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Q: Like/Dislike display order

RubenxfdI am researching and designing a new online community platform where developers can share their knowledge by writing articles with tutorials, tips & tricks etc. I want to have a rating system so that users can see which articles are well-received and which are not. Based on this question about l...

 
ahahaha
 
@muddyfish ¬___¬ how do you know is NSFW :P
 
is it really that taboo to recognize the largest porn site in the world?
 
Anonymous
No, but saying too much more about it is getting uncomfortably close to breaking SE rules
 
@muddyfish To be fair, they do a good job on their website
 
2:10 PM
@Downgoat backend?
 
although showing youtube's would have done basically the same thing
 
quetion: should we encourage every challenger to include a leaderboard?
 
@ASCII-only backend is the part that go from AST -> LLVM for VSL we use LLIR
 
Anonymous
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Q: Do we need leaderboards on all challenges?

Jarko DubbeldamI noticed a bunch of edits showing up in the edits queue where the usual javascript leaderboard is added to challenges. Example Example I think the leaderboards are fine, but do we really need to add these to challenges that have been inactive for quite some while?

 
no like
every challenger should include one when they post it
 
Anonymous
2:19 PM
Encouraging use of the leaderboard snippet isn't a bad thing, but requiring it might be a bit too far
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing Ugh, thanks a lot!
 
quetion: what's the opposite of dequeue
 
@Mr.Xcoder it does only work with hard coded values, Im going to try to change that
 
Anonymous
@totallyhuman enqueue
 
2:22 PM
@totallyhuman enqueue
ninja'd
 
o thanks
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing Add µ in front
 
@Mr.Xcoder to do what?
 
@Downgoat yeah so why not constant fold before that
 
2:37 PM
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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Kevin CruijssenHelp! My calculator malfunctions! code-golfarithmeticnumberinteger Introduction My calculator is behaving weird. Sometimes when I type in an 8 it displays a 2. And sometimes when I type in a 6 it displays a +. Some buttons are mixed up! Could anyone help me determine which? Challenge: Input:...

 
What if I told you I just found a 28 byte quine in Octave...
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A: Golf you a quine for great good!

Stewie GriffinOctave, 28 bytes Yes, it's possible!! printf('%s',[history(1){:}]) So, what's going on here? history is a function that can be used to read and manipulate the command history. history(n) shows the n most recent commands you have typed, numbered: >> x = 1 + 2; >> y = x * 3; >> history(3...

 
0
A: Plus Primes vs Minus Primes

Mr. XcoderJelly, 12 11 bytes Thanks to @cairdcoinheringaahing for some tips in chat. ÆR%6µċ5,ċ1$ Try it online!

@Dennis Thanks a lot
 
(Note, I know nothing about Octave)
 
I'm not sure,,, I guess TIO doesn't store the command history?
 
> ,,, (commata)
 
2:42 PM
It works in Octave 4.2.1...
 
TIL Ѐ is a thing
 
@Mr.Xcoder ಠ_ಠ
Mar 11 '16 at 21:06, by flawr
WÜRFELSPRACHE
 
@totallyhuman Well, I noticed not sure,,,
 
@totallyhuman I remember that conversation. That got weird fast
 
@WheatWizard They are indeed, remind me of those guys :D
@totallyhuman lol, where did you dig this up???
 
2:49 PM
@flawr That is an awesome song! There is nothing wrong with the eyes
 
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A: What programming languages have been created by PPCG users?

ETHproductionsCubix GitHub repo | Online interpreter | Code design helper by @Downgoat Cubix is a stack-based 2D language, created by me sometime in March. Cubix differs from ordinary 2D languages in that it's not strictly 2D: the code is wrapped around a cube. The first thing the interpreter does is remove ...

 
@Mr.Xcoder congrats on 10k!
 
Thanks a lot!
 
(I may be a little late)
 
BTW today I posted my first Jelly answer that is not extremely trivial!
 
2:51 PM
@Mr.Xcoder The one ^^ (a few times)?
 
Yes
 
@totallyhuman oh god :D
 
@Mr.Xcoder I was going to upvote, then I thought that you didn't need to rep, then I reconsidered aaand... upvoted!
 
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A: What programming languages have been created by PPCG users?

