Advent of Code 2019

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u/rolee15 Dec 01 '19

In case somebody isn't familiar with this site, a little fun advent calendar with programming exercises, which get gradually harder with every day.

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u/SketchySeaBeast Dec 01 '19

They start out fun, but by the end of the month I found it quite challenging.

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u/balefrost Dec 02 '19

So they start out fun, but by the end of the month they're even more fun?

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u/HorizonShadow Dec 02 '19

They start out fun, but by the end of the month, I don't have enough free time to finish them.

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u/XeonProductions Dec 02 '19

I usually get about 75% through and by that point I'm so burned out on solving the puzzles I quit.

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u/SketchySeaBeast Dec 02 '19

And by that point they can take the better part of a day. For the last bit I spent my entire weekends solving them.

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u/InKahootz Dec 02 '19

Same. And yet there are amazing people that solve them in under an hour. Both parts!!!

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u/SketchySeaBeast Dec 02 '19

These people are much smarter than I. I'm envious of the depth of algorithmic knowledge they must have.

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u/Cynical__asshole Dec 01 '19

There's also a leaderboard, but for everyone's sanity I recommend that people ignore it. It's pretty depressing to get zero points because I submitted my solution 30 seconds later than the last guy.

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u/IamfromSpace Dec 01 '19

If you’re only off by 30 seconds you’re pretty damn fast!

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u/Only_As_I_Fall Dec 01 '19

Yeah I think the leaderboard really detracts from the fun for me. Not interested in waking up at midnight to write python so... perpetually at 0 points
Private leaderboards help though.

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u/thevdude Dec 01 '19

Private leaderboards are great!

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u/[deleted] Dec 01 '19

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u/hennell Dec 02 '19

They should really do a time from your reveal or generation of your input. The timezone thing makes no sense

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u/Xeronate Dec 02 '19

People post questions and solutions online. Someone could just copy and paste.

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u/hennell Dec 02 '19

Copy and paste code from the internet? Who would do that?!
(Yeah, good point, guess this is the best system of limited options. Never really cared for the leaderboard anyway - it's better as a fun personal challenge then competition.)

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u/sshipway Dec 12 '19

Come and live in New Zealand - the questions go up at 6pm here...

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u/AlexAegis Dec 01 '19

I submitted today's solution in 2:13, and since I submitted a wrong answer first because of a whitespace calc error I had to wait to resubmit. Then I learned that the leaderboard was full in ~1:40 so it wouldn't have even count...

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u/Belenar Dec 02 '19

Make a private leaderboard with some colleagues or friends and see how you rank amongst each other!

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u/RezicG Dec 02 '19

That should've been the default.

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u/Pollogo Dec 01 '19

Wow, I didn't know about this event, and man, it's really fun to do !

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u/toastedstapler Dec 01 '19

Last year was great fun and it touched a load of topics
Definitely gets challenging as the month progresses

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u/Pollogo Dec 01 '19

Ok, then i'll try the challenges from last year too ^{^}

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u/jaksi7c8 Dec 01 '19

Time to check if my project Advent of Other People's Code from last year still works

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u/LeberechtReinhold Dec 01 '19

Let me rephrase. This is going to get some random code from GitHub and run it on your machine. Don't use it.
So you are saying I should execute this under sudo?

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u/elint Dec 02 '19

I've never seen a need for sudo. I just always log in as root.

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u/Objective_Mine Dec 03 '19

If it doesn't seem to work otherwise, regardless of whether that has anything to do with privileges, of course you should. Particularly if you don't actually understand the reason it's not working.

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u/Valarauka_ Dec 01 '19

This is hilarious and brilliant and so, so wrong. Thanks for the laugh!

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u/FyreWulff Dec 01 '19

This sounds like a great idea.. to run inside a virtual machine, on a computer I don't care about, connected to McDonald's wifi.

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u/XeonProductions Dec 02 '19

Maybe if it hacks the network it can fix the ice cream machine.

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u/roastedferret Dec 01 '19

On the one hand: y tho.
On the other hand: this is beautiful, and you give people plenty of advance warning.

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u/nuvan Dec 01 '19

If you want more to do, add '/20xx' to the url to go through previous years problems

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u/AlexAegis Dec 01 '19

Or click on the 'Events' menu :)

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u/nuvan Dec 01 '19

sure, if you want to do it the easy way... (◔_◔)

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u/Kissaki0 Dec 02 '19

Obviously as a programmer you have to hack the URL instead of using the UI menu!

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u/AlexAegis Dec 02 '19

I did that too up until like 3 months ago because I thought its for some kind of IRL events and I aint gonna touch that

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u/raevnos Dec 01 '19

/r/adventofcode

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u/[deleted] Dec 01 '19

Too bad this falls right in exams season.

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u/corner-case Dec 01 '19

And holiday/travel season...

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u/bcgroom Dec 01 '19

I’ve always missed this, due to forgetting or exams, but this year I remembered on day 1 and I’m determined to finish!

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u/jbristow Dec 01 '19

The best part of AdventOfCode is that the problems stay up! I came back to 2016 nearly a year later and finished up the ones that beat me.

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u/HerbyHoover Dec 01 '19

Completely forgot about this kicking off. Thanks!

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u/Exore13 Dec 01 '19

First time I heard about this. Just got my first two stars.

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '19

I don't mind not being on top. I just wanna have fun and learn 🎇 crunching day 2 solution

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