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I think I’d like to try this year’s in a language I haven’t touched before. What languages should I consider if I want something paradigmatically different from Go, Python, etc?
Is there any centralized place for seeing other people's solutions? I'd like to be able to learn from how others approach the problem, and what more elegant or performant solutions exist than the one I came up with.
I've never done AoC before. It seems like the success criteria is primarily about getting the correct answer, and secondarily about submitting a solution as quickly as possible if you want to be on the leaderboard. Is that right? Is there any centralized place for seeing other people's solutions? I'd like to be able to learn from how others approach the problem, and what more elegant or performant solutions exist tha…
Usually each day there is a mega thread with people sharing their solutions
I am looking at advent of code for years but never tried. Why? As they would like to force you to login with GitHub, Google, Twitter or Reddit account. I will wait for the next year, maybe 2024 Advent of Code will be less intrusive. If not... I can live without it. A hint to the authors for simple load/save, far simpler than what you have now, without use of intrusive 3rd party providers: use Digest::SHA qw(hmac_sha2…
I logged in with my Reddit account in a previous edition. This year I deleted my Reddit account in protest. Therefore, goodbye AoC history. It put a stark ~~contrast~~ focus on why I don't use those signups options: because the two times I've used it it came back to bite me (the other one being when Google blocked my account for months).
I deleted my Reddit account because I don't want to support Reddit any longer, so I lose access to anything I used "Sign in with Reddit" for - it's subtle lock in that tends to only hit issues months later.
It's why I never use social media logins for anything that gives me the choice not to.
I am looking at advent of code for years but never tried. Why? As they would like to force you to login with GitHub, Google, Twitter or Reddit account. I will wait for the next year, maybe 2024 Advent of Code will be less intrusive. If not... I can live without it. A hint to the authors for simple load/save, far simpler than what you have now, without use of intrusive 3rd party providers: use Digest::SHA qw(hmac_sha2…
Just make a throwaway google?
I've never done AoC before. It seems like the success criteria is primarily about getting the correct answer, and secondarily about submitting a solution as quickly as possible if you want to be on the leaderboard. Is that right? Is there any centralized place for seeing other people's solutions? I'd like to be able to learn from how others approach the problem, and what more elegant or performant solutions exist tha…
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It's really the worst time of the year for something like this. I hardly remember a time when I wasn't completely swamped with tasks before Christmas. A summer puzzle would be much more doable...
The first half of the month is swamped because everybody takes the second half off of work.
Every year I want to love this. Every year I get four days in before it feels like work. I think I’m just the wrong audience, but I really do want something this well-produced but with perhaps a very shallow diff little curve, bordering on just effortless fun.
Same for me, but I don't think it's exactly about difficulty for me - I've done harder problems on Project Euler, SPOJ, etc., and very much enjoyed them, but somehow Advent of Code doesn't click for me. I think the difference is that there's a lot more "chore" work in AoC problems, compared to Euler or SPOJ where it's mainly about an "Aha" moment figuring out a solution (possibly getting it wrong, going back on it, and getting a different "Aha" moment exercising a different area of your knowledge space).
Part two was exceptionally hard. Many people on reddit reporting they were hit by one edge case that's not covered in the examples. But my implementation passed these edge cases too. I was hit by another edge case. So there are at least two edge-cases (which are in the actual data) that aren't covered in the examples or the description.
Warning: post contains spoilers, HN doesn't support spoiler text so continue reading at your peril. These edge cases are triggered by fundamentally approaching the problem incorrectly. In some ways it's excellent to bring that up early in a way that's relatively easy to debug and diagnose. Like many others I started with the wrong solution, and I was hit by the same problematic cases, but what I found interesting was…
Re-using the existing code where possible is the fundamentally right approach to the problem. It just so happens that in this case, there were edge cases that prevented this, so another approach had to be taken.
I think I’d like to try this year’s in a language I haven’t touched before. What languages should I consider if I want something paradigmatically different from Go, Python, etc?
This year my initial desire is to do it in raku, which seems suited to the first task at least (although I haven't managed to get to it).
I did another year in common lisp.
All in all I really can recommend doing them in non-typical languages, it expands your mind.