I thought working with the code locally and being language agnostic was one of the best features of code jam. Not only do I write most of my code in Scala, I like to develop and debug using my own IDE. I often also used the test files for debugging, especially moving from small input to large. Not having access to input data makes debugging a very different beast. I would not have the small file with all the edge cases mapped out for me.
I don't like this change, I also didn't realize this was it when I read the announcement at first, I understood submitting code as an option not as mandatory. I don't see how the change levels the playing field, unless you go with much larger inputs, the language differences are still very significant, trumping hardware variability. Meir - an unhappy code-jammer. -- 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/b14ecf16-09de-45ad-b002-009d82d638a2%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
