Questions tagged [discussion]
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CGCC Data Analysis #1: Tags
A few months ago I posted a few interesting bits of research on data from SEDE. It was fairly well-received, so I figured I'd do some more analysis. I might make this a weekly thing.
I decided to ...
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Do golfing languages support parallelism or concurrency?
Say, I propose a challenge like Scream Very Loudly, but the program must print 'A' once a second and must halt immediately when Enter key is pressed.
If I understand parallelism and concurrency ...
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How to deal with an accidental chameleon challenge
What happened
I was about to post Does base n have any Rotate-Left-Double numbers?. Kevin Cruijssen told me in the sandbox comment that he got a proof that significantly simplifies the problem. I ...
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Any tips for running a low-maintenance KotH?
I'm working on a King of the Hill challenge for some point in the next couple of months. (Sneak Peek)
The problem I have is that last time I ran one it was pretty ambitious, and it became a heavy ...
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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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Challenge post-mortems
While to-be-posted challenges get feedback in the Sandbox (ideally), we don't usually reflect on challenges after they have run. And while issues and ambiguities in challenges do get pointed out, we ...
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Why are all the answers here being downvoted?
I noticed that most, if not all of the answers on Vowels up, consonants down are being downvoted. I raised a mod-flag but there's only one mod and I'm guessing they're already stressed with the load ...
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For fastest-code questions are new compiler optimisations as non-competing allowed?
I looked around and it seems that the language is defined by the compiler not operational semantics. In normal code golf new languages are banned because of the loophole of implementing the answer as ...
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Best of PPCG 2019 – Now Accepting Nominations!
You have chosen the categories for PPCG's "Best of 2019". We're going with 16 categories this year. Since all you amazing people have offered up a collective total of 16,000 rep in bounties, we can ...
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Community Promotion Ads — 2020
2020 has come! But… oops, where did the time go? It’s already March! Belated as it is, it’s time for a refresh of Community Promotion Ads!
What are Community Promotion Ads?
Community Promotion Ads ...
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Is it acceptable to rerun an old coding challenge as a new thread?
I ran this challenge a year and a half ago. It was a good time, and I want to run it again, with some additional statistical analysis on my end and some tweaks to the rules to clean up the format a ...
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Policy on answering challenges with cumbersome I/O
We've probably all seen new users ask questions with cumbersome I/O rules, like mandatory taking the input by reading separated lines of STDIN and outputting to STDOUT to give an example.
In those ...
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On “golf this for me” tips questions
Sometimes we get tips questions from a first-time contributor asking for help golfing a particular piece of code that they wrote. Often these question don't fare so well. Can we do anything here?
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Why hasn't this question been reopened yet?
I asked this question, and it was closed because I did not clarify what I meant by the word "randomly". Now I've clarified it but it is not reopened. What is wrong with it now?
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Is it acceptable to ask for Github Pull Requests for a King of the Hill challenge?
Background: I ran into numerous issues when presenting and running this King of the Hill challenge back in October: Write a bot to play Grid Game - I'm cooking up a new, similar challenge, but taking ...
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Do golfing languages support arbitrary-length integers?
During a conversation in my proposed challenge in sandbox, there had been some objections about requirements in the challenge.
I want to entirely ban a usage of floating-point numbers in the ...
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Do golfing languages support rational number arithmetic?
I proposed this code golf on sandbox:
Integer Logarithm
Take \$a \in ℤ_{>1}\$ and \$b \in ℤ_+\$ as inputs. Write a function \$f\$ that:
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f(a,b) =
\left\{
\begin{array}{ll}
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Ruleset for RGS's Golfing Showdown - competition is over!
RGS
RGS stands for RGS's Golfing Showdown, a golfing competition.
The competition has ended, final leaderboard at the end of this post!
1 - The format
The RGS will be a virtual golfing competition ...
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Is asking for a bounded time complexity allowed?
Say, if someone asks for a code-golf like this:
Test primality under polynomial time
Given a positive integer, test whether it is prime.
Rules
The algorithm must have polynomial ...
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What should we do against the downvote flood in the sandbox?
In the last 3 or 4 weeks there are quite a lot of sandbox proposals being downvoted. A quick count in the first page reveals that 12 proposals are at -1 and 2 are at -2, and some of the -1s are ...
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Creating a multiple-challenge competition
I wanted to create a golfing competition that would be split in n different challenges, each posted with k days in between one ...
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Are all golfing languages friendly to Unicode?
I'm going to make a challenge involving Mahjong Tiles (U+1F000 – U+1F02F, though I'm going to use only U+1F000 – U+1F021).
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Consensus on another user posting another answer in the same language
Should another user post another answer, instead of commenting, in a language that already has answers from somebody else, in the following circumstances?
It is a modified version of the current ...
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What is too many sandboxed challenges?
I am very enthusiastic about this community (but I am very very young here) and I really want to contribute with new challenges.
On the other hand, I don't want to "clog" the sandbox with challenges ...
