The Nineteenth Byte

ASCII-only

9:00 AM

@Phoenix download.sublimetext.com/sublime-text_build-3126_amd64.deb

Mayube

yeah you can download a deb and dpkg -i it

SIGSEGV

Microsoft is god

Don't need linux anymore

only windows

(And the creators update)

(That adds more linux)

Mayube

Actually I run Windows 10, running VirtualBox within WSL, within which I have an OpenSUSE VM that has a Windows 10 VM inside, that's running WSL, which has a Windows 7 VM inside.

SIGSEGV

darn android

@Mayube too bad, windows 10 (creators update) already has OpenSUSE

Mayube

9:24 AM

@SIGSEGV I just want my damn ubuntu 16_04 so i can actually get Java 8

14_04 doesn't have an official backport of 8, only 7

Adám

@Mayube What's wrong with running Win7 on the hardware?

Mayube

@Adám not enough abstraction

there must be at least 3 layers of virtualization between the hardware and the OS I'm using

ASCII-only

@Mayube betanews.com/2017/04/14/upgrade-windows-subsystem-for-linux

Adám

@Mayube Doesn't it run slow?

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

I <3 conditionals You end up having a lot of very long, boring-looking conditionals in your code: if flag == 1: while have != needed: if type == 7: These can be transformed into their much more lovable <3 conditionals counterparts: if abs(flag - 1) + 2 <3: while 3 - abs(have - needed) <...

Mayube

9:39 AM

@Adám you realise I don't actually do that, right?

is a lambda a valid answer for C#, when the challenge simply says "write a program..."

Adám

@Mayube No, I didn't.

Mayube

@Adám I run windows 10 at work, using WSL as an all-in-one replacement for Git Bash and Putty, and I use Win7 with a Debian VM at home

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Q: If without if statements

Oh no! Your boss asked you to write a program or a function to detect if an input is a specific string, but the I and F buttons are broken, that means a nightmare: no if statements. Rules: Determine if the input is length 4, or begins with a "t", whichever condition results in a shorter pro...

Christopher

10:01 AM

@WheatWizard (sorry for another ping) I have another user who has seen my answer and have proof/timestamp. I am locked in. Whenever you finish just ping me with your answer or the byte count. I will respond ASAP.

Shaggy

How long should I leave a challenge in the sandbox for before posting it? Does no votes and no comments imply that it's good to go?

Christopher

@Mayube XKCD I think made that joke

trichoplax

@Shaggy I'd leave it a week, some say 3 days. But either way if you get no feedback it may just mean no one's seen it yet, so after a few days link to it in here to find out

Christopher

@Shaggy Not really. Who long was it in? I have some that have been in for a few weeks and will not be posted. Yet others I can turn around in a short time. Just post the link in here and you should get more feedbck

Shaggy

Thank, @trichoplax. It's my first challenge so I'll give it the week to maximise time for feedback.

Christopher

10:05 AM

@Shaggy If you don't get feedback just post the url in chat and then wait a little bit

trichoplax

@Shaggy Wow - only posted 19 hours ago but already 12 more posted above it (if sorted by active, which is what most sandbox reviewers do). This is why saying a fixed number of days doesn't really help. When it's really busy people might not see your post at all, so posting in here after a few days is the only way to make sure it hasn't been overlooked.

Shaggy

OK, thanks, @trichoplax

This is it, if anyone would care to throw an eye over it: codegolf.meta.stackexchange.com/a/12419/58974

Mayube

@Christopher probably, xkcd's made every joke

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ASCII-only

@Mayube can't you use msysgit instead of git bash and putty

Christopher

@ASCII-only Why bother. More fun to use VM cuz installing viruses is great

Mayube

10:17 AM

WSL isn't a VM

ASCII-only

@Christopher installing viruses?

Christopher

@ASCII-only Yes! All of them. You can download games like AoM (Age of Mythology) of a sketchy site using torrent (you already own it but disks are too much work) and test if everything goes down!

@Mayube Opps. I was dumb

ASCII-only

@Christopher if you actually bother checking torrent contents your chance to get a virus goes down by like 99.9%

Christopher

@ASCII-only Well yeah. But still. You can always miss something and testing on a VM is the way to go.

ASCII-only

@Christopher well how often would you need to download from shady sites for work

Jan Dvorak

10:23 AM

@ASCII-only TIO

TIO downloads from shady sites on a daisy basis

@JanDvorak TIO?

