- Log in to post comments
When will you be presenting your extension?
Will it be on the usergroup, or after the event?
- Log in to post comments
When will you be presenting your extension?
Will it be on the usergroup, or after the event?
- Log in to post comments
Now this I am looking forward to :)
- Log in to post comments
Congratz all, it was a fun race.
- Log in to post comments
Wow day 15 took time but was a lot of fun:
I allmost made the leadeboard today:
15 02:27:08 159 0 02:39:24 132 0
- Log in to post comments
I am not accusing you of anything Fabian, on the contrary your results seem to show you are creating solutions yourself.
The data points can be found here: https://adventofcode.com/2018/leaderboard/private/view/130669.json
You can view the results for yourself. Nice visualiser for the results: https://mcpower.github.io/aoc-leaderboard-viewer/
- Log in to post comments
Maybe we should even start the competition from the day where we are working on the new way.
- Log in to post comments
My public repo: https://bitbucket.org/bertsarens/aoc2018/
- Log in to post comments
What I have seen happen a few times allready is that people from our leaderboard just copy the solution from another person in another language and submit the results without having done any coding at all.
For example day 7
last solution to fill top 100: 00:30:52
fastest solution part1: 00:09:27
fastest solution part2(after doing part1): 00:03:34
Someone on our leaderboard got this:
solution part1: 00:39:16
solution part2: 00:00:13
He did the second part in 13 seconds while the fastest person on the leaderboard took 3 minutes and half to do it. The second solution took quite a bit of programming and the 100th player to finish star 2 needed allmost 10 minutes. Someone on our leaderboard: 13 seconds.
This means he just copied a solution from another player, put in answer 1, after that was accepted he inserted answer 2 and submitted again.
Clearly because a big price is involved people resort to playing unfairly.
I only see 2 ways to fix this:
- Remove players who have been caught cheating
- Let all people post their public repository on here and after each star rerquire them to push their solution to that repository.
This doesnt stop people from copying from other players in our competition but at least forces people to use Caché. Blantant copying will still be spotted because the code will resemble another competitors code. Also this will make it so that a copying person cant win the day anymore cause he will have to wait for at least one other caché player before he can start copying.
What are your thoughts on this?
- Log in to post comments
Hooray :)
- Log in to post comments
Working with docker.
A set of macros ready to go. I like your style. I think I will follow your example next year.
- Log in to post comments
Oh and synacor, i will do synacor as well.
- Log in to post comments
Here you go: https://bitbucket.org/bertsarens/advent2017
- Log in to post comments
I will probably finish the one from 2016. have 4 days to do that I never finished. After I will be able to relax and for next year I am going to prepare with macros and code snippets.
- Log in to post comments
It is done. I will finally be able to sleep a bit more again.
Thank you all for making it a great race. I had lots of fun.
- Log in to post comments
I made the leaderboard today!!!!
Am insanely happy although it was only place 98:
24 00:18:19 118 0 00:20:52 98 3
- Log in to post comments
Wow. Day 23.
Hardest one for me so far. By the time I found out what the inner loops did I was about to give up. Such a simple optimisation as well.
- Log in to post comments
That means you probably used the best method to solve this problem. That method is not writing bugs. It helps a lot.
- Log in to post comments
It could work but for posts with 2 pages it still doesnt really solve the problem cause you have to scroll down to find out there is a 2nd page.
- Log in to post comments
Well I did the same as Ivo, just kept running the 2 jobs in the same loop.
I think you can trade info with globals as well.
- Log in to post comments
The breaks are hard to deal with indeed. I have 1h tops and then I have to take care of the kids. After that I have to hope that I find some time at work.
- Log in to post comments
Same problem for me
- Log in to post comments
I was 11 seconds faster on part 2 then you today dmitry. That was close.
I think I could have been faster if I didnt brute force it. Once you get a cycle I guess you can calculate where you should end up. I just did all 1B iterations :p
- Log in to post comments
My best result for the leaderboard was today:
Day Time Rank Score Time Rank Score 15 00:10:36 312 0 00:13:22 198 0
And t hat means I am still only top 200. I was 4 minutes to slow.
How close have you guys come to top 100?
EDIT: I could have been 1 minute faster btw if I didnt submit the result of the test case as the first result. Waiting one minute doing nothing sucks.
- Log in to post comments
Jozef, Have you allready joined our intersytems private leaderboard? the code is: 130669-ab1f69bf
(you can join multiple btw if you are allready in a leaderboard)
- Log in to post comments

- Log in to post comments
Can the community code itself be added to repository?
I sometimes have the feeling that pages are very slow and I want to contribute ^^
- Log in to post comments
That is fine for me.
The only thing that we will miss a bit is the dirty code in case you clean in it up. But I can live with that.
I learned a lot by watching the other repositories :)
- Log in to post comments
Can you make it a requirement to share your code?
That way, we can learn something from other people and how they solve things.
- Log in to post comments