That is strange, I did all my problems on Firefox/Linux, and it worked flawlessly.
On Sep 4, 11:04 am, Ken Corbin <[email protected]> wrote: > This is my first time trying this. Ran through several practice drills, but > the real contest proved to be quite a different animal. First my version of > Firefox still can't login. I didn't think it was a big deal because I used > a Windows system to register and the practice drill worked out OK, but the > first thing I discovered with the qualification round was that I wasn't > logged in and couldn't get the input downloads :( > > Quickly switched to Konqueror where I could login. Downloaded input files > successfully, ran my program and tried to upload answers, only to find that > the upload dialogs weren't working. Running out of options, I tried > downloading Opera, which thankfully worked successfully. And found that > each of my failed uploads had been counted as an incorrect solution :( All > of this would have been fatal in a real round, the qualification round gave > me a chance to work out the problems. > > The problems themselves were fairly easy. A was trivial, B took some coding, > C would have been a show stopper if I hadn't looked up how to solve the 2008 > Increasing Speed Limit problem. The technique they used there made the C > problem fairly easy. > > Alas, I didn't get credit for B. I checked my code more times than I can > count, and read the problem statement 4 times, and still missread the > preferred direction list as N-W-S-E. > > It's certainly been fun, looking forward to next round. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