TryItOnline

@JanDvorak wat how

well, technically not sites, but shady nevertheless

ASCII-only

@JanDvorak example?

Jan Dvorak

10:25 AM

Let's say someone wants TIO to test their Ruby code, `rm -rf *`. It shouldn't prevent everyone else from doing the same.

Shaggy

Thanks for your feedback, @trichoplax, appreciate it :)

ASCII-only

@JanDvorak um how does that count as a download

Jan Dvorak

From the server's point of view, it's a download

trichoplax

@Shaggy No problem. Thanks for seeking feedback before posting - it makes everything go much more smoothly :)

Shaggy

@trichoplax I may be new but I've already seen enough bad challenges to know the value of the Sandbox!

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10:34 AM

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Fill an array with all the numbers from 0-n You must fill an array with every number from 0-n inclusive. No numbers should repeat. However they must be in a random order. Rules All standard code-golf rules and standard loopholes are banned The array must be generated pseudo-randomly as it is ...

totallyhuman

10:56 AM

trichoplax

If you onebox instead of pasting an image, we'll be able to see the hovertext too

TuxCopter

~~pls link to the actual comic, it oneboxes~~ ninja'd

totallyhuman

oh cool

The pile gets soaked with data and starts to get mushy over time, so it's technically recurrent.

...right

TuxCopter

oh it's big

trichoplax

Yeah I think the narrower ones do that

Okx

10:59 AM

My internet provider blocks hackertyper.com for "crime"

9

lol

slow clap

@Okx hahaha

Shame there isn't a way to control the size of oneboxes with a suffix, like "s" for small like you can with imgur images on main

Jan Dvorak

goes on to commit some "crime"

Ah, it's this thing. Not interested then.

TuxCopter

11:01 AM

So typing the Linux kernel is now a crime

cool

totallyhuman

linus torvalds is a criminal mastermind

Erik the Outgolfer

@Okx micro$oft?

Okx

Micro$oft? Providing internet? Please no...

ASCII-only

Hey Emigna's here, I wonder if he has a feed of XKCD posts to TNB

The latest XKCD is still onscreen when he appears

LegionMammal978

@Okx So I guess they also have to block the regular groups.c?

Okx

11:07 AM

@LegionMammal978 That's not crime as it doesn't contain "hacker".

LegionMammal978

But... what...

TuxCopter

Is the site of NetHack blocked too?

LegionMammal978

I'll never be able to understand some ISPs

^^?

Jan Dvorak

grab a different roguelike in that case

TuxCopter

but nethack is the best roguelike

cempro

11:09 AM

hi. is this the right place to ask a question about python & regex pattern?

TuxCopter

Yes

cempro

thnx. I have an xml tucbs-public-api.csb.gov.tr/…

TuxCopter

And you want to parse it with regex? ಠ__ಠ

cempro

but cannot get what I need. <\S+Name>(\S+)</\S+Name><\S+Title>

yes

trichoplax

@TuxCopter Although I agree, you might want to explain your disapproval...

totallyhuman

11:11 AM

ಠ___ಠ

ASCII-only

@cempro Why the \S+ before Name and Title

Kritixi Lithos

@TuxCopter I created a French verb conjugator that parses html with regex to get the conjugations >_>

cempro

same pattern works for the layer <name> tags ecbsservis.csb.gov.tr/arcgis/services/WFS_TEST/YALOVABINA3D/…

TuxCopter

Obligatory stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/…

cempro

because tag may be either <wms:Name> or <Name> depending on service specs.

Jan Dvorak

11:12 AM

@TuxCopter disagreed. Have you played hyperrogue?

ASCII-only

@cempro Why is the Title part needed?

cempro

because we use two types of services WMS and WFS both suppy an xml

ASCII-only

@cempro oh ok

TuxCopter

@cempro Use BeautifulSoup or something like that to parse xmls

cempro

there is name tag is so common but I need the ones only before Title tag

ASCII-only

11:14 AM

@cempro For Name and Title use \S* not \S+ so it will match <Name> etc

TuxCopter

@Okx What's your ISP?

