Who is counting with me?

An advent calendar made for programmers 😄

adventofcode.com

Anyone else around here doing Advent of Code?

Those coding competitions like adventofcode.com tho, where people actually solve the tasks in a minute or two, whereas I just finished reading the little story behind them.

I want to see their solutions!

today i said i had holiday until the new year and wouldn't open a code editor until then

and here i am 5 hours later looking at advent of code challenges, trying to do them in rust

🤓🤡🤓🤡🤓🤡🤓🤡🤓🤡🤓🤡🤓🤡

also screw them for discouraging AI. if a tool can help me learn a new language faster i'm using it

Advent of code is awesome. If anybody isn’t doing it YOU SHOULD. Solving a different coding problem every day for 25 days. adventofcode.com

AoC 5b teaches the importance of data normalization.

Who else is that hardcore on AoC?

My favourite thing about AoC is the deranged little languages Eric comes up with.

don't()

anyone else having Adventofcode problems? day1 told me the obviously right answer was wrong. after a full day of debugging two obvious lines of code, it finally decided to accept the first answer.

and day two seems to be doing the same. guess I'll just be a day behind then?

anyone else?

My Advent of Code solution is calculating and calculating, which means I clearly did it wrong. But I already spent 4 hours trying to code it in Clojure (OMG, why can't tail call optimization just work there?!?!)

AoC 8b teaches the importance of looking at your data to simplify your solution by simply not supporting inputs that are difficult and don't appear in your sample.

Man, fuck is this noise.

In other news, I caught up to AoC.