Platypus (http://platypus.mozdev.org/) is an extension for visually editing web pages to your liking and then creating a Greasemonkey script that will repeat those changes the next time you load the page. It's Greasemonkey without the programming, if you will.
"One of the most jaw dropping extensions that I have seen to date." --Anders Conbere
I'm bitter because when my team won the championship (UCLA, 1989), there were no prizes! We got a $500 scholarship for the department.
At any rate, there are worse ways to get screwed in the contest. The following year, when we defended our title, we never made it out of the regionals. That year, solutions were submitted on floppies and tested & scored automatically. Turned out that one of the floppies we were given already had a file on it, and unbeknownst to us, the scoring program kept testing that file. We discovered the problem just as the contest was ending, and the judges not only had no sympathy for us, they refused to test our program and score it as submitted at the end of the contest.
That year, the prizes included laptops for all the members of the winning team.
The next year, they stopped letting graduate students compete:-).
I've wondered on and off if the ACM will ever hold a contest between all the past champions. Not that I've programmed in years, mind you.
while true do
var P = GetURL("http://www.goto.com/d/search/?Keywords=bul k+email");
every p in Seq(P,"li") do
try
GetURL(Elem(p,"a")[0].href);
catch E
end;
end;
end;
I was a member of the UCLA team that won the contest in 1989.
The following year we failed to complete a problem at the Regionals because the mechanics for submitting solutions (on floppy disk) were broken. We discovered the problem and corrected it at the last moment, submitting our solution just as the final bell rang. The judge refused to accept the solution, much to our amazement and that of the nearby teams.
When we protested, he coldly told us "Forget it. You guys don't deserve a break." None of the other judges would overrule him, since they hadn't been present at the submission desk.
Turned out he was the coach for one of the other teams, and had a grudge against us because we were graduate students. (Indeed, the competition was limited to undergraduates the next year.)
That incident kept us out of the Finals. I only wish I remembered his name, so I could besmirch him here on Slashdot:-).
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"One of the most jaw dropping extensions that I have seen to date." --Anders Conbere
Check it out.
-- Scott Turner
You're bitter for that?
:-).
I'm bitter because when my team won the championship (UCLA, 1989), there were no prizes! We got a $500 scholarship for the department.
At any rate, there are worse ways to get screwed in the contest. The following year, when we defended our title, we never made it out of the regionals. That year, solutions were submitted on floppies and tested & scored automatically. Turned out that one of the floppies we were given already had a file on it, and unbeknownst to us, the scoring program kept testing that file. We discovered the problem just as the contest was ending, and the judges not only had no sympathy for us, they refused to test our program and score it as submitted at the end of the contest.
That year, the prizes included laptops for all the members of the winning team.
The next year, they stopped letting graduate students compete
I've wondered on and off if the ACM will ever hold a contest between all the past champions. Not that I've programmed in years, mind you.
-- Scott
Shouldn't that be "dislamers"? Actually, that might be a pretty handy term of art on /.
Scott
Here's the script in WebL (*):
l k+email");
l
while true do
var P = GetURL("http://www.goto.com/d/search/?Keywords=bu
every p in Seq(P,"li") do
try
GetURL(Elem(p,"a")[0].href);
catch E
end;
end;
end;
Please use irresponsibly.
-- Dr. Pain
(*) http://www.research.compaq.com/SRC/WebL/index.htm
Like when Mom wants me to fix her Win95 box over the telephone? Yeah, that only happens about once a week.
(And I'll bet the satellite's easier to explain things to than my Mom.)
I was a member of the UCLA team that won the contest in 1989.
:-).
The following year we failed to complete a problem at the Regionals because the mechanics for submitting solutions (on floppy disk) were broken. We discovered the problem and corrected it at the last moment, submitting our solution just as the final bell rang. The judge refused to accept the solution, much to our amazement and that of the nearby teams.
When we protested, he coldly told us "Forget it. You guys don't deserve a break." None of the other judges would overrule him, since they hadn't been present at the submission desk.
Turned out he was the coach for one of the other teams, and had a grudge against us because we were graduate students. (Indeed, the competition was limited to undergraduates the next year.)
That incident kept us out of the Finals. I only wish I remembered his name, so I could besmirch him here on Slashdot
-- Dr. Pain