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Colin McNicholl

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April 30, 2023, 11:42 a.m.	+ 1	for Comment U.V: Well commented and educational solution.
April 25, 2023, 8:45 a.m.	+ 5	for 5-liner: blob-przemyslaw.daniel
April 18, 2023, 7 a.m.	+ 5	for Unclear 8 lines proc-CDG.Axel
March 2, 2023, 1:16 p.m.	+ 4	for First-wo.tomasz
Feb. 12, 2023, 12:50 p.m.	+ 2	for Using max()-vmelnyk
Feb. 8, 2023, 11:44 a.m.	+ 1	for Comment lisovsky: Very similar to my solution, but I didn't make a separate function, but used lambda in sub
Feb. 6, 2023, 3:04 p.m.	+ 1	for Comment Magu: fabulous use of 'with suppress' and 'index'. very educational solution. :D
Feb. 1, 2023, 5:29 p.m.	+ 1	for Comment Phil15: For me the "important note" is that when the count is not enough to distingish elements, we rely on ...
Jan. 27, 2023, 7:50 p.m.	+ 1	for Comment lisovsky: lookup_table can be replaced by map_points = {c: sum(divmod(2 * (ord(c) - 48), 10)) for c in string....
Dec. 14, 2022, 11:55 a.m.	+ 1	for Comment hbczmxy: Thanks for your solution. It was in your solution that I first learned about `contextlib` (i.e. **th...
Nov. 21, 2022, 3:40 p.m.	+ 1	for Comment H0r4c3: A clear solution!
Nov. 15, 2022, 2:56 p.m.	+ 1	for Comment freeman_lex: You should find out the sorting order for each group, not once for the whole list. If the first grou...
Oct. 30, 2022, 8:08 p.m.	+ 1	for Comment Serg900vd: Here is the example using bubble sort: def __lt__(x, y): return y == 0 def bubble_sort(list): for pa...
Oct. 24, 2022, 8:10 p.m.	+ 4	for __lt__-Serg900vd
Sept. 24, 2022, 3:35 p.m.	+ 1	for Comment H0r4c3: Nice use of deque!
Sept. 11, 2022, 7:07 a.m.	+ 1	for Comment berezanov82: Clear,short and educational solution!
Dec. 6, 2021, 1:41 p.m.	+ 1	for Comment Magu: proper comments for readability. nice. :D
Dec. 4, 2021, 5:44 p.m.	+ 1	for Comment jsg-inet: Nice to cover both posible solutions (positive and negative) when you are checking. Why to set the s...
Nov. 25, 2021, 1:16 p.m.	+ 1	for Comment mlahor: A well implemented classic solution. I did the same.
Nov. 18, 2021, 12:39 p.m.	+ 1	for Oneliner-nserev
Nov. 18, 2021, 12:37 p.m.	+ 1	for Single line-katnic
Nov. 18, 2021, 12:34 p.m.	+ 1	for First-Andre_Urbain_Oze
Nov. 16, 2021, 7:45 p.m.	+ 2	for Simple-mindaugas.dadurkevicius
Nov. 11, 2021, 1:26 p.m.	+ 1	for Comment kdim: Your solution is easy to read and understand. Also complies with pep8. well done!
Aug. 30, 2021, 1:01 p.m.	+ 1	for Loopless(cleaner)-JumpCutter
Aug. 17, 2021, 3:10 p.m.	+ 1	for First-tokiojapan55
Aug. 5, 2021, 7:17 p.m.	+ 1	for Comment Kurush: There is an error in your solution. You can repeat it with "river_crossing(0, 2, 7, 3)". You’ll get ...
Aug. 3, 2021, 12:02 p.m.	+ 1	for Comment Marcin_Ramotowski: In your solution function path_to is unused and unnecessary. This solution works good without this f...
Aug. 2, 2021, 7:10 p.m.	+ 1	for groupby-tom-tom_f993b3abc4814d4cb5476e
July 27, 2021, 7:50 p.m.	+ 1	for 2-lines solution with map and f-string-bsquare
July 27, 2021, 7:17 p.m.	+ 1	for Now the shortest:)-_Chico__5d82cee4f5234e78a5c65e
July 23, 2021, 3:41 p.m.	+ 1	for Comment ainoneko: > def heal(self, target): > """Damage is reduced if given heal() but cannot be negative. > Equivalen...
