There's not really much to do about it. It's possible they just upvoted all the answers to that question, not just yours in particular. Either way, the script will either catch it or not.
Yeah, and should probably count as one. The details of the serial detection aren't really public, but if it was a whole bunch, I'm guessing it will catch and reverse them.
Give it a day to see if they reverse before worrying about it, and if they don't (and you want to pursue the issue), bring it up with a mod here or on meta.
at least I'm not getting repcapped as much nowadays
if I was, randomly losing 65 rep that I'd earned on an earlier day would be a pretty big deal, and it would be better to have earned it from some other source instead
@ais523 You don't. The system either reverses it or it doesn't. Also, if those are all answers to the same question, I suspect it's just a well-meaning user that is fascinated by the thread. It is quite amazing.
What general tips do you have for golfing with regex? I'm looking for ideas which can be applied to code-golf problems and are some what related to NLP (regex), it can be of any language (e.g Python, R etc). The task should rely on algorithm rather than language.
Please post one tip per answer.
and it's easier to negate (or not) the values at the time you generate them, than it is later, so you typically pick true versus false based on which way round you need to do the test
@Dennis well, I was thinking more that, if policy is to never upvote an answer, wouldn't that imply the answer should be downvoted instead?
Not really, no. If a task can be solved with a single built-in, it's an easy challenge, so it will get easy answers. That's not the answer(erer)'s fault.
one problem I see is that the more difficult problems nearly always have very inefficient solutions as the shortest
"generate all potential answers and check to see if they match the spec" tends to win if the specification itself is shorter (in a language) than a remotely efficient algorithm to solve the problem would be
If it's the right challenge, and worded right, you can discriminate all you want without upsetting people. My highest voted [code-golf] question has only Python and C# answers, for example.
(although a really interesting thing happened in this challenge where Jelly, which is optimized for the direct algorithmic approach, ended up having a shorter generate-all-solutions solution because the challenge is very list-heavy and Jelly's fairly verbose on nested lists; whereas Brachylog, which is optimized for the describe-the-problem approach, ended up having a shorter solution stating the algorithm…)
that said, writing a palindromic quine in 7 was a lot of fun, but mostly because the palindrome was defined in chunks of 8 bits but the language is defined in chunks of 3 bits
The difference between quines and KC is that KC is (in general) "shorten this", which I guess I see as an extension of golfing itself. I don't know how quines are so interesting a mechanic to have so many challenges that are "make a quine (plus random thing)".
many early Malbolge programs worked around this by using non-ASCII comment symbols, because the official interpreter is buggy and doesn't verify them properly
I want to add button to content type then user can click this button and user date and time node status will be update to today
Any help in the right direction is greatly appreciated.
The Background Future
In the year 2017, you and your opponent will face each other off in a futuristic gun battle where only one player may survive. As a player, are you experienced enough to defeat your opponent?
The Futuristic Gun Duel
General rules
Each player starts with an unloaded gun ...
Hmm. Actually, I don't see the point of defending much. You can't win a point with defense at all, no matter what your opponent does. Yes, you can block plasma, but you could also do that by shooting plasma. If they're shooting a bullet instead, you'd be better off shooting plasma than defending.
There's no reason to let it roam freely though, a variable fitness value for winning and punishing losing gives the same benifits as just +1 for win -1 for lose.
The GunClubPlayer
Cut out from the original question. This is an example player that will participate in the gun duel tournament.
The GunClubPlayer likes to go to the gun club. During each duel, he would first load ammo, then fire a bullet, and repeat this process until the end of the w...
Seriously, this one is not called DumbBot, even though it is a dumb bot.
A number is awesome over another number if it is at least twice as larger as the other number.
Each bot has a signpost and a hammer.
[9]
O/
|-#
/ \
The signpost shows a number from 0000 to 9999 (four digits).
The hammer gets power to hit another bot if its owner's number is awesome over the other bot's number.
Each fight consists of n + 2 rounds, where n is an unspecified number, and 3 phases.
=== Start of Fight
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=== Phase #1: Regular
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--- Each bot sets their number, shows their number *simultaneously* (as will be the case in all other rounds.)
We often get restricted-source questions here on PPCG that favour submitting solutions using only a subset of characters (sufficiently so that there's a tag printable-ascii that identifies a particular subset of those challenges). Wouldn't it be nice if we could automatically cut languages down t...
And of course, these are all static bots, so can't respond to what the other is actually doing. So it won't spot patterns that more sophisticated ones might be able to.
What general tips do you have for golfing with regex? I'm looking for ideas which can be applied to code-golf problems and are some what related to NLP (regex), it can be of any language (e.g Python, R etc). The task should rely on algorithm rather than language.
Please post one tip per answer.
I want to add button to content type then user can click this button and user date and time node status will be update to today
Any help in the right direction is greatly appreciated.
The Background Future
In the year 2017, you and your opponent will face each other off in a futuristic gun battle where only one player may survive. As a player, are you experienced enough to defeat your opponent?
The Futuristic Gun Duel
General rules
Each player starts with an unloaded gun ...
