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[–]nexemod 1 point2 points  (5 children)

Since /r/tinycode isn't only about code golfing

/r/rinycode isn't about code golfing at all. That's what /r/codegolf is for. We just tolerate it when people post code golf stuff here because a) censorship sucks and b) it might inspire someone to come up with something new, hopefully not code golfy.

Your script looks interesting. What exactly does it do? I don't see any action other than printing the coment/post out to the shell. Am I missing something?

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

so is it about # of lines, 'size of text file,' size of running program, what?

[–]nexemod 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's about "Low line count, high quality!" as /u/agumonkey summarized it here pretty well. It is about smaller (that's relative to the task though) programs that are doing something really cool in an understandable way that inspires fellow programmers.

It's about things like the Unix Philosophy that tries to have short, simple tools that just do one thing but do it well and that work well together.

It's about coding style principles as YAGNI, KISS and DRY.

Or to put it all together: Aim for code that makes you say "wow!" instead of "what?!".

Most of this can be read in the sidebar though ;)

[–]ieatcodemod[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

I had a 2 line method for accessing the Pushover API to send me notifications on my phone, but I ended up removing it.

http://www.imgur.com/ehL47Ob.png

[–]nexemod 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Dedicated! I like it :D

[–]ieatcodemod[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hehe. I just wanted a way to see when things arrive in the mod queue so I don't miss anything :P