How much do Programmers SWEAR? 

Well I tried 😂

Hi there! In this game, (sadly?) there is no shared memory. And every worker gets only 4 memory slots. If they had more memory I guess we could do what you suggest and keep one counter per number. Then some would also have to go twice as there are more columns than people. I really like your idea though! Thank you for this insight!

The floor is your shared memory. That is the curse of being a engineer/programmer haunting me. :D Though that probably won't help you here. Managing shared memory is almost always slower (you have get two workers to 'talk' and make sense of what happened, and that takes precious resources). I suspect the fastest solution (for the Mode Code) is mostly a combination of the following: 1. Consider the first worker to the left, let her walk up 3 tiles, scan all 9 tiles, increment counters accordingly, walk up 3 tiles. Repeat until there is a need to change direction. Ideal for 9x9 grid (9 scans), but also doable for 8x8 (9 scans) 2. Fixed routes. The layout is fixed, we do not need a general n-by-n solution, so use that to your advantage. You can use a fixed path instead of lookup for blank tiles. With that you can customize the path up, and then snake down (like S), so that you exit the grid closer to the result row. The traversal sequence starting from worker 0: up, up, up, right, right, down, left, down, right, down will have you at the tile directly right of worker 5. 3. Have each worker approach the puzzle without using the wall. Assuming each worker from left to right has incremental counter to check (0,1,2,3,4,5), that counter can be used to indicate how many spaces to move left before going up. But I think you might have your own solution already :D

That is really nice. I love it! Not sure if my other video on this problem came out already or is still in the works. But I did almost exactly what you are suggesting (still keeping the generic solution though). However I missed that I could scan all 9 tiles around. That is an awesome touch - I only do 3 in a row and step up once. I will have to revisit this level again thanks to you 😀 there is really no limit to how much oprtmization we can do here.

Me too! Gotta watch it again some day.

I don’t think I have ever seen such person. Messing up and swearing can be fun though.

Swearing is just a way of programming my cope against a frustration. Given that the compiler never responds to a swear, I guess programmers like me just learn to swear silently. Until there are other people around, probably :D

I think I sometimes mutter some swearwords under my breath when alone. But overall it seems like a social thing. Similar to laughing when you want others to know you understand a joke and find it funny. Here you are letting others know you are dealing with a very annoying situation. And it might even grow into a nice chat when you explain what the frustrating thing is and then you all swear together.

I went mostly from memory/tried to figure it out again myself. So it is likely the “memory” comes from the comments I read when the original video came out.

I say that at least twice a day. Once to my boss and once to myself