Background
I like my old 8-bit 6502 chip. It's even fun to solve some of the challenges here on PPCG in 6502 machine code. But some things that should be simple (like, read in data or output to stdout) are unnecessarily cumbersome to do in machine code. So there's a rough idea in my mind: Invent...
Gomoku (Five in a row)
Tags: king-of-the-hill,board-game
Related: Connect-n time!
Gomoku or Five in a row is a board game played by two players on a \$15 \times 15\$ grid with black and white stones. Whoever is able to place \$5\$ stones in a row (horizontal, vertical or diagonal) wins the g...
Wow, Postgres 11 looks really good. Lots of improvements, even LLVM JIT compiled queries! (As a side note, this PDF is the only worthwhile thing out of HPE in the last few years - it contains exclusively helpful information and no marketing speak).
@Neil Challenge askers do deserve all their rep. However, I don't think writing challenges is significantly harder than writing answers (of high quality)
ProSet is a classic card game that is played normally with 63 cards. One card has 6 colored dots on it, like below
The rest of the cards are missing some of these 6 dots, but each card has at least 1 dot. Every card in the deck is different. Below are some example valid cards.
A ProSet is a...
Gomoku or Five in a row is a board game played by two players on a \$15 \times 15\$ grid with black and white stones. Whoever is able to place \$5\$ stones in a row (horizontal, vertical or diagonal) wins the game.
Rules
In this KoTH we'll play the Swap2 rule, meaning that a game consists of tw...
@Mr.Xcoder I'd like to focus on challenges rather than answers, although I've enjoyed writing some answers too. Currently I have 20 answers and 18 questions, of which 17 are challenges, but I've only answered 8 challenges which are not my own (the rest are self answers or multiple answers to one challenge). I have no current plans for answers, but I have 17 sandboxed challenges (several of which will turn out to be unsuitable, but the majority of which I hope to refine and post eventually).
@Mr.Xcoder I like writing challenges, but hate posting them. On the other hand, I really like golfing, but my answers always frustrate me for some reason.
@cairdcoinheringaahing Ah. Then all I can say is graphical-outputpopularity-contests are very rewarding to answer (and I was lucky enough to be active back when you could answer one of those before they got closed as off topic...)
And that's a great example of how little rep can mean - the answers I'm most pleased with there (and which took most work) are the later posted ones, which got far less rep. The high rep ones are mostly just FGITW
To put things more in perspective, although I got a lot of upvotes for Formic Functions, it also took me 4 months full time to get it working, and has required a significant amount more work after posting. At least for me, answers pay a lot better per hour... (I'm sure plenty of people here could have written it in a 10th of the time - in fact someone already has, and better and more efficient...)
How about rep/days since joining? I'd drop a long way down the ranks then. I make mine 4.5 rep per day
Basically what's documented here:
What formula should be used to determine "hot" questions?
We have a few tweaks:
Succeeding questions from the same site are penalized by increasing amounts. So, the first question from SO in the list gets multiplied by 1.0, the second by 0.98, the third ...
@trichoplax I don't actually know, but anecdotaly it does, I was trying to get the ad to show up and it happened more often in incognito mode than signed in
Gomoku (Five in a row)
Tags: king-of-the-hill,board-game
Related: Connect-n time!
Gomoku or Five in a row is a board game played by two players on a \$15 \times 15\$ grid with black and white stones. Whoever is able to place \$5\$ stones in a row (horizontal, vertical or diagonal) wins the g...
ProSet is a classic card game that is played normally with 63 cards. One card has 6 colored dots on it, like below
The rest of the cards are missing some of these 6 dots, but each card has at least 1 dot. Every card in the deck is different. Below are some example valid cards.
A ProSet is a...
Basically what's documented here:
What formula should be used to determine "hot" questions?
We have a few tweaks:
Succeeding questions from the same site are penalized by increasing amounts. So, the first question from SO in the list gets multiplied by 1.0, the second by 0.98, the third ...
