@ConorO'Brien I can't generate the alphabet in less than 20, and then I'd need another 19 to shuffle things around. I believe the above is the shortest approach (although it might be possible to golf off a few more bytes)
@ConorO'Brien anyway, I challenge you to print the alphabet in Retina in under 26 bytes :P (it's possible, but there is no feature specifically design to generate character ranges)
@wat In case you haven't noticed, Browsix is excruciatingly slow, you have to download every program you are going to use, and the Unix terminal (plain sh, not even bash) has 23 external commands.
While I won't deny that it's pretty cool, it's not a good platform for an online interpreter at this point.
Generate and print the first N superior highly composite numbers, where N is a number received as user input. The number will always be in the range from 1 to 30.
From Wikipedia:
A superior highly composite number is a natural number which has more divisors than any other number scaled relat...
At work we have funny nameplates on all of our rooms. One of them is says "Hugh Mann" but unfortunately the developer who owned Hugh Mann got fired, so we are talking about what to call the room. The room next to it is called (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ so the first suggestion was (ヘ･_･)ヘ┳━┳. You guys have any ideas?
@DJMcMayhem Can be shortened to "@wat are you talking about?"
I often hear the term "meta effect" on many meta SE sites. What is the meta effect? I have Googled it but can't find anything about it on any meta site.
Can someone who feels confident that they understand the difference between down votes and close votes maybe leave a comment on the question you guys are discussing to explain why you downvoted?
Because I'm reading it and it seems like a pretty cut and dry "generate this sequence". There are a ton of those and most of them at least stay at zero score or get upvoted.
Yeah... it's a pretty good example of why you should try to get it right the first time. It's much harder to get people to revert their downvotes than avoid them.
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ I don't follow. In any case, I seriously don't understand the definition, and I was seriously going to delete my answer until I realized I no longer could.
@TimmyD Yeah that's what I was thinking... My thought was that if you run it, it opens the applet window for you
so I don't need to assume it has focus
or is in the foreground
however If the color that originally should be displayed on that pixel has changed, your program should update in less than 0.5 seconds when the system is fast enough.
that part makes me wonder if i would need to do something if the applet ends up behind another window
basically i'm not flipping a pixel on the OS level; just the java applet level
@mbomb007 I saw you commenting on someone else's answer to that one. While I'm not sure the challenge specifies OS level explicitly do you feel the same way about my answer? I can delete if so
@DJMcMayhem It's "jif" because the creators said so. Anyone who claims that it should be pronounced "ghif" instead is arguing in favor that anyone should be able to call anything whatever they want regardless of how it's supposed to be, which means that I can call you jimbobwe instead of your name.
@GabrielBenamy No, it's an argument in favor of descriptivism. Which is essentially saying that "correct" is simply what people actually say rather than what an authority prescribes.
@Doorknob But GIF is a proper noun, so surely the author should have a say in how it's pronounced. Pronouncing it /gɪf/ is just as wrong as spelling it GUIF.
@Doorknob Let me get this straight - you're arguing it should be pronounced "ghif" not because it's better or anything, but just because a lot of people say it? By that token, "jif" is right because a lot of people pronounce it that way.
> Verifiers SHOULD NOT impose other composition rules (mixtures of different character types, for example) on memorized secrets. Verifiers SHOULD NOT require memorized secrets to be changed arbitrarily (e.g., periodically) unless there is evidence of compromise of the authenticator or a subscriber requests a change
@GabrielBenamy I'm not arguing for either side (I've always pronounced it with the <j> sound long before I even knew there was a debate). I'm just saying that "this pronunciation is objectively correct because this one guy said so" isn't a tenable argument.
And it's usually not taken in most games I play, which is nice.
You learn to appreciate weird last names when you get out of grade school. People see a name like that and remember it. And you never have to worry about the host at a restaurant saying "We already have a Smith. Can we get a different name?"
But in grade school you just become Rainbow, which is annoying.
@Dennis Well, I wouldn't consider GIF a proper noun in the same sense that I would a name. I'm not even sure I would call it a proper noun at all; it feels just like a "normal" noun to me (although I can't explain why).
@GabrielBenamy Well, in my dialect I pronounce "Andy" as [eəndiː]. Lots of people call me [ɑndiː], and I can't really say they're wrong in doing that, can I?
This question was profoundly inspired by Joe Z's question.
But, with a twist...
So, now that it's almost 2017, it's time for a code question involving the number 2017.
Your task is to make a program that counts up from 0, printing each number until it reaches 2017, where it stops. without usin...
The current system rewards writing documentation that is already covered by the official docs. Meanwhile, popular libraries without good official docs are undercontributed. The system is broken, and it needs fixing. This result runs counter to how Docs was pitched:
Q: What should be documente...
A keyboard so real, you can almost TASTE it.
... Not that you would, would you? The task is simple, output the following text:
____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ________
||` |||1 |||2 |||3 |||4 |||5 |||6 |||7 |||8 |||9 |||0 |||- |||= |||BS ||
||__|||__|||__||...
Generate and print the first N superior highly composite numbers, where N is a number received as user input. The number will always be in the range from 1 to 30.
From Wikipedia:
A superior highly composite number is a natural number which has more divisors than any other number scaled relat...
I often hear the term "meta effect" on many meta SE sites. What is the meta effect? I have Googled it but can't find anything about it on any meta site.
This question was profoundly inspired by Joe Z's question.
But, with a twist...
So, now that it's almost 2017, it's time for a code question involving the number 2017.
Your task is to make a program that counts up from 0, printing each number until it reaches 2017, where it stops. without usin...
The current system rewards writing documentation that is already covered by the official docs. Meanwhile, popular libraries without good official docs are undercontributed. The system is broken, and it needs fixing. This result runs counter to how Docs was pitched:
Q: What should be documente...
A keyboard so real, you can almost TASTE it.
... Not that you would, would you? The task is simple, output the following text:
____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ________
||` |||1 |||2 |||3 |||4 |||5 |||6 |||7 |||8 |||9 |||0 |||- |||= |||BS ||
||__|||__|||__||...
