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Re:Advent of Code 2019 by jodrellblank on Friday November 29, 2019 @12:13AM (#21662223)
It’s a neatly polished programming challenge site which is both communal and competitive, there’s a bonus score (I think) for completing on the same day a challenge is released, there’s a leaderboard race for the first 100 answers each day (typically all gone within 1-2 minutes after midnight) and there’s a subreddit where people share their solutions in all kinds of languages, and it’s nothing to do with competing for a FAANG job interview.

But apart from that it is “just” coding challenges with a story wrapped around them, and if you don’t like those, you won’t care for it.

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Re:Advent of Code 2019 by jodrellblank on Friday November 29, 2019 @02:34AM (#21662753)
I should have linked the Reddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/adventofcode/

and see on the sidebar on the right in desktop view, the "Solution Megathreads" e.g. from Day 5 last year there is https://www.reddit.com/r/adventofcode/comments/a3912m/2018_d... with tons of solutions including more oddball ones like VimScript, less popular like Common Lisp and APL, and lots of people use it as an excuse to learn/use a new language, so plenty of Python, Kotlin, Rust, C#, GoLang, D, and so on.

As the days go on, the challenge difficulty increases quite a lot (not linearly) so the threads often turn to discussions about performance, mini-competitions between people, tips on complexity, different approaches and debugging, etc.

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Re:Advent of Code 2019 by gerikson on Friday November 29, 2019 @04:21AM (#21663174)
The subreddit is pretty great. Tons of good discussion, feedback in the (very rare) cases when something's pear-shaped about the day's puzzle, and a helpful vibe.
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Re:Advent of Code 2019 by fyp on Friday November 29, 2019 @04:35AM (#21663244)
I wouldn't say "1-2 minutes" but definitely within 1-2 hours even for the harder problems.

This guy finished in the top 10 last year and streamed(not live) his solutions so you can see how fast you need to be to be competitive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hgv6d6rrQxo&list=PLZhotmgEsC...

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