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A comment on Nim 1.2.

Re:Nim 1.2 by intrepidhero on Friday April 03, 2020 @01:43PM (#22772045)
I've been doing the nim track on exercism.io (no affiliation, just a user) for the last two weeks. The mentors on the track have been fantastic. If you're looking for a "solve a problem and get some external feedback" approach to learning the language it's pretty good.
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Re:Nim 1.2 by jjtheblunt on Friday April 03, 2020 @01:53PM (#22772164)
"exercism.io" is such a great name!
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Re:Nim 1.2 by mikebelanger on Friday April 03, 2020 @02:36PM (#22772626)
Ah neat - thanks for sharing. I'm gonna try that out.
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Re:Nim 1.2 by zelphirkalt on Friday April 03, 2020 @02:43PM (#22772699)
Personally I stopped using exercism, when it started to require me to work for Google for free and would not let me log in, if I did not. It's not an ethical platform, unfortunately.
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Re:Nim 1.2 by ihid on Saturday April 04, 2020 @05:09PM (#22781543)
Exercism co-founder here. We get bots spamming the site in every way possible if we don't have a recaptcha. Happy to accept other suggestions for stopping bots signing up if you have any more ethical alternatives that are as an effective?
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Re:Nim 1.2 by mikebelanger on Friday April 03, 2020 @02:49PM (#22772770)
What do you mean by 'work for Google for free?' I don't see that being required anywhere on the site.
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Re:Nim 1.2 by afiori on Friday April 03, 2020 @06:03PM (#22774383)
Probably it is a reference to the reCapcha hell Google may drop you into if you are deemed "suspicious"
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Re:Nim 1.2 by mikebelanger on Monday April 06, 2020 @05:23PM (#22798037)
ah ok. I never saw those captcha things as work per say, but yeah I guess they are. Free work for some model data somewhere.
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Re:Nim 1.2 by duxup on Friday April 03, 2020 @02:45PM (#22772737)
>it started to require me to work for Google for free

How did that work?

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Re:Nim 1.2 by zelphirkalt on Friday April 03, 2020 @02:48PM (#22772764)
Recaptcha and tracking.
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Re:Nim 1.2 by ampdepolymerase on Friday April 03, 2020 @03:16PM (#22773016)
Would you pay monthly if they removed it?
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Re:Nim 1.2 by zelphirkalt on Friday April 03, 2020 @05:07PM (#22773966)
Perhaps I would. I've supported many projects in the past, so I think, if it was really good and did not violate my privacy, there is a fair chance I would.
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Re:Nim 1.2 by tedunangst on Friday April 03, 2020 @10:41PM (#22775782)
Many of the sites that force me through recaptcha are services I'm already paying for. They won't let me login until I identify all the targets.
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