Why do we want to reduce the the number of wrong submissions at qualifying rounds by new participants? The 24 hour qual round has ample time for new participants to notice this mistake. If anything, these participants will just have to learn to follow output spec the hard way and then most likely they won't repeat the same mistake again.
To me, it's more advantageous for new competitors that way rather than relying on the mercy of the tester. But, that's just my opinion. On Monday, May 30, 2011, vettukal <[email protected]> wrote: > Its true that making GCJ tester code that will accommodate all > differences and satisfy all participants is impossible to make. But > evaluating English words(NO,IMPOSSIBLE,RED etc) which are in output > in a case insensitive manner is not that difficult to implement. > It may reduce number of wrong submissions at Qualifying rounds by new > participants. > > On May 30, 3:01 am, Lego Haryanto <[email protected]> wrote: >> I'm not sure why this can be a frustrating thing. I would probably be >> frustrated if I had to work on the GCJ tester code that tries to >> accomodate all those differences, yet will never be able to satisfy >> all circumstances. From a few posts, it seems that GCJ system is >> already nice enough to point out possible errors, but it certainly is >> not worthwhile to do much more than that. >> >> The input/output specification is already very clear IMO and following >> them as verbatim as we can be is our very first task, IMO. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Monday, May 23, 2011, vettukal <[email protected]> wrote: >> > In the output >> >> > Case #45: NO >> > is not equal to >> > Case #45:No >> >> > Case #45: >> > Impossible >> >> > is not equal to >> >> > Case #45: Impossible >> >> > This can lead to a very frustrating effort to debug the program when >> > real bug is something this trivial. >> >> > The timer which tells how much time is left at the top of the page is >> > small and not very visible. Please make it bigger and bolder. It would >> > be nice if u add a timer at the bottom of the page coz most of the >> > times we are seeing the sample input and output section of the page. >> >> > And as suggested earlier please make a link to our nickname which >> > shows our email link. May be next time every contestant can have a >> > (optional) profile page linked to his nickname. It may have his email >> > id, his blog address (whatever he wants to put on that page.) >> >> > -- >> > 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 >> > athttp://groups.google.com/group/google-code?hl=en. >> >> -- >> Fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge (Proverbs 1:7) > > -- > 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. > > -- Fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge (Proverbs 1:7) -- 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.
