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The rendered output still shows the markdown for LaTeX in the review queue:   Question pictured.

It looks like the image that is supposed to show up in the 404 error page has...itself gone 404, and shows a broken image. It looks like it's trying to load the image from https://cdn.sstatic.net/...

I wrote a Python 3 answer. I called it Python 3 in the title; however, it works equally well in Python 2. I discovered that I am able to remove several bytes from the answer, but only if I use Python ...

There's an old (2014y) conversation about this: Let's design a nice badge icon!, but without any real outcome. However, quite recently we got a new site design, including our new logo: For me it ...

This site gives one more reputation to specific -1-voted questions. (This is the formula that I tried myself: ...

This post says: This site is now "Code Golf & Coding Challenges" Indeed, this is what it says in our banner too: CODE GOLF & coding challenges But our tour page says: Welcome ...

Source answer Intro Powershell introduced by Microsoft in 2006 for Windows OS. Since earlier versions, Powershell provides predefined aliases for commands. For example, alias ...

The "Featured on meta" sidebar currently shows three posts: two of which are actually featured, and the third of which (Cast your vote for “Best of PPCG 2018”!) ceased to be featured 40 days ago. That ...

I know that the best answer in a code golf challenge should be the accepted one. Is it a good idea to add a "final positions table" to the end of the post once a winner is found? Something like this: ...

In the code-golf challenges, does it count in bytes or character length. Because one character can 1 byte ranging from charcode 0 to 255, 2 bytes ranging from 0 to 65535, etc.

I somehow got reputation for editing my own answer? It's this edit. Is this intentional or not? Because I could then edit some answers I've posted before, and get reputation, because edits to your own ...

If I find an old answer whose code I verified works using, say, Try It Online, can I edit that answer and add the link?

As you can see in the image, I cannot close the question even though I have >500 reputation. I cannot blame it on caching because I passed 500 reputation a long time ago (greater than a month).

You may have noticed that the site got a bit less blue today! Thank you so much for your input over the last few weeks. This has been a great process and I really hope you like your new theme. We ...

This question is sort of a follow-up to this other one I found, which I found quite useful but not fully elaborating on what I wanted to know. So, my question is this: I am working on a KoTH puzzle ...

The current tag info of the sequence is doesn't contain any additional information and I'd like to improve that. Currently it is almost exclusively used for integer sequences (many times from OEIS) ...

Disprove that this code generate valid n^2 x n^2 Sudoku Grids I'm complete with my Sudoku Project and others have been skeptical that I can generate pre-filled valid Sudoku grids in poly-time. Now, ...

Three great discussions and 6-8 weeks later, I'm here to introduce you to your new site design! Thank you to everyone who contributed ideas to the discussion -- there were many great points of ...

I recently posed a challenge about computing a function of \$\pi\$. It was closed for being unclear and received a number of criticisms. One of the main ones I think was that banning built-ins for \$\...

why did they put this challenge on hold? How could I have made it clearer? Benjamin has N boxes in his garden with dimension xiyizi each. Because he does not want to let them out and get wet, he ...

On my code golf challenge, there are two tie 24 Bytes answers. The first one (Excel) is great because of the creativity put into it and the second one (MATL) is just skill I think and each one should ...

UPDATE: New site name chosen! This site is now "Code Golf & Coding Challenges" Thank you all so much for participating in this discussion! Following Catija's comment on the site name meta ...

Since bash scripts (or any other Linux shell scripts) are accepted as a programming language, I wonder what (Linux) programs are accepted as callable from the command line. It seems that it is ...

For code-golf questions, TIO has been a superb resource. However, for fastest-code challenges there is no equivalent tool available. I believe we could explore working with one or more 3rd parties ...

UPDATE: New site name chosen! This site is now "Code Golf & Coding Challenges" Thank you all so much for participating in this discussion! As we're designing the site, we are considering the ...

According to Can Halting be considered output? and maybe some other links, programs should halt. However in some cases making program halt is easier(save the infinite loop in code-golf, etc.) but ...

You may have seen my previous post, in which I introduced a new leaderboard widget over the old system. Well, turns out there were a few major bugs with the program. I've gone through and fixed all of ...

Updates: Update 1.1: Released on April 26th, 2019 If you are just here to get the code for the widget, you can skip down to the bottom of this post. Hello! Over the past week, I have been working ...

Right now, there are two challenges, Newer challenge: Check if a string is entirely made of the same substring by ouflak Older challenge: String.prototype....

How would we score changing the colors of graphs in Desmos in [graphical-output] challenges with color-sensitive output? Currently, selecting the color in the menu costs no bytes as no characters are ...

I don't like golf languages, and I vote on solutions using them only if the solution has some extraordinary feature (like abusing a bug in the interpreter). How can I encourage people to vote this ...

I posted a challenge that requires programs to generate a random number in a range, and one answer used the rgeom function from R. This function uses a geometric ...

The long wait is almost over! You have been eminently patient while we've gotten other site designs finished and then completely redesigned the layout of the network. Now that all of that heavy ...

My challenge Solve Subset-Sum in polynomial time (...if P = NP) was closed as a duplicate of Golf the Subset-Sum Problem. But the restricted-complexity aspect of my challenge makes it very different. ...

I couldn't find anything related to this on meta, so here goes: I've noticed that we've decided that competitions should be within each language for a code-golf competition to avoid golfing languages ...

In certain languages (i.e. C), writes to streams like stdout can be buffered by default - what this means is that when one calls functions like ...

I see the bottom of vote list good and some good questions removed cuz of low votes. Is there way to see the removed or I have to go through all possible question id?

Here is an answer that I made recently: https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/181416/70328 A commenter suggested that I could remove convert from my code, and use <...

The phrase "Voidhawk's well-explained answer was the first one here in APL" appears in 3 featured questions on PPCG with an active bounty. It seems out of place and I'm not sure what it means. Does ...

Some challenges require, for instance, lists as input. A list has a property being its size. Several languages have builtins to get properties such as the size for a list (all golfing language, ...

As per this question's answers, Scratch 2.0 is no longer considered a "free" language. As per this question's accepted answer, non-free languages are allowed if marked as non-competing. Scratch 2.0 ...

Recently, I posted a code-golf question about number sequences. However, as I was looking through the question later, I thought to myself, "Wouldn't this be good as a fastest-algorithm question?" It's ...

Note this isn't about command line flags, which already have a consensus here. There was a recent PHP answer involving multiple PHP files. Normally, programs with multiple files are either using one ...

An answer I deleted immediately after posting has been down-voted. Is this possible, or did the down-vote occur in the split-second before I deleted it?

This answer gives the reciprocal of the required output, rather than the required output itself. In a simpler challenge this might cut out a significant part of the work, but for this particular ...

Looking at the various winning criteria tags in The Tag Categorization Project, a lot of them should have links to e.g. standard loopholes and I/O standards, but don't. This probably should be fixed.

I mostly ask this for the benefit of new users (e.g. me, ish), who might not know where all the important meta things are, especially since they're not linked every time they apply. I've done some ...

Consider the following the challenge: Write a program that accomplishes X task while maximizing the number of distinct characters in your source code. Removing any set of characters from the ...

Assuming the question would be considered a good question by the community, what is the community stance on creating a question with the sole purpose of eventually supplying a golfed solution? To ...

Say I'm designing a new language for golf or some other esoteric purpose, and I'd like feedback on some design concepts. I feel posting this on SO, Programmers, CS, or pretty much any other site on SE ...