Man - that problem 3 was a pain. I couldn't get it to work until the last minute.
Anyone solve the small case for problem 2, but get the large case incorrect? Can't fathom what the issue might be.
Google Code Jam – Contest scoreboard
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Re: Google Code Jam – Contest scoreboard
#42When someone asks why not outsource the coding to India, point them to this page. The first Indian winner is #236, but if you go to the last page, there are a bunch of them trying. EDIT: I'm gonna make a script to list the best countries that output programmers.
I assume outsourcing is done to save money. The amount it would cost to have each developer get their answer would be interesting to me, and would remove the perceived racist element too.
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#43Man - that problem 3 was a pain. I couldn't get it to work until the last minute. Anyone solve the small case for problem 2, but get the large case incorrect? Can't fathom what the issue might be.
You can diff your output against someone else's to see if you can find a discrepancy, then debug it from there.
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#44I'm always amazed at the speed of these guys. Top guy got it all done in an hour. I don't know if they are geniuses or if they practice this stuff every day.
I have a suspicion that they have solved thousands upon thousands of these problems, developing a library of sorts. They can probably translate these problems into ones they have solutions for and just work from there.
Maybe that's jealousy talking, though.
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#45Well, looks like 20,594 people made it through the qualification round. Higher than last year, when 17,054 people made it:
http://www.go-hero.net/jam/13/round/0
Re: Google Code Jam – Contest scoreboard
#46I'm always amazed at the speed of these guys. Top guy got it all done in an hour. I don't know if they are geniuses or if they practice this stuff every day.
I have a suspicion that they have solved thousands upon thousands of these problems, developing a library of sorts. They can probably translate these problems into ones they have solutions for and just work from there. Maybe that's jealousy talking, though.
I think it is a feat to practice to the point of having seen thousands of problems and still know (or have a felling of) the way to go.
(Actually, most of the good sport coders that I know develop that knack of knowing where the solution is headed, without pinpointing a previous problem)
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#47Man - that problem 3 was a pain. I couldn't get it to work until the last minute. Anyone solve the small case for problem 2, but get the large case incorrect? Can't fathom what the issue might be.
I'd guess it's due to rounding.
Agreed on C.
Re: Google Code Jam – Contest scoreboard
#48When someone asks why not outsource the coding to India, point them to this page. The first Indian winner is #236, but if you go to the last page, there are a bunch of them trying. EDIT: I'm gonna make a script to list the best countries that output programmers.
There's not really much difference between the top 1000 places, since all that matters is solving all 4 problems. This is the qualification round that goes on for 27 hours, so there is not much pressure to solve the problems fast. The Indian programmers are in a time zone that makes it difficult to get up at 4:30am just to solve the problems a bit faster. Comparing the performance in the next few rounds would make mo…
Wait, do the results from each round make a difference in subsequent rounds? I didn't take the time to implement a solution to problem C because I felt like it would take too long.
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's not really much difference between the top 1000 places, since all that matters is solving all 4 problems. This is the qualification round that goes on for 27 hours, so there is not much pressure to solve the problems fast. The Indian programmers are in a time zone that makes it difficult to get up at 4:30am just to solve the problems a bit faster. Comparing the performance in the next few rounds would make mo…
Wait, do the results from each round make a difference in subsequent rounds? I didn't take the time to implement a solution to problem C because I felt like it would take too long.
As long as you qualify, results from each round do not make a difference in subsequent rounds. [0]