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Google Code Jam 2003 Announced
An anonymous reader says "O'Reilly Developer News is reporting details of the newest Google programming contest, Google Code Jam 2003. Prizes range from t-shirts to ten grand and you can use any programming language you want to solve the increasingly challenging problems."
Update by J : ... as long as it's Java, C++, C# or VB.NET.
you can use any programming language you want to solve the increasingly challenging problems
:)
Like how to stop blogs from screwing with google's results?
Finally, a chance for me to show what COBOL can really do!
I am NOT a man!
I am a free number!
Give away your software and ideas for free (or in this case a t-shirt, that's close enough).. and then possibly get a reward afterwards? Sounds a lot like soviet communism with it's quality reward program.
run a competition and let others do the coding for you.
oh and don't forget to through in a t-shirt or to for all the hard work
I assumed everyone knew about the contest already, or I would've submitted the story myself! Argh! Oh well. You can all expect to see sir_haxalot take time off from being an artist for a few minutes, in order to use the force and attempt to gain at least a t-shirt.
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What you get is a page full of Perl Jam.
Massive by Design
A typical Google sample problem: Suppose there are X lockers in the hallway, and someone is opening every Nth locker where n is a prime number. Write a program to parse all the html files on the internet and return something useful. :)
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Here is some winning code:
#!/usr/bin/perl
print "I win!!!!";
In related news, the American Art Foundry(*) has announced an open art contest. Artists are free to use whatever medium they choose, as long as it's oil on canvas.
* Not a real organization
Prizes range from t-shirts to ten grand and you can use any programming language you want to solve the increasingly challenging problems." Update by J: ... as long as it's Java, C++, C# or VB.NET.
You can withdraw as much money from my bank account as you want!*
* Must be a deposit of at least $1.
Good luck compiling a C program which has a variable named 'new'! ;-)
Paul B.
Time to break out my perl to C converter! You haven't seen obfuscated perl until you've seen it in C!
Karma: SELECT `karma` FROM `users` WHERE `userid`=138474;
TopCoder approved charity list:
1) TopCoder
2)
Google Temptation Island!
---- "If we have to go on with these damned quantum jumps, then I'm sorry that I ever got involved" - Erwin Schrodinger
Yeah, the limit on programming languages reminds me of The Jerk. No, not my grandfather, but the Steve Martin movie. Specifically, a scene where he is working at a carnival stand:
Carnival Goer:
What'd I win?
Navin:
Uh, anything in this general area right in here. Anything below the stereo and on this side of the bicentennial glasses. Anything between the ashtrays and the thimble. Anything in this
three inches right in here in this area. That includes the Chiclets, but not the erasers.
You are checking your backups, aren't you?
To watch the live telecast on ESPN!
Hey... if they will televise spelling bee's, they damned well better televise a coding contest!
Hmmmm.... ok... im a geek, and even I would find that dull as hell.
I didn't know Clarence Darrow read Slashdot.
The same people who read slashdot while at work...
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I type this every time.
you also get a mask, to protect your anonymity ;)
Just kidding!
...Google for the answer!
I wonder if that violates the spirit of the competition?
Well, apparently TopCoders suck at posting properly formatted Slashdot comments. You're right after all -- no real world skills whatsoever!
Yes, yes! Rember folks, California really is falling into the ocean. It is also a nightmare of wildfires, earthquakes, sharks, deadly volcanoes, poison gasses, smog, etc. You don't want to live here! It's horrible... horrible!
Never met a good programmer that would be awake at this hour, independant of job status.
(if we scare everyone off maybe the housing will actually be semi-affordable someday)
Remember the days when Republicans were the party of fiscal responsibility?
It's even worse than that, folks. Los Angeles has banned lap dancing. There truly is no reason to live here anymore.
I live ze unknown. I love ze unknown. I am ze unknown.
I guess it's like Ford and colors for the original Model T. Any color you want as long as it's black. Any programming language as long as it's one of the four.
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
What an easy question...
French is not one of the languages listed and Google / Top Coder didn't want to violate any of Quebec's language preservation laws.
Pourquoi ne pouvons-nous pas employer le Perl?
Like when you communicate there instead of their. You seem like management material to me...
He even looks like a prick! Funny, he seems to have mistakenly listed himself as a programmer, instead of spammer.
In case you want to thank him personally for his services:
Here's a handy map.
Anthony Martin, (310) 532-8393, 17450 Van Ness Ave, Torrance, CA 90504
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. It's just that yours is stupid.