Ven∀ ∀ (or "forall") is a language that piggy-backs on other golfing language to build a golf pipeline. Not sure whether to use Perl 5, Jelly, Retina or Pyth for some challenge? Why not use all three together? See it on Github. This is an example ∀ program: y+ pVsQN r(\d+) r$*# r!`#+ nsay join ...

ooh
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing Thanks :-)
 
2:53 PM
@totallyhuman -1, not golfy enough
 
Now it's congrats on 10.1 thanks to you xD
 
@Mr.Xcoder While I'm still stuck on 2.8k D:
 
You'll pass that limit soon
 
@Mr.Xcoder I've been just less than 3k for ages, and am trying to find a good question to ask. I have two quite interesting quine variants that I might make into posts, but I'm not sure
 
Well, consider answering too
 
2:55 PM
why don't you answer stuff?
...ninja'd
 
What language would I answer in?
 
anything you know?
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing Jelly, Python
 
Python, Jelly, all of my languages
 
2:57 PM
Python - So many people golf in it, I might as well post a properly formatted and ungolfed solution for uniqueness
Jelly - I have no chance vs Dennis, Jonathan, Leaky and Erik
 
that... doesn't matter at all
 
Exactly
Only if you try you get better
 
i rarely ever outgolf xnor or ovs or a lot of other python golfers
but it's not what i'm going for
 
Me too ^^
 
My languages - so complicated that people no longer care about the challenge by the time I've forced a program out of them
 
2:59 PM
<- less than 3k too
But only out of laziness lol
 
@totallyhuman Yeah, but you and Xcoder can FGITW. I never do, and when I do, the answers are incorrect.
 
I once tied xnor and that's about it, once tied ovs, once beat ovs, got outgolfed many,many times but I don't see anything bad with that
 
Also I'm here more for language design than golfing
 
@ASCII-only You've got Charcoal now, so at least you have a competitive language in some challenges
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing but Neil is the one who uses that :P
 
3:00 PM
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Q: ASCII Airplane Banner

AdmBorkBorkGiven two inputs -- one of them a printable ASCII string (including space, excluding newline), the other being one of two distinct, consistent values of your choice (1 / 0, l / r, left / right, etc.) -- output an ASCII art airplane banner of the string, pointing either left or right. For consiste...

 
Not even creators can beat Neil
 
I'm thinking of adding a restriction to my next challenge where you have to wait a given amount of time before posting, depending on your rep, but I know that no-one else will like it :(
 
@Mr.Xcoder exactly :P
@cairdcoinheringaahing well what would you expect
 
@ASCII-only what do you mean?
 
It's literally nearly impossible to outgolf a user with over 30k on SO and over 50k here.
 
3:02 PM
No
It's hard to outgolf any user above 30k, or a repcapping user
 
@Mr.Xcoder Its close to impossible to outgolf a user with ~155k rep
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing no, it isn't that hard actually
 
Erik did it.
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing why have such a weird restriction? Plus I think a lot of the high rep users are limited by repcap so it's not a good indication
 
@ASCII-only I toyed around with something like it when I first joined the site but abandoned it because it just wouldn't be fair.
 
3:07 PM
@cairdcoinheringaahing exactly :P
@cairdcoinheringaahing well that doesn't stop you from using it does it :P
 
Ok, bringing the conversation away from my mistakes :P What do you think of this a challenge (feel free to CMC if you want): Output a random permutation of your source code each time the code is run.
 
I think there's been one of those.
 
@AdmBorkBork I looked for and but couldn't find anything similar
Yeah, actually, that's this
 
Yeah, that's pretty close
That's the one I was thinking of
 
man why do i suck at challenges >_>
 
3:14 PM
@totallyhuman You're better than me :D
 
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A: ASCII Airplane Banner

totallyhumanPython 2, 131 bytes s,d=input() p,l=' '*10,len(s)*2+1 print'\n'.join(i[::d]for i in[p+'/'+'-'*l+'/','|-DI>-/---< '+' '.join(s)+' <',p+'\\'+'-'*l+'\\']) Try it online! 1 for right and -1 for left.

look at this mess
:P
 
@totallyhuman because you're not using Charcoal :P
 
@totallyhuman Better than anything I could do
 
Okx
CMC: Get a valid PPCG member which is either the input or the input is a substring of it
 
@ASCII-only oh i'm already working on it :P
@ASCII-only hey does charcoal's ternary use python's boolean testing?
 
3:18 PM
@totallyhuman it should
 
cool
 
Lol, in one of my languages, the code 'Hello, World!' outputs H!e!l!l!o!,! !W!o!r!l!d
And 'Hello, World!'o outputs Hdedldldod,d dWdodrdl
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing what language?
 