Okx

@TuxCopter The NSA (jk)

cempro

just to clear. here is the xml content <Layer queryable="1"><Name>1</Name><Title>İl Sınırı</Title> and I just need the "1" netween name tags

ASCII-only

@cempro Yeah your problem is the \S+ before Name and Title

wait still doesn't work

trichoplax

Although it's lots of fun parsing html with regex, in python you can just use the provided html parser

ASCII-only

11:16 AM

You also need \s+ between the closing tag of Name and the opening tag of Title

@trichoplax In this case it's too overkill

@cempro <\S*Name>(\S+)</\S*Name>\s+<\S*Title>

cempro

let me give a try

Qwerp-Derp

@ASCII-only Is it possible to make a regex that matches balanced brackets?

ASCII-only

@Qwerp-Derp Depends what flavor

Qwerp-Derp

I doubt it, but you never know

@ASCII-only Python flavour?

Also flavour* (I thought you were Aussie, but the spelling gave it away, imposter!!!111!!eleven!)

ASCII-only

@Qwerp-Derp I am Aussie but TNB is mostly US so I use American spelling on TNB

Qwerp-Derp

11:22 AM

But American spelling < "normal spelling"...

jingoism kicks in

Kritixi Lithos

@Qwerp-Derp .NET flavour matching balanced parentheses: chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/36891967#36891967

actually scroll a bit up from that message

cempro

grrr... string = '<Name>(.+?)</Name>' pattern works but works for all name tags (which is more than I need) I just need layer name/number. By the way \S<Name>(.+?)<(\/[^</Name>]+)> pattern did not work. Maybe is there a multine issue or smthg?

ASCII-only

@Qwerp-Derp ok brb it isn't hard

@cempro wait why did you change it?

@cempro <Layer.*?>\s*<\S*Name>(\d+)

cempro

ahh sorry mistyped

brb

Erik the Outgolfer

@MartinEnder huh? you deleted my comment before it was obsoleted? and yes I had a point...

basically the first 1-byte answer must be accepted nevertheless, since there can't be any shorter answer than that, ever

programmer5000

11:28 AM

Does anyone here have access to Mathmatica?

TuxCopter

@EriktheOutgolfer There's some languages that can have half-bytes

(Ie 4-bit MPUs)

Erik the Outgolfer

@TuxCopter "half bytes" still get padded to 1 I think

programmer5000

If so, what does FileExtension output when inputted .bashrc?

ASCII-only

@Qwerp-Derp wait it isn't possible without custom regex engine in Python

feersum

So I found a good way to deal with circular import errors in Python.

ASCII-only

11:29 AM

@programmer5000 well you can use Mathics on TIO

@feersum Put them in the same file :P

totallyhuman

Doesn't Mathematica have a free trial?

feersum

If I have foo.py and bar.py that both import each other, then I delete the import from bar.py.

TuxCopter

Mathematica has a free online version too IIRC

feersum

And in foo, I do import bar; bar.foo = <the current module>.

ASCII-only

@programmer5000 Buy an RPi :P

cempro

11:31 AM

while ''<Name>(.+?)</Name>' works '<\SName>(\S+)</\SName>\s+<\S*Title>' does not work. interesting... Can it be an encoding or multiline related problem? (title tag is on a new line)

ASCII-only

@programmer5000 wolframalpha.com/input/?i=file+extension+of+.bashrc

Kritixi Lithos

@cempro btw you can format your code using backticks

cempro

'<\SName>(\S+)</\SName>\s+<\S*Title>'

Kritixi Lithos

so that the asterisk won't italicise text

cempro

ahh star charç. does not appear here

ASCII-only

11:32 AM

@cempro use ` not '

@cempro hmm maybe, try adding \n before \s+?

cempro

using python, it needs ' or " for string pattern afaik

ASCII-only

@cempro you're using r"pattern here" right?

as in r"<\S*Name>(\S+)</\S*Name>\s+<\S*Title>", not just "<\S*Name>(\S+)</\S*Name>\s+<\S*Title>"

programmer5000

@ASCII-only Is that what mathematica uses?

For some reason, it fails in mathics / TIO

ASCII-only

@programmer5000 well wolfram alpha uses a mathematica backend for the majority of its computation so i'd say so (they would probably use a mathematica feature rather than reimplement it)

programmer5000

Ok, tks.

New Main Posts

11:38 AM

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Q: Output with the same length as the code

In this challenge, you should write a program or function which takes no input and prints or returns a string with the same number of bytes as the program itself. There are a few rules: You may only output bytes in the printable ASCII range (0x20 to 0x7E, inclusive), or newlines (0x0A or 0x0D)....

code-golf quine

Erik the Outgolfer

@NewMainPosts too late

this challenge has been already won

Martin Ender

@EriktheOutgolfer there are other delete reasons for comments, like not constructive. for a start, no I don't need to accept any answer, and even if I did I wouldn't do it 5 minutes after posting the challenge, regardless of whether an optimal solution has been found.