July 23, 2021, 3:30 p.m.	+ 1	for Comment RogerZ1128: elegant
July 14, 2021, 8:34 a.m.	+ 1	for First-_Chico__5d82cee4f5234e78a5c65e
July 6, 2021, 3:34 p.m.	+ 1	for Comment Phil15: Yeah B0 does not exist, but the "back" cone start there. I only used that name because it is clear w...
July 2, 2021, 12:59 p.m.	+ 1	for First-Tinus_Trotyl
July 2, 2021, 12:45 p.m.	+ 2	for First-brownie57
July 2, 2021, 12:16 p.m.	+ 1	for combinations of all lines-kudinov.feodor
June 29, 2021, 6:20 p.m.	+ 3	for dijkstra-pokosasa
June 12, 2021, 7:41 a.m.	+ 1	for Comment r.bathoorn: you indeed create named tuples and use them but instead of this line 56: p1, p2 = edge you already c...
June 8, 2021, 6:12 p.m.	+ 1	for Comment _Chico__5d82cee4f5234e78a5c65e: Just a good solution:)
June 8, 2021, 6:08 p.m.	+ 1	for Comment _Chico__5d82cee4f5234e78a5c65e: Long, but nice!
May 28, 2021, 3:05 p.m.	+ 1	for Comment Phil15: Okay did not thought about these asserts, it should clearly be `assert list(...) == ...`. There is a...
May 26, 2021, 8:38 a.m.	+ 1	for Comment DinRigtigeFar: Really nice and clever answer although it took me a few minutes to figure it out.
April 30, 2021, 3:15 p.m.	+ 2	for First-mpohily
April 15, 2021, 6:15 p.m.	+ 1	for Comment _Chico__5d82cee4f5234e78a5c65e: It's really readable. :)
March 24, 2021, 2 p.m.	+ 4	for First-tokiojapan55
March 15, 2021, 7:30 p.m.	+ 1	for First-7nat7
March 15, 2021, 7:23 p.m.	+ 2	for First-Elena_Korljukova
March 15, 2021, 7:16 p.m.	+ 2	for One String-sMiTeOne
March 15, 2021, 7:02 p.m.	+ 1	for brut force-fsmai
March 2, 2021, 8:35 p.m.	+ 5	for Dynamic programming, O(benches²)-Rcp8jzd
Feb. 18, 2021, 5:30 p.m.	+ 3	for groupby-ogoro
Feb. 13, 2021, 5:54 p.m.	+ 1	for Comment Phil15: Okay I was about to lunch, read too quickly, was a bit a lazy to be entirely honest and I'm sorry fo...
Feb. 12, 2021, 9:34 a.m.	+ 1	for First-wiski
Feb. 4, 2021, 2:21 p.m.	+ 1	for Comment oduvan: There might be an issue with solving in the last hour. Your quest was about voting for solutions, no...
Jan. 29, 2021, 1:15 p.m.	+ 2	for Lots of comments, not much code-new_hoschi
Jan. 27, 2021, 2:18 p.m.	+ 1	for Comment Oleg_Levonjuk: Good job, but little bit verbose. With usage of textwrap the solution should be two or three times s...
Jan. 27, 2021, 2:11 p.m.	+ 1	for recursion-kalauroma7997
Jan. 27, 2021, 2:07 p.m.	+ 2	for tuple assignment-David_Jones
Jan. 27, 2021, 2:01 p.m.	+ 1	for zip(a[::2], a[1::2])-flpo
Jan. 26, 2021, 4:25 p.m.	+ 1	for Comment Phil15: Yes
Jan. 8, 2021, 9:55 a.m.	+ 1	for First-pokosasa
Jan. 7, 2021, 2:25 p.m.	+ 1	for Comment spark856: nice solution!
Jan. 7, 2021, 2:22 p.m.	+ 1	for Comment mangeurdecowan: gj
Jan. 5, 2021, 8:57 p.m.	+ 1	for Comment ogoro: thank you for extremely clear and documented code!
