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Google Introduces Programming Challenge In Advance Of GoogleIO
First time accepted submitter X10 writes "Google announced some time ago that they want only developers to attend their Google IO conference. They hinted at developing a 'programming test' that you have to pass before you can register. Now, they have introduced the Input Output machine at the same time they announced that Google IO registration will open on March 27. I take it that registrations will be ordered according to the quality of one's IO machine. Cute idea ..."
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It fails to load in Chrome but works flawlessly in Firefox. Is somebody not eating their dogfood?
Google has commented on various other comments in the google+ posts for IO that it's a first come first served process on the 27th. There have been some comments about an easter egg in the game which gives a link for preregistration but google has not confirmed. Known IOn members (Those who have attended 3 IO's) have gotten preregistered this week, and the rumor is that Past attendees will get the nod next week. But as of now google has been saying it's a free for all on the 27th. I'm betting they want to break their previous record for how fast you can sellout a conference. And I think that the price hike to $900 is their plan to try and keep out those who simply want to get whatever they give away. We'll see on the 27th how well that worked.
Yeah, for instance the organizers and the Slashdot submitter are all men.
My first program:
Hell Segmentation fault
For most of the IO's except for maybe the first Google has given away more free stuff then the cost of the conference itself. A noticable group has went simply to get this swag. 2 years ago they gave out 2 phones. Last year they gave out a special edition Galaxy Tab, a 4g LTE Mifi, and a Chromebook to attendees, and certain sessions also gave out things, one was a PS phone and one was an Arduino. I think almost doubling the price to $900 from last years $550 (I believe) is more to attempt to drive these people out. I was there last year and you could tell who was only there for the swag as they sat in the back and left the sessions or keynotes for the swag desk as soon as things were announced.
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Even if you have an account it asks you "Google Developers is requesting permission to: Know how you are on Google, Perform these operations when I'm not using the application". If you click "No thanks" instead of "Allow access", you get "Access Denied".
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Just built a machine that, depending on some hidden factor, either catches the ball and transports it, throws the ball away off the bottom of the screen, or just misses the catch entirely and lets it smash into the end wall. But the actual result seems random because I don't change anything in-between, just press the spacebar to "launch" a ball.
Sorry, but I played The Incredible Machine when I was a child, thanks, and it was frustrating enough even when it WAS consistent. I don't program in languages that like to change the parameters at random.
A tip for anyone who wants to go through with it. The simple design is usually the better design. The inconsistency are factors which you have to factor for in your design. Kind of like how in life nothing is truly consistent.
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I don't think we need a film for this one, guys. Animated short at 11.
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Ugh. Seeing a sentence like this "...architect a machine only you could have dreamt of" makes me think that they may want to consider allowing just *one* non-developer... someone who can write.
Steve
Hmm, turns out I may have just over-thought this as now I've published the empty machine it's unlocked another ball type.
What exactly is the point of this nonsense? I can't exactly see how it's a developer challenge either.
It has a hidden flash object, so if you block flash then all you see is the spinning record player.
Irony is, most people probably already have a G+ account, even if they never signed up for one.
A Google+ account is not the same thing as a Google account. You have to sign up for G+, it's not automatic. For example, Google Apps administrators have to specifically enable Google+ access for their users, after which the users then have to use their Apps account to sign up for G+.
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