@Mego hey, are you still at Google? I'm in host matching for an internship now, and was wondering if you know any groups or projects that are cool that I should ask for.
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@Maltysen I never got the job at Google, despite being offered one twice
If you are just here to get the code for the widget, you can skip down to the bottom of this post.
Hello! Over the past week, I have been working on a little project of mine to improve the leaderboard snippet that is widely used across PPCG. The original snippet was developed by Martin Ender, ...
Use input letters to create as many words as possible
I have the scrabble letters as magnets on my fridge and I was thinking: how many actual words could I make using only these letters. Obviously it would be hard to work out myself, so I challenge you to create a program which will take a str...
I still do think it is a dupe. You can obviously extend it to any number of stacked exponents and make a new challlenge each of those, but where do you stop? They all have the same problem in common and I think there should be just one challenge for one such problem.
The challenge in question is this one, which is solving a couple 4x4 sliding puzzles (also known as 15 puzzle) with the least amount of moves in a certain time limit.
I posted an answer that computes optimal answers within the time limit, essentially ending the challenge. Such an answer is not p...
So I think you should probably just have picked the version that was most interesting and still suitable for code-golf. If you want to enforce a certain algorithm you should mention that.
(it's not my challenge) What feedback could people possibly give (without significantly changing the challenge)? "Don't post this"? That's just what you're saying right now...
Well whether people find it interesting is a totally different matter. In this case I think the two challenges were posted just too short after eachother. I think the many downvotes can be explained that people either do think that they are too similar. Maybe some people even had the impression that you were just rep farming or that you just posted another challenge to amend some mistakes you made with the first challenge which again gives the impression of a poorly thought out challenge.
@user202729 that is what the sandbox is for
I'm sure I post less than a third of all the challenges ideas I draft in the sandbox.
I cannot vouch for it but I'm pretty sure if you posted the newer challenge maybe a month later (and also explained the differences) it would have been better received. At the same time I'd still consider it as a dupe if nothing else changed.
the only advice I can give you for future challenges is posting them in the sandbox and discussing it there, possibly going through many revisions before posting or discarding them
Then you also get an idea what people might consider as dupes.
@user202729 huh sorry, I thought I was talking to Anush - another reason for you to get a more distinguishable avatar:)
@Maltysen hm, I was wondering about your new challenge... maybe a winning criterion other than code-golf (such as a code-challenge where fewest moves win) can also fit
Is there a computer science term for the process of repeatedly feeding the output of a logic circuit back into itself? (A simplified description of a computer.)
When the user clicks on the “Save” Button both the name and the GPA should be saved in two parallel arrays: nArray (String) and gArray (double), then both Text Fields will be cleared.
Brain-Flak is a stack-based esoteric language with eight commands:
() Evaluates to 1
<> Switch active stack; evaluates to 0
[] Evaluates to height of current stack
{} Pop current stack; evaluates to the popped number
(...) Execute block and push the result; evaluates as result
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Definitions:
A triangle is considered a right triangle if one of the inner angles is exactly 90 degrees.
A number is considered rational if it can be represented by a ratio of integers, i.e., p/q, where both p and q are integers.
A number n is a congruent number if there exists a right triangle...
You may have seen my previous post, in which I introduced a new leaderboard widget over the old system. Well, turns out there were a few major bugs with the program. I've gone through and fixed all of the bugs (to my best knowledge). Thanks a lot to all of the users who assisted in the developmen...
Word changer is a game where you are trying to turn one word into another via single-character edits, with each step being its own word. For this challenge, edits may be replacements, insertions, or deletions. For example, WINNER → LOSER can be done with this route (there may be others):
WINNER
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with pyi-archive_viewer
[*] Processing Image Convert Tool/Image Convert Tool/Image Compresser/Image Compresser.exe [*] Error : Unsupported pyinstaller version or not a pyinstaller archive