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icza / scelight

The source code of the Scelight project with all its modules.
https://sites.google.com/site/scelight/
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Make developer mode activation readme more comprehensible. #34

Open Stefan-Kosker opened 1 year ago

Stefan-Kosker commented 1 year ago

This one just makes the activation of developer mode a little bit easier :)

icza commented 1 year ago

While this makes it obviously clearer, for someone having developer experience, this makes it a "piece of cake". I wanted it to have a little challenge, while still having all the info in the help text.

I stopped developing and updating Scelight a long time ago, if I make a new release, I'll consider including this (or a variation of it). Thanks.

icza commented 1 year ago

Also note that googling the term "scelight developer challenge solution", the first result leads to the StackOverflow question containing the solution code.

Stefan-Kosker commented 1 year ago

I totally understand what you mean. But consider, I first get the max number, took the hash and than did the bitshift & xor.

Challenging =/= not comprehensive. But thanks mate! We will stay in contact :) I am very interested in unpacking the information from hex and try to understand the way single information gets handled.

Stefan-Kosker commented 1 year ago

Also note that googling the term "scelight developer challenge solution", the first result leads to the StackOverflow question containing the solution code.

image Please consider, google results are highly personalized :)

icza commented 1 year ago

Yes, I know, that's why I also checked in a private browsing tab, and it's the first result: image

icza commented 1 year ago

And as to what's clear and not in the test: you made several mistakes by not being thoughtful or observant. E.g. the 8-bit vs 8-byte, shifting by a wrong number...

All I'm saying is that if you hadn't make these mistakes in the first place, you could've found the solution earlier, even without help. If you do everything right except calculating SHA checksum first, that's still just 2 attempts.

I agree that the wording is not the clearest it can be, but I also didn't want to make it a routine coding task.