Local company Vistaprint is running a programming contests. The objective is to determine "what is the smallest shipping box that can contain" a given collection of Vistaprint products.
I'm not sure if this is a made up goal, or a real need (they imply it is real). I would think by now there would be commercial solutions to this common problem. I'm posting this here because Vistaprint was/is a company that used Perl. They might have a preference for Perl solutions. (They list a bunch of acceptable languages for submissions, which includes Perl.) It sounds like less of a programming challenge and more of a mathematics or algorithm challenge, so team up with a math major. -Tom -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Discuss] $10K programming contest in Boston Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2014 12:47:30 -0400 From: Daniel Barrett <[email protected]> To: [email protected] My Boston-area employer is running a programming contest with a $10,000 prize, in case anyone's interested.... http://www.lifeinvistaprint.com/techchallenge/ -- Dan Barrett [email protected] _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
