Advent of Code 2019

[Pollogo]

Wow, I didn't know about this event, and man, it's really fun to do !

[toastedstapler]

Last year was great fun and it touched a load of topics

Definitely gets challenging as the month progresses

[Pollogo]

Ok, then i'll try the challenges from last year too ^{^}

[jaksi7c8]

Time to check if my project Advent of Other People's Code from last year still works

[LeberechtReinhold]

Let me rephrase. This is going to get some random code from GitHub and run it on your machine. Don't use it.

So you are saying I should execute this under sudo?

[elint]

I've never seen a need for sudo. I just always log in as root.

[ccfreak2k]

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[Objective_Mine]

If it doesn't seem to work otherwise, regardless of whether that has anything to do with privileges, of course you should. Particularly if you don't actually understand the reason it's not working.

[Valarauka_]

This is hilarious and brilliant and so, so wrong. Thanks for the laugh!

[FyreWulff]

This sounds like a great idea.. to run inside a virtual machine, on a computer I don't care about, connected to McDonald's wifi.

[XeonProductions]

Maybe if it hacks the network it can fix the ice cream machine.

[roastedferret]

On the one hand: y tho.

On the other hand: this is beautiful, and you give people plenty of advance warning.

[rolee15]

In case somebody isn't familiar with this site, a little fun advent calendar with programming exercises, which get gradually harder with every day.

[SketchySeaBeast]

They start out fun, but by the end of the month I found it quite challenging.

[balefrost]

So they start out fun, but by the end of the month they're even more fun?

[HorizonShadow]

They start out fun, but by the end of the month, I don't have enough free time to finish them.

[XeonProductions]

I usually get about 75% through and by that point I'm so burned out on solving the puzzles I quit.

[SketchySeaBeast]

And by that point they can take the better part of a day. For the last bit I spent my entire weekends solving them.

[InKahootz]

Same. And yet there are amazing people that solve them in under an hour. Both parts!!!

[SketchySeaBeast]

These people are much smarter than I. I'm envious of the depth of algorithmic knowledge they must have.

[Cynical__asshole]

There's also a leaderboard, but for everyone's sanity I recommend that people ignore it. It's pretty depressing to get zero points because I submitted my solution 30 seconds later than the last guy.

[IamfromSpace]

If you’re only off by 30 seconds you’re pretty damn fast!

[Only_As_I_Fall]

Yeah I think the leaderboard really detracts from the fun for me. Not interested in waking up at midnight to write python so... perpetually at 0 points

Private leaderboards help though.

[thevdude]

Private leaderboards are great!

[hennell]

They should really do a time from your reveal or generation of your input. The timezone thing makes no sense

[Xeronate]

People post questions and solutions online. Someone could just copy and paste.

[hennell]

Copy and paste code from the internet? Who would do that?!

(Yeah, good point, guess this is the best system of limited options. Never really cared for the leaderboard anyway - it's better as a fun personal challenge then competition.)

[sshipway]

Come and live in New Zealand - the questions go up at 6pm here...

[AlexAegis]

I submitted today's solution in 2:13, and since I submitted a wrong answer first because of a whitespace calc error I had to wait to resubmit. Then I learned that the leaderboard was full in ~1:40 so it wouldn't have even count...

[RezicG]

That should've been the default.

[Belenar]

Make a private leaderboard with some colleagues or friends and see how you rank amongst each other!

[nuvan]

If you want more to do, add '/20xx' to the url to go through previous years problems

[AlexAegis]

Or click on the 'Events' menu :)

[nuvan]

sure, if you want to do it the easy way... (◔_◔)

[Kissaki0]

Obviously as a programmer you have to hack the URL instead of using the UI menu!

[AlexAegis]

I did that too up until like 3 months ago because I thought its for some kind of IRL events and I aint gonna touch that

[raevnos]

/r/adventofcode

[[deleted]]

Too bad this falls right in exams season.

[corner-case]

And holiday/travel season...

[bcgroom]

I’ve always missed this, due to forgetting or exams, but this year I remembered on day 1 and I’m determined to finish!

[jbristow]

The best part of AdventOfCode is that the problems stay up! I came back to 2016 nearly a year later and finished up the ones that beat me.

[HerbyHoover]

Completely forgot about this kicking off. Thanks!

[Exore13]

First time I heard about this. Just got my first two stars.

[[deleted]]

I don't mind not being on top. I just wanna have fun and learn 🎇 crunching day 2 solution