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Google Introduces Programming Challenge In Advance Of GoogleIO

Posted by timothy on from the with-great-power-comes-cool-freebies dept.

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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  1. Not for the accountless. Requires Google+. Lame. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    n/t

  2. Fails in Chrome - works in Firefox by perbu · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It fails to load in Chrome but works flawlessly in Firefox. Is somebody not eating their dogfood?

    1. Re:Fails in Chrome - works in Firefox by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Works fine in Chrome. As I tell my users on a regular basis, there's a significant difference between "it doesn't work" and "it didn't work one time".

  3. Re:Google Sausage Party 2012 by fph+il+quozientatore · · Score: 5, Informative

    You'll find more women at a priests' rectory than at this event

    Yeah, for instance the organizers and the Slashdot submitter are all men.

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    Hell Segmentation fault

  4. Re:Not for the accountless. Requires Google+. Lame by characterZer0 · · Score: 3, Informative

    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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  5. It's more about design than programming. by elucido · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

  6. Only Developers Could Write This by swsuehr · · Score: 5, Funny

    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