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Re: Show HN: Google Code Jam Archive

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Post by zibada » Sun, Jun 04, 2023, 10:07 AM UTC

yeputons wrote: post #10

Thank you very much! Did you have any luck with Distributed Code Jam?

Unfortunately, these rounds are not available either on the official website or on their github (https://github.com/google/coding-competitions-archive/), so I'm afraid there's not much we can do from the outside.

Re: Show HN: Google Code Jam Archive

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Post by zibada » Sun, Jun 04, 2023, 10:16 AM UTC

srvmshr wrote: post #5

I'm surprised so few people are interested in this. It's a very good collection. I think it'd be very useful for people wanting to have a go at it, now that google has sunsetted it. I am not sure how it is hosted but maybe a GitHub repo with source files could ensure they'll be archived even better for posterity. OP have you posted them anywhere on GitHub/Gitlab? Edit: My bad, I saw the downloadable zip archives for…

For the problem statements, there is official github repo (see link in the next comment). As for my zip archives, you basically unzip them all somewhere, point the webserver to it and you are all set (+optionally basic Apache+mod_php setup or equivalent to serve user profiles and solutions).

Re: Show HN: Google Code Jam Archive

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Post by lintim » Sun, Jun 04, 2023, 11:48 AM UTC

This is cool! Thanks especially for sharing the db files- that is very helpful work.

Re: Show HN: Google Code Jam Archive

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Post by fn-mote » Sun, Jun 04, 2023, 11:52 AM UTC

Ah, somehow I missed the part of the announcement where "the site will be fully shutting down on July 1, 2023".

WHY, GOOGLE???

Those problems are beautiful. What would it cost to leave the site up??

Leaving us absolutely nothing for posterity? Scorched earth.

:(

Re: Show HN: Google Code Jam Archive

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Post by lrem » Sun, Jun 04, 2023, 2:19 PM UTC

fn-mote wrote: post #14

Ah, somehow I missed the part of the announcement where "the site will be fully shutting down on July 1, 2023". WHY, GOOGLE??? Those problems are beautiful. What would it cost to leave the site up?? Leaving us absolutely nothing for posterity? Scorched earth. :(

I'll offer a guess educated by almost a decade of working for Google: security treadmill. How can you trust something to stay secure for more than a couple weeks? Borg will outright refuse to run any binary that's been compiled a couple months ago. Couple that with notorious internal API instability culture and you get just this - can't hope to have a thing just stay up by itself. So they did the better thing here - give a schedule for the turndown, instead of "this will stop serving a couple months after some binary no longer compiles".

Re: Show HN: Google Code Jam Archive

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Post by musicale » Sun, Jun 04, 2023, 2:32 PM UTC

lrem wrote: post #15

fn-mote wrote: post #14

Ah, somehow I missed the part of the announcement where "the site will be fully shutting down on July 1, 2023". WHY, GOOGLE??? Those problems are beautiful. What would it cost to leave the site up?? Leaving us absolutely nothing for posterity? Scorched earth. :(

I'll offer a guess educated by almost a decade of working for Google: security treadmill. How can you trust something to stay secure for more than a couple weeks? Borg will outright refuse to run any binary that's been compiled a couple months ago. Couple that with notorious internal API instability culture and you get just this - can't hope to have a thing just stay up by itself. So they did the better thing here -…

> can't hope to have a thing just stay up by itself

Archiving the problems and editorial solutions as static html would have been nice.

Re: Show HN: Google Code Jam Archive

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Post by 29athrowaway » Sun, Jun 04, 2023, 3:21 PM UTC

You should contact the Internet Archive and get these archived there as well.

Re: Show HN: Google Code Jam Archive

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Post by 29athrowaway » Sun, Jun 04, 2023, 3:24 PM UTC

fn-mote wrote: post #14

Ah, somehow I missed the part of the announcement where "the site will be fully shutting down on July 1, 2023". WHY, GOOGLE??? Those problems are beautiful. What would it cost to leave the site up?? Leaving us absolutely nothing for posterity? Scorched earth. :(

This is why

https://www.deepmind.com/blog/competitive-programming-with-a...

https://alphacode.deepmind.com/ (press Play)

Re: Show HN: Google Code Jam Archive

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Post by lrem » Sun, Jun 04, 2023, 6:03 PM UTC

musicale wrote: post #16

lrem wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'll offer a guess educated by almost a decade of working for Google: security treadmill. How can you trust something to stay secure for more than a couple weeks? Borg will outright refuse to run any binary that's been compiled a couple months ago. Couple that with notorious internal API instability culture and you get just this - can't hope to have a thing just stay up by itself. So they did the better thing here -…

> can't hope to have a thing just stay up by itself Archiving the problems and editorial solutions as static html would have been nice.

It would, but then you're talking about a launch of a thing that wasn't there before. So you need to go through all the reviews needed for that, which might be way too much work for a volunteer trying to salvage something that just lost the team.