be a nice relatively easy challenge to get started with:

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Q: Print/Output the L-phabet

Inspired by George Gibson's Print a Tabula Recta. You are to print/output this exact text: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ BBCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ CCCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ DDDDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ EEEEEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ FFFFFFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ GGGGGGGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ HHHHHHHHIJKLMNO...

code-golf kolmogorov-complexity

confusedandamused

@Geobits What sort of challenges (please don't say Project Euler lol)

DJMcMayhem

Code trolling probably, hahaha

Geobits

There are optimization challenges, image processing, king of the hill, etc.

confusedandamused

03:19

I've never heard of these @Geobits

@DJMcMayhem I've no idea how the guy came up with the C# answer lol

DJMcMayhem

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Q: Tips for code-golfing in C#

What general tips do you have for golfing in C#? I'm looking for ideas that can be applied to code golf problems in general that are at least somewhat specific to C# (e.g. "remove comments" is not an answer). Please post one tip per answer. -- borrowed from marcog's idea ;)

code-golf tips c#

Geobits

Look at the code-challenge tag for starters :)

confusedandamused

Funnily enouguh I just was at that link xD

Helka Homba

Why is "Donald Trump never voted to go to war" pertinent when as a citizen he had literally no opportunity to? Are you blaming Hillary for doing her job by voting while in congress? >:U @KatrinaPierson

Geobits

It's really hard for me to take anything she says seriously at the best of times. His spokespeople amaze me, tbh.

confusedandamused

03:35

What symbol is this η

ETHproductions

Eta

Eta (uppercase Η, lowercase η; Ancient Greek: ἦτα êta or Modern Greek: ήτα íta) is the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet. Originally denoting a consonant /h/, its sound value in the classical Attic dialect of Ancient Greek was a long vowel [ɛː], raised to [i] in hellenistic Greek, a process known as iotacism. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 8. It was derived from the Phoenician letter heth . Letters that arose from eta include the Latin H and the Cyrillic letter И. == History == === Consonant h === The letter shape 'H' was originally used in most Greek dialects to represent...

El'endia Starman

Hey @ConorO'Brien, you awake?

PhiNotPi

I'm awaiting an answer of "no"

Jonathan Allan

El'endia Starman

Hmm. Looks like you're probably in bed. Okay JavaScript people, let's say I have a variable x = "abc" and I want to construct a dictionary like d = {x: 5}. How can I make it so that d['abc'] is valid while d['x'] isn't?

ETHproductions

03:46

@confusedandamused Jolf uses a Greek character set; it's Greek letter eta

El'endia Starman

(I've thought of a workaround by now, but still, it'd be nice.)

ETHproductions

@El'endiaStarman Do you want something like d = {}; d[x] = 5;?

ASCII-only

@El'endiaStarman d={[x]:5} (ES6)?

ETHproductions

^ or that

El'endia Starman

@ETHproductions That's the work-around I thought of.

Jonathan Allan

03:47

Trinton...

or is it Clump?

El'endia Starman

Wordiness of the last 1000 messages.

Jonathan Allan

wedontdowords.

19thByte.

El'endia Starman

Wordiness of messages on 2016-09-26.

ETHproductions

@El'endiaStarman Ah, that's what you needed it for

El'endia Starman

@ETHproductions Yeah, pretty much. I originally had column names as magic strings in four separate places, and kinda got fed up with having to change them repeatedly.

ETHproductions

03:55

yup

So I guess this was the longest message yesterday

El'endia Starman

Apparently so!

ETHproductions

Related pet peeve: when clicking "see full text" reveals 5 hidden characters

El'endia Starman

Yeah, that's pretty annoying, isn't it? :P

ETHproductions

They should have a smart algorithm for deciding when to truncate messages :P

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