Questions tagged [support]
Indicates that the question is asking for clarification or help around a site feature, rule or custom, such as how something works, or why specific rules are in place.
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Is Apple Shortcuts allowed as a programming language?
Apple Shortcuts is a visual programming language (in my opinion), released in 2018 on iOS. I have read this answer, and while I have not implemented a prime number determiner in Apple Shortcuts, I ...
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Is challenges which are too hard to solve not good?
Is challenges which are generally1 hard to solve like this challenge not good and will downvoted? I assume the question is well and no problem on itself, just hard to solve.
1: A hard challenge is ...
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How to post on this site?
First time posting on Meta, while being an absolute (probably) seasoned user here. I have been posting challenges here randomly when finding time based on finding and developing my personal curiosity....
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How can I get my challenge reopened?
This question is closed as off-topic.
I am really angry that my recent edits have not been successful in reopening the question.
So, I am waiting for a satisfactory edit to reopen this question. How ...
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Why did my post just get edited? Why is meta full of old questions?
We're doing it again. This isn't really a question, more just an update for why meta doesn't look like it normally does.
In short, the meta FAQ was just updated to remove a bunch of bloat. As this ...
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Can I post comments on [tips] questions with golfing tips if I don't understand the tip myself?
Disclaimer: I am the author of the posts mentioned here.Disclaimer: Sorry if the title doesn't make a whole lot of sense, I will try to clear up any confusion below.
So recently I posted the tips ...
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How To Filter Out Code-Golf tagged questions
The problem:
I am interested on coding challenges and puzzles on this site, but not in Code-Golf. However, code-golf questions appear to be over 95% of the threads on the main forum, and make it very ...
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Are there minimum age requirements for languages?
I'm working on my custom golfing language Hussy.Net, built on top of C#, to address a lot of its pitfalls around verbosity:
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Can I use my SBCS for Uiua? [duplicate]
I just made a single-byte encoding for Uiua.
If you are interested, here is the Pad.
According to this answer (which seems to be commonly linked to),
An answerer can use whatever encoding they want ...
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Why was my flag disputed on an invalid joke answer?
A long time ago I posted a cops-and-robbers challenge in which I (perhaps foolishly) permitted unicode solutions but included the following rule:
You may use any Unicode characters for these, but ...
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Are there specific types of code golf challenges on this site?
I posted a question in hope of starting a shortest code challenge, but it seems to attract lots of downvotes and the only answer tried to help as a programming problem. One comment on the question ...
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A clarification on Vyncode [closed]
This was prompted by the recent meta post about byte compression in scores, as well as other bits of confusion and uncertainty I've seen on the site.
If you've been around on the main site in the last ...
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Code golf wrapped in a puzzle
Puzzle golf (Polf, Pulf, Gozzle, Golfzzle)
I would like to propose a challenge involving two SE sites. Code Golf and Puzzling. To solve, one has to decipher the specification riddle, and then golf the ...
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Find answers in given language
Sorry for a stupid question, but I read How do I search? and didn’t understand:
How to find answers in a given (programming) language?
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Suggestion/Edit for answers if user "Last seen more than X years ago"
I made a suggestion (which was rejected) for this answer but just because of that user "Last seen more than 3 years ago" (at the time of posting this question)
I know that it is bad idea to ...
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