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Roughly how long did that take?
by perpetualchange 2y ago
Roughly how long did that take?
- jchw 2y agoFrom the article: > I didn’t have the time to find a good general-purpose algorithm: I was working on this the night before weekly presentations at the Recurse Center and I wanted to present it the next day! ... > I built this in a single day No estimate of hours, though.
- perpetualchange 2y agoMy browser was apparently bugged, and it didn't show the article the first time... I see it now and am going through it. Thanks for mentioning! :)
- eieio 2y agoHi! I'm the author. Like jchw said, this was a single-day project (although I did the writeup for it the next day). I went from 0-prototype in one sitting; I think that was around four or five hours of work? Then I went home, had dinner, and spent maybe three hours optimizing and cleaning it up. edit: I should say, i have done a lot of dumb things like this and I'm pretty sure it would have been at least a week of work for me 2 years ago. "making the computer do dumb stuff" is a skill like any other!
- perpetualchange 2y agoThanks for taking the time to respond, pretty impressive stuff!
- panzi 2y agoDoing that in a single day is impressive. Took me two days to do my much simpler version that just prints it using Unicode symbols for legacy computing.