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Re: Advent of Code 2018

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Post by w4tson »

kingaillas wrote: post #78
saagarjha wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh, I didn't see that. The Advent of Code website is strangely annoying in that it makes it extremely difficult to find past problems… Based on what I found online (which is abridged rewordings of the problem, something of a sequence sum?) I'd get lazy at that point and implement something that makes the spiral. Presumably, this shouldn't take to long, as the sequence grows rapidly so they can't give us a number that…

>extremely difficult to find past problems… Huh? Click [Events], click on the year, click on the day.

The second (and sometimes much harder) part of each days problem is only revealed when you complete the first part.

Re: Advent of Code 2018

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Post by xPaw »

j1elo wrote: post #58
notjustanymike wrote: post #19

Forget the code challenges for a minute, and just look at that beautiful font and text-shadow combination on the logo.

To be honest that website looks very bad to me. Fonts are too thin and that makes the text quite difficult to read. Much more than e.g. HN. And that's in my desktop PC, in mobile I went directly to close the tab. (Update) The "high contrast" CSS style they provide is more readable, but I'm sure it should be possible to create a dark style where readability doesn't suffer that much. That font is just not the best choi…

It really is a thin font, I've pinged the author on Twitter a couple of days ago.

https://twitter.com/thexpaw/status/1067699713745530883

Re: Advent of Code 2018

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Post by sfusato »

rehemiau wrote: post #46
aczerepinski wrote: post #26

I'm exited to dust off my Elixir skills. Jose Valim (creator of the language) is going to stream solutions on Twitch on a one-day lag.

Announcement link: http://blog.plataformatec.com.br/2018/11/lets-learn-elixir-t...

This is a really cool thing for Jose to do. It's a unique opportunity.

Re: Advent of Code 2018

#94

Post by meuk »

Hey, maybe it's an idea if everyone who plans to do the exercises in a specific language posts a link to a github repo? Then we could compare the solutions :)

Re: Advent of Code 2018

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Post by bhrgunatha »

j1elo wrote: post #58
notjustanymike wrote: post #19

Forget the code challenges for a minute, and just look at that beautiful font and text-shadow combination on the logo.

To be honest that website looks very bad to me. Fonts are too thin and that makes the text quite difficult to read. Much more than e.g. HN. And that's in my desktop PC, in mobile I went directly to close the tab. (Update) The "high contrast" CSS style they provide is more readable, but I'm sure it should be possible to create a dark style where readability doesn't suffer that much. That font is just not the best choi…

I use Stylus with a set of rules to increase contrast and change the font. Just changing the font (with default weight 400) has a huge effect on legibility.

Stylus - https://add0n.com/stylus.html

Re: Advent of Code 2018

#98

Post by wodenokoto »

I'm stuck on question 1. As in "I don't think I understand the question"

Is there a list of frequencies I starring me in the face, that I am failing to see, which needs to apply to zero?

Am I supposed to suss out the pattern for how frequency change occur as a function of current frequency from the two examples?

Re: Advent of Code 2018

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Post by anthay »

wodenokoto wrote: post #98

I'm stuck on question 1. As in "I don't think I understand the question" Is there a list of frequencies I starring me in the face, that I am failing to see, which needs to apply to zero? Am I supposed to suss out the pattern for how frequency change occur as a function of current frequency from the two examples?

If you sum all the numbers in your input do you get the right answer?

Re: Advent of Code 2018

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Post by joshvm »

wodenokoto wrote: post #98

I'm stuck on question 1. As in "I don't think I understand the question" Is there a list of frequencies I starring me in the face, that I am failing to see, which needs to apply to zero? Am I supposed to suss out the pattern for how frequency change occur as a function of current frequency from the two examples?

You're not given frequencies, you're given offsets/errors which affect the overall drift.
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