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Hmm, didn't Google announce when the registration was going to open last year? EDIT: I say this because I have a meeting coming up very soon. It'd be a disaster if the registration opens in the next few minutes and finishes before my meeting's done.
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Other than you could write a curl statement in all of 2 minutes, post it on HN and then it defeats the purpose of said coding challenge. The smart cruft will get in... they'll just do it by piggy backing on those who do the work and post it online.
They'll always be able to get in. Which isn't a problem. The problem is buisness guys outnumbering technical guys. Reducing their numbers is all that's required.
Google said last year that registration would now require a programming challenge. I hope they follow through with this because developer conferences have been over-run with non-developers. Technical talks are presented to half empty rooms, developers miss out on tickets and have to watch later online while the hallways are full of business people (got nothing against y'all, but there are plenty of other conferences)
Perhaps this requirement will do a first pass at filtering out non-developers.
Note that the Google Developer account on G+ mentioned that they are going to avoid the "registration rush" this year. Supposedly there will be plenty of time between the I/O registration opening and any deadline, and AFAIK it's not going to be on a first-come, first-serve basis like last year. So, settle down, no need to stalk their online accounts all hours of the day. :-)
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They'll always be able to get in. Which isn't a problem. The problem is buisness guys outnumbering technical guys. Reducing their numbers is all that's required.
A key problem with Google I/O is that they give you enough free stuff while you are there to pay you back for the price of the ticket multiple times over: this pricing arbitrage creates miserable incentives, and causes a lot of people to register for the conference for the sole purpose of being able to obtain free stuff, after which they either immediately ditch or scalp their ticket.
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A key problem with Google I/O is that they give you enough free stuff while you are there to pay you back for the price of the ticket multiple times over: this pricing arbitrage creates miserable incentives, and causes a lot of people to register for the conference for the sole purpose of being able to obtain free stuff, after which they either immediately ditch or scalp their ticket.
It looks like they upped the price. We will see if it influences demand.