Groom your programming skills and make some money
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Groom your programming skills and make some money
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Re: Groom your programming skills and make some money
#2Are you normalizing the execution time across languages? For example, when they introduced java, the USACO assumed that java code would run 5 times as slow as equivalent C code (so they would give 1 sec for C and 5 secs for java)
Re: Groom your programming skills and make some money
#3The "make some money" part is only $1, unless I'm missing something, and currently there's only 1 contest paying. So that's not really going to be incentive to participate.
It sounds like Project Euler except code size, code speed, and code submission time matter. Neat idea but how's this significantly different? Project Euler already has a huge number of challenges, a leader board, and a vibrant community. What differentiates amebopost?
Re: Groom your programming skills and make some money
#4The "make some money" part is only $1, unless I'm missing something, and currently there's only 1 contest paying. So that's not really going to be incentive to participate. It sounds like Project Euler except code size, code speed, and code submission time matter. Neat idea but how's this significantly different? Project Euler already has a huge number of challenges, a leader board, and a vibrant community. What diff…
IMHO code size and code speed is already a great and welcome difference in making this more geared towards programmers than mathematicians.
Re: Groom your programming skills and make some money
#5It needs some polishing, there are quite annoying aspects:
1) Mandatory gender and country? Seriously, why? Even e-mail shouldn't be mandatory IMO. Hitting 'Enter' on register/login forms doesn't work as submit, I need to grab the mouse for that (especially annoying on a programming-related site)
2) The "How are programs run" section is completely useless. It's never mentioned how is my code actually invoked, just how it is compiled (when applicable). Let's take C for example, it says 'gcc contestx.c -o contestx.c'. Assuming the argument to '-o' is a typo, this way of compilation includes linking... so it seems I'll need `int main()` to avoid linker errors, but what's to be in `main`, I'm never told. I'm just assuming .c code is just `-c` and `dlopen`ed, but I'm not sure, since 15 minutes after submitting a solution, there's still no feedback.
Other nitpickery includes email validation code that's not clickable (okay, this is arguably a good thing) and other stupid memes implemented on the site like asking for the email twice or showing me my local time in the upper-right corner even though all other times on the site are displayed in the server's time zone (e.g. upper-right corner shows 16:45, but the solution I just sent is shown as submitted at 7:45)
Re: Groom your programming skills and make some money
#6The "make some money" part is only $1, unless I'm missing something, and currently there's only 1 contest paying. So that's not really going to be incentive to participate. It sounds like Project Euler except code size, code speed, and code submission time matter. Neat idea but how's this significantly different? Project Euler already has a huge number of challenges, a leader board, and a vibrant community. What diff…
IMHO code size and code speed is already a great and welcome difference in making this more geared towards programmers than mathematicians.
Implicitly Project Euler already takes speed into account, but more as a step function not as a fine differentiator between players: Either you get the answer in your lifetime, or you should work towards a faster algorithm.
Re: Groom your programming skills and make some money
#7It would be nice if Ruby was one of the permitted languages.
Re: Groom your programming skills and make some money
#8I mean, is this a joke or a viral site or something? The About page explains that it was done by someone called "Sir Pastor Alhaji Babalawo omotodun, Ph.D, MSc, etc...", which sort of brings to mind the Nigerian emails. Couple this with the outregous "also get paid tons of money($1 for winning a special challenge per week)" and P(legit site) goes really low.
On a different note, in the longest palindrome problem, the C++ function header doesn't pass (or return) references, which seems to be amateurish.
Re: Groom your programming skills and make some money
#9It would be nice if Ruby was one of the permitted languages.
Right? They're alienating a very large developer community.
I tried to send them an email about ruby support and the typo on their compilers page but their email form doesn't even work. I take this to be way too amateurish and scam-like.
Re: Groom your programming skills and make some money
#10I mean, is this a joke or a viral site or something? The About page explains that it was done by someone called "Sir Pastor Alhaji Babalawo omotodun, Ph.D, MSc, etc...", which sort of brings to mind the Nigerian emails. Couple this with the outregous "also get paid tons of money($1 for winning a special challenge per week)" and P(legit site) goes really low. On a different note, in the longest palindrome problem, the…
He/she clearly states in the About page that he is from Nigeria.