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> There are real tigers in those woods. Nice little nod (on a post about Golf) to Tiger Woods.

> Congrats to Mike... It's actually Matt :)

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From the episode: "You know, your own imagination is far more wonderful than any computer could ever be. You know why--you're a living human being, and a computer is just a machine…

Very cool, thanks!

> "I build separate, small HTML pages for each “interaction” I want, then I let CSS transitions take over and I get something that feels better than its JS counterpart for way less…

What exactly do you mean by "part of the same context"?

Best part: a go.mod with 0 dependencies!

Yeah, this advice doesn't hold up--even the OP mentions learning the clarinet, which is a B-flat instrument. I also play the clarinet and developed the same ability to detect each …

Also not a bad thing to remain childlike in some ways.

I knew it was too good to have been original.

To coin a phrase, "Go 2 considered harmful" :)

I likewise hope for Michael Fogleman's participation: https://github.com/fogleman?tab=repositories&q=advent

Check out a few problems from a previous year to get a feel for the difficulty. Generally, the puzzles get harder as the month progresses. Here's last year's calendar: https://adve…

The lack of discipline doesn't scale even more than discipline.

> The other bit of good news is that you can't unknowingly ignore a returned error, like you can with an unchecked exception. The compiler will force you at a minimum to declare th…

It was about 10 years ago that I read Norvig's "10 years" post: https://michaelwhatcott.com/10-years/

If you feel the global challenge is out of reach, you can setup a private leaderboard for you and anyone you give the 'join code' to, localizing competition and points to your own …

What are your requirements? I'm one of the owners of the GoConvey project and I'm happy to answer any of your questions about that project. Ginkgo and Goblin are great choices as w…