Advent of Code 2017 • Hacker News Board

Re: Advent of Code 2017

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Post by executesorder66 » Thu, Nov 30, 2017, 6:52 AM UTC

nouveaux wrote: post #9

executesorder66 wrote: post #8

I haven't done AoC before. Does anyone know if it's possible to submit 2 solutions? I want to use this to brush up on my Python, and I want to start digging into Rust.

AoC is language agnostic. You can find previous years' puzzle and give it a shot. https://adventofcode.com/2017/events

Thanks.

Re: Advent of Code 2017

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Post by jlgaddis » Thu, Nov 30, 2017, 7:07 AM UTC

synicalx wrote: post #7

> If you're curious about how Advent of Code works, it's running on some custom Perl code. Get out! Here I was thinking I was the only person using Perl in 2017.

Shhhh! You'll get lynched talkin' like that around here.

Re: Advent of Code 2017

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Post by yxhuvud » Thu, Nov 30, 2017, 7:12 AM UTC

ajmurmann wrote: post #2

While I enjoy advent of code I always have been happy to live on the west coast. I wonder how many people on the east coast don't participate because they'd have to stay up til midnight if they want to score.

You mean, each entry doesn't get revealed at 6am as it does here in Europe?

Re: Advent of Code 2017

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Post by mathw » Thu, Nov 30, 2017, 8:00 AM UTC

Advent of Code is an amazing achievement. Designing all the puzzles, writing code to generate all those different inputs for everyone, keeping the site going, somehow managing to create this wonderful community of problem solvers... I loved it last year. I've already paid my AoC++ this year. The least I can do for a month and more (because I never do a puzzle a day, and still haven't finished last year's) of fun.

This year I need to make sure I do the graph search problems properly, because I've never learned those methods and I really should.

Re: Advent of Code 2017

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Post by michaelsbradley » Thu, Nov 30, 2017, 8:24 AM UTC

ReasonML this year, or that's the plan. Excited for it!

Re: Advent of Code 2017

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Post by aamederen » Thu, Nov 30, 2017, 8:29 AM UTC

As a first time visitor, I find the design very clear and readable.

Re: Advent of Code 2017

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Post by mjaniczek » Thu, Nov 30, 2017, 8:35 AM UTC

yxhuvud wrote: post #13

ajmurmann wrote: post #2

While I enjoy advent of code I always have been happy to live on the west coast. I wonder how many people on the east coast don't participate because they'd have to stay up til midnight if they want to score.

You mean, each entry doesn't get revealed at 6am as it does here in Europe?

I'm so glad I'll be able to participate before work, and not before sleep :)

Re: Advent of Code 2017

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Post by technion » Thu, Nov 30, 2017, 11:08 AM UTC

ajmurmann wrote: post #2

While I enjoy advent of code I always have been happy to live on the west coast. I wonder how many people on the east coast don't participate because they'd have to stay up til midnight if they want to score.

I think there's value in completely ignoring the race.

I'm probably going to do this either in a language I'm learning as I go, or in something like Erlang which, whilst great to get correct, will not iterate as fast (for me at least) as the Ruby solution I could quickly and easily write.

Re: Advent of Code 2017

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Post by seanhandley » Thu, Nov 30, 2017, 11:24 AM UTC

executesorder66 wrote: post #8

I haven't done AoC before. Does anyone know if it's possible to submit 2 solutions? I want to use this to brush up on my Python, and I want to start digging into Rust.

You get a unique input generated per puzzle, and then you submit the output your solution generates.

Re: Advent of Code 2017

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Post by seanhandley » Thu, Nov 30, 2017, 11:26 AM UTC

mathw wrote: post #14

Advent of Code is an amazing achievement. Designing all the puzzles, writing code to generate all those different inputs for everyone, keeping the site going, somehow managing to create this wonderful community of problem solvers... I loved it last year. I've already paid my AoC++ this year. The least I can do for a month and more (because I never do a puzzle a day, and still haven't finished last year's) of fun. Thi…

Likewise, on the graph search problems and paying the AoC++ contribution early.

I don't know how Eric Wastl manages this each year but I've been participating the last two years and it's ridiculously fun!