Darryl in Brussels
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Darryl in Brussels
Darryl, the donkey, used to be really famous, on social media, among his mates, he was the star of his family basically. Everyone adored him, worshipped him in extravagant spheres. He of course, went along with it, he proudly marched through the fields, the city, the farms, people bowed at him, animals bowed at him. Yes he was truly a hero for them.
But one day, out of nothing, he lost his ability to produce money in his stomach! No coins 🪙 ever came out of him again. He started to feel sick, but not because his belly stopped creating money, but because his previously adored family and friends stopped caring about him, turned away from him.
Darryl felt lonely, and useless. He was strolling pensively along the trottwar, as he stumbled upon an advertisement for an open source tech conference. Excited by the prospect of learning more about technology, Darryl decided to embark on an adventure to attend the conference.
The journey was long and tiring, but Darryl was determined to reach his goal. He crossed many waffle shops, passed innumerable chocolate 🍫 confiseries and Belgian fries 🍟 shops; all sources of countless potential distractions on the way to the open source conference. But he conquered them all, including the tasty beer coming from a somewhat infantile appearing statue. On the way to the conference, he started to feel excited, yes ecstatic, almost like in a delirium. He started briefly hallucinating about amazing wall comics, graffities and street art, but wait, these are real! What an amazing city! The Belgian chocolate was hard to withstand; but when he was thinking about Swiss Chocolate, he could resist the Belgian chocolate, too.
Stopping at the last waffle stand before the conference, he couldn’t resist, he desperately wanted one. Since he doesn’t produce nor possess any money anymore to buy a waffle, the waffle seller gave him another option:
Codable Questions
If you help me solve the following problem, you can have a free waffle with any toppings you like. Okay, here is the issue: In about an hour, 30 famous open source programmers will be standing in line here for a waffle. I want to decorate special waffles for them with their names on them: One name per waffle. The names shall be written with fine Belgian chocolate letters that I bought. I bought six sets of letters (each set has 26 letters of the English Alphabet). I probably won’t have enough letters to write all their names.
After which person (Denis is the 1, Aaron the 2, …) in the below fixed line of programmers will I not be able to continue writing their names anymore?
After said person, if I’m allowed to skip people, how many names, still following below order, can I still write?
Line of programmers:
Dennis, Aaron, Donald, Tim, Bjarne, Linus, Guido, James, Richard, Brian, Grace,
Alan, Niklaus, Guy, Fabrice, Donald, Ken, John, Eric, Anders, Alexander,
Charles, Alan, Ronald, Andrew, Leslie, Edsger, John, Keith, Barbara
The Conference
Darryll, the donkey, managed to solve the problem. After solving the problem and many distractions on the way, Daryll has reached the conference venue. When he finally arrived, he was awestruck by the sight of hundreds of people gathered to learn and share their knowledge of technology.
Darryl was able to attend various talks and workshops, and he was amazed by the wealth of information and the passion of the attendees. He also met many other animals who shared his love for technology, and he was happy to make new friends. At the end of the conference, Darryl was inspired to continue his journey of learning. He left the conference with a newfound appreciation for open-source technology and a desire to contribute to the community.
From that day on, Darryl was known as the tech-savvy donkey and was sought after for his knowledge and expertise. He continued to attend tech events and spread his love of technology to others, inspiring a new generation of tech-enthusiasts. He may not produce money nor have his old, superficial friends anymore, but he gained the love for technology and many new real friends, to which he connected in an alternative, federated social network :-).
Additional non-codable questions:
- Can you guess the full names of the famous programmers?
- What is the name of the conference that Darryl went to?
| Category | story |
|---|---|
| Coding Level | medium |
| Coding Ideas | order, loop, letters |
| Coding Languages | Code Solutions on GitHub ↗ |
| Story Genre | descriptive |
| Story Content Key Words | open source, conference, Brussels, wafffles, donkey |
| Story License | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 International |
| Parental Rating | 6+ For Everyone |
| How To Quote Story | (Lilly-Elaia-ReedCode, adapted by StoryCoder.dev, adapted by StoryCoder.dev under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 International) |
| Picture License | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 International |
| How to Quote Picture | (adapted by StoryCoder.dev under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 International) |
| Available Solutions | JavaScript  |
| Title | Darryl in Brussels |
| Author | Lilly-Elaia-ReedCode, adapted by StoryCoder.dev |
| Tags | 6+, brussels, conference, descriptive, donkey, javascript, letters, loop, medium, no-c, no-c#, no-c++, no-clojure, no-dart, no-erlang, no-go, no-haskell, no-nim, no-perl, no-prolog, no-python, no-ruby, no-rust, no-swift, no-typescript, no-zig, open source, order, story, wafffles |