Erik the Outgolfer

it was a bit unclear whether that was a catalog though...

ASCII-only

@programmer5000 BTW if you can spare the money just get an RPi for Mathematica testing :P

Erik the Outgolfer

@MartinEnder your call, but I'd recommend accepting as soon as you can in such a situation

Martin Ender

11:41 AM

why?

Erik the Outgolfer

because if a valid solution is as optimal as it can be then you don't have to wait for a week or something to determine which solution to accept

so why not put the check right in after the 12m delay? the user will be awarded the 15 rep more quickly and that's also good

ASCII-only

@EriktheOutgolfer But there are already optimal solutions in six languages (and like >60 just in Jelly :P)

Martin Ender

but it will discourage some users from answering the challenge in other languages

cempro

@ASCII-only Nothing seems to work except for this: string = r"<Name>(\S+)</Name>" as soon as I insert a char. at the end nothing is found. e.g. nor r"<Name>(\S+)</Name>\n" neither r"<Name>(\S+)</Name>\s+" works. I think I do something wrong or there is something different for the xml file. Cos similar pattern works for another xml file. Do not want to take your time but I may provide link for these two xml files.

Martin Ender

plus, I'm not planning to accept any answer.

Erik the Outgolfer

11:47 AM

then it's a catalog right?

I think you want to explicitly specify that

ASCII-only

@cempro If you're on Windows, try \r\n instead of \n

feersum

Scientists have recently discovered that catalogs are in fact exactly identical to regular code golf challenges.

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cempro

no luck string = r"<\SName>(\S+)</\SName>\r\n\s+<\S*Title>"

Martin Ender

@EriktheOutgolfer no I don't. there's no obligation for anyone to accept an answer to any challenge. and I believe that the accepted answer feature is useless on PPCG so I stopped using it.

cempro

just to clear. string = u'<\SName>(\S+)</\SName>\s+<\S*Title>' works for this file ecbsservis.csb.gov.tr/arcgis/services/WFS_TEST/YALOVABINA3D/…

Martin Ender

11:51 AM

@feersum this. thank you.

cempro

but string = u"<\S * Name>(\S+)</\S * Name>\s+<\S * Title>" not for this file tucbs-public-api.csb.gov.tr/…

Erik the Outgolfer

@MartinEnder oh... well, the accept feature can be used to reward the winner, but you decide anyways

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Make some arrays A recent post on The Daily WTF concerned the creation of four two-dimensional arrays of height n. Please write a function to create these arrays for me. Here is an example for n=4: [[1] [[1 0 0] [[0] [[0 0 0] [0] [0 1 0] [0] [1 0 0] [0] [0 0 1] [0] [0 1 0] [0]] [0 0 0]...

ASCII-only

@cempro weird, works for me, can you post your search code?

cempro

I think I cannot search for the next tag which is on the new line. I am on windows. (already tried \r\n)

ASCII-only

11:56 AM

@cempro Python 2 or 3?

cempro

2.7

plugin dev. with Python + PyQGIS + QGIS

maybe I should first try it outside QGIS dev. environment. On IDLE.

ASCII-only

@cempro still works for me, weird, you're using re.search with no other options right?

cempro

layer = re.search(str(string), word )

ASCII-only

@cempro what is in word?

cempro

her is the python code

same issue

import urllib2, re

file = urllib2.urlopen("https://tucbs-public-api.csb.gov.tr/trk_hgk_idari_sinir_wms?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS")
data = file.read()
#string = '<\S*Name>(\S+)</\S*Name>\r\n\s+<\S*Title>'
string = '<Name>(.+?)</Name>'

for word in data.split():
layer = re.search(str(string), word)

if layer is not None:
name = layer.group(1)
print name

result <![CDATA[WMS]]>
0
default
1
default
2
default
3
default
4
default

I just need 0 1 2 3 4

Qwerp-Derp

12:08 PM

@cempro You can format your code by indenting it with four spaces

betseg

Or the button "format code" or something

Btw wtf 3rd Turkish person in this room

ASCII-only

@cempro oh, your problem is the data.split(), it breaks up lines so there are never any newlines

cempro

@betseg is there a problem?

betseg

@cempro no, I'm Turkish too

cempro

Oh ok sorry. I got it wrong.

