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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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
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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Is it fine if a language keep tracking new PPCG questions? [closed]
Usually see questions based on another existed one. Tracking may give some good in this case.
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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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Vote for your new TNB Room Owners!
The Nineteenth Byte is getting four new room owners. You've had a week for nominations, and now it's time to vote. In alphabetical order, here are the nominees:
Adám
chat profile | main profile | ...
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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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New Room Owners for TNB - Nominations Phase
Nomination phase is over. You can vote here until UTC midnight on Tuesday, April 20th
By community consensus, we will be having more room owners for The Nineteenth Byte. We will be selecting new room ...
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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 an 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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Are Unicode friendly golfing languages using the right byte count? [duplicate]
This is probably a misunderstanding/misinterpretation on my part, but, does Unicode friendly golfing languages use the right byte count?
As example, this answer is said to be ...
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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 ...
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Should we have even even more room owners for The Nineteenth Byte?
4 years ago, we voted on and appointed additional room owners for The Nineteenth Byte. That was the most recent time TNB has had new room owners. Currently, only 2 of the room owners are able to be ...
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An experiment into the FGITW phenomenon
Yesterday (probably the day before yesterday in some time zones), I decided to run an experiment on the "Fastest Gun In The West" phenomenon, in which early answers tend to get ...
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Welcome to Code Golf and Coding Challenges StackExchange!
What is this site?
This is a place to host recreational coding challenges, such as code golf. We are unlike most sites in the Stack Exchange network. We are not a question-answer site, nor are we a ...
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Adding readability as a constraint
BACKGROUND: I am a CS lecturer (teaching C++) and I keep thinking how to incorporate coding challenges in teaching.
Many questions in this site are great; I have just used Do you want to code a ...
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Autodeletions - debloat the site
Problem
The 'recent challenges' section is clogged up with nonsense.
Solution
Auto-delete challenges past a certain negative rep value, maybe -5.
Reasons for doing this
These challenges add nothing ...
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What assumptions can be made about the environment in Scratch?
It seems to be undisputed precedent for Scratch answers that only the code is counted when determining the bytes used for an answer (although, how to come up with the amount of bytes that the code ...
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The rise of OEIS challenges
I'm aware that this phenomenon is nothing new, as OEIS Challenges have been around since the beginning of this site. And I also don't think OEIS challenges are necessarily bad. In fact, many of my ...
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Language of the Month for March 2021: Factor
In accordance with our meta agreement, since one candidate received more votes than the others, we have a new featured language! Throughout March 2021, our Language of the Month, nominated by myself (...
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How can we improve the quality of new users' challenges?
All stats given here are correct at the time of writing. I can't promise that they'll stay exactly correct for a significant amount of time (and they most likely won't), but I'd be surprised if the ...
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Introducing SlimSharp
SlimSharp is a custom variant of C# intended to help with some of the worst pain points when using C# for Code Golf. It's something I've had in the back of my head for a while, and I finally took the ...
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Threshold for votes in the Sandbox before posting in the main site? [duplicate]
Recently, I posted my first post on the main site for Code Golf, and it was poorly received because I am a newcomer to the site. I was asked to post it in the sandbox, here. As of now, it has one vote,...
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Generate a 3d Object?
There are a variety of languages and frameworks that can be used to output a 3d object, including, but not limited to, codecad. However, many 3d frameworks or game engines could also be used this way. ...
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Can Whispers programs ignore a final output line?
This was first asked by Leo in the Whispers chat room:
But I have a general question about Whispers submissions: couldn't we avoid counting the final Output line most of the time? We can consider the ...
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The many users of CGCC
What are the stories behind your username and avatar?
Some users' usernames and/or their avatars have a significance behind them. What about yours?
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What to count in assembly?
Yes, I've checked this post (How are bytes counted in assembly), but I'm asking a different question. I'm asking, if I have an .asm file, an ...
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Language of the Month for February 2021: Whispers
In accordance with our meta agreement, since one candidate received more votes than the others*, we have a new featured language! Throughout February 2021, our Language of the Month, nominated by ...
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source for a downloadable dictionary with IPA phonetic transcriptions?
I have an idea for a fun challenge but it will require access to IPA phonetic transcriptions (in English at least). An API that serves up the same would also do, though it would tend to favor ...
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2020: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the past 12 months.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network ...
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How should answers that time out be judged?
Suppose a challenger submits a code-golf challenge to do a particular task, together with test inputs. (That is, they've determined that, in order to be convinced that the code in an answer correctly ...
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RIP Glenn Randers-Pehrson
This question jogged my memory that we have an expert in our ranks who might give a brilliant answer to this question - Glenn Randers-Perhson:
Coauthor of PNG spec, developer/maintainer of libpng, on ...
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Should we update our ask question page?
About ten months ago, we got a new ask question page. This adds a few features:
A custom modal that appears when a user asks their first question:
Custom warnings in the "review" pane of ...
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Best of CGCC 2020 - Call for Categories [duplicate]
Well, 2020's come to an end, and so that means: Best of 2020!
In this thread, we'll consolidate the categories for our Best Posts of 2020, and eventually we'll vote on which posts will win for each ...
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Language of the month for January 2021: Scala
In accordance with our meta agreement, since one candidate received more votes than the others, we have a new featured language! Throughout January 2021, our Language of the Month will be:
Scala
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What's our policy on “reposting” older answers with newer versions?
On occasion, especially with a couple of specific, inactive users, I'll craft a Jelly answer identical to an existing answer, except for a few byte-saving substitutions that have been added to the ...
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Are compile-time solutions valid?
I have a couple answers here that work at compile-time and just posted another, and I was wondering if such solutions are allowed. I'm not talking about just proper functions that can run at compile-...
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Why do moderators decline “no longer needed” flags on chatty comments?
I primarily land on Code Golf by visiting links to questions from the Hot Network Questions roster. When I see comments on answers like:
Good observation!
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Wow, impressive!
I tend to flag them ...
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Proposal for tag: [symmetry]
I have recently asked a question in which I think we need a symmetry tag, which has not been created yet.
Here are some questions to which I think the tag would be applied to:
The symmetry of months
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Proposal for tag: [infinite-output]
I recently created the infinite-output tag for my newest challenge. After a discussion in chat, there's a bit of disagreement on whether it's needed.
Here are some questions I think the tag would ...
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How to deal with questions that do not explain their winning criterion?
Recently there's been a bit of a discussion in chat about this challenge. It was put into the close vote queue as unclear, with the main reason being that it didn't state the winning criterion in the ...
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Language of the month for December 2020: Rust
In accordance with our meta agreement, since one candidate received more votes than the others, we have a new featured language! Throughout December 2020, our Language of the Month, nominated by ...
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What is our consensus on floating point issues?
As far as I can tell, we don't yet have a definitive Meta consensus to the following question:
Are answers allowed to work "in theory" but fail in practice due to floating point issues?
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Byte counting policy for library imports in Factor
As this month's LotM (Forth) was not gaining much participation, I guessed it's partly because it's way too low-level, so I was looking into Factor as a modern, high-level alternative to Forth. If it ...
