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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What objective winning criteria should be specified for a popularity + code trolling contest?
For a question that is a code trolling, popularity contest, what types of "objective" criteria should be listed in order to prevent the question from being closed?
Is "this is a code trolling contest;...
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What is the procedure for asking a question on PCG?
I posted a proposed puzzle in the Mark VIII sandbox regarding writing the most efficient algorithm to accomplish a specific task (identify Armstrong Numbers). It was a long question and I have no ...
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cite an answer or an image
I want to use an image from this thread to my Thesis.
Images with all colors
How can cite it.
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Would "CSS challenge" questions be appropriate for this site?
It's a common mantra among web developers that "Avoid JS wherever possible" and "don't use tables for layout". Yet every now and then I come across a layout that I want to implement, but cannot do so ...
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Do we want a banner warning about our policy on AI generated content?
Since January 10th, sites have been able to request to opt in to have a banner shown on answers reminding answerers on their site's policy regarding AI generated content.
This leads to two questions:
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Size in DB ?for opcode submission
If an opcode solution uses but doesn't rely on value of somewhere
At the beginning/end of program
In the middle of program
, then do these count as program size?
Example where placed at end:
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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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Answering a tip for golfing in a specific version of a language
Phrased generally, my question is: Given a language "The Summer" and an experimental branch of it "The Fall", should I answer a "Tips for golfing in The Summer" question ...
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Would randomness-based languages be allowed? [duplicate]
I've been thinking about creating a language where it's impossible to create a constant with a known value. Thus, it's impossible to guarantee a program will work 100% of the time (though you'd be ...
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Are infinite score allowed by default for "lowest score win"?
Are submissions acceptable if their worst case score is unbounded?
I think it worth a default exist
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Can I use Power Query "M" Language - and what should it be called?
I enjoy using Power Query "M" language (Microsoft Reference)
Is this language permitted - and in cases where the language name is to be used, should this be referred to as ...
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New [Scientific-Notation] tag
I'm a bit new to meta, but I recently posted a question
and it requires converting to and from scientific-notation. I almost created a scientific-notation tag, but I'm not sure if I would be justified ...
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Reviving a lost language
A while ago I did something rather stupid.
After I added a Brain-Flueue flag to the ruby implementation of Brain-Flak I went ahead and deleted the old Brain-Flueue repository. This made sense at the ...
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Language util name byte counting
I'm trying to figure out how the byte counting works in "Sum the numbers on standard in". In one answer using the jq util counts the non-space bytes after the util ...
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Is this valid for this SE site?
I am new to this SE and don't know if this fits theme of this website. That is why first posting in meta site. Feel free to suggest some other SE if applicable. Sorry for the long post. But this much ...
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Strange byte count for winforms
How to cout bytes for winforms programs? Just met a strange situation here:
C#, 120 bytes
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Loading from SYS in SmileBASIC
(SmileBASIC is a BASIC interpreter for the Nintendo 3DS)
SmileBASIC has a special "folder" named SYS that contains built in resources, such as the default sprite ...
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Are GoL challenge on topic
I have a challenge idea that is pure Conway's Game of Life, would this be on topic on PPCG?
I know we already have some, but it seems to me that they're just cool language restricted golf, which are ...
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How to deal with a large API for a KoTH
My upcoming KoTH, Fellowship, has a really large API.
Fundamentally, there are 5 classes the player needs to work with:
Player is the class they need to implement (6 functions)
ReadonlyCharacter is ...
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Can you allow ASCII-only and Unicode answers in the one challenge?
I have a question that is intended to allow Unicode input. No-one has posted an answer yet but someone has asked if it can be ASCII input only. That could drastically change which languages were ...
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What is/are the reasons for this being put on hold?
Can someone explain specifically why this is currently on hold? I'd really like to be able to turn this into a contest, but I'm not sure what's disagreeable about it.
https://codegolf.stackexchange....
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Objective winning criteria added, may I ask for reopen?
I am asking about my this question for reopen - or an explanation if it is still offtopic.
A further problem what I can see, that - although it is not language-specific -, the question effectively ...
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Are long form challenges welcome?
I've got an idea for a fun (!) challenge but it would be a little different from the ones I normally see on this site. The challenge would be to come up with an algorithm that solves the problem the ...
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Why are my comment flags declined?
