Is commenting for engagement boost a thing?
This is incredible and I never could have imagined it. This will democratize the power of programming
Comments impact some of the lemmy sorting algorithms such as active.
Active uses the post votes, and latest comment time (limited to two days).
Yeah active is currently the default sort in programming.dev until scaled sort comes out so commenting helps the most out of everything here
Neat. I don’t like that the implementations have to name the function by some cryptic identifier, though. Real words matter in source code.
Who can tell me what this function is?
def Z10096(Z10096K1): return Z10096K1 == Z10096K1[::-1]How about this?
def isPalimdrone(myString): return myString == myString[::-1]“Our goal is knowledge, so we’re going to obfuscate everything to fuck and make things unreadable”
It looks to me like they did it this way so that it could have natural-language names in many languages. So, the function Z10096 is called “is palindrome” in English, but if you’re coding in Japanese you can call it “回文の判定”. I don’t think the idea is for people to refer primarily to the alphanumeric soup version; I think that’s just the unique identifier for the database.
It does look like it’s leading to some issues, though. E.g., someone added a test for the “is palindrome” function which uses a somewhat common example: “Straw? No, too stupid. I put soot on warts.” Now, a human would probably say that this is a palindrome, because it’s got the same letters forwards and backwards, but most of the implementations disagree, because they consider the spaces, capitalization, and punctuation to be part of the string; that is, they test whether the input string and its reverse are equal. So someone (possibly the same person) has added a second python implementation which ignores spaces, capitalization, and punctuation, and mentions that in its name on the page.
Fundamentally this function is solving a different problem than the others (as demonstrated by the differing results on the relevant test), so should it get its own number and page? should there be a “palindrome disambiguation” page? This seems like something the site will have to figure out how to handle.
