Linked Questions
83 questions linked to/from Things to avoid when writing challenges
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Irrational Short Code Rationales [duplicate]
Many questions nowadays include a ridiculous rationale as to why the code needs to be as short as possible. The frequency of these rationales apparently is starting to annoy some people (although, I ...
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Sandbox for Proposed Challenges
What is the Sandbox?
This "Sandbox" is a place where Code Golf users can get feedback on prospective challenges they wish to post to the main page. This is useful because writing a clear and ...
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Loopholes that are forbidden by default
There are a number of standard loopholes which experienced question-setters seek to explicitly close. However, inexperienced question-setters may unintentionally leave them open, or respondents may ...
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Default for Code Golf: Input/Output methods
It looks like we have a consensus that we want certain defaults for the format which answers are expected in for code-golf. On that poll, the question arose twice, which input/output formats should be ...
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Interpretation of Truthy/Falsey
Quite a few code-golf questions require output to be "truthy or falsey". This is possibly confusing as these terms can possibly mean different things to different people, and especially in different ...
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Should we change our name?
This site may have been built primarily on code-golf challenges and puzzles that have no winning criteria, but we have evolved away from that. Our name is outdated, and we should rebrand ourselves.
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Here's your site design preview!
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 ...
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What should this site be called now that it's getting a design?
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 ...
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When it is and is not acceptable to edit someone else's post
TL;DR: In what circumstances is it ok (by CGCC and politeness standards) to edit directly a post (be it challenge, answer, sandbox question, etc), assuming the edit is done in good faith?
I know ...
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Who are you? Why are you here? And more introspection
Whereas:
we are unsure about where exactly we fit into the SE mission
others sometimes don't take us seriously
the site has been languishing in beta with minimal communication from SE for years
we ...
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6answers
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Default for Code Golf: Program, Function or Snippet?
One of the things many (new?) users forget to specify in code-golf challenges is whether the answers should provide a full program or a function (or even just a snippet). For most such things, we have ...
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Standard definitions of terms within specifications
Quite often I find that I am repeating myself when creating a challenge. For example, usually I have to retype the definition of "random" in all of my posts, or I have to specify the same thing about ...
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Is a “built-in” considered to be so for all challenges it CAN solve, or only the one it is DESIGNED to solve?
This question has arisen after reading this answer to a question prohibiting a built-in which solves the problem. The poster argues that the built-in is not defined as "repeat a single integer a ...
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2016 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire
In connection with the moderator elections, we are holding a Q&A thread for the candidates. Questions collected from an earlier thread have been compiled into this one, which shall now serve as ...
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2018 Moderator Election Q&A - Question Collection
Programming Puzzles & Code Golf is scheduled for an election next week, February 5th. In connection with that, we will be holding a Q&A with the candidates. This will be an opportunity for ...