The Nineteenth Byte

@quartata A better question would be "Are there benefits to using a non-free C compiler?"

Quintec

1:44 AM

@Οurous A better question would be "Are there benefits to paying for WinRAR?"

@Quintec Yeah, I don't need to close the prompt when I open it and I get that warm fuzzy feeling.

Quintec

@Οurous I seriously hope you're joking, otherwise a) you use WinRAR b) you're proud of it c) you paid for it :P

Mostly just a)

DJMcSpookem

@ConorO'Brien Yeah, what dlosc said

@NathanMerrill Thanks for comments, well I think that's quite complicated too but I'm afraid of hiding too much crucial information

Nathan Merrill

2:29 AM

@ShieruAsakoto I know, I deal with the same problem too

You want your spec to be comprehensive, but understandable

However, in your particular challenge, there's a lot of stuff going on

tons of different actions, equations, etc

That's not a criticism:

Rather, it's a tradeoff: Complicated means less submissions

@ShieruAsakoto In relation to Nathan Merrill's comments: While I understand restricting it to a specific language, and while JS is widely written, the subset of people who: write JS, have the time to write complicated things in JS, and can understand the challenge - will be fairly limited. You're likely to get some low-effort just-qualifying submissions and only a few more interesting ones.

Maybe I should put the concrete formulae into a reference part instead? I still want to make the reasoning behind the formulae clear though.

@ShieruAsakoto That's a good idea. That way people can read more if they want to understand it, but spend less time before being able to start on a solution.

ATaco

4:17 AM

Who remembers TeamSpirit?

Q: Read out the C variable declaration

why the colors :o

ATaco

It was a userscript that split TnB into two teams based on arbitrary conditions

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Background Variable declaration statement in C consists of three parts: the name of the variable, its base type, and the type modifier(s). There are three kinds of type modifiers: Pointer * (prefix) Array [N] (postfix) Function () (postfix) You can specify a list of function arguments insid...

Pavel

4:44 AM

@ATaco I still have a version of it installed on my surface that I barely use

Downgoat

5:24 AM

O_o what does it mean for a bounty to be placed by community?

DJMcSpookem

5:37 AM

I don't know, but I'd guess the user that placed the bounty deleted their account

@Downgoat Where did that happen?

Downgoat

5:55 AM

saw it on history.se forgot the exact post

DLosc

I devised a quick-and-dirty method for measuring how popular a language currently is on PPCG. Search is:a language-name, sort by Newest, scroll to the bottom, select 50 results per page, and check the date of the 50th-newest answer.

Pros: easy to do, doesn't require special privileges. Cons: prone to false positives, doesn't work well for single-character or symbolic language names.

Some current results:

Python:     Oct 20
JavaScript: Oct 13
Jelly:      Oct 7
APL:        Oct 5
05AB1E:     Oct 2
PowerShell: Oct 2
Ruby:       Oct 1
Java:       Sep 20
PHP:        Sep 13
Pyth:       Sep 7
Retina:     Aug 25
Stax:       Aug 17
MATL:       Aug 8
Julia:      Jul 5
MATLAB:     Jun 11
CJam:       May 17
Befunge:    Apr 7
QBasic:     Mar 12

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6:14 AM

Jelly: Oct 7

suprised

DLosc

Surprised that it's that popular, or that it's not more popular?

A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

that is almost as popular as common programming languages

caird coinheringaahing

8:01 AM

@Downgoat If a bounty is awarded by the Community user, it means that it was defaultly awarded to the highest voted answer, and not awarded by the person who set the bounty

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Hack g-code parser Here you can see g-code parser, written in JavaScript to use in microcontoller(like espruino). But you can run it in browser, because it don't use any specific features function gcode(str){ //Removes comment, parses command name and args const [,f,args] = (str.match(/...

8:27 AM

in Mathematical Programming Challenges, Oct 16 at 5:38, by user21820

Pretty Programming Puzzle: RoboZZle.

It's essentially code-golf in a minimalist programming language. If anyone here can solve the puzzles I linked to in that room, could you share or hint? I can't figure out what I'm missing.

@user21820 time to jump in the deep end XD

@user21820 come on, the first one is really easy - try to solve it in a function with 4 instructions, then split it

Neil

Huh, Charcoal only slightly more popular than... MATLAB

O_o

@ngn Are you referring to the right one?

I can solve all those not labelled "Hard".

8:36 AM

also. sorry about not touching Charcoal at all for the past who knows how many months lol

@user21820 ah... i started from "Easy"

@ngn =)

Anush

the thing about writing fastest-code challenges is that I get to work out how to install and run languages I had never even heard of before :)

8:52 AM

@user21820 i solved the first hard one

@ngn Can you post a hint in the room?

@ngn O_o