New /prog/ Challenge!

The challenge: Come up with the next /prog/ challenge!
The deadline: 2:00 pm tomorrow.

>>35
Xarn has only participated in two challenges, as far as I'm aware. He won one outright (the Link/Goombas one), and that was when nobody else entered. For the other (the tank one), he won in two of the five categories, and the other three categories went to other people.
If he does keep winning every challenge, maybe it's worth having a prize for Xarn and one for best of the rest, but I don't think there's actually any problem at this point.

>>36
What, like Taro, the Christophers, Hinai, Storlek, and Erika? Or the people in #sicp, #bbcode, and #/prog/?

>>37,39-40
People like SICP because it's great, people like Xarn because he's good. Both are part of the culture at this point.
Nobody's complaining about the rest of the /prog/ celebrities, even though the Sussman gets mentioned three times as often as Xarn, and Leah about as often.
The recent increase in Xarn cult activity has been a bit on the excessive side, but it will subside, at the latest when summer is over. At least it's better than the ANUS spam.

>>38
If you think you're better than him, prove it in the challenges.

>>41
I know who Christopher and Taro are, I heard Erika's name mentioned a few times, but who are Hinai and Storlek?

Nobody's complaining about the rest of the /prog/ celebrities
Yes, well, it's Xarn in particular right now because of the recent increase in Xarn cult activity (the rest is also true).
The Sussman wrote SICP and has contributed a great deal to our cause; Leah is female. It's natural that they have celebrity status here. But Xarn is merely a male programmer, just like the other nine of us. It just seems odd.

^{As for those you named, I don't go on IRC and I don't really take interest in people's names, so I can't really comment.}

>>40
no Xarn
That would be nice. He could keep making quality posts while staying completely anonymous.

>>41
At least it's better than the ANUS spam.
Ergo your wring bitch.
BAMPV XARNÆ

>>43
privat heltal storleksinkrement;

Meanwhile, this thread is getting off topic again.

>>41
There were multiple contests last year round about the start of August. Xarn did relatively well in those, I think.

How could such a beautiful thread go so wrong? Look at what you have done. You ruined a perfectly good thread with your Xarn Bs, when there were 5 shitthreads on the frontpage.

And where the fuck is the threadshitter when you need him!

>>48
I don't remember those, or Xarn's participation. If you'll give me some keywords I'll look for them.

>>49
You're trying to fit in, but you're doing a bad job. Back to /b/, please.

>>50
I can barely remember the content, but I think it had to do with collision detection. It was a different one everyday for three days, Xarn used his usual Allegro. Someone else wrote Java applets. I only remember the contest threads because they happened at the same time I had jury duty.

>>51
Oh, now that you mention it, there were http://dis.4chan.org/read/prog/1248803966/ and http://dis.4chan.org/read/prog/1250606147. I'd forgotten about those.
Good times.

>>45
Implying that Xarn doesn't already post anonymously<sup>[1]

1</sup> - http://cairnarvon.rotahall.org/about-me/#tripfag accessed on 11 JUN 10 at 1233 GMT-6

>>53
I don't expect a /b/ scum like you to understand that posting links to resources hosted on Xarn's website kinda implies that the poast is made by a Xarn.

HIBT?

>>53
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>>54
/b/ scum ... poast
Hypocrite.
But do you know of a service that lets you host things like small PCX files anonymously, apart from bullshit ones like Rapidshare? That seems to be the only thing he links to his own website for.

Not that we wouldn't be able to identify him from the fact that he's the only person on /prog/ who knows anything besides Java anyway.

>>56
Not that we wouldn't be able to identify him from the fact that he's the only person on /prog/  who knows anything besides Java anyway.
Right...keep telling yourself that

>>57
Maybe you should actually look at the entries that get posted to challenge threads. Of the six serious entries, three were in Java, and two of the ones that weren't were Xarn.

>>50
>>49
You're trying to fit in, but you're doing a bad job. Back to /b/, please.

I think it is YOU who tries to ˝fit in˝.

>>55
It's text/png, fool

>>54
Implying that posting links to a location makes you the owner of the location
HEY GUYS I'M ALEX
http://thedailywtf.com/Series/Alex_0x27_s_Soapbox.aspx

>>61
Your obtusity is transparently deliberate.

>>61
Implying
Back to the imageboards, please.

>>60
PNG isn't a text format!

>>64
http://www.w3.org/TR/PNG/#11tEXt

You guys are beginning to grind my gears. Not a single competent or usable suggestion has been made yet.

>>66
Create a content distribution system, which will enable a person to send a video stream (i.e. animu) to a large number of viewers, while not consuming as much bandwidth as unicast would. The system should construct a scalable multicast network; you can assume that the upstream bandwidth of each node is at least as large as the stream's bitrate. The solution should use digital signing so that a malicious node couldn't fake the stream. Deadline: Saturday 2:00AM (Japan time).

>>67
Terrible!

Or did you mean next week?

>>68
Well, it's currently 12:04pm in Japan, so I obviously meant a week.

This thread sucks, I'm going to post a real challenge shortly.

Create a virus which installs Gentoo.

>>67
There's a problem with your problem.
You could make it require as much bandwidth as the file size, but only as long as the users are on the same network. Otherwise, you're left with P2P or a localized multicast network (local servers on the user's ISP, if you can afford such costs).

>>67
I second this motion. All in favor?

>>71
I see this joke. +5, Funny.

>>72
I don't quite understand your post, but I think you meant that I can't have real multicast over the Internet. I know that I can't use IP multicast because few ISPs have networks which support it; I meant to suggest that the system would construct an overlay P2P network, where one node would forward the stream to more nodes, so that the source host wouldn't be overloaded.

>>75
Thanks for clarifying. I was hinting at real multicast being impossible to do over the full Internet, altough specific ISPs could implement it locally for some of their needs.

>>73
I proposed the challenge simply because this is something I already planned to do before the next Angel Beats! broadcast. I don't really think that it would make for a good challenge as it's not a particularly unique idea; many peercasting systems were already done in the past.

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