Would it be possible to show some examples on the page? Like previously corrected bugs?
Quixey Challenge: Fix a bug in 1 minute to win $100. Refer a winner to win $50.
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#12I tried the practices, and I didn't like it because they don't provide sample input, and you can't test your changes in browser. Most of my seconds are spent copying and pasting, and setting up sample input. I guess other people are more perfect typists, but I make typos and so my solutions were often wrong if I didn't test them.
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#13Won the $100 :). It took me about 15 minutes start to finish. You have to do 3 practices then wait a bit before you can do the real thing.
You are given about 10 lines of code and need to change one line to make it correct. The problems are things like binary search, topological sort, shortest paths, etc.
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#14Would it be possible to show some examples on the page? Like previously corrected bugs?
Good idea. Check out the video here: http://blog.quixey.com/2011/10/03/quixey-challenge/
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#15Would it be possible to show some examples on the page? Like previously corrected bugs?
Good idea. Check out the video here: http://blog.quixey.com/2011/10/03/quixey-challenge/
Which is staged. I wonder whether the real challenges are in similar style and difficulty. Looking at the problem in the video it would help to just quickly pull out template code and compare it. Would help to have an easier way to know whether this is something I could accomplish or is completely over my head.
$100 bucks, I could need those.
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#16I just won (#7 - foob) and I felt the need to post here to tell people that the person I spoke with from Quixey afterwards was very friendly and that I enjoyed talking to him. I was really just playing for the $100 but after speaking with him I felt like I should inquire about job opportunities. This is pretty much the opposite of what happened after my only other programming challenge experience.
I don't know if people saw this or not but a while back Instagram had a programming challenge inspired by the Darpa Shredder Challenge. They were offering a t-shirt for correct solutions and promised explicitly that every solution would get a personal response. They got more entries than they were expecting and didn't give t-shirts to everyone (which is somewhat understandable). What is much worse is that they didn't even bother to respond to correct solutions. I spent over an hour on it (including the bonus part) and they couldn't even send me a copy and pasted letter of something like "Thanks for playing! We got more attention than we expected and won't be able to give you a t-shirt but we do appreciate you playing." I would never consider working for a company that would respond to an unexpected number of solicited entries by simply ignoring them. I doubt that I'm the only person who was permanently turned off about Instagram by having my email and solution simply deleted without being looked at or responded to.
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#18Maybe it's just me, but I don't think you should have to sign-in to do the practices.
Agreed. This is where I quit.
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#19I tried the practices, and I didn't like it because they don't provide sample input, and you can't test your changes in browser. Most of my seconds are spent copying and pasting, and setting up sample input. I guess other people are more perfect typists, but I make typos and so my solutions were often wrong if I didn't test them.
I don't think testing would be of much help. These challenges are so designed that there is precisely one error in the function and precisely one way to fix it and either you notice it or you don't. If you were able to test your changes on the fly you could just as well try all the different modifications you can think of (of which there aren't many) without thinking too much.