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How is this easier to understand? And is the Rubik's Cuber hard to understand at all? You got 26 cubes in 3D space that need to go to their correct locations.

How is this easier to understand? And is the Rubik's Cuber hard to understand at all? You got 26 cubes in 3D space that need to go to their correct locations. They can move in 3 axis. They are color coded for recognition. I think anyone is able to solve the first 2 layers intuitively. Just start by following one of those 26 little cubes and see how it moves about.

jb1991 4y ago
Exactly this. It's not just rubik's cubes, it's also very easy to, for example, use just a few lines of bash to implement a stable, featureful sync tool like dropbox. Everyone's always making things seem more complicated than they really are.
- detritus 4y ago
  I genuinely can't tell if you're being sardonic here. This being HN, I guess I have to assume you're being earnest.
  - bombcar 4y ago
    Mentioning Dropbox is the key to it being sarcastic. Like someone saying “less space than a nomad. Lame.”
  - jb1991 4y ago
    yep sorry, the Dropbox reference is a long-standing HN inside joke about comments like these. You can probably search to find the whole history of this reference, it's rather amusing.
    - pvg 4y ago
      long-standing HN inside joke It's more of a worn-out trope by this point and better skipped. Just sneerfully flag lame comments.
      - detritus 4y ago
    - detritus 4y ago
      I know the meme, which is why I was wondering, haha :) It's also the sort of thing that could've been meant entirely sincerely, in line with the comment of the person you were responding, being particularly painful to me as I've always had a massive mental block with Rubiks Cubes! Dark [Rubik's] Magic that they are.
- School-Cotton 4y ago
  Er... what? I don't understand how this is related at all. And yes, I know about the famous Dropbox HN comment. I agree with the other commenter that a normal 3D cube feels much more intuitive and simple. I guess it's just personal preference/thinking style.
swores 4y ago
I'm sure it was just a typo but in case it confuses somebody reading your comment: 27 cubes, not 26 :)
- leviathan 4y ago
  The cube in the center doesn’t exist
  - swores 4y ago
    Then it was me who was confused, thanks for the correction :)
  - withinboredom 4y ago
    The cube in the center would beg to differ.
  - thaumasiotes 4y ago
    It exists. (Well, as a matter of the mechanics of the physical object, there is no center cube, but the other parts aren't cubes either.) But it is not one of the cubes that need to go to their correct locations. The center cube is not moved by any operation on the cube; it is always in its correct location.
    - 988747 4y ago
      Center cube is not moved, but it is rotated. However, since it does not have any colored faces then it's rotations are meaningless.
      - thaumasiotes 4y ago
        If the cubes have correct locations, none of them need to have colored faces. The location is enough. (At least, that's true of the 26 outer cubes. You can't get them all into place without simultaneously aligning them correctly. I don't actually know if correct alignment of the center cube is also required, but it'd be my first guess.)
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jb1991 4y ago

Exactly this. It's not just rubik's cubes, it's also very easy to, for example, use just a few lines of bash to implement a stable, featureful sync tool like dropbox. Everyone's always making things seem more complicated than they really are.

detritus 4y ago
I genuinely can't tell if you're being sardonic here. This being HN, I guess I have to assume you're being earnest.
- bombcar 4y ago
  Mentioning Dropbox is the key to it being sarcastic. Like someone saying “less space than a nomad. Lame.”
- jb1991 4y ago
  yep sorry, the Dropbox reference is a long-standing HN inside joke about comments like these. You can probably search to find the whole history of this reference, it's rather amusing.
  - pvg 4y ago
    long-standing HN inside joke It's more of a worn-out trope by this point and better skipped. Just sneerfully flag lame comments.
    - detritus 4y ago
  - detritus 4y ago
    I know the meme, which is why I was wondering, haha :) It's also the sort of thing that could've been meant entirely sincerely, in line with the comment of the person you were responding, being particularly painful to me as I've always had a massive mental block with Rubiks Cubes! Dark [Rubik's] Magic that they are.
School-Cotton 4y ago
Er... what? I don't understand how this is related at all. And yes, I know about the famous Dropbox HN comment. I agree with the other commenter that a normal 3D cube feels much more intuitive and simple. I guess it's just personal preference/thinking style.

swores 4y ago

I'm sure it was just a typo but in case it confuses somebody reading your comment: 27 cubes, not 26 :)

leviathan 4y ago
The cube in the center doesn’t exist
- swores 4y ago
  Then it was me who was confused, thanks for the correction :)
- withinboredom 4y ago
  The cube in the center would beg to differ.
- thaumasiotes 4y ago
  It exists. (Well, as a matter of the mechanics of the physical object, there is no center cube, but the other parts aren't cubes either.) But it is not one of the cubes that need to go to their correct locations. The center cube is not moved by any operation on the cube; it is always in its correct location.
  - 988747 4y ago
    Center cube is not moved, but it is rotated. However, since it does not have any colored faces then it's rotations are meaningless.
    - thaumasiotes 4y ago
      If the cubes have correct locations, none of them need to have colored faces. The location is enough. (At least, that's true of the 26 outer cubes. You can't get them all into place without simultaneously aligning them correctly. I don't actually know if correct alignment of the center cube is also required, but it'd be my first guess.)

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