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Re: The Great Language Game: How many languages can you distinguish between?

#51

Post by rdtsc » Tue, Sep 03, 2013, 6:06 AM UTC

Ha! I expected computer languages. I might have a problem...

But that would be a cool game too for programmers. Here is a snippet of code, what language it is in?

Re: The Great Language Game: How many languages can you distinguish between?

#52

Post by Dewie » Tue, Sep 03, 2013, 6:16 AM UTC

Got through 8 questions and then 522 Connection Timed Out...

Re: The Great Language Game: How many languages can you distinguish between?

#53

Post by ipogios » Tue, Sep 03, 2013, 6:19 AM UTC

Ha! I too assumed this was on programming languages :)

By the way, I will bet some of those people talking about founders with thick accents are not doing too well on this one.

Re: The Great Language Game: How many languages can you distinguish between?

#54

Post by bluesmoon » Tue, Sep 03, 2013, 6:24 AM UTC

lars512 wrote: post #49

blahedo wrote: post #47

Got to 500 and had to guess (definitely Slavic, but had a choice between Czech, Slovak, Macedonian... yikes!)... and got a 522 Timed Out error. Thhbbbbt.

Awww, that sucks. I hope you refreshed and reposted your guess.

same here. 522 error. reposting has no effect. still 522s or Method Not Allowed errors.

Re: The Great Language Game: How many languages can you distinguish between?

#55

Post by bilalq » Tue, Sep 03, 2013, 6:29 AM UTC

Hey, this is really cool. Awesome work!

One tricky thing I noticed was that there was one audio clip that was in Urdu, but it was discussing something written in Arabic. Indeed, the clip had more Arabic than Urdu. Fortunately, Arabic wasn't an option, so I got it right.

That's the kind of edge case that might appear in other clips as well, and might be something to watch out for.

Re: The Great Language Game: How many languages can you distinguish between?

#56

Post by lars512 » Tue, Sep 03, 2013, 6:29 AM UTC

bluesmoon wrote: post #54

lars512 wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Awww, that sucks. I hope you refreshed and reposted your guess.

same here. 522 error. reposting has no effect. still 522s or Method Not Allowed errors.

Thanks guys, apparently my server is overloaded: https://support.cloudflare.com/entries/23670002-Error-522

I'll see what I can do about it.

Re: The Great Language Game: How many languages can you distinguish between?

#57

Post by ipogios » Tue, Sep 03, 2013, 6:29 AM UTC

jmhain wrote: post #7

Maybe it's just a weird coincidence but I've gotten Hebrew about half the time.

Do you have an Israelian ip address ? In the first few questions, the main language of the area of my IP occurred.

Re: The Great Language Game: How many languages can you distinguish between?

#58

Post by patrickg » Tue, Sep 03, 2013, 6:30 AM UTC

rdtsc wrote: post #51

Ha! I expected computer languages. I might have a problem... But that would be a cool game too for programmers. Here is a snippet of code, what language it is in?

http://wtpl.heroku.com/

Re: The Great Language Game: How many languages can you distinguish between?

#59

Post by edu » Tue, Sep 03, 2013, 6:34 AM UTC

to slow to be fun :(

Re: The Great Language Game: How many languages can you distinguish between?

#60

Post by rdtsc » Tue, Sep 03, 2013, 6:36 AM UTC

patrickg wrote: post #58

rdtsc wrote: post #51

Ha! I expected computer languages. I might have a problem... But that would be a cool game too for programmers. Here is a snippet of code, what language it is in?

http://wtpl.heroku.com/

Fantastic, I love it!