Ohh ok and since the 2nd xml is multine I get nothing :)

ASCII-only

12:13 PM

@cempro Use re.findall(str(string), data)

user165474

userscripts aren't working :c

cempro

then how can I access desired pattern for findall action instead of layer.group(1)

Mayube

slowly but surely creeping towards 1k rep

ASCII-only

@cempro it returns an array of string matches of .group(1) (['<![CDATA[WMS]]>', '0', 'default', '1', 'default', '2', 'default', '3', 'default', '4', 'default']), or an array of tuples of matches if there is more than one group (e.g. [('a', 'b', 'c'), ('d', 'e', 'f')])

cempro

hmmm :S a python list object then. But the point is I can only identify required values either default or 1 is needed, as long as they are resided in name tags which become before title tag

BTW, @ASCII-only you are so helpful. At least I got what the problem is.

Mayube

12:25 PM

oh nice you get rep if you propose an edit and it gets accepted?

ASCII-only

@cempro huh?

@cempro what exactly do you want to extract from the data

cempro

<Name>1</Name>
<Title>Foo</Title>

Only need 1

still nothing return with the below string

import urllib2, re

file = urllib2.urlopen("https://tucbs-public-api.csb.gov.tr/trk_hgk_idari_sinir_wms?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS")
data = file.read()
#string = '<Name>(\S+)</Name>\n<Title>'
string = '<\S*Name>(\S+)</\S*Name>\r\n\s+<\S*Title>'
layer = re.findall(string, data)
print layer

ASCII-only

@cempro you need r before the string, and you don't need \r\n

cempro

now it works.

['<![CDATA[WMS]]>', '0', 'default', '1', 'default', '2', 'default', '3', 'default', '4', 'default']

but more than what I need :)

ASCII-only

@cempro oh btw why do you only need the names? what do you want them for?

@cempro so you don't want the first one and the defaults right?

if so use (\d+) instead of (\S+)

cempro

12:32 PM

Cos they are the required map layer names to construct a valid OGC WMS map address to insert into QGIS as a map layer

a proper WMS URL would be
https://tucbs-public-api.csb.gov.tr/csb_cdp_abi_wms&format=image/png&layers=4&styles=&crs=EPSG:4326
And I only &layers=4 (4 comes from the xml file generated by the map server)

ASCII-only

@cempro do you need anything other than the layer names?

user165474

Snowball KoTH Status Updates

Updates for the Snowball KoTH Challenge made by HyperNeutrino....

user165474

I have it set up to run through every single pair and now I'm just debugging

cempro

no nothing but they could either be style e.g. "world_oceans" or just "1" or a hash "asasdsa2345234"

ASCII-only

@cempro use <Layer.*?>\s*<\S*Name>([^<]+) to get layer names, re.findall with that will give a list of only the layer names

cempro

12:37 PM

['\n ', '\n ', '\n ', '\n ', '\n ']

ETHproductions

@totallyhuman Not yet, but I'd like to create one

ASCII-only

@cempro Sorry, <Layer.*?>\s*<\S*?Name>([^<]+)

cempro

AHAA THAT WORKED

:)

Nathan Merrill

hey, question for you golfers: what motivates you to write answers on challenges? Like, I understand that golfing is fun, but how do you choose which challenges to answer?

Kritixi Lithos

it depends on the free time I have

Nathan Merrill

12:41 PM

do you pick the ones you think you have the best chance at winning? The ones that are the quickest to write?

ASCII-only

@NathanMerrill I only answer easy ones, I spend most of my time writing my language not writing with it :P

Mayube

As I mentioned in my answer to this it largely comes down to whether I'll be spending more time solving the challenge or more time golfing my solution.

Kritixi Lithos

@NathanMerrill quickest most of the times

Mayube

@NathanMerrill Given we're encouraged to treat each challenge as a separate contest per language, best chance at winning is rarely applicable. Nobody else golfs in Braingolf yet, and only a few in C#

Kritixi Lithos

occasionally I get motivated to write up a large golf

Mayube

12:43 PM

yeah sometimes when I'm like "this seems relatively complex, but it seems like it's possible in braingolf" I'll have a go at it

Nathan Merrill

related question, then: If the chat bot were to post old questions every once in a while, would you be just as likely to answer them?

cempro

@ASCII-only Thank you so much. You were very helpful.

