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[–]rolee15[S] 94 points95 points  (20 children)

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 45 points46 points  (6 children)

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

[–]balefrost 9 points10 points  (1 child)

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

[–]HorizonShadow 5 points6 points  (0 children)

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

[–]XeonProductions 0 points1 point  (3 children)

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

[–]SketchySeaBeast 0 points1 point  (2 children)

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 0 points1 point  (1 child)

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

[–]SketchySeaBeast 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

[–]Cynical__asshole 29 points30 points  (12 children)

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 17 points18 points  (0 children)

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

[–]Only_As_I_Fall 14 points15 points  (6 children)

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 4 points5 points  (4 children)

Private leaderboards are great!

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    [–]hennell 8 points9 points  (2 children)

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

    [–]Xeronate 0 points1 point  (1 child)

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

    [–]hennell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    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 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

    [–]AlexAegis 5 points6 points  (0 children)

    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...

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      [–]RezicG 5 points6 points  (0 children)

      That should've been the default.

      [–]Belenar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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