The Nineteenth Byte

1:30 AM

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This challenge was inspired by this StackOverflow Meta post. In it, @hakre says: I've seen a project really written by Stackoverflow (a noob copies together from SO here and SO there), attribution normally never is done which results in rights termination under CC. (sic) Your mission is to...

m.buettner

That sounds really interesting, but I think the question would immensely benefit from limiting the scope to a particular task.

That would allow the concept to be reused later for a different kind of challenge.

This way it's a one-timer.

Should I suggest that?

TheDoctor

Sure!

m.buettner

done

TheDoctor

Perhaps we could crate a tag for such a question...

m.buettner

that was my first thought

but (see my second comment) I'm afraid this would just create code-trolling 2.0

we need to figure out first how to deal with new types of questions in a more manageable way

I think I need to sleep on whether I'd like to see this as a tag or not...

which I'll do now

see you

TheDoctor

1:37 AM

Night

m.buettner

oh oh, you did it :D

TheDoctor

3:03 AM

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A: What is the best comment in source code you have ever encountered?

on js code: // hack for ie browser (assuming that ie is a browser)

Quincunx

6:49 AM

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Q: What exactly is the [tips] tag?

After reading Re-evaluating [tips] and tip-like questions and the tips questions, I determined that we currently use tips for two things: code-golfing questions, and language creation questions. Regarding non code-golfing tip questions, wouldn't it be better to drop the tips tag because tips see...

discussion tags

Quincunx

7:29 AM

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Q: Bounty-like feature on metas

Sometimes on a site's meta, I want to draw more attention to a question that has been sitting in the dark. Usually when this happens, I am even willing to offer my reputation as a bounty. But metas don't allow for bounties. On main sites, we have a bounty feature to allow users to draw extra att...

feature-request bounty per-site-meta

Quincunx

7:44 AM

@Quincunx I just discovered that we can make recursive chat posts

@Quincunx And the mouseover for the little arrow says: "this is a reply to an earlier message". Let's prove that wrong.

@Quincunx Let's reply to this message

@undergroundmonorail I would love to use an editor in which it was easy to type a carriage return or a line feed. Carriage returns move the "write head" back to the beginning of the line, and line feeds advance the paper one line. So I want an electronic text editor that supports this. Then, I can overlap lines (via carriage returns) or make lines break but not move back.

The history of all these characters is deep, think back to typewriters.

@durron597 I'm not too impressed. It's just simple printing. However, I will be really impressed when someone 3D prints a processor.

Actually, that could be a good challenge here. Take an input of a 3D printer design file and output the 3D printed shape. Don't know how to display that though.

mniip

8:45 AM

@mniip huh?

@mniip yay recursion

m.buettner

9:56 AM

Is anyone interested in discussing this? codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/26778/… How do we want to handle to challenge types? I'm a bit ambivalent about this. On one hand I really want this question closed as too broad. It would be more interesting with a limited scope and as it stands it does cannibalise on future similar question. On the other hand, if this was limited to leave room for more similar questions, I fear the next CT-like surge of bad questions.

mniip

I bet there exists a SO post for every perl construct ever existed

m.buettner

The question is, does it exist in its own snippet. ;)

mniip

10:13 AM

stackoverflow.com/a/1109098 I can iterate over keys now :D

Doorknob

12:37 PM

in The Great Code Trolling Purge of 2014, 5 mins ago, by m.buettner

@Doorknob, what do you think about the duct-tape thingy? (feel free to respond in the nineteenth byte as I tried to start the discussion over there)

Not sure. Probably that it should be posted on meta to see what we think about it.

m.buettner

Yeah I was considering that, but I couldn't be bothered to write up a meta post... mostly because I wasn't sure what exactly to ask. Although my post here from 3 hours ago would probably be a good starting point.

(feel free to use it if you do want to write a meta post)

Doorknob

I'll have to go to school soon so I can't right now

m.buettner

okay, fair enough

TheDoctor

12:56 PM

yo

Golf/Puzzle Lab

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