Nathan Merrill

and if not, why not?

Mayube

@NathanMerrill yes, the age of the question is largely irrelevant to me, especially given I'm the only one really using my given language

Kritixi Lithos

@NathanMerrill quite possibly

ASCII-only

12:44 PM

@Mayube Haha same

Mayube

Some people might be less inclined as there may already be well-golfed answers in their language of choice

but for people like me and ASCII-only, who make our own languages then cry in a corner as we're the only ones using them... yeah

Nathan Merrill

why does an existing answer of the same language make a difference? Because the chances of out-golfing an existing answer is slim (you're more likely to tie it?)

ASCII-only

@Mayube I mean Neil has started using Charcoal a lot, others have occasionally used it, but DLosc and I have posted quite a lot of submissions

@NathanMerrill or sometimes it might even be less golfy

so yeah basically it's spending a lot of time for a high chance of a useless result i guess

Mayube

@ASCII-only haha so far Neil is the only person but me I've seen using Braingolf, and even then he only used it to improve an answer I'd already submitted

Kritixi Lithos

@NathanMerrill I probably won't answer in language X if there's already an answer in language X (unless I can outgolf it pretty well, otherwise I will just comment a tip to that submission)

Mayube

12:47 PM

Neil's a bro to all us self-languagers

Nathan Merrill

@KritixiLithos why

Kritixi Lithos

as you said, it will probably be too golfy (with the help from the community)

I do not answer in Carrot often because it isn't TC yet

Stephen S

Can I get a second opinion on whether this Sandbox post would be a dupe?

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Custom Fibonacci code-golf fibonacci sequence number The Fibonacci sequence is a fairly well known thing around here. Heck, it even has its own tag. However, for all that, we sure like to stick to our roots of 1, 1, ... (or is it 0, 1, ...? We may never know...). In this challenge, the rules ar...

programmer5000

@BetaDecay why isn't this non-competing but undeleted?

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1:09 PM

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Parse a 4-dimensional array A 2D array is fairly easy to represent in ASCII art, something like this: 1 2 6 24 One approach for a 3D array is to have a number of 2D arrays, with an extra blank line between each array: 1 2 6 24 1 2 4 8 Things get a little more complicated for 4D arrays...

Beta Decay

@programmer5000 At the time, non-competing answers were rarely seen. Wasn't really the done thing to do

programmer5000

Oh.

I used the sandbox. Happy?

Jan Dvorak

1:29 PM

Aye. I'd recommend dropping the first paragraph, the one in small font, though.

programmer5000

@JanDvorak done.

trichoplax

Could we get more opinions (either way) on whether this is a dupe? I think it isn't, but want to get more feedback before it leaves the sandbox to avoid finding out too late to modify it.

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

code-golf math fibonacci Triple Fibonacci (very similar) Your challenge is to make a function / program that either: Generates the Fibonacci sequence without end. Given n calculates the nth term of the sequence. (Either 1 or zero indexed) (quoting Fibonacci function or sequence) ...

programmer5000

@trichoplax I don't think it is a dupe, go ahead and post.

totallyhuman

1:46 PM

I am convinced I should answer every challenge I can with Go

It's kinda fun golfing in a language that's a horrible language to golf in

Stephen S

Or just post full programs in Java

Jan Dvorak

@totallyhuman kinda explains my obsession with Ruby

totallyhuman

I thought Ruby was ok

Is it really bad?

Mayube

the only good thing about ruby is that you can index into integers in it

Jan Dvorak

It's a great language, but it relies on methods a lot, which isn't great for golfing.

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Q: Golf a Lucas Sequence

The Fibonacci sequence is a fairly well known thing around here. Heck, it even has its own tag. However, for all that, we sure like to stick to our roots of 1, 1, ... (or is it 0, 1, ...? We may never know...). In this challenge, the rules are the same, but instead of getting the nth item in the ...

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totallyhuman

c'mon new main posts you got this

next 3 minutes and i should see a post from it

...wait how'd it insert the message above mine

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Q: Can we have a tag for simple questions for beginners?

A good way for beginners to get into code golf is easy challenges. Also, a good way to test and try out a new golfing language is easy challenges. We also have alot of them. I think we should have a simple or trivial for that that we can point interested beginners to. It might be nice to have it ...

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trichoplax

@programmer5000 It's not my post, but I wanted plenty of feedback before that decision gets made

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