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can't nap. I'm doing a release that starts in 11 seconds ago :(
Gabriel Myers
It is 2:05 in here. Last three days I went to bed 4 am. This can't be healthy.
Nathan Long
Same man. I can't fucking wait for the weekend so I can sleep more than 2 hours at a time.
Kayden Murphy
Problem is that I should be studying for my finals.
Henry Sanders
is it just me or have these threads lost a lot of momentum?
Daniel Walker
maybe because its 11pm
Anthony Diaz
They get really busy at midnight to 2am, but It makes sense that they'll probably slow down a bit after the first couple and people get bored/give up.
Jace Brown
How long until advent of code is used as a recruitment platform.
Anthony Thompson
>He doesn't know about the AoC recruitment platform
John Baker
>first two days >competitively doing the challenges as soon as they come out, close to getting on the leaderboard >work week hits, no longer willing to stay up late enough to do the challenges as they come out >start doing them the next afternoon >way more relaxing and enjoyable Honestly this is better. The competition doesn't really matter, and doing the problems without racing is way more pleasant.
Benjamin Turner
Brainlet filter.
Joseph Diaz
Plus, you don't stand a chance unless you're using Python or Ruby, which not everyone wants to do.
Python and Ruby confirmed the best programming languages
Jayden Sanders
What do you guys think it's going to be about today? Day 6 last year was looping over a list of numbers and incrementing them...
Brayden James
I'm certainly not being overly competative but it's still fun to stay up late and fuck around in these threads. It's all in good fun. But the ranking really doesn't matter so if you enjoy them more the next day then you should absolutely do that.
Would have been if the input was a bit bigger. My O(N^2) solution came out after 20 minutes.
Sebastian Brooks
>Will tonight be the brainlet filter? >Was yesterday the brainlet filter? the last 8 threads in a nutshell
Brandon Phillips
Hey Jow Forums I was looking through the AoC sponsors and I saw that Catawiki is holding a free raffle for anyone who can get 35 stars You'll need to have an AoC username
It'll only get here when the challenge starts, and I don't want to have to get the door, and have greasy fingers while trying to not be a brainlet. Should have ordered one like an hour ago. I think I'm just gonna go eat some sand.
enable noJS captcha on 4chanx, it forces it to do a standard one where you just select 3 out of 1 set of images, the easiest one
Cameron Torres
man, I wish I had bread lol. eh, I've got 15 minutes. I'll see what I can find.
Samuel Jenkins
what is that?
Jack Morales
But how can they prevent people from using posted solutions to get the stars? Seems like they can't, unless they restrict it to people with global points for every day. I guess it's a small raffle anyway, so it doesn't matter too much
Nathan Myers
Yearly /a/ rewatch of toradora + other shows
Charles Rogers
they can't, that's why its just a raffle
Parker Flores
>our tech recruiter James might take a look at your profile and get in touch with you later I'll pass
Guarantee you there are people trying to recruit from the top 100 already I've gotten emails from google recruiters citing my ICPC results from 5+ years ago, I'm sure I would have the same for AOC if I wasn't playing anonymously
Brayden Smith
TEN MINUTES
Elijah Wilson
Am I a brainlet? I'm a 19 y/o college student and the closest I've gotten was 150th place. Is it too late?
Thomas Torres
don't forget to throw on your hacker tunes for extra usb keyboard points
Carson Torres
Yeah, you're already breathing wrong.
Xavier Martin
Yes you should give up There's only room for 149 programmers in the world
Jordan Richardson
Nice find, signing up
Jordan Kelly
150th out of 15k-20k looks pretty good hard to say how many of them started on time though, but still
Landon Richardson
>inb4 he meant the Jow Forums'derboard
Jaxon Davis
150 on Jow Forums leaderboard or globally? that's pretty good globally, but its really only going to get harder, early days are your best shot to make top 100 when its basically just a speed typing competition
Jaxson Allen
OH GOD I HAVE TO SHIT SO BAD
Wyatt Ross
Let's get this shit over with
Joseph Hughes
indicating a sharp decrease in interest following a sharp increase in parsing bullshit
but if we overlay it with the previous years and a brief description of the problem set I'm betting we're going to see a pattern other than the obvious normal loss in interest
