Perl Weekly Challenge 366's tasks are "Count Prefixes" and "Valid Times". When I looked at the second task, and I saw how the times were changin', I needed to listen to some Robert Allen Zimmerman.
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Perl Weekly Challenge 365's tasks are "Alphabet Index Digit Sum" and "Valid Token Counter". I thought about trying to find some song referencing tokens or validity, but I kept hearing Caroll Spinney's voice in my head.
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Perl Weekly Challenge 364's tasks are "Decrypt String" and "Goal Parser". Because task 2's second example is decidedly a tribute to Andrés Cantor, that meant I needed to think "soccer" when I was thinking about the music this week...
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Perl Weekly Challenge 363's tasks are "String Lie Detector" and "Subnet Sheriff".
I challenge anyone to not think of I Shot The Sheriff given those tasks.
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PWC 362's tasks are Echo Chamber (which made me think maybe I should pick something by Echo and the Bunnymen) and Spellbound Sorting.
Spellbound? …yeah, I had to give you the song by Siouxsie and The Banshees. Because this task took the most time…
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Perl Weekly Challenge 361's tasks are "Zeckendorf Representation" and "Find Celebrity", where a celebrity is someone everyone knows, so...
Sometimes you wanna go
Where everybody knows your name...
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Since PWC 360's tasks are "Text Justifier" and "Word Sorter", I first thought about trying to find some song in my music collection that featured justification.
Then the weird part of my brain took over, and insisted on Al Yankovich's "Word Crimes".
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Perl Weekly Challenge 359's tasks are "Digital Root" and "String Reduction", but the entire time I was writing these solutions, all I heard in my head was Chuck Mangione's Give It All You Got.
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The tasks for PWC 358 are "Max Str Value" and "Encrypted String". I didn't want to use "max" for my music hook again, so I went looking through my collection for "value"... and found "It's What You Value" by George Harrison.
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Just before our love got lost you said
"I am as constant as Kaprekar"
And I said, "Constantly writing fractions
Where's that at?
If you want me, I'll be in the bar..."
In the blue TV screen light, let's draw a map of Perl Weekly Challenge 357.
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PWC 356's tasks are "Kolakoski Sequence" and "Who Wins". Not being as fluent with the OEIS as I ought to be, I thought... "Who?"
And, naturally, my musical brain went to The Who. So let's take the tube back out of town to the Perl Weekly Challenge!
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Perl Weekly Challenge 355's tasks are "Thousand Separator" and "Mountain Array". I barely got to thinking "What music am I going to pair with these tasks?" when my brain started playing on loop:
Oh to live on Sugar Mountain...
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With PWC 354's tasks being "Min Abs Diff" and "Shift Grid", I was a bit stuck for a musical theme. So I free associated: "grid" made me think of the cover of The Rolling Stones' album, Some Girls. So let's listen to that while we write challenges.
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"Validate Coupon" and "Max Words" are the tasks for Perl Weekly Challenge 353. I can't believe I've done tasks with Max before and it never occurred to me that I needed to feature a song with Max Headroom.
Ok, swing code... swing!
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Even though PWC 352's tasks "Match String" and "Binary Prefix" ought to have been fertile ground for a musical theme related to the tasks, because of a certain someone's 100th birthday celebration, I couldn't think of anything but The Doodlin' Song.
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Since Perl Weekly Challenge 351's tasks are "Special Average" and "Arithmetic Progression", I decided that this week's musical theme should be Average Person by Paul McCartney.
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Perl Weekly Challenge: Shuffling the Good
With PWC 350's tasks being "Good Substrings" and "Shuffle Pairs", I really couldn't avoid the musical theme being Boz Scaggs' Lido Shuffle.
So let's do one more for the road in the Perl Weekly Challenge.
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With PWC 349's tasks being "Power String" and "Meeting Point", I had a tough music choice. I could have given you Kansas, but my high school/college years were the 80s, so I had to go with my heart and use The Power of Love by Huey Lewis & The News.
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I mean, with PWC 348's tasks being "String Alike" and "Convert Time", how could I pick anything else besides Time?
Though I was amused by Mohammad Anwar initially mistyping the second task as "COVERT Time", and I thought it would be a spy task...
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Perl Weekly Challenge 347's tasks are formatting dates and phone numbers, so I'm offering up ELO's Telephone Line as this week's musical theme.
Doo-wop, doo-be-doo-doo-wop, doo-wah, doo-languages...
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With PWC 346's tasks being "Longest Parenthesis" and "Magic Expression", I had a bunch of ideas for music, so I went with the first one that popped into my head: Billy Joel's "The Longest Time".
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With PWC 345's tasks being "Peak Positions" and "Last Visitor", I was at a loss for what to what music to pick. I haven't done musical theater in a while, so... "One Last Time" from Hamilton.
So let's teach them how to say goodbye with PWC 345...
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The tasks for PWC 344 both have names that talk about being arrays, and nothing musically jumped out at me relating to arrays. So I started free-associating: arrays -> rays -> sunshine, and sunshine made me think of The Beatles.
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PWC 343 starts with "Zero Friend" (which made me think of Carole King), but with task two being "Champion Team", I couldn't pick any music besides We Are The Champions by Queen.
So now let's hope I don't make any bad mistakes while tackling PWC 343!
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I'm stretching the musical theme for Perl Weekly Challenge 342. Task 1 is "Balanced String", and when I was thinking about strings, I thought of Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings.
But don't cry—we'll have fun with "Balanced String" and "Max Score".
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The show my wife is currently performing in is Stephen Sondheim's Assassins, so the music I used is "Something Just Broke"...
But everybody's got the right to be happy, and this week, what makes me happy is Perl Weekly Challenge 341.
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Each week, I'm playing word association with the tasks to pick the musical theme. Originally, this started because one of the tasks was literally a line from a musical. Perl Weekly Challenge 340 was more difficult though...
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With Perl Weekly Challenge 339 being "Max Diff" and "Peak Point", I started to think that "Point" was my hook into a musical theme, and that made me think of one of my favorite artists, David Wilcox.
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Perl Weekly Challenge 338: "Highest Row" and "Max Distance"...
Bang, Bang! Maxwell's Silver Highest came down upon her head! Bang, Bang! Maxwell's Silver Highest made sure she was dead!
Let's have some fun!
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With Perl Weekly Challenge 337 being "Smaller Than Current" and an "Odd Matrix", I figured I'd dig into my collection and pull out a track called "Odd Ones" on the Kanno Yōko (菅野 よう子) Cowboy Bebop soundtrack mini-album, "Vitaminless".
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