I've gained exactly 18000 rep since joining PPCG
 
3:25 PM
@AdmBorkBork basically you now have 18001 rep?
 
Right
 
@AdmBorkBork Also you've gained more, because you've lost some as well?
 
Net, not gross. I've done a bunch of bounties and there have been a couple downvotes here or there.
 
@AdmBorkBork only a couple? I wish that for me :P
 
...stupid slashes
 
3:27 PM
@totallyhuman don't ask don't ask don't what do you mean?
 
in that ascii-art challenge
the slashes have to be flipped
it's not as easy as just reversing the lines
 
string.translate('/', '\\')
 
It is
 
@ASCII-only Charcoal doesn't count :P
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing doesn't work
You need to maketrans first
 
3:29 PM
Yeah, just a couple. ;-)
 
...whatever i'm not fixing my answer
 
@totallyhuman boo :p
 
foobar reversed is raboof
lol
@ASCII-only doesn't work when input contains reflectable characters
 
3:34 PM
Well crap
 
See, I like making my challenges subtly difficult. But that impacts the updoots that they get. My easier challenges like Mountain Peaks got a lot of updoots, but I think it's more boring that way.
 
Also yay bug
 
Also yay Charcoal startup time is suffering from compression dependencies
 
Okx
3:53 PM
yay
 
What's wrong with Würfelsprache? D: — flawr 1 hour ago
 
4:23 PM
@cairdcoinheringaahing I'm on vacation right now
 
@HyperNeutrino good for you, but why did I have to know?
 
if I want to match a string that contains the same number of Xs as Ys, how would I do that?
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing Because that's why I was only here for 5 minutes
I'm too lazy to find messages because I haven't figured out how to reply from the transcript on mobile so I didn't reply
 
@HyperNeutrino ok, cool. Where are you on holiday? creepy grin
 
Halifax
 
4:26 PM
@HyperNeutrino the bank?
 
anyway gtg now
 
no, the city ._.
 
aha! I reckon the FBI is tracking you, but can only find out where you really are if you're online for more than 5 mins
 
4:27 PM
also don't make a new language, just revamp proton ಠ_ಠ
 
You are repeatedly printing all the code points in reverse
 
@WheatWizard I know, but I wasn't trying to, and I don't really know why it does :P
 
@NathanMerrill We had a challenge where you needed to verify a string contained the same number of "a"s and "b"s.
 
It makes sense to me. Try walking through the program step by step
It gets stuck in the inner most loop forever
 
CMC: Print Jelly's code page (formatting not necessary)
@cairdcoinheringaahing Jelly, 2 bytes: ØJ
 
4:46 PM
print("""¡¢£¤¥¦©¬®µ½¿€ÆÇÐÑ×ØŒÞßæçðıȷñ÷øœþ !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnop‌​qrstuvwxyz{|}~¶°¹²³⁴⁵⁶⁷⁸⁹⁺⁻⁼⁽⁾ƁƇƊƑƓƘⱮƝƤƬƲȤɓƈɗƒɠɦƙɱɲƥʠɼʂƭʋȥẠḄḌẸḤỊḲḶṂṆỌṚṢṬỤṾẈỴẒȦḂĊḊ‌​ĖḞĠḢİĿṀṄȮṖṘṠṪẆẊẎŻạḅḍẹḥịḳḷṃṇọṛṣṭụṿẉỵẓȧḃċḋėḟġḣŀṁṅȯṗṙṡṫẇẋẏż«»""")
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing -1 not possible for languages that use a custom codepage (except Jelly)
 
@TuxCopter Then don't use a language with a custom code page
@TuxCopter And yes it is. Just find the Unicode code points and convert to characters
 
and 499 bytes XD
 
@totallyhuman I don't get it...
 
4:50 PM
trimmee and trimmer
 
the trimmer trims the trimmee
the cleaner cleans the cleanee
 
@totallyhuman I wouldn't quibble with Dennis' vocabulary. Look at this
 
the mayor mays the mayee
5
 
@AdmBorkBork the mayer mays the mayee
 
10/10
 
4:51 PM
@cairdcoinheringaahing ...where'd i quibble? :P
 
@totallyhuman it seemed as though you were making fun of trimmer and trimmee. One does not simply make fun of Dennis' source code :P
 
Wow, a 68-byte Jelly answer
 
@AdmBorkBork I think 98 bytes is the record, just can't find it
 
There is an answer with 200 bytes
So no
 
4:55 PM
Around 200 bytes
Which makes it annoyingly hard to search for
 
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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

CzarMattThe source of pi Inspired by an International Obfuscated C Code Contest entry. Task Using the area of your own source code, approximate pi to at least two decimal places. Rules Take no input Hardcoded values for pi are not allowed Output should be 3.14 with optional trailing new line Sta...