Dec. 21, 2020, 5:13 p.m.	+ 1	for item and counter tuples-martaprilmay
Dec. 21, 2020, 4:15 p.m.	+ 1	for Get the quantity of uniq elements and the position of the first one from them-nickgryg
Dec. 21, 2020, 4:03 p.m.	+ 2	for First-driedwatermelon
Dec. 15, 2020, 3:52 p.m.	+ 1	for First-FenixarKing
Dec. 14, 2020, 7:50 p.m.	+ 1	for Step by step to solved problem-Stanslaw
Nov. 28, 2020, 5:23 p.m.	+ 1	for Comment Phil15: This https://py.checkio.org/search/?q=with gave me 63 solutions. Only noticable use on the first 30 ...
Nov. 27, 2020, 4:31 p.m.	+ 1	for Comment kurosawa4434: [[86,28],[23,9],[5,13],[61,13],[73,17],[78,2],[91,17],[71,5],[68,8],[100,24],[24,26],[63,9],**[31,23...
Nov. 25, 2020, 7:52 p.m.	+ 1	for Comment kolomensky.vp: Dear Colin, thanks for your time and the rigorous review!
Nov. 24, 2020, 5:33 p.m.	+ 3	for First-7nat7
Nov. 24, 2020, 5:01 p.m.	+ 1	for First-apieceofcaken
Nov. 15, 2020, 7 p.m.	+ 2	for First-rodka81
Nov. 8, 2020, 7:05 p.m.	+ 2	for First-thealfest1
Nov. 4, 2020, 2:10 p.m.	+ 1	for Second-Sioul
Oct. 29, 2020, 2:05 p.m.	+ 1	for Second-Elena_Korljukova
Oct. 28, 2020, 2:06 p.m.	+ 1	for Comment l.szyman10: Nice sets using. Wouldn't it be better to use: 'src not in crushes and dest not in crushes' instead ...
March 14, 2020, 12:45 p.m.	+ 1	for First-Vasily__Chibilyaev
March 9, 2020, 9:55 a.m.	+ 1	for First-kazuki.h
Feb. 29, 2020, 11:50 a.m.	+ 4	for Inspired by Veky (functools.singledispatch)-juestr
Feb. 22, 2020, 10:10 a.m.	+ 4	for 67 chars.-Ylliw
Feb. 20, 2020, 3:30 p.m.	+ 3	for 2-liner: 140 chars-Phil15
Feb. 10, 2020, 10 a.m.	+ 1	for Single Walker-Ylliw
Feb. 6, 2020, 9:50 a.m.	+ 1	for Comment Ilis: Thank you so much for detailed review. It was hard for me to solve this task, so I didn't continue w...
Feb. 5, 2020, 10:15 a.m.	+ 2	for Mighty Random-Ilis
Feb. 3, 2020, 9:26 a.m.	+ 1	for Comment rossras: nice use of eval() with unpacking to parse the points.
Jan. 30, 2020, 2:42 p.m.	+ 1	for Comment martin_b: Very thorough explanation
Jan. 28, 2020, 10 a.m.	+ 2	for Second-kazuki.h
Jan. 27, 2020, 10:05 a.m.	+ 3	for First-Tinus_Trotyl
Jan. 25, 2020, 10:34 a.m.	+ 1	for Comment juestr: Thanks. Tbh most teams I've been with have house rules for longer lines, and allow to break the rule...
Jan. 25, 2020, 10:30 a.m.	+ 1	for Comment Phil15: Everybody can be the leader of the month in 2020 (but only one time), same for 2021, ... If you beco...
Jan. 24, 2020, 3:04 p.m.	+ 1	for First-Chocolater
Jan. 24, 2020, 3:03 p.m.	+ 3	for walk tree exactly once without recursion-juestr
Jan. 24, 2020, 3:03 p.m.	+ 1	for First-johankor
Jan. 10, 2020, 1:49 p.m.	+ 2	for re-tom-tom_f993b3abc4814d4cb5476e
Dec. 20, 2019, 11:53 a.m.	+ 3	for Fixed sort and search-nickie

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