What is the scope of CodeGolf.SE?
CodeGolf.SE is the site for code golf and other programming puzzles. We use the name CodeGolf.SE for two reasons:
"Code golf" is the most popular kind of coding game on Stack Overflow, so CodeGolf.SE should appeal to that crowd
CodeGolf.SE is much easier to sa...
@marcog: ^^---
(Darn it, I hate how @user messages do not onebox.)
@marcog: Please feel free to update that entry with current consensus on that topic.
@GeorgeEdison /me makes a note of whom to bid for in my P. F. Chang's order. :-P
For lurkers: P. F. Chang's is doing a Super Bowl special, where if you order a takeaway order online, and use coupon code STEELERS or PACKERS, your order is discounted 20%. Additionally, if the team you pick actually wins, you will receive another special offer.
The program will be provided as the first argument, stdin should be used for all
read requests by the program and stdout for all write requests. It can be
assumed that the program is less than 80 characters wide and less than 25 lines
high.
~ should push -1 if there is nothing to read.
Any pop...
@marcog and I are currently in the running for pro tempore moderatorship. (Not sure if others will step up; we'll see.) I think the current consensus, at least between the two of us, is that non-serious entries will be nuked.
e.g., non-golf entries to golf questions, Noah's entry for the "print 1..1000 without semicolons" question, the one you just mentioned, etc.
Write the shortest code for finding the sum of primes between a and b (inclusive).
Input
a and b can be taken from command line or stdin (space seperated)
Assume 1 <= a <= b <= 108
Output
Just print the sum with a newline character.
Bonus Points
If the program accepts multiple ra...
When running Safari on a Mac, you can install GreaseKit, which allows you to install UserScripts.
Is there an equivalent for the Windows version of Safari?
just leaving msg, @GeorgeEdison, I just find out one thing, Trixie on IE run userscripts after the page load, so just calling the function looks ok, and my script works userscripts.org/scripts/review/70690
@ChrisJesterYoung FYI I'm the one who said special-casing HQ9+ was unnecessary, and I stand by my point: all questions where it could have an actual use are past us now.
@ChrisJesterYoung Bah, if only StackOverflow had something between "Rubbish tiny comments" and "Its an answer"
Because its quite feasible ( and often occurs ) ( especially with me ) that a lengthy non-answer comment/question-of-the-answer can be posed that adds value to the question/answers
Anyway, what I was trying to get across is, that often when I post a golfed solution, I either post an ungolfed version (for non-GolfScript submissions), or an explanation (for GolfScript submissions).
That is fine and good. However, I always post a golfed version (and it must be what comes first in the post, because that's what @GeorgeEdison's script counts), because that's what counts for the contest.
In that view, all posts that contain only ungolfed or joke solutions are unuseful for the contest, and should be removed.
Yeah. I think its important, because, due to the world being full of idiots, wherever there is code, somebody will cargo-cult that code , and eventually that horror will turn up in somebodys production codebase because they outsourced to india.
I think I'll go take up farming or something, at least that trade has a future in the light of 1) Global Economic Failure 2) Global Warming Cutbacks 3) Computers vegetating due to all the source code being outsourced to india.
@gnibbler Apparently the rep required to edit posts has been bumped up since around the time you hit 1k, so now I have to get there before I can edit posts. :-(
What is the scope of CodeGolf.SE?
CodeGolf.SE is the site for code golf and other programming puzzles. We use the name CodeGolf.SE for two reasons:
"Code golf" is the most popular kind of coding game on Stack Overflow, so CodeGolf.SE should appeal to that crowd
CodeGolf.SE is much easier to sa...
yeah. but having [code-golf] when the site is implicitly called "code-golf" under the premise the primary subject is code-golf, stating your complying with that subject is redundant.
its just things that are not strictly code-golf that need tagging as such imo.
if people want to talk about 'real' golf, ( as unlikely as it may seem ), then they can use a different tag, which tag I'm not sure, but they can use a different tag =P
its hard to find a prefix to "golf" which cant also be used to explain something in programming.
ie: [real-life-golf] might entail how to 'golf' real life, not about 'golf' in the real-life balls-and-stick sense. ie; [real-life-golf][supermarket-problem] # execute a shopping trip in the least number of physical steps possible.
The program will be provided as the first argument, stdin should be used for all
read requests by the program and stdout for all write requests. It can be
assumed that the program is less than 80 characters wide and less than 25 lines
high.
~ should push -1 if there is nothing to read.
Any pop...
Bash (171)
#!/bin/bash
s=`cat /dev/stdin | sed 's/\*/\./g'`;o=`cat /usr/share/dict/words | grep -x $s`;w=`echo "$o" | wc -l`;if [ $w -lt '20' ]; then echo "$o";fi;echo "$w match(es)"
Uh, guys, in pretty much any language, it would be
N & (1 << M - 1)
Write the shortest code for finding the sum of primes between a and b (inclusive).
Input
a and b can be taken from command line or stdin (space seperated)
Assume 1 <= a <= b <= 108
Output
Just print the sum with a newline character.
Bonus Points
If the program accepts multiple ra...
