Linked Questions
12 questions linked to/from Code Golf UserScript to help in navigating the site [v0.37 now available]
55 votes
40 answers
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Where to find an online testing environment for specific programming languages?
Here is my scenario. I pose a programming puzzle. It might be golf, or might be something else, but I don't specify the language. Some posts a answer that looks really good, but I don't have a working ...
9 votes
4 answers
625 views
Help us come up with rules who should be rewarded with an iPad2 for making the site great
dmckee has recently started the "1P5" to improve the quality of posts, the quantity of (good!) posts, and the motivation of users on this site. We (Stack Exchange Inc.) think that this is a really ...
8 votes
3 answers
384 views
Should character counts be mandatory?
In code golfing questions it is tedious to copy-paste everyone's solution to see how long it is. Should having character counts for each submission be mandatory? There are various examples of this ...
4 votes
1 answer
528 views
Line break formats and character numbers [duplicate]
I've recently saw someone, who says that their code is 350 characters long. Problem It can vary depending on platform. Code length compared across various platforms Windows: 371 characters ...
-9 votes
2 answers
227 views
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 ...
-3 votes
4 answers
364 views
Is tagging a question with only [code-golf] acceptable? Should the tag be blacklisted?
code-golf is currently used on 40 of 62 questions. Like other sites I've seen launched, such a tag allows users to throw it on their questions without having to bother thinking of a better, more ...
10 votes
0 answers
357 views
New user script to sort answers by length
Since the new Stack Exchange top bar apparently broke the old user script, I wrote a quick and dirty replacement for it. The only thing my new user script does is what I felt was the most important ...
1 vote
1 answer
174 views
Sort by code size for code-golf problems [duplicate]
For easier position calculation and as a handy way for the questioner, a sort by code size feature should be added which would sort out all the answers from the very least byte-ed to the most byte-ed.
4 votes
2 answers
198 views
Can we find a way to automatically execute people's code?
This site gets a relatively small number of posts. Could we contact IDEOne or somebody, and get a script going to test people's code automatically? Maybe put up a "powered by" logo somewhere?
0 votes
1 answer
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Is the Chrome UserScript still recommended?
If I recall correctly, the chrome user script used to be recommended in the About/FAQ pages somewhere, but I can't find it anymore. I know that UserScripts must be installed from the Chrome Web Store ...
3 votes
1 answer
114 views
auto count the number of chars in the code section
will there be for each answer an auto calculation for the "code" section that was marked up by the user like this is a marked up code section and write here ...
5 votes
0 answers
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Userscript for showing character count
(this is basically just a simplified version of this) I have created a simple userscript that shows a small tab above every code block that tells you its character count. I posted it on Stack Apps, ...