Comments are not *completely* self-disadvantageous (disself- advantageous?) as they do help with debugging (for me at least).
On 26 Aug 2009, at 06:52, TripleM <[email protected]> wrote: > > Quoting from the rules: > > Penalty Time = Submission time of the last input you correctly solve > (time is measured from start of contest) + four minutes for each > incorrect small submission (only for small inputs you eventually > solve) > > In particular, the first part isn't the time you solved the last small > input; it's the time you last solved anything. If you're expecting to > solve a large input, it makes no difference whether you've rushed > through all the small inputs or not. > > You have to upload the problem code at the same time you submit your > solution. Comments are completely meaningless in contests like this, > all you're doing is disadvantaging yourself :P > > On Aug 26, 3:20 pm, Ken Corbin <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hello everyone, >> > >> It appears that the base penalty time is the time elapsed from the >> official >> start of the contest until you submit the answers to all of the >> small dataset >> problems. Add 4 minutes for each resubmitted small dataset >> answer. You have >> until the end of the allotted contest time to submit answers to the >> large >> dataset problems, those do not appear to count against your base >> penalty >> time. >> >> Consequently, the top programmers appear to be writing something >> quick and >> dirty to solve the small dataset problems, then go back and solve >> all of the >> large dataset problems. >> >> I'm also wondering how long we have to upload the problem code used >> to solve >> the problem. Largely because I am rather appalled at the quality >> of the code >> I find myself writing under extreme time pressure. Would be nice >> to go back >> and add some decent comments before actually uploading it. >> >> Thanks a bunch, >> -Ken > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "google-codejam" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-code?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
