Advent of Code 2018
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Advent of Code 2018
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#2Discussion from last year's AoC: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15813318
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#3The 2017 edition was the first time I participated, and I severely underestimated how much fun it would be! Am participating (and to a much lesser degree competing) again this year :D
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#4Here is my blog post for when I did this in D:
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#5Is it really that hard to provide an email based login?
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#6I've participated in this the last couple years. It is really well done. The puzzles get progressively harder as the month goes on. I usually try to use a language im interested in but don't have a lot of experience with, but thats even more of a challenge and generally by the 15th or 20th im struggling to find enough time to complete the puzzles, but I try to go back and finish everything eventually. Always learn something new; theyre generally problems different from what I work on day to day.
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#7Is it really that hard to provide an email based login?
ask for a refund
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#8Is it really that hard to provide an email based login?
I mean, it is additional work. Not only do you need to store the emails/passwords securely, which while it isn't _that_ hard, it is a needed consideration, but you also need to now:
- provide a password reset service
- find a way to send emails to this many people for low cost, it is a free service after all, so all of the confirmation/reset emails are an additional cost
- etc
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#9Excited for this year's version. I did last year's event in OCaml which was a challenging, yet very rewarding experience. Still trying to decide what language to use this year.
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#10Is it really that hard to provide an email based login?
I mean, it is additional work. Not only do you need to store the emails/passwords securely, which while it isn't _that_ hard, it is a needed consideration, but you also need to now: - provide a password reset service - find a way to send emails to this many people for low cost, it is a free service after all, so all of the confirmation/reset emails are an additional cost - etc
on the cost side (not counting gdpr), back4app (parse server plateform [1] as a service) provide all of that from scratch.
disclaimer : just a paying client here.