Google I/O Registration 2014
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Google I/O Registration 2014
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Re: Google I/O Registration 2014
#2Reminds me of trying to get access to an old Hotline server. "The login is the eight word after 'summertime' on the last page of this link. Then, register for this service and the final word of the last paragraph of text is the password."
Either way, off-putting.
Re: Google I/O Registration 2014
#3Reminds me of trying to get access to an old Hotline server. "The login is the eight word after 'summertime' on the last page of this link. Then, register for this service and the final word of the last paragraph of text is the password." Either way, off-putting.
I think it had its intended goal; jabsters is exactly the kind of person I'd want at Google I/O (rather than someone just hoping for a discount on a new Nexus-whatever-they-give-away-this-time)
Re: Google I/O Registration 2014
#4Reminds me of trying to get access to an old Hotline server. "The login is the eight word after 'summertime' on the last page of this link. Then, register for this service and the final word of the last paragraph of text is the password." Either way, off-putting.
I think it had its intended goal; jabsters is exactly the kind of person I'd want at Google I/O (rather than someone just hoping for a discount on a new Nexus-whatever-they-give-away-this-time)
It's hard to disagree without sounding like sour grapes. Last year I navigated the gauntlet while this year I signed up for the lottery the evening that they opened registration and didn't get selected. Discussion about possibly buried and hidden codes didn't surface until a couple of days after I'd already signed up.
Normally I love puzzles like this, but how many tickets could they have possibly given away with these codes? Compared with the total number of attendees, these were just a drop in the bucket. The overwhelming majority are simply going to be lottery winners. I fail to see how that is an improvement.
Re: Google I/O Registration 2014
#5Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think it had its intended goal; jabsters is exactly the kind of person I'd want at Google I/O (rather than someone just hoping for a discount on a new Nexus-whatever-they-give-away-this-time)
It's hard to disagree without sounding like sour grapes. Last year I navigated the gauntlet while this year I signed up for the lottery the evening that they opened registration and didn't get selected. Discussion about possibly buried and hidden codes didn't surface until a couple of days after I'd already signed up. Normally I love puzzles like this, but how many tickets could they have possibly given away with the…
It's a very google-ish thing to do a web scavenger hunt like this. It creates some fun buzz if anything else.
Re: Google I/O Registration 2014
#6Reminds me of trying to get access to an old Hotline server. "The login is the eight word after 'summertime' on the last page of this link. Then, register for this service and the final word of the last paragraph of text is the password." Either way, off-putting.
Wow, Hotline FTW. I remember it well. It still exists, actually, with some old Mac OS servers out there, still. Problem is, the transfer protocol tops out at something like 50kb/ps or something that's fairly silly today, so it's not that great for modern large file transfers...
Re: Google I/O Registration 2014
#7Shame I didn't have however many hours to waste looking for codes.
Oh well, I guess I will not spend 900 dollars on IO. No big loss either way.
Re: Google I/O Registration 2014
#8I don't think it was a fair play again this year. Hiding url for the registration codes in images etc was not a very smart idea (although it was fun for a while), people hacked into it as well and some people got multiple codes while others got none.
Being an Android developer, I was disappointed, at least only registered developers should have been allowed in the lottery fist or better yet confirmed tickets.
Apple was much smarter and it allowed only registered iOS/OSX developers to sign up for the lottery.
Re: Google I/O Registration 2014
#9Reminds me of trying to get access to an old Hotline server. "The login is the eight word after 'summertime' on the last page of this link. Then, register for this service and the final word of the last paragraph of text is the password." Either way, off-putting.
I think it had its intended goal; jabsters is exactly the kind of person I'd want at Google I/O (rather than someone just hoping for a discount on a new Nexus-whatever-they-give-away-this-time)
$900 bucks for a $350 phone ? :) I would say stop giving freebies and see if they still need a lottery..
Re: Google I/O Registration 2014
#10Google Code Jam has just started and so Google has the infrastructure and experience to handle large online coding contests. They should have just made Google I/O registration a simple programming exercise. Even a 10-minute in-browser exercise would have self-selected the right audience for I/O.