The trouble Im having here is the input format. It needs to be as fast as possible for reading/writing while still being easy for a variety of languages
An actually packed message, like a struct, would be even faster but would be annoying for higher level languages (in Python you'd have to use struct and what not). This is a decent compromise I feel
my x
my y
my z
my health
my clip
my pitch
my yaw
enemy x
enemy y
enemy z
enemy health
enemy clip
enemy pitch
enemy yaw
position of my grenade 1, midair?; position of my grenade 2, midair?; ...
position of my stickybomb 1, position of my stickybomb 2, ...
position of enemy grenade 1, midair?; position of my grenade 2, midair?; ...
position of enemy stickybomb 1, position of enemy stickybomb 2, ...
well that sucks. Now i get why everyone in my school dislikes this science teacher. every single class besides us gets to go outside. Us, we have to stay inside and study. Yet we already took our science test and have no reason to study at the moment
well, I switched from Python to Java because I ran into speed issues. I've had people complain about it, but I feel like I've still gotten a decent number of submissions
it's obviously impossible to know how much it actually affected the number of submissions I got
Rather than saving their current yaw/pitch (the direction they're looking) and sending it with the changed buttons
The only trick is "merging" moves. If I get a request to change yaw followed by a request to change pitch, those should be one move and not two (assuming its not too late and the first move already happened)
Description :
You are given a string as input. Your job is to check whether the given string is an isogram or not. You can output the result as true or false (or any other truthy and falsey value). Note : You will be ignoring letter case.
Examples :
"Dermatoglyphics" ---> true
"aba" ...
@moonheart08 for most, no. The slowest part of most KotHs is the latency of each call. As far as I can tell, there's nothing faster than pipes (in terms of latency)
@NathanMerrill yeah that was always my intent, to reward fast bots
Ideally bots should maintain a short-term agenda for the tick-to-tick stuff while they work on computing things for longer-term goals in the background
I think this design might make that easier?
Only trouble is the bots have to be designed to wait for stuff
Challenge:
Take a string of upper or lower case letters as input (optional), and calculate the score that string would get in a game of Scrabble.
Rules:
The score of each letter is as follows (use this even if there are other versions of the game):
1 point: E, A, I, O, N, R, T, L, S, U
2 poin...
Good mornings. I'm looking in chatrooms arount the network, searching for the place(s) where people who use J go. Is it ever mentioned / discussed around here?
It doesn't seem like the glamour-est of them all, one must admit
I'm really just starting reading about it, but the change in thinking initiated to reason about something like *: 2 * 1 9 75 63 is really... unsettling
It also appears to me that Jers (?) tend to name things more than APLers, which I suspect is due to "pure" J (i.e. just sequences of built-ins) being much harder for humans to read.
One thing that always gives me a bad taste from J is that neither round parens, square brackets, curly braces, nor double-quotes have to be matched up in pairs.
@ConorO'Brien :-D APL in comparison looks much more like conventional mathematics.
@Pavel In some dialects nothing, in some they can be used as alternative to single quotes, and some use them in special situations to group for parsing purposes of non-APL-syntax commands.
@Adám yes, that's one of the main things that appeals to me about APL
I really am a fan of "typeable symbols" like a right arrow, since they have natural digraphs (namely, ->). in attache I've tried to include unicode character aliases for any appropriate multibyte operators
@Pavel In Dyalog APL, you can use double quotes to dictate parsing for system and user commands. E.g. )load "filename with spaces" or ]runtime "⊃,/'abc' 'def'" "∊'abc' 'def'"
The initial ) or ] is a clear indication that this is not APL code. In fact, in Dyalog APL, there's no way for a program to issue such commands. They have proper-syntax alternatives available instead, but they tend to be harder for humans to type, so it is really convenient to have the system and user commands.
what's the stance on breaking a KotHController? I think that there are fundamental problems with the DollarBillAuction, but to really nail it down, I'd need to post some submissions.
For me it's the docs. Everything is documented, but the documentation is hard to read and hard to search through. I pretty much have to ask someone who knows better to figure anything out.
like I always use Charcoal's verbose mode so I don't have to type unicode :P
@J.Sallé hey, JS isn't that bad, it just implicitly casts a lot, kinda like Perl. it was designed to fail as little as possible, so if you mess one thing up the rest probably still works
@orlp My CXO is sitting across from me. He says: APL's weakest point is that it allows people with limited software engineering skills to build successful multi-million dollar applications.
@ASCII-only If that is possible at all, it involves Typeclass trickery. Unless your still trying to do it Template Haskell which as far as I know can manipulate the syntax tree.
@Adám I think having more examples generally would be nice. When the existing docs use an example, it generally covers a really simple case that doesn't encompass the full usage of the feature.
@Pavel Oh. This page is probably your best bet for that right now, although I do think we are considering an I-beam which takes a glyph/quad-name/keyword/syntax-element and returns an appropriate help url.
@Pavel There's also work in progress on a ]help user command which allows you two write "anything" after it to get most appropriate help on that, e.g. ]help ⌺ or ]help tcp/ip or ]help dll.
The Seidel Triangle is a mathematical construction similar to Pascal's Triangle, and is known for it's connection to the Bernoulli numbers.
The first few rows are:
1
1 1
2 2 1
2 4 5 5
16 16 14 10 5
16 32 46 56 61 61
Each row is generated as follows:
If the row number ...
@Pavel )SystemCommands are an integral part of the interpreter. ]UserCommands have a very thin hook-in from the interpreter's side, and the rest is written in APL. They are called user commands because they essentially allow the user to easily complement the built-in commands with additional commands of their own.
@quartata "Security is achieved through the absence of pointer arithmetic and the inability of an application to get linked to an object other than by calling a public method."
not sure if they prevent pointer arithmetic/reflection though
Description :
You are given a string as input. Your job is to check whether the given string is an isogram or not. You can output the result as true or false (or any other truthy and falsey value). Note : You will be ignoring letter case.
Examples :
"Dermatoglyphics" ---> true
"aba" ...
Challenge:
Take a string of upper or lower case letters as input (optional), and calculate the score that string would get in a game of Scrabble.
Rules:
The score of each letter is as follows (use this even if there are other versions of the game):
1 point: E, A, I, O, N, R, T, L, S, U
2 poin...
The Seidel Triangle is a mathematical construction similar to Pascal's Triangle, and is known for it's connection to the Bernoulli numbers.
The first few rows are:
1
1 1
2 2 1
2 4 5 5
16 16 14 10 5
16 32 46 56 61 61
Each row is generated as follows:
If the row number ...