Comparing GCJ to projects, think of your participations as multiple releases - if you don't do well on this round, perhaps you will do better in the next (as in the 1A, 1B, 1C sequences). Or perhaps next year. Henceforth you can improve incrementally, in a later "release" ;-)
As it was already explained, you are allowed multiple submissions for the last set - except you need to do it in that 8-min window and only the last one will be considered. What are you objecting to, the existence of time constraint? Well i would also like to have 20hrs instead of 2.5hrs for solving the problems but i can't. Or are you unhappy you don't get immediate feedback whether submission was correct? The reason for that is to prevent you from "gradient search" in which by trial and error you seek to correct your work (this you can do with the small sets for small penalty - should be enough). On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 3:48 AM, Channa Bankapur <[email protected]>wrote: > 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? > > > > 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. >> >> -- 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.
