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Account is not allowed to suggest edits
I received the following error upon trying to preview my edit to this answer in the Android app:
Please fix the following:
Account is not allowed to suggest edits
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1answer
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Hard coding input
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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How to explain your code
Since I am now programming in a very esoteric language, Pyth, I like to include in my posts an explanation of what my program is doing. However, I seen many different explanation formats, and I'd like ...
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Agreed formula for Scoring code-golf
Code-Golf scoring without need to print all in one line
Often great answers in code-golf questions are too hard to read. Also the counting of bytes or characters should just count all characters not ...
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Tip - Explain your arbitrary looking rules
More of a cautionary tale than a question...
I posted this question over my lunch hour earlier. (Briefly, generate some type 4 GUIDs using the cryptographic random number generator.)
I wanted to ...
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1answer
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Would this contest be too similar to my last contest?
I've just picked a winner for this contest, and I was think of other ones along similar lines, and I thought about a script what would randomly pick someone from the list, but would never pick one ...
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0answers
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Stack Exchange Quine (Sandbox) [closed]
This is a sandbox area for my code-golf challenge, “StackExchange Quine”, in which you must write the shortest quine that posts itself as an answer to the challenge. See the other post for a complete ...
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2answers
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Multiple bugs in my profile
I recently registered on this site, and I encountered two bugs,
First is that I cannot see a link to meta site on my profile page
And secondly, I earned association rep of 100, so the total score ...
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1answer
63 views
Am I supposed to be able to favorite my own questions?
Am I supposed to be able to favorite my own question? It doesn't seem right...
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8answers
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Most Preferred Input Format
If I were to pass your program an integer array as input, what format would you prefer?
I understand that this question is primarily opinion-based, but it is also incredibly useful information for ...
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0answers
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Incorrect delete vote count in tooltip
The count of delete votes needed to delete a post is not always displayed correctly in the tooltip. This is what happened when I found this bug:
I was in the "delete" tab in the tools, and it said ...
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2answers
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Code-golf contest is biased towards certain languages
I counted the number of wins in the code-golf contests. Only questions with more than 2 answers and that have a selected answer (marked green) were counted. Here is the result:
Do you find this ...
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1answer
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Can I cast a vote on my own popularity contest?
I've just posted a popularity-contest question, and I'm curious about the rules on myself casting a vote. Am I allowed/should I vote on my favourite answer, or should I leave it up to everyone else's ...
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5answers
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Let's decide what kind of non-challenge questions we want once and for all
4 reopen votes and 1 delete vote is a strange thing to see. It's also slightly worrying that we have so little consensus on this matter. So let's bring the community together.
What kind of ...
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1answer
39 views
Can't read explanations on iPad
Explanations cannot be read on iPad. Selecting them doesn't make them visible. Please implement that they become visible after a tap!
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0answers
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Atomic Golf COBOL (IBM Enterprise COBOL)
Just to make it clear, Atomic Golf COBOL will not be a competitive golfing language. The longer the shortest answer (80+, the longer the better) the more possible to get close, however, COBOL is very ...
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0answers
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Are questions about performance a good fit for code golf?
For example I have a running program in Python that solves game X. The performances are good enough for me and I don't feel like I can improve it. Now I am curious to know how much this could still be ...
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1answer
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Should we reopen and then close with the right reason?
I just came across this question in the review queue. It was originally both too broad and lacking an objective primary winning criterion. It got closed with the latter reason, but then the owner ...
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2answers
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Recommended textual representation for playing cards?
I am working on creating a king-of-the-hill that involves using playing cards, but I am not sure what the best way to represent them textually is.
Here are some alternatives I have considered:
Note, ...
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1answer
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Adding benchmark test cases to active code challenge
I am working on a code challenge. The scoring will be based on a set of benchmark inputs (i.e. it will be the sum of the individual scores).
Now I'm wondering if it's alright to add additional test ...
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0answers
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Custom language for code golfs [duplicate]
A collegue of me just suggested, I could just invent my own language for every problem in code-golfs.
Now my question is, is it ok, if I just say I gonna invent a language for exactly this one ...
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1answer
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Expire Old Sandboxes
They were built to be temporary. I understand keeping the nth and n-1th sandboxes because people still use those. Every time I search for things on meta I get so many trash results from sandboxes it's ...
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0answers
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Is it good taste to add new bonuses to challenge?
Is it good taste to add bonuses to a challenge so that new answers can compete? On this question, a really short answer was given by simply tying to programs together (I was thinking of calling ...
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1answer
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Winning criterion: shortest compressed source code
codegolf.stackexchange.com, I saw this and thought of you...
We start with the source-code markup you can see, remove comments, remove duplicate whitespace characters, and then apply minimum GZip ...
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1answer
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What is the best method to communicate with KotH entries?
I am planning a King of the Hill challenge, but when looking at older ones I noticed that there appear to be a large number of techniques used for communication between the control program and the ...
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1answer
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Making king-of-the-hill out of old question [duplicate]
In case you're wondering what a king of the hill question is: http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/tags/king-of-the-hill/info
The question: If you see an old interesting question, that you think would ...