 
Is this NAA or borderline spam?
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A: Score rock-paper-scissors

sanayaif you are here to come for searching and getting soluion for"Code of Rock, Paper, Scissor, Shoot"then i am giving advice to you go through below link where you can clear your doubts and find the complete solution.CLICK HERE FOR SOLUTION

 
What's NAA
 
Not An Answer
 
ooh youtube just changed logo...
@DJMcMayhem seems like naa
clicked the link
 
5:05 PM
Yeah, same here
 
but let's examine the content
 
But you could argue that it was promoting that site
But I agree that it's NAA
 
@EriktheOutgolfer huh
It's just the font right?
Wait nope
 
@DJMcMayhem Totally spam
 
5:22 PM
@DJMcMayhem why did you delete this with delete votes
It even has a utm tracker
 
@EriktheOutgolfer I don't see any change
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing It used to have the word tube in the red part
 
@quartata I don't know what that is
Sorry about that
 
@DJMcMayhem It's not your fault, you did the right thing
it's just that chat decided to brigade it immediately
 
5:34 PM
@DJMcMayhem It lets the target site track how many times their links on PPCG get clicked.
 
@Dennis Do you agree that it was spam?
It's not as clear-cut as most spam I run across
 
Looks like Dennis fixed it haha
 
Although it is pretty fishy
 
Just re-deleted it as such.
 
@DJMcMayhem it was absolutely spam, the utm was ?utm=code-golf
 
5:35 PM
Spam, not fish.
 
so we were targeted actually
I can't report it on MS since it was deleted
But I'll watch the keyword
 
@quartata On the good side, it means people know who we are :P
 
5:48 PM
Didn't spam have fish in it
 
@totallyhuman how do you add numbers in ,,,?
 
... There's a wiki
 
Yeah, but it's easier to ask you :P
Nvm, found it in the "Add two numbers" question
 
ಠ_ಠ I hate NQT. To add 2 numbers, you have to do 0--0-o
 
5:57 PM
@cairdcoinheringaahing not quite there?
 
@EriktheOutgolfer yeah, do you know it?
 
I think it's one of your languages...haven't used it though
 
Yeah, it is. I designed it so that a prime test would be practically impossible. (its not quite there)
@StewieGriffin I've been wondering this for ages, why aren't you posting on SO?
 
it was taking much of his time
> If you see me answer any questions or comment on a post before August 2017, please down vote, leave an angry comment and give me a smack in the face! Thanks!
well now it's august 2017 though :p
 
@EriktheOutgolfer the problem with that is that you can't downvote a comment, and I don't have enough rep to be happy losing it downvoting him :P
 
6:02 PM
well he's "addicted" to SO so he sees that text and it's discouraging...that is, after he clicks on the NOT sign on his profile picture
 
What's the shortest way you know to turn 1 into -1 and 0 into 1 in Python? TFeld had 1-2*x. I had -x|1, where x is either 1 or 0. Do you have any other (shorter) approaches?
 
@Mr.Xcoder I think -x|1 is the shortest
 
yeah
 
-x|1 must be the shortest
 
Oh ok, I feel good I got it to be optimal
 
6:04 PM
basically it's -~~x or 1 but ~~ is unnecessary so it gets to be -x or 1 which is the same as -x|1 for 1-bit numbers
 
@EriktheOutgolfer I don't understand how he has time to be addicted to SO when I see him for 2 hours every night on TV :p
 
wait i still haven't made that metabrainfuck i was planning
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing old joke
basically that's dennis's case too
 
@EriktheOutgolfer Dennis the Menace is waaay to old for me :D
 
and btw you forgot the :p part
or the :P part :p
 
6:05 PM
TIL Dennis' picture is meant to represent Dennis the menace :-/
 
no I didn't :p
 
@Mr.Xcoder or his github username
 
:p looks weird
 
:p actually looks better than :P
 
@EriktheOutgolfer wait, is Dennis the Menace's name really Dennis Mitchell?
 
6:06 PM
yeah
 
@EriktheOutgolfer not to me :P
 
: Make dennis change his profile pic to this
 
@totallyhuman so you prefer the tongue being somewhat offset?
 
