Questions tagged [discussion]
The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.
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CGCC Blog #1: Are golfing languages good or bad for the site?
Welcome to the first CGCC Blog post!
After 7 years, and three attempts, we've finally started a site blog, for posts and topics that the community here on CGCC is likely to find interesting. If you'd ...
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Community Ads for 2021
We're almost halfway through 2021, and in case you missed it, Community Promotion Ads are gonna be a bit different this time! TL;DR: submit and vote for ad proposals before August 2nd!
What are ...
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Should new challenges on Codidact be posted into The Nineteenth Byte?
Codidact is a related network of sites to Stack Exchange, created in the aftermath of behaviour by Stack Exchange in late 2019, in an effort to create a better Q&A network. One of the sites in ...
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Issues with Sandbox Clutter
The Sandbox for Proposed Challenges is a great way for people to get feedback on challenges and make sure they are not duplicates, are clear, and are ready for posting before they post it to the main ...
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Can I license my controller for a KotH under the GNU GPL v3?
I've just finished making a controller for a KotH challenge, and I wanted to know: Can I use it for the KotH and license it under the GNU GPL v3, or does it have to be licensed with the MIT License to ...
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New First-Time Asker Dialog
(I have cut down the post body to make the request clearer for reviewers; you can view the revision history for the original question.)
The current modal that appears for someone asking for the first ...
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Challenges with an oracle
There are many ideas of code-golf challenges out there that are abandoned because a part of them are just too hard to implement with a reasonable amount of effort. For instance, requiring to parse ...
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Is it acceptable to use an external API doc in a challenge?
So, I'm working on an environment for an upcoming challenge, and I've written a fairly extensive API document for entries to interact with the game.
I'm thinking at this stage that the API doc itself ...
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Conclusive opinion on having a Hello, World! feed
This question asks about the possibility of adding a feed to The Nineteenth Byte that posts new answers to the Hello, World! thread - a typical place for people to first introduce their new ...
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Why is meta full of old questions / why did my question get a trivial edit?
EDIT - this just happened again recently, so read it again if you're confused.
This isn't a question, it's just an update to let people know what happened.
You may have noticed the meta is suddenly ...
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Can we have a separate tag for combinatory logic?
Background information: Combinatory logic on Wikipedia
Basically it is a model of computation closely related to lambda calculus, but using a fixed set of combinators instead of lambda abstraction. ...
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Is it a [question] or a [challenge]?
Both of these tags are active on Meta: challenges and questions
One has 17 questions, the other 44. One has no tag wiki, the other does. They both, more or less, ask about questions on the main site. ...
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Quine in Pxem, a language whose program is represented as a pair of strings. Is outputting the filename a quine?
My quine in Pxem was criticised as not being a quine, as they output their filenames, not the content of those files. A Pxem program is represented as a pair of a filename and content of file.
So far ...
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Language of the Month for June 2021: Red
In accordance with our meta agreement, since one candidate received more votes than the others, we have a new featured language! Throughout June 2021, our Language of the Month will be:
Red
What's a ...
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Should I prevent users of a specific browser doing my challenge?
I'm currently working on a challenge which involves writing JavaScript players for a board game.
I've also recently discovered private fields in JavaScript (a recent addition), which I thought would ...
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Should we replace The Nineteenth Byte's feeds?
The Nineteenth Byte, our main chat room, has some feeds. These post new challenges, meta questions, sandboxes posts, and some other assorted things. Unfortunately, they're kinda slow. New Main Posts ...
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Need help with code golf [duplicate]
What in the world is code golf and how is it important to me? I have already looked in the tour.
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Should “import” statement be included in byte count if I'm not using it directly [duplicate]
Related: On scoring imported functions
I knew that if I want to use some imported functions, I had to include "import" statement in the byte count. For example, I want to find out the most ...
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Introducing Generic Review Tool
Generic Review Tool is a small script designed to detect review tasks on CGCC, and open them in a new tab. It is similar in function to Review Stalker Reloaded, probably the most widely used script ...
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Closing as unclear to give way to another post?
This is closed as unclear by 5 users given no comment reason. In sandbox there's also no more discussion but IO format.
The only possiblility I see is to give way another question. Either because hate ...
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Correct flag usage on invalid submissions
Recently, a couple of invalid answers have been flagged as NAA. This is somewhat of a duplicate of this answer on our policy, but I want to mention this because it's important that everyone is using ...
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Should we merge the voting tags?
We currently have four tags about up/down-voting:
down-votes
up-votes
voting
votes
There's an argument to be made for keeping down-votes separate since there's a bit of stuff about downvoting ...
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Custom Fonts User Script: Revert or Improve the Font Updates
Recently, Stack Exchange decided to switch to system fonts. For those of you who prefered the old appearance, or would like a different font to appear in code blocks or across the site as a whole, ...
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How can fastest code submissions be judged if the challenge author is gone?
Usually fastest code challenges have the challenge author time the results on his/her machine.
For old questions for which the challenge author may not be active any more (ex. those by user Lembik), ...
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Introducing Biweekly Mini Golf!
In order to grow our community and its chat room, The Nineteenth Byte, we decided here to start a new monthly biweekly chat event: Biweekly Mini Golf!
