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[Question] [ Quite a few people here are probably avid XKCD readers. So, I figure I'd challenge you guys to do something that Megan can do easily: make a script that generates thousands of reassuring parables about what computers can never do. [![XKCD #1263](https://i.stack.imgur.com/NtDma.png "'At least humans ...
[Question] [ Write the shortest function that returns the content of the first result of a Google search ("I'm feeling lucky"). Example: ``` lucky('cat'); ``` Might return something like: ``` <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>Cats are cool</title> <meta charset="utf-8" /> </head> <body> <h1>C...
[Question] [ Your favourite programming language has just had a birthday. Be nice and sing it the **Happy Birthday** song. Of course you should accomplish this by writing a program in that language. The program takes no input, and writes the following text to the standard output or an arbitrary file: ``` Happy Bi...
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[Question] [ A polyquine is both quine and polyglot.1 You are to write a quine which is valid in at least two different languages. This is code golf, so the shortest answer (in bytes) wins. 1 I made that up. Or rather, [Geobits did](http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/240?m=17522730#17522730). Apparently, [h...
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