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Ask HN (comment edition): I know we have plenty of people here doing AoC with their own personal challenges/restrictions on top. What are yours? Solving in an eso-lang? Self-imposed resource constraints (runtime/memory)? Only using Excel? Let's hear 'em.
Oh. I wrote this post. I didn't expect it to make a second round here. I'll elaborate on anything in here if anyone wants to know things.
Ask HN (comment edition): I know we have plenty of people here doing AoC with their own personal challenges/restrictions on top. What are yours? Solving in an eso-lang? Self-imposed resource constraints (runtime/memory)? Only using Excel? Let's hear 'em.
Trying to juggle two kids, a mortgage, xmas and only having 30' at night to myself to even hear my own thoughts. I'd take your artificial constraints any day.
I'm such a baby programmer that Advent of Code is still challenging for me, so it's fascinating to see people taking it and exploring all these new languages and platforms. I found (and subsequently lost) someone who had started creating little 8-bit style visualizations from the data outputs. I do feel like programmers are a bit of a masochistic lot when it comes to AoC, though. > The logical way to output the solut…
I don't directly have experience with hacking on DS, but I had some experience with embedded programming. It first seems daunting and hard, and then you do some stuff and read example code and other code on github and you become "wait that's it?"
What seems hard becomes easy by actually doing it. (that means you need to have time, too, which is another thing)
I'm such a baby programmer that Advent of Code is still challenging for me, so it's fascinating to see people taking it and exploring all these new languages and platforms. I found (and subsequently lost) someone who had started creating little 8-bit style visualizations from the data outputs. I do feel like programmers are a bit of a masochistic lot when it comes to AoC, though. > The logical way to output the solut…
Senior developer here, it is challenging. It's designed to be. I'm to the point now though that im a bit burnt out on it. I miss a weekend and then don't have a desire to catch up.
Oh. I wrote this post. I didn't expect it to make a second round here. I'll elaborate on anything in here if anyone wants to know things.
Third time in 24 hours. I still don't understand how HN works for repeat submissions. Regardless, happy to see it get traction.
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Third time in 24 hours. I still don't understand how HN works for repeat submissions. Regardless, happy to see it get traction.
I think certain timings are more likely to get a post to the top and if the mods deem the content valuable, and the submissions aren’t all by a single user, they allow it.
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Trying to juggle two kids, a mortgage, xmas and only having 30' at night to myself to even hear my own thoughts. I'd take your artificial constraints any day.
Luckily, similar to how they made a choice for these constraints, you also chose yours. Both are artificial constraints; nobody is forced to solve problems in an esolang, and very few people are forced into having kids. You could have chosen their constraints instead. You chose a constraint set difficult for you; they chose a constraint set difficult for them, and the wonderful thing is that you both can work on the…
Ask HN (comment edition): I know we have plenty of people here doing AoC with their own personal challenges/restrictions on top. What are yours? Solving in an eso-lang? Self-imposed resource constraints (runtime/memory)? Only using Excel? Let's hear 'em.
Trying to juggle two kids, a mortgage, xmas and only having 30' at night to myself to even hear my own thoughts. I'd take your artificial constraints any day.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Senior developer here, it is challenging. It's designed to be. I'm to the point now though that im a bit burnt out on it. I miss a weekend and then don't have a desire to catch up.
I used to do like 20 days or so in uni, but now I just wish it was in any other month but December - it's just impossible to find the time with all the year-end tasks and ceremonies.