@EricTressler We love to joke around, both in the office and outwards. This reflected in the website too, but at the same time, we have commercial customers who expect (or do they?) a professional, sincere website. Well.
@EricTressler Have you seen our videos? Some are hilarious.
huh interesting. so when the chat page has loaded but is still displaying "Loading [room name], Just second...", you can type stuff and send messages :P
Write a program that reviews posts for the Close Votes queue on Stack Overflow.
Since it's near-impossible to write a bot that can accurately review posts in the actual queue, we're instead going to use a grossly oversimplified version of the queue and its rules.
Your program should take in the...
I could make assignment an operator so you could theoretically chain any amount of ====' s after a different operator to increase the amount of self-assignments, But I'd like to think I'm above that sort of Chaotic Neutral programming.
Because of how I handle metamethods, if I make assignment an operator I could cause rather bad behavoir when trying to assign to an object with this metamethod altered.
when i try to edit text that i have modified in gimp, it opens a dialogue that immediately closes when i lift my finger off the mouse button; i can't click any of the options...
10 languages, 87 bytes, score 0.087
1` FSR3U3%3&(()())#💬5💬➡MoOMoOMoOMoOMoOMoOOOM++++++++:H@@@@@@@. {- !*/}(10)>
WIP, I plan to add a lot more.
Element
Brain-Flak
SimpleStack
Cubically
Emoji
COW
Agony (outputs via raw ASCII)
Beam
Commentator
Straw
Just going through the langs on TIO, seeing which ones are compatible
Reminder: codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/147636 is 1 day left to be marked safe. Though I have no idea how to crack it. Probably some recurrence relation.
@ATaco feature-request Catch blocks where the exception is ignored should be usable with try { ... } catch { ... } instead of try { ... } catch(e) { ... }
@Mego A new user asking a question on SO has one thing in mind, get help. Yes, all programmers in the world might benefit from the answer, but the reason for posting is "selfish": "I want help". The reason for posting a challenge on PPCG is not the same. It's posted hoping that someone will have fun.
Anonymous
@StewieGriffin That is utterly irrelevant to what I said
@Mego IMHO it is. A new user attempting to bring something to the table that everyone can enjoy should be encouraged to try again, not be thrown out of the community. I wouldn't have asked a second question if that was the reception I got when I posted the first one.
My point is: We should encourage and educate new users, not throw a bunch of downvotes at them (which I find really discouraging).
That being said: I didn't really like the attitude that user showed in later comments saying he/she didn't need the Sandbox. That made me want to take back a few of the comments.
Anonymous
Votes are meant to be on the post, not on the user. It doesn't matter if they're a new user or not - if it's low-quality and shows little effort at making a good challenge, downvote it.
Saying that people shouldn't downvote new users when the post would've been downvoted even if the user isn't new is encouraging targeted voting, which is not ok.
A farmer wants to cross a river and take with him a wolf, a goat, and a cabbage.
There is a boat that can fit himself plus either the wolf, the goat, or the cabbage.
If the wolf and the goat are alone on one shore, the wolf will eat the goat. If the goat and the cabbage are alone on the shore, ...
Ok, I won't try to force my views on someone else again. I do think we should encourage users to post challenges though, and try helping them improve if needs be. I won't dictate how this shall be done (or if it should be done).
For the record, I do think some challenges deserve downvotes though. Especially when users just reads the word "Challenge" and posts a task they found challenging. In that case, they're not even trying.
One function return the string of type of its argument
If you have one language allow type to exist, the question is
Write the function strTypeOf() that return the string of the type its arg.
If it find one error: it would return "Err" or not compile or not link.
It would find the correct type...
Ain't no thang! ...or is it?
Introduction
Street talk can be really difficult to understand, in particular to programmers, who aren't known to be very streetwise.
It is your job to create an interpreter to help us all survive in the urban environment.
Challenge
Given an English sentence as i...
Goal
Morse code is often represented as sound. Given a stream of bits that represent whether sound is on or off, translate the stream into letters and numbers and spaces.
Specifics
The bit stream is analysed based on the length of repeating ON/OFF bits.
1 ON bit is a dot
3 ON bits are a ...
someone who went to my school a couple of years before me managed to bring down the common server between that school and another nearby school using Applescript :P
Well a friend of mine got his notebook's MAC address permanently banned from my university's wifi APs because he was trying to do a packet injection attack on his own phone
So destructive. I would carry a CD-ROM with me and install Diablo on a library computer during breaks. I had a diskette to save and load my game. Just had to make sure it wouldn't reboot and thus reset the HDD. When the break was over, I'd just press the reset button.
Task
Read a input string separated by space.
Sort the words alphabetically.
Print them out vertically in 3 columns separated by space(s).
Challenge
All three column's heights should be as evenly weighted as possible.
Example
If the input is:
"cat caterpillar pie frog elephant pizza",
...
Posting images from snag.gy as links like snag.gy/97Gjoq.jpg will make chat SE errorneously render it as a onebox, and then report "Image not found". Posting i.snag.gy/97Gjoq.jpg works. (add a "i." at the beginning)
I got really annoyed yesterday, because I was waiting for my sister to finish a class going from 6:00 to 6:30, was really bored, and didn't realise the APL lesson was going on. Got home and got even more annoyed when I found out I missed it. ლ(ಠ_ಠლ)
@MagicOctopusUrn No, idea frankly. I don't deal much with our customers. APLers just like making puns with APL≈"apple", so I thought APL-Jews≈"apple juice" was cute. We have APL Tree (a utils lib), APL core (crash dumps), ○ is a whole APL pi(e) (i.e. multiply by pi), etc.
@HyperNeutrino Even better: If you post a message saying (e.g.) "Hello", then edit it to "World", then post a second message saying "Hello", it removes it :P
Write a program that reviews posts for the Close Votes queue on Stack Overflow.
Since it's near-impossible to write a bot that can accurately review posts in the actual queue, we're instead going to use a grossly oversimplified version of the queue and its rules.
Your program should take in the...
10 languages, 87 bytes, score 0.087
1` FSR3U3%3&(()())#💬5💬➡MoOMoOMoOMoOMoOMoOOOM++++++++:H@@@@@@@. {- !*/}(10)>
WIP, I plan to add a lot more.
Element
Brain-Flak
SimpleStack
Cubically
Emoji
COW
Agony (outputs via raw ASCII)
Beam
Commentator
Straw
A farmer wants to cross a river and take with him a wolf, a goat, and a cabbage.
There is a boat that can fit himself plus either the wolf, the goat, or the cabbage.
If the wolf and the goat are alone on one shore, the wolf will eat the goat. If the goat and the cabbage are alone on the shore, ...
One function return the string of type of its argument
If you have one language allow type to exist, the question is
Write the function strTypeOf() that return the string of the type its arg.
If it find one error: it would return "Err" or not compile or not link.
It would find the correct type...
Ain't no thang! ...or is it?
Introduction
Street talk can be really difficult to understand, in particular to programmers, who aren't known to be very streetwise.
It is your job to create an interpreter to help us all survive in the urban environment.
Challenge
Given an English sentence as i...
Goal
Morse code is often represented as sound. Given a stream of bits that represent whether sound is on or off, translate the stream into letters and numbers and spaces.
Specifics
The bit stream is analysed based on the length of repeating ON/OFF bits.
1 ON bit is a dot
3 ON bits are a ...
