I agree with Dhruva. Talking about real-life projects, most of them are improved incrementally in release versions. Efficiencies and more features are often addressed in later releases. Talking about the Google Search, I'm pretty sure it wasn't so fast 10 years back relative to current release, but it was released. Engineers are still looking for improving search performance. Isn't it real life?
After all, GCJ is not about real-life projects. As I see it, it's about solving puzzle-like imaginary problems, which can be in some way applied to real life problems. But, in any case it's not about developing real life products. As it's more like solving puzzles, I think it makes sense to introduce multiple submissions for large set too so that it encourages people to think more in improving their logic. Happy Coding, Channa On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 4:14 PM, Dhruva Sagar <[email protected]>wrote: > Of course we do, > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_release_life_cycle<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_release_life_cycle#Beta> > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_release_life_cycle#Beta>Can you > name any product in software development history that was perfect in its > first release !? That does not mean that they were not tested adequately. > > In a time bound contest, where solving a problem quickly determines (to a > certain extent) your ranking, I think we should be allowed to submit again > even in large dataset. > > Then again, I am willing to accept it as it is, but I don't like your > justification where you are comparing it with real life. Real life is not as > tough as GCJ :). > > On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 16:02, Paul Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Dhruva Sagar <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > I'd like to point out one fact Paul. In real life, everyone gets another >> > chance :). >> >> Not necessarily in business. >> >> -- >> 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]<google-code%[email protected]> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/google-code?hl=en. >> >> > > > -- > > Thanks & Regards, > Dhruva Sagar. > > -- > 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]<google-code%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-code?hl=en. > -- 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.
