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Twice as long, half the price [duplicate]

Related: I double the source, you double the output! When Steve Jobs launched the iPhone 3G, the slogan said Twice as fast, half the price I changed the word fast to long to better represent this ...
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Create output twice the length of the code

The Challenge Write a complete program that writes twice as many bytes to standard output as the length of the program. Rules The program must write ASCII characters to the standard output. The ...
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Be the First 1 (leave only the first Truthy)

Intro Every year, Dyalog Ltd. holds a student competition. The challenge there is to write good APL code. This is a language agnostic code-golf edition of this year's eighth problem. I have explicit ...
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I reverse the source code, you negate the input!

Blatant rip-off of a rip-off. Go upvote those! Your task, if you wish to accept it, is to write a program/function that outputs/returns its integer input/argument. The tricky part is that if I ...
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Third time the charm

Your task, if you wish to accept it, is to write a program that outputs a positive integer (higher than 0). If the source code is duplicated the output must remain the same. The tricky part is that if ...
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I uppercase the source code, you reverse the input!

It's one of these again :D Your task, if you wish to accept it, is to write a program/function (without any uppercase letters) that outputs/returns its string input/argument. The tricky part is that ...
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I reverse the source code, you reverse the input!

Yet another blatant rip-off of a rip-off of a rip-off. Go upvote those! Your task, if you wish to accept it, is to write a program/function that outputs/returns its string input/argument. The tricky ...
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Double-time is not double time

Based on this challenge. In the rhythm game osu!, the difficulty modifier "Double-time" actually only increases the speed by 50%. Your task, is to write a program that outputs a positive ...
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Double it your way

There have been a couple of challenges involving doubling source code: here and here. The task we have here is a bit harder, but should be doable in almost every language. In this challenge, you will ...
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I transpose the source code, you transpose the input!

Rip-off of a rip-off of a rip-off of a rip-off. Go upvote those! Your task, if you wish to accept it, is to write a program/function that outputs/returns its input/argument¹. The tricky part is that ...
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Ah, why is there a bug in my program?

This challenge is inspired by @LuisMendo's MATL answer to my "binary multiples" challenge. Task Pick a code-golf challenge that is open and that has been posted before this one; let me call it the "...
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I shift the source code, you shift the input!

Sandbox A spin-off of a rip-off of a rip-off of a rip-off of a rip-off. Go upvote those! Your task, if you accept it, is to write a program/function that outputs/returns its input/argument. The ...
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Code 3k to Codee k

Write some code... Write a program that takes no input and outputs an integer n which is a multiple of 3. So ...
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I palindrome the source code, you palindrome the input!

This is a rip-off of a rip-off of a rip-off of a rip-off of a rip-off. Go upvote those! Your task, if you accept it, is to write a program/function that outputs/returns its input/args. The tricky ...
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Please Count ME!

Your task is simple. Post a snippet in any language that if the snippet is repeated n times, will output n in decimal, octal, and hexadecimal, in that order, separated in spaces. n is an integer ...
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