Timeline for Best of PPCG 2016 — Call for Categories
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| Dec 21, 2016 at 8:07 | comment | added | Martin Ender Mod | @xnor added, thanks. | |
| Dec 21, 2016 at 8:07 | history | edited | Martin EnderMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 21, 2016 at 0:00 | comment | added | xnor | @MartinEnder I like the sentence you're suggesting. I agree that counting bytes saved by the tip is a bad idea. | |
| Dec 20, 2016 at 14:48 | comment | added | Peter Taylor | There are on the order of 300 candidates (338 answers in tips, the vast majority of which are eligible). | |
| Dec 20, 2016 at 9:10 | comment | added | Martin Ender Mod | @xnor Suggestions? "Candidates should be tips which show deep insight into the language, yet are applicable in wide range of situations." maybe? I wouldn't want to make a statement about how many bytes the tip saves. I think a tip that is very versatile and can save a byte in one out of four golfed programs is more interesting and valuable than a tip that can very occasionally save 10. | |
| Dec 20, 2016 at 2:41 | comment | added | xnor | I think this would be better with more guidance on what to look for in a winning tip. I'd be disappointed if a well-known, beginner-level tip in some language won just because it's easy to use and understand even if you don't golf in the language. Conversely, I wouldn't know what to say to a tip that suggests a very clever trick that is basically never used. | |
| Dec 18, 2016 at 20:35 | comment | added | Martin Ender Mod | @DJMcMayhem I expect a good tip to be explained just as thoroughly, and nominations could point towards answers where that tip was used to great effect. | |
| Dec 18, 2016 at 20:33 | comment | added | DJMcMayhem | There are some ways. For example, byte count compared to other answers in the same language, votes and comments (to some degree), and explanations. | |
| Dec 18, 2016 at 20:32 | comment | added | Martin Ender Mod | @DJMcMayhem The same applies to golfed answers in languages you don't know: how can you tell that the golfing trick employed there really is as clever as it seems? | |
| Dec 18, 2016 at 20:05 | comment | added | DJMcMayhem | I'm not a huge fan of this category because it's impossible for me to judge how useful a tip is in languages I know nothing about, making it harder tell which tips are truly exceptional. | |
| Dec 18, 2016 at 10:20 | history | answered | Martin EnderMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |