Ask HN: Programming Problems for Plane Rides
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#22One of my professors has a large collection of previous ACM programming contest problems (with solutions) on his web site, along with problems from the contest he runs: http://math.nmu.edu/~apoe/
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#23"bus scheme" is cute: http://technomancy.us/98
You could do "airbus scheme".
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#24Look up the Informatics Olympiad. Some awesome theoretical puzzles: http://www.olympiad.org.uk/problems.html
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#25I often do this on flights, and in addition to solving "puzzles" you can always try to build a well-defined system from scratch. For example: - A JSON parser (bring the BNF from http://json.org/) - Simplified Lisp interpreter - Forth compiler (for example: https://github.com/JohnEarnest/Four.Ps) - Emulator for a simple CPU or MCU (6502, 1801, etc- bring a datasheet) Projects like these are not "practical", as everyth…
The http://norvig.com/spell-correct.html code was written on one flight, for another example.
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#26built by a couple of guys I know: http://www.coderloop.com/
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#27Slightly off-topic, but I'm actually disappointed by the spread of Internet access to things like planes and trains. One of the things I enjoy the most about flying is that I feel disconnected from the rest of the world, and I try to take advantage of this to focus on a book or programming problem for the duration of the flight, without worries or distractions. I haven't yet been on a flight with wifi, but I suspect that the illusion of isolation would be broken for me, and my ability to focus would suffer dramatically. Hopefully, most airlines will see it as another thing they can charge me for.
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#28Slightly off-topic, but I'm actually disappointed by the spread of Internet access to things like planes and trains. One of the things I enjoy the most about flying is that I feel disconnected from the rest of the world, and I try to take advantage of this to focus on a book or programming problem for the duration of the flight, without worries or distractions. I haven't yet been on a flight with wifi, but I suspect…
I am wholeheartedly in agreement with you, to the extent that I took a 36 hour train ride a few months ago partly to disconnect from the normal flow of life, and from the 24/7 Internet access that I am accustom to.
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#29http://sixrevisions.com/resources/10-puzzle-websites-to-shar... and recently I came across dropbox challenge as well! http://www.dropbox.com/jobs/challenges