During this event, a number of previously drafted ...
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Tag Proposal: [asymmetric]
I've cooked up a few king-of-the-hill challenges, mostly in the sandbox, and a few of them are asymmetric in nature.
They're not really cops-and-robbers because it's not really about cracking a code, ...
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Is returning a longer array allowed?
There exist some questions that it's easier to output an array longer than intended to output, and it costs to slice.
Longer array behave like small ones as long as you don't access its length or out-...
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Are random submissions with drastically different results each time allowed in KoTH challenges?
I posted a King of the Hill challenge recently, but I'm not sure if this answer is in the spirit of KoTH challenges. It chooses a random number at the start of the challenge and repeats that number ...
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Language of the Month for May 2021: Vyxal
In accordance with our meta agreement, since one candidate received more votes than the others, we have a new featured language! Throughout May 2021, our Language of the Month will be:
Vyxal
What's ...
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Should the Language of the Month post be an “Upcoming event”?
Some sites on the network have an additional sidebar box for "Upcoming Events", which is separate from both the "Featured on Meta" and "Host Meta Posts" boxes:
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Can we assume computer be fast enough?
Consider such a question
Take a program P and an integer n, check whether P halts. You may ...
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Introducing The Guild of Reviewers - Better Sandbox Feedback
(Thanks to Redwolf Programs for the name!)
In a recent discussion about the info box and linking to the Sandbox for new users to use it before attempting to post their first challenge, we noted that ...
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Tour page summary - we're not a Q&A site
Here's what our Tour page says right now:
Code Golf Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for programming puzzle enthusiasts and code golfers. It's built and run by you as part of the Stack ...
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Welcome The Nineteenth Byte's newest room owners!
The votes are in, and the following four members of our community have been elected as room owners of CGCC's main chat room, The Nineteenth Byte.
They have been instated effective immediately. ...
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Cleaning up the vague [function] tag
function is, in my opinion, an incredibly vague tag, that overlaps significantly with functional-programming. The tag wiki of function only has an excerpt that reads
For challenges that ask for a ...
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Removing unnecessary bounty templates - final consensus
EDIT - seems like this change is a bit harder than I initially thought. I'll still collect ideas and we might look to get this changed in the future, but it's not a high priority.
This is now at +7/0 ...
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Should we have chat events, and if so, how should we do them?
Chat events recently came up in chat. If we are to have events, it would be a good idea to plan out the following things first:
What the events will be about
How often they'll be
Whether we'll hold ...
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Improving Bounty Reasons [duplicate]
How could the bounty reasons be improved? has been status-review for four years now. I think we should have this discussion again, since nothing really seemed to happen from the last one, and we can ...
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Does a Vim submission have to end in a certain mode?
This question came up recently in a discussion of the validity of my answer to this question. It was argued that the answer was a V submission, not a Vim submission.
It is widely agreed that ...
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Can we clean up the [optimization] tag and its tag wiki?
The tag wiki for optimization currently reads like the following:
Challenges tagged optimization should tend to focus on three areas:
There is exactly one observable parameter ("score") ...
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What should we write about on our blog?
We're currently waiting on a solid consensus on how to host a blog, but while we wait, we should collect ideas for what blog posts should discuss. Suggest your ideas here.
Below, submit one topic per ...
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Handling old, popular, creative, but non-competitive answers
Take a look at this answer: Produce the number 2014 without any numbers in your source code.
This is the most upvoted answer on our site right now. However, as many have pointed out, by modern ...
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Should we start a blog?
7 years ago, we asked about having a site blog. The idea sort of just stopped and was never followed through. Unfortunately, since then, BlogOverflow (the site supposed to host site blogs) has been ...
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Language of the Month for April 2021: Vim
In accordance with our meta agreement, since one candidate received more votes than the others, we have a new featured language! Throughout April 2021, our Language of the Month will be:
Vim
What's ...
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Should we change the question on the Tour page?
The Tour is a page shown to new users, intended as a quick introduction to the site. As part of this, there's an example question shown to the user:
The current question, Triangle Area Side Side Side,...
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Introducing OldSandboxPosts
My name is OldSandboxPosts and I am a chatbot written by caird coinheringaahing and hosted by Redwolf Programs. My source code can be found here. Every day, at 1:00am UTC time, I log onto Stack ...
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How much information can 10k+ users share?
Upon reaching 10k reputation, users have access to the moderator tools, which contains information and stats on:
Deleted posts and votes to delete
Closed posts and pending votes to close and reopen
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Would I mind you if I paste long TIO url for Pxem?
I am a Pxem user; I have answered some in Pxem. Since tio.run does not provide Pxem, I am posting online demo, with my interpreter, like this.
The problem is: code for the interpreter is long; so does ...
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Can we clear up the [faq-proposed] tag?
There are currently 13 questions tagged with faq-proposed, the "staging ground" for posts before they become official faq posts and are added to the FAQ. faq-proposed is not intended to be a ...
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The Validity of a Custom, General-Purpose Language [duplicate]
I am currently writing and maintaining a new general-purpose language, named CSASM.
I seem to have forgotten the rules surrounding languages such as this one. Hence, it would be preferable to have ...
