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Anyway I don't expect much from a known surveillance and Google shill (tptacek) and a Bitcoin irrational hater (patio11). These guys are insane in a bad way.
Sounds very competitive, achiever-focused. Do all organizations want programmers who are viciously determined to win? Does that lead to society-efficient solutions? (To elaborate a little, Richard Bartle noticed four types of players of MUD. Achievers are just one.)
Sounds very competitive, achiever-focused. Do all organizations want programmers who are viciously determined to win? Does that lead to society-efficient solutions? (To elaborate a little, Richard Bartle noticed four types of players of MUD. Achievers are just one.)
Very cool! Signed up for an invite. Couple questions: 1) Is this a Stripe-like CTF that happens over some caffeine-fueled weekend? Or is it more of an ongoing Project Euler-style drop-in-and-solve type process? I don't think I could handle the former, but the latter sounds quite enjoyable and something I might do in my free time just to learn. I did that with PE for a while since it was fun to earn completion points.…
Very cool! Signed up for an invite. Couple questions: 1) Is this a Stripe-like CTF that happens over some caffeine-fueled weekend? Or is it more of an ongoing Project Euler-style drop-in-and-solve type process? I don't think I could handle the former, but the latter sounds quite enjoyable and something I might do in my free time just to learn. I did that with PE for a while since it was fun to earn completion points.…
You don't have to rush through Starfighter games. Some people will, of course, just like there is a metagame to be the first guild on the server to complete a new raid. Players are gonna play. But if you want to pick up our CTF a year after release and just casually spend a few hours learning a new skill, you'll be able to do that, and we'll fully support you in it.
How do you make it so that the solutions aren't given away?
The same way you do it with math problems. Mastery of the subject material is the easiest cheat code.
I'm all, involved? and stuff? You can, like, ask us stuff, I guess. Let me answer the most frequent questions we're getting right here: "CTF" stands for "Capture The Flag". Conventionally, it's a contest with a collection of "flags" each of which is guarded by a programming puzzle; teams of people compete to collect flags. What we're doing is not a conventional CTF, but if you want to get the flavor of what we're doi…
What do you expect will be the effect of this on hiring women? Do you have any relevant data from microcorruption (what % players were women)? It'd be great if Erin could also chime in.
I’m curious as to how much this will select for people with free time. Many of the CTFs I’ve played in required a quite non-trivial amount of investment of time (which I didn’t mind, as they’ve been quite enjoyable), but there are certainly people who can’t afford n dozen hours to solve problems due to family/work/other obligations. I do think this is significantly better than the alternative, but I’m also concerned…
-Updating a resume
-Contacting a recruiter
-Replying to recruiters
-Searching job descriptions
-Writing cover letters
-Tweaking previously updated resume
-Sending applications
-Maintaining a GitHub profile
-Working on open source projects that may or may not fit a future job description
-Spending 1-5 days interviewing
And that's just off the top of my head. I'm sure we could come up with a few dozen more.