Advent of Code 2018 • Hacker News Board

Re: Advent of Code 2018

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Post by chickenfries » Thu, Nov 29, 2018, 4:53 PM UTC

timmorgan wrote: post #21

I’ve been wanting to learn scheme. I think this would be a good opportunity! Question: should I go with Racket or Chicken Scheme?

I'm considering doing Racket because it has a lot of good resources for people who aren't necessarily experts in Scheme.

Re: Advent of Code 2018

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Post by qubyte » Thu, Nov 29, 2018, 4:55 PM UTC

I got a bit too invested in this last year. I even did a write up of one of the tasks. That year I did it all using JS since it's easy to write input parsers with it. This year I'll be doing it in Rust to stretch myself a little.

https://qubyte.codes/blog/advent-of-code-2017-day-20-task-2

Re: Advent of Code 2018

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Post by abecedarius » Thu, Nov 29, 2018, 4:57 PM UTC

aestetix wrote: post #5

Is it really that hard to provide an email based login?

It'd be nice to have a no-login localstorage-based option. I guess you wouldn't get on the leaderboard, but does anything else need an identity?

Re: Advent of Code 2018

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Post by BooneJS » Thu, Nov 29, 2018, 5:02 PM UTC

The last few years I used Go, but I’d like to learn Rust. This seems like a good excuse to dabble in a new language.

Re: Advent of Code 2018

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Post by narimiran » Thu, Nov 29, 2018, 5:06 PM UTC

luked22 wrote: post #27

is there a way to get an email reminder to do the task every day?

Let writing an email reminder program be your Day 0 task for tomorrow ;)

Re: Advent of Code 2018

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Re: Advent of Code 2018

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Post by Insanity » Thu, Nov 29, 2018, 5:10 PM UTC

BooneJS wrote: post #34

The last few years I used Go, but I’d like to learn Rust. This seems like a good excuse to dabble in a new language.

I am going to use this year similarly, but with Go and Lisp instead of Python and Haskell :)

It is such a fun way to pick up new langs

Re: Advent of Code 2018

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Post by anthay » Thu, Nov 29, 2018, 5:15 PM UTC

I did the AoC last year for the first time and was amazed how quickly some participants solved the puzzles, e.g. http://howtowriteaprogram.blogspot.com/2017/12/advent-of-cod...)

Re: Advent of Code 2018

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Post by Marazan » Thu, Nov 29, 2018, 5:18 PM UTC

anthay wrote: post #38

I did the AoC last year for the first time and was amazed how quickly some participants solved the puzzles, e.g. http://howtowriteaprogram.blogspot.com/2017/12/advent-of-cod... )

Never rule out people cheating. Solving it on one account then doing it again in another account

Re: Advent of Code 2018

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Post by reaperducer » Thu, Nov 29, 2018, 5:22 PM UTC

I dig the little Easter egg. I don't remember that in previous years.