I thought that Dennis' (the golfer)'s real name was Dennis Mitchell :P
 
@Mr.Xcoder why?
 
6:07 PM
:39704064 I think he last changed his profile picture in early 2015, so maybe not
 
@EriktheOutgolfer it's better then having half the mouth offset :P
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing Umm, what picture did he use to have?
 
@EriktheOutgolfer @totallyhuman clearly, :D is better
 
@Mr.Xcoder gravatar
 
they don't mean the same thing
 
6:08 PM
no wait
nvm
 
@totallyhuman you mean identicon?
 
@Mr.Xcoder I have no idea, I just remember finding a comment in 2015 that said
> new profile picture Dennis?
 
> And yes, the avatar is brand new.
 
@EriktheOutgolfer whatever that is
 
crap, that'll ping him won't it?
 
6:08 PM
yes
as long as you saw the list of names
 
yay
found dennis' old image
 
24 pings moved to Sandbox
 
@DJMcMayhem thanks (waited for that)
 
wut why'd you move the image
 
I don't know why, but I find it endlessly entertaining to edit the n messages moved message
 
6:13 PM
but why the image ;-;
 
idk
It's easier to move a bunch of simultaneous messages than to cherry-pick them
And I was lazy I guess
 
can i paste it back? :P
 
but you cherry pick them anyways
@totallyhuman not really needed :p
 
@totallyhuman Sure
 
6:15 PM
What is that an image of
 
3 mins ago, by totallyhuman
found dennis' old image
dunno what it's supposed to be
 
Huh. Looks cool
I ought to change my image again
I'm getting tired of the Giraffe
 
I suppose you could ask Dennis
 
I would do a reverse image search first
But I'm lazy
 
@WheatWizard Please change that, it's staring at me and it's creepy
 
@Mr.Xcoder Changed
 
Oh, thanks!
Now it's a dead Garfield :'-(
 
Should be visible in chat now
 
6:32 PM
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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

AdmBorkBorkBoolean Rectangles Inspired by Braille graphics -- title suggestions welcome. code-golf ascii-art matrix Given a Boolean matrix (i.e., consisting of only 1s and 0s), output an ASCII-art-style Unicode representation of the closed-polygon shape created by the 1s in the matrix, using the Unicode ...

 
I see @WheatWizard has continued his search for the crappiest possible profile pic.
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@Pavel We must go deeper
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing deeper
 
6:40 PM
Updated my profile on ppcg.SE :P
 
@LeakyNun Wasn't that about a week ago?
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing ?
 
Never mind, I read picture.
@LeakyNun Cool! Have fun there! Mathematics makes sense :P
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing thanks
 
6:43 PM
@LeakyNun Hopefully you'll have the time to be around now and then
 
@totallyhuman generic fractal
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing I'm flattered :P
 
@LeakyNun New username @EarlCharlesFitzCharles?
 
wat the hell did I miss @_@
 
I might also kinda "leave" or dramatically reduce my activity from October too
 
6:44 PM
how far does that continue
 
@Mr.Xcoder any reason?
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing How so?
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing School
 
@DJMcMayhem Wikipedia didn't know what Brain-Flak is D:
 
And many, many other things related to School
 
6:45 PM
@LeakyNun too long
 
@Dennis was that what you were aiming for?
:P
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing It used to
 
@DJMcMayhem I wonder who added Brain-Flak to that? (FMI how old is BrainFlak?)
 
Uhm... Like 1&½ years I think?
 
@DJMcMayhem lol, I remember reading the first post where it was used, and thinking it was new :D
 
6:54 PM
> Doesn't seem notable
We need to fix that
 
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Q: Array Factorization

StephenGiven an array of positive integers, output a stable array of the distinct prime factors of these integers. In other words, for each integer in the input in order, get its prime factors, sort them, and append any primes not already in the output to the output. Test Cases [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10] ->...

 
@Stephen can we remove the comments now?
Thanks
 
user image
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@Mr.Xcoder oh I did that like 5 minutes ago
 
FWIW I fixed it for -1 byte
 
6:57 PM
 
@Mr.Xcoder This may be stupid but what is FWIW?
 
For what it's worth
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing ಠ_ಠ
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing and English isn't even @Mr.Xcoder's native language (I think)
 
no, it isn't
 
6:58 PM
@Stephen FWIW isn't english
 
@Stephen Haha, I'm down. What counts as "notable"?
 
@DJMcMayhem front page of reddit
 
@Stephen I can't find that
 

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