I flagged two comments on this question:
Is it code-golf? If so, tag it. If not, define the winning criteria.
And the second flagged comment:
@ugoren sorry not sure where to draw the line, i ...
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Which answer to a code-golf question has the smallest score?
Find the smallest prime from a substring has the answer with the negative score -18 due to 50 points bonus for languages without prime-related functions.
A score ...
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lambda brainfuck and virtual machines [closed]
I've been playing with some ideas for a challenge to poke fun at java virtual machines and was pondering a brainfuck virtual machine (three bit bus!) and I got to wondering if there are any brainfuck ...
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Offering functions
I imagined a golf Challenge which seemed pretty interesting to me. But to make it doable, I'd like to offer one or several functions to challengers.
For exemple:
Function 1
Input: Integer a; id ...
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Where's the puzzles?
I've seen lots of code-golf and code-challenge questions, and few code-bowling and code-curling ones that didn't go over so well. What types of puzzles are there? Why aren't we seeing them?
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Can we enforce a time limit?
By time limit, I mean the OP should include one, such that (s)he will sooner or later accept the winning answer, provided there is at least one valid answer.
It doesn't have to be a fixed time. ...
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How is Subleq code counted?
How are "bytes" counted in Subleq, in which code is a list of integers with no fixed size?
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What is the stance on challenges that are supersets of other challenges?
I have this challenge in the Sandbox at time of writing. I want to add some more requirements that can potentially majorly change how some solutions can work (dakuten, handakuten, small kana).
Should ...
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Desmos Active Sliders
The Desmos Graphing Calculator, or Desmos, has sliders, which can run, animating a graph.
Also, they can have multiple animation modes: (default) loop forwards an backwards, repeat in one direction, ...
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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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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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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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Judging the score of physically constructed electronic logic
How would physically constructed logic be scored? Say, for example, a mixture of resistors, diodes, wires, and 74xx/4000 type ICs.
Handmade logic fits the "programming language" criteria, as using ...
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Complexity of assembly built-in?
Consider a challenge:
Given a positive integer \$n\$, compute \$n^2\$. The solution with the least asymptotic time complexity in terms of \$n\$ wins. fastest-algorithm
(let's temporarily ignore ...
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What exactly should be the format for the test cases? [closed]
Working on my latest challenge, I realized that I don't know what is the optimal way of providing/formatting the test cases. So the question is, what is the best way for a challenger to provide test ...
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On type restrictions
Recently I had an interesting interaction on one of my questions. A user posted this answer in C++. My question requires a function on the positive numbers that has some properties, the user's ...
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Is this coin flipping challenge really a duplicate?
The challenge in question.
I have discussed this in the comments of the challenge and in the chat room for that challenge where I was told that TNB was the place to discuss it. I brought it up in TNB ...
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How can answers in ROBLOX Lua be scored?
I know scripting in ROBLOX is basically lua, but it adds a few elements. Those being a three-dimensional world and some kind of object orientation. Now, just for the sake of it, not to actually expect ...
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How to answer a Code Golf Puzzle [duplicate]
In some languages such as PHP you need to add these <?php ?> before you can start to program in PHP. And in C++ too. ...
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Closing one's own question as a dupe
I was curious why does it permit users to close their own question. What is the rational behind this? Is there any reason a user should be allowed to do this?
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A new javascript KOTH challenge, Fastest gun of the west! [duplicate]
Sometime ago i wanted to make a KOTH challenge, but i wanted it to be more interactive and easier to test, i didnt really come up with anything good. But then i saw this awesome thing Red vs. Blue - ...
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Hard coding input [duplicate]
I've seen some answers that hard code the input or rely on the existence of a user-defined variable, see for example this question. The OP asked for a "function or equivalent subprogram". I don't ...
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To what extent are external libraries/modules allowed? [duplicate]
Consider a simple code where the coder imports an external library/module to solve a particular problem. In most cases it will be a built-in library, no problem. But what if someone creates his/her ...
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Is there some kind of reward?
Well, I love code golfing, and this site is a really good idea.
But I was wondering if there's some reward or motivation for posting results ? If there are none (apart from the randomness of someone ...
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Is outputting by modifying an input with no modifying access allowed?
Say Round to nicer numbers where it's possible to always output n'=m. I submitted a Javascript solution that does this.
I can require input be f(x,n,[m]) and then ...
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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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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 ...