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> 536931d80decb18c33db9612bdd004d4 susi

Poor women called Susi.


Striped? What about checkered? http://jsfiddle.net/F3KAc/5/


Excellent work. Make that your next interview question.


Some of their demos run really bad on my machine. If they cracked the problem, they aren't showing it yet.


It's about interviewing Frontend _Web_ Developers. I don't think someone who cannot write JavaScript can call himself a Frontend Web Developer.


I guess front end designer then? Given that a complete javascript knowledge is encyclopedic, I'd say that you have to allow for a very wide gamut of experience for this.

What about the front end web developers who can't seem to create original designs, they fight the design and artwork part as much as a layout designer fights with javascript.

This isn't so cut and dry. Plus with the javascript libraries you can get quite far without writing your own js.


What about coffeescript, or clojurescript, or any of the hundreds of other languages compiling to javascript and targeting the browser?


If you don't know JavaScript, you're really handicapped using any form of higher-level language wrapper. Coffeescript is syntax sugar. Run into problems or library incompatibility with other components and you don't know JavaScript...well...

BTW, for the record, I've never actually known a coffeescript dev who didn't know JavaScript, too, though.


What happens when there's a problem at the interface between your favorite compiles-to-javascript language and javascript? If you don't know javascript, how are you going to debug and/or fix that? I've never used coffeescript or clojurescript, so maybe they're so thin that this never happens?


It would be pretty unusual for a CoffeeScript developer to not know JavaScript as well.


Never mentions 'Web' in the title.


That is exactly why my parent and I are correcting the title based on the content.


The goal in code golf is lower character count, not lower score - which is also the case here.


Therefore, the score it provides should be a running tally of how many characters you've used to make it match the scoring system of golf; which is the lowest number of strokes wins.

The scoring system for this is incremental which is the opposite of golf.

A proper scoring system with this would provide a character limit (par) for each section and the goal would be to write a shorter regex formula to complete the task. Final score would be how many characters under or over the total character limits (course par) you scored.

Seems this is more like Regex Darts or something like that.

But it's fun nonetheless.


I don't get what this is all about.

The title was (most probably) derived from Code Golf, which is a competition in coding something with as few characers as possible. Code Golf was derived from Golf, where you want to use as few turns as possible.

The score going up and not down, which is done because you get more points the more objectives you fulfill, does not change the objective of this game or what it is based on.


> The score going up and not down, which is done because you get more points the more objectives you fulfill, does not change the objective of this game or what it is based on.

Golf scoring penalizes you with more "points" by how many strokes you take.

If you are playing a Par 4 and it takes you 6 swings to get in the cup you just got _penalized_ +2

If your partner gets in the cup in 2 swings he is awarded -2

Therefor "Regex Golf" has its scoring reversed


From my quick read, Code Golf uses a similar scoring system as to the sport of golf, the lower the score the better.

This game is the opposite, meaning the higher the score the better.

This has nothing to do with the objectives of the games in question, just the scoring method.

To make the sport of golf have a similar scoring system as this game you would grant ten points for every stroke under par, deduct ten points for every stroke over par, and deduct one point for every penalty stroke.


Alternatively, it's a loose analogy and the main point of the game is to save keystrokes (with the positive scoring system added to reward partial effort; if it came down to a scored competition the leaders would anyway all probably have full credit for solving the problem).

Regex golf is to code golf as paintball golf is to normal golf. Or something.


This was already discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6468617 a week ago.


Someone has taken the time to make it into an online tool. I don't know how to code but know plenty of designers who would like to try this

Great stuff,just shared it across Twitter


Did we come to any conclusion if penalising the mention of "pizza" or "ninja" was a good or bad thing?


Exactly my thought, too.

> You can still use it if you have a pair of headphones in too, with the cans' play button subbing in for control.

Sadly, my headphones do not have a button, and I wont be on the go without them, so sadly Pressy is not for me.


I do have earphones with a button, and the button already works to start and stop my music and skip to the next track (with two presses). But sometimes it gets delayed for up to 5 seconds (for reasons I've never understood). If Pressy can fix that then great. But if it can't then there are going to be a lot of disappointed backers out there.

One of my long-term disappointments with Android is that they never used the modified plug the iPhone uses that also allows for volume control. But then, Apple may have patented it.


I wonder if people that are interested in only the App to have their Headphones buttons remapped comfortably will be able to acquire that, and for what price. Not that I have done any research on Apps that already do that, since as I said, my headphones don't have a button. :)


You are correct. Apple did indeed patent it. I don't remember the source but distinctly remember reading that Apple had gotten just such a patent.

Not that all manufacturers seem to care since I have a handful of Nokias that do the same thing...


I guess you also don't own any keys or a keychain then too? Since it comes with a keychain "fake audio jack" to hold pressy when not in the audiojack


I do, but I still do not see a use case for me. When I'm on the go, I am almost always listening to music.


Why so sad?


> ... where players volunteered to tested the patch to ensure that there were game-breaking exploits ...

Is this an error? :) Although I assume the players would very well enjoy game-breaking exploits, as long as they are to their advantage.


No. The long scale of 420,081,335,014 would be 420 milliards, short scale being 420 billion.


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