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0answers
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What is the difference between underhanded and code-trolling? [duplicate]
PCG no longer permits code-trolling, but there is another category called underhanded, of which the tag wiki currently reads:
An underhanded challenge is a challenge to write a program that looks ...
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4answers
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Should we kill code-bowling?
What exactly is the difference between code-bowling and code-trolling?
In February 2011, our first code-bowling question turned up.
Over two years ago, this meta post turned up. It asked whether ...
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2answers
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Has underhanded been getting too much like code-trolling?
Some time after the Great code-trolling Purge, a huge wave of popularity-contest underhanded questions emerged.
Are some of the underhanded questions too broad and hence facing similar issues to ...
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2answers
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PHP and warnings
Sometimes when golfing in PHP, one uses tricks as reading/pushing to an inexistent variable, or using deprecated functions such as split(), but those things outputs Warnings and Notices, which by ...
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0answers
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Question about question idea (about acceptability)
I came up with an idea for an underhanded popularity contest. I posted the gist of it here for questioning before moving on to the sandbox for more scrutiny to make sure the basic idea was okay. The ...
4
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1answer
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If a question is deleted, should posters keep reputation gained?
As discussed in What should our policy on insults, vulgarity, profanity, and other possibly offensive material be? , a very popular question has just been deleted.
Like other users, I noticed a ...
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0answers
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I'm disappointed the creative insult thread seems to have been deleted [duplicate]
I thought it was funny. I assume it broke some rules / community guidelines. Is that right?
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0answers
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Why was this fantastic question deleted? [duplicate]
I asked a very popular question recently, that asked people to come up with code that you wouldn't expect to print an obscenity or insult.
It was great fun and it got a lot of creative answers.
Now ...
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What should our policy on insults, vulgarity, profanity, and other possibly offensive material be?
A very popular challenge was recently deleted due to attracting material that could possibly be considered hate speech or offensive to some people.
We probably need an official policy on how much ...
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2answers
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Can I repost someone else's closed question after fixing the issue?
A day or two ago, the following question was posted:
http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/28620/a-program-to-transliterate-l33t-words-to-regular-english-words
It was about translating ...
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1answer
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Does being on hold for more than a day have to be a kiss of death for a question?
Looking through the questions today, I see, rather disappointingly, that of first 4 questions one is a duplicate and 3 are on hold and absolutely cannot be saved.
But further down, I see this ...
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0answers
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Spoiler code and text doesn't appear at the same time
Code and text don't appear at the same time.
It's a bit odd, and Code Golf has a better reason to use code in spoiler text than any site on the SE network :)
EDIT: It appears this is not the ...
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2answers
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Suggested Edits: Reject Golfing?
Every now and then, I see an edit where somebody does some golfing (most recent). From what I can tell, our standard is to reject those edits as invalid and post a comment saying what was suggested, ...
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1answer
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Relax the requirements for “crazy formatting” on the /tour example question
On Programming Puzzles and Code Golf, the answers to most of our questions look like this:
Some language, 1234 characters
asdfunicorn+1(&&%^#$)/-9x9[{}]
{explanation text goes here)
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2answers
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Best method to add LaTeX math to a question
I would like to add some math to a question and the easiest way to do this in math.stackexchange.com is to use LaTeX. However it seems codegolf doesn't support this and I understand it is a pain to ...
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1answer
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Create your own golfing programming language, then see how well it performs on undisclosed challenges?
There's a certain stigma against using languages designed for golfing in this community, and for good reason -- but I think it would be fun to turn the tables and make this form of "cheating" into a ...
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1answer
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Legal to use Pokemon, etc as Themes for Challenges?
In the Golf/Puzzle Lab, I came up with an idea to create a Pokemon Emerald Battle Factory KotH. However, I had some concerns on the legality.
The closest thing I could find from Nintendo is the IP ...
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1answer
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Revamp the sandbox system?
The Proposed Question Sandboxes aren't really working.
As per this question, we should move them to the main site.
This is just a suggestion for how we might go about this.
Create a special tag, ...
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1answer
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Winning conditions not measurable until question author decides to reveal test data set
This question has an interesting property, in that judging a winner is dependent on unknown data:
Recognize handwritten digits
This is actually not an uncommon way of things working in puzzle-space. ...
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51answers
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Proposed Question Sandbox - Mark XIII
Proposed Question Sandbox - Mark XIII
TL;DR (Too long, didn't read)
Use this sandbox to work the problems out of your question before posting it on the main site. People will comment if they see ...
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0answers
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Code trolling is dead. Now what?
Code trolling is officially no more!
It has been 141 long days since [code-trolling] was first born. Now, every code trolling question is either locked or deleted. Code trolling is finally gone!
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0answers
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Posting a challenge framework?
I'm a big fan of king-of-the-hill, and I'd like to see more of them. One of the problems is that they take a bit of work to set up and run. More than your average code-golf question, for instance.
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Code in link in spoiler is highlighted without hovering
In the example below, word internets is blue, even without hovering over the spoiler.
Code:
>! hello [world `internets`](http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/)
Example:
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1answer
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Can I compete in my own challenge?
What are the rules/community consensus about participating in your own challenge?
Does it differ for each of code-golf, popularity-contest and king-of-the-hill?
The person that asks the question ...
