On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 9:39 PM, Wing-chung Leung <[email protected]> wrote:
> The penalty of doing this wrong is much smaller than a wrong large > dataset... only a 4-minute penalty plus a re-run. That's why nobody is > complaining (unless the contestant submit the solution in the last minute). > > That's a good point. Less problems is always better :). Anyway, as I said before, we are implementing the number of cases difference in the upcoming rounds and see what happens. As for anything larger, like having the output include the letter, or the problem name, or any other of the nice options that were mentioned, we are not going to make any changes like that in the middle of a season, because it can ruin people's scripts or just their expectations that were properly tested/set during the qualification round. The only mentioned option that doesn't really subvert expectations is the one about using the samples as a fingerprint, but as I said earlier, I personally don't like that option because it has unwanted side effects. We will investigate better long term solutions for next year. Another way to go parallel to the problem is to participate in Distributed Code Jam, where you don't have to pick the correct output to submit it. Please, join us for that one! Best, Pablo -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Code Jam" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-code/CANa5jcDvvDHdRY-geD5HgNvxMNTLHsOomUVhXpaCQQX57POs9g%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
