Sparr

I know I can use a templating engine and put all the condition code in the config file, but I'd rather put semantic information in the config file, then let my code elsewhere filter it all

that's what I have now. using a hierarchy like that is not what I want to keep doing

github.com/sparr/vgm-extractor/blob/master/…

yeah, that's why I tried to boil part of it down to a question :(

@NickAlexeev I feel like I might need to describe my goal somewhere else to get some brainstorming on it

I have a lot of development experience, but not much GUI experience, and no mac-specific experience. I suspect I'm going to be doing this in Objective C and Cocoa, but I don't want to get halfway there and then realize I picked the wrong tools for the job.

I want to write a program that puts some specific graphics on the computer's second monitor, and preventing the OS from putting random interface stuff on top of it (menus, bluetooth connection alerts, etc). My first priority is achieving this goal across as wide a range as possible of mac laptops and osx versions. Secondarily, I'd love for it to work on other OSes as well. Can anyone recommend the best language/libraries/frameworks for achieving this goal?

joined

@betseg not that I know of

yeah, that's about how far I got on that too :)

I considered l and r but wanted the code to represent the cw/ccw in the problem

prv and nxt works I guess...

fore and back

left and rite?

so, lacking prev/next I fall back to c[lock]w[ise] and w[idder]s[hins]

and I hate when object property names have different lengths but mean opposite things

I'm avoiding prev and next because my syntax highlighter is too dumb to realize I'm not using the builtin next()

with such gems as cur = cur.ws.ws.ws.ws.ws.ws

doubly linked list

my python for part two takes about 15 seconds to run

@dzaima if you don't count the 23s then 1/22 gets removed :p

a sort of closed form solution

I'm actually curious if there's a way to do the problem without building the list at all

oh, sure :)

useful to note that only approx 2/23 of the list ever gets removed

if 7 was a huge number you'd want to be able to index into your list

my part 2 solution is going to take ages. I used array operations instead of building a doubly linked list.

I picked the wrong day to try competing

9 players; last marble is worth 25 points: high score is 32 <-- this would have gotten me a solution in about 4 minutes :(

thank you dzalma

etc

10 players; last marble is worth 1618 points: high score is 8317

are the other examples also the same?

does everyone see the same worked out example? 9 players, 25 marbles

am I crazy or did the problem wording change at some point in the last hour?

oh that's fuckin bullshit

how the hell is a marble that is never scored the highest scoring marble?

wait, what?

if I knew how to make up a set of valid inputs that would be closer to an answer than I am now

anyone want to give me a hint and make up an example input/answer with two-digit numbers in it?

I wish there was a small example :(

going back and running some of the additional examples to see if I can figure the problem out

I haven't been working on it this whole time. just came back to take another crack at it after giving up about 30 minutes in

I haven't seen the second one yet

are you referring to the first or second problem?

I gave up about a half hour in, having apparently failed to understand part 1.

1 and 2?

gonna give up. I guess I'm too sleepy or something

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@ASCII-only probably gonna give up on the AoC problem. I apparently don't understand it :(