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5:40 AM

@Jono2906 Good afternoon o/

Jono 2906

5:52 AM

\o Howdy!

DJMcMayhem

7:18 AM

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Jono 2906

Hey, so who controls the CGCC twitter account?

I mean, when questions become HNQs, they seem to be tweeted onto the account.

So is that a manual process, something set up by SE, or something maintained by the CGCC community?

Unrelated String

7:57 AM

I think it's automatic, and run by SE

A _

12:44 PM

I stumbled upon the page GolfSpace. I thought that it is a really interesting idea! Wow, who made it? I read the history and realized that the creator is me...

(5 different punctuation marks in the above sentence without repetition. Can anyone beat me?)

EdgyNerd

1:36 PM

Quick question: in Pyth is there are short way to check if one string starts with another string (basically python's .startswith)?

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2:07 PM

@EdgyNerd You beat me. 6 different punctuation marks.

As for the function, I didn't find it in the Pyth reference.

EdgyNerd

2:21 PM

I'm pretty sure it can be done in 6 bytes using slicing

but that seems way too long

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3:56 PM

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Q: Design a Recursive-Descent Web Crawler

Challenge Design a web crawler that recursively extracts all the hyperlinks from the HTML of the web page and does the same for every hyperlinked page it finds. The webcrawler must store the hyperlinks in a separate file How The WebCrawler Works First the webcrawler should download the HTML f...

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5:52 PM

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Q: N-Dimensional Cartesian Product

Introduction The Cartesian product of two lists is calculated by iterating over every element in the first and second list and outputting points. This is not a very good definition, so here are some examples: the Cartesian product of [1, 2] and [3, 4] is [(1, 3), (1, 4), (2, 3), (2, 4)]. The pro...

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ngn

@NewMainPosts that's 1 byte in j, if anyone can be bothered to post an answer

caird coinheringaahing

7:23 PM

CMC: Given a day and month in any reasonable format, output the full name of a random person born on that day, according to the Wikipedia page for that day. For example, fr May 27, output any random name from here. You can choose to remove the year, and/or title if you want, I don't care

It must be random in some way, distribution doesn't matter

ngn

8:16 PM

@cairdcoinheringaahing 12 bytes: "john smith". there are so many john smiths (not just famous ones) that they should most likely cover the calendar..

caird coinheringaahing

@ngn Literally doesn't work for the example date I linked :P

ngn

8:30 PM

that's because not all john smiths have wikipedia pages yet :)

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9:42 PM

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Q: Write a WebCrawler

Challenge Design a web crawler that recursively extracts all the hyperlinks from the HTML of the web page and does the same for every hyperlinked page it finds. The webcrawler must store the hyperlinks in a separate file How The WebCrawler Works First the webcrawler should download the HTML fi...

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10:08 PM

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Writing a WebCrawler Challenge Design a web crawler that recursively extracts all the hyperlinks from the HTML of the web page and does the same for every hyperlinked page it finds. The webcrawler must store the hyperlinks in a separate file How The WebCrawler Works First the webcrawler shoul...

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