Affirmative

[wiz1989]

Ok, took me a lot of time. But I finally did it.
But only because I was so angry about all those "yeses" and wanted to deny^^
Is there any other way to solve this challenge than letting your anger solve it?

[michuber]

You noticed the capital letters?

[wiz1989]

I did, but I didn't filter them. Well, pretty easy challenge after all. No I also recognized the caps-written "NO"^^

[blablaSTX]

tried some other ascii decoding on groups-of-8 bytes of the yes-no bits forst, when suddenly (while looking at the bits in a hex-viewer) I had the aha effect...

[markobr]

My solution in bad Perl:

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print $_ == 0 ? chr(hex($_)) : $_ < 60 ? "*" : " " foreach @chars;

where @chars contains the hex values.

[teebee]

I like your neat solution. However, it could be written a bit more compact:

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print$_+0?$_<60?"*":" ":chr hex for@chars;

or even "worse":

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print chr($_+0?42-($_&64)/7:hex)for@chars;

Nevertheless, the shortest solution I found so far is

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print chr($_+0?3+($_<60).2:hex)for@chars;

[jarel]

ouch, that hurt.

[teebee]

Indeed, it was a bit lengthy:

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print chr(-$_?3+($_<60).2:hex)for@chars;

[tails]

I think it's still lengthy:

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print chr(-$_?3+($_<60).2:hex)for@chars

[teebee]

It seems that you are the better golfer here. So, putt it in, please. Perhaps you might also want to take a look at http://golf.shinh.org/.

[tails]

Thanks for the invitation, Teebee.
I tried some problems there.
It's fun!

[teebee]

Have I already mentioned that I don't like weekday names ...

[aurora]

This one was fun to solve ... imo

[General_Payne]

Fun!? Ridiculously frustrating. Looked hard so I left it and left it.

Then come back to it and only find it by sheer fluke. I had spent ages thinking it was binary and trying to work out how the hell it was encoded!

[Tabun]

It was pretty funny. I just saw the yesses, tried to 'yes' and 'no', and that was that.
After that, it was super easy to find out how to get 'no' from the actual content, but I'll bet it would've taken a bit longer if I didn't know what to try and get out of it exactly.. :]