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How does one calculate bytes for a solution to a Code Golf scenario? [duplicate]
I am new to Code Golf, and would like to start answering questions/scenarios posted on this Stack Exchange Site. I have seen many scenarios posted before, and have come up with solutions for said ...
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What's the Future of CGCC?
As of recently, we've lost 3 of our 4 moderators. This means we only have 1 moderator left. Also, several people are expressing their concerns that things are dying around here.
With the recent mess ...
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Hanging up my diamond
Well. I never thought I'd be writing this message. I've logged into this site nearly every day for over 5 years. I truly love this community. I've learned so many things from it, and I have made ...
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Can I use here my own language for code-golfing?
Can I golf in my own programming language here?
I ask it 'cause there is no online way to check it out.
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Ight Imma Head Out
Rise and Fall of Communities
Over the years, I've been part of many growing online (and offline) communities, usually in some kind of advocate and/or moderation capacity (I'm just a room owner here). ...
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Best of PPCG 2019 — Call for Categories [duplicate]
Last year we voted for the best posts of 2018 and rewarded them with bounties and challenges. I think it's a great way to reward and draw attention to some of the best content the community has ...
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2019: a year in moderation
It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...
A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:
We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, ...
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Is it ok to share Coding Game puzzle solution for golf improvement?
I want to share my golfed code of puzzle available on Coding Game, but is it OK to share it on CodeGolf SE ? Other's code is available only by completing the puzzle, but I use those puzzle to train ...
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Is the “no MetaGolfScript” rule somehow formalized?
A disadvantage of the "default rules as answers" is that the rules don't have a common, organizing, "formal" thought behind them. I'm talking about this one here. I understand it as applying to "...
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Should the Info Box Link to the Active Sorted Sandbox?
The link to the sandbox in the info box is nice, but I was wondering if it might be better to link to change the target of the link from
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Reopen or repost?
Which choice is better: re-posting a closed challenge with 4 downvotes, or reopen the closed challenge?
The only problem seen in this challenge (at least by me) is that the spec is too unclear. If ...
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Popularity of posts, based on capitalization (no graphs this time)
After this question, I became interested in looking for various relationships in post popularity. While reading through the HNQ list, I noticed that some questions are capitalized in title case, and ...
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Are transpiler languages allowed?
I recently created a simple little language that transpiles Brainfuck into a format that is half the size of its input. It can be used to compress and decompress Brainfuck programs.
Provided I ...
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VLQ answers - are these still a thing?
Recently I found this answer, which was apparently marked as "Very Low Quality" due to not being ungolfed and hard to explain. Apparently, this was the norm at the time. However, nowadays I see a ...
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Why did CGCC get so many views on November 5th?
According to the site analytics tool (for those who have access to it), we got a huge spike in views on November 5th.
(where green is new visitors, blue is total visits and orange is total page views)...
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January 2020 Moderator Election — Community Interest Check
This community last had an election last year, and has recently seen their moderator team reduced by two.
As such, by request of the remaining two moderators on the team, and to find replacements ...
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The relationships between question length, views, and votes (and more painfully unlabeled graphs)
I recently meta'd some interesting research I'd done relating to the correlation (or lack of) between the time a question is asked and its view count. I got some comments suggesting I look into other ...
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Popularity of questions, based on post time (and the most useless graph ever)
Back when I was new to Code Golf SE (then PPCG), a lot of my questions didn't do too well, and I didn't have the experience to tell whether they were good challenged or not. As such, I would often ...
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What is the point of unicode gibberish?
It's been a few years since I came back into this forum to play some code golf and I am seeing a flood of unicode only "languages" where large operations are hidden in a single unicode character and ...
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It's time for me to leave
On October 27th, I decided that the following requirements must be met by November 1st for my continued involvement with the Stack Exchange network:
The forced relicensing from CC-BY-SA 3.0 to CC-BY-...
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Is CGCC culture compatible with competitive programming culture?
A few days ago, a post called The puzzle masters behind Facebook's Hacker Cup explain how they craft questions appeared on the Stack Overflow blog and is currently promoted on the sidebar of related ...
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Is using a language limitation to simplify an answer cheating? [duplicate]
This question is mostly in regards to This challenge and the comments
My planned answer for a microcontroller language could do one of two things: make a general process to handle any input but will ...
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Zsh: Functions and Math functions
I have been using functions for Zsh submissions for some time. I typically submit the body alone, as the body can be run as a full program with no modification: ...
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How can we improve the quality of questions/challenges?
I just checked out the site and from the last 10 challenges 4 are downvoted. That doesn't fill me with a great deal of desire to check out the site regularly to see if there is anything worth ...
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Is playing reverse code golf possible? Will it ever be?
EDIT: people have pointed out I overlooked the existence of code bowling, which is indeed very similar to what I was looking for, though not exactly what I envisioned it to be. I'll leave this ...
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How can we clearly define “Must work for theoretically large values”?
This doesn't seem immediately like an issue, but I've encountered it once in a challenge already, and recently again in a Sandboxed challenge, and is getting tiring to find the correct wording. For ...
