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Jan 9, 2023 at 7:02 comment added l4m2 Actually I've seen case where bonus save raw bytes. Rarely but there is
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Jan 19, 2016 at 17:17 comment added Dennis Mod exponentially more cumbersome Exactly! If a challenge has n independent bonuses, there are 2ⁿ different ways to combine them. One bonus is bad enough IMHO, three or more are a disaster.
Jan 15, 2016 at 15:57 comment added trichoplax is on Codidact now I definitely prefer this harsher version. Bonuses nearly always make me feel like I'm reading the answers to two or more separate challenges jumbled together on the same page.
Jan 14, 2016 at 21:18 comment added Peter Taylor Case in point. Having solved the core problem, I then had to golf three output formats to see which would give the lowest score. That was nowhere near as interesting as the core problem.
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