Hi Dimtry and eatmore and everyone else, I definitely believe you there are bugs. We know of some, but it's possible that you know of some others, so if you don't mind pointing them out, we'll try to get rid of as much of them as we can. If you don't want to share, that's ok too, but it may slow down the fixing.
Regarding hearing our users, I was under the impression that we did. Fortunately we have a lot of users. Unfortunately, that means that not all of you want the same thing. Some of those differences are just how to prioritize different features or bug fixes, and some of those differences are impossible to completely reconcile, or only possible to reconcile by losing something else of value. Eventually we make choices based on the feedback we get and those choices may not be great for some users. We try to make it better for most, but even if we succeed, we'll make it worse for some that liked the other way. As an example, we already have both love and hate messages about the new UI in this very group. Finally, regarding eatmore's comment on the analysis: it's true that analysis, or code from other contestants that we also make available, can be misused (in our opinion). However, the positive value of those outweighs (again, in our opinion) the potential pitfalls. We do things like not share official code in most cases to mitigate the issue. Of course, everything is a question of trade-offs, and you may disagree with our evaluation of the pros and cons, and you are welcome to post your own reasoning about them. There's no guarantee that we'll end up agreeing with your assessment, though, but we'll definitely read what you have to say and consider it. Best, Pablo On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 2:04 PM Dmitry Kuzminov <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > There are many bugs in your platform (there are, believe me). Your thesis "you > are going to be unprepared" may be propagated to "you are going to be > unprepared to the fact that we have fixed the bugs": so why fix them? > And you are right: I dislike your UI. This is very similar to Microsoft > who has acquired Skype and did it best to make it worse (I believe that > most of people would agree with me about Skype). That is very sad that > Google starts taking good things that work well and transform them to the > things that don't. That's ok with me that you have introduce new rules: the > problem is that you don't hear your users. > > On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 4:38 PM, 'Pablo Heiber' via Google Code Jam < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Practicing in a different way than how you compete is bound to cause you >> trouble. If you resort to seeing the input data when you don't know why >> something is not working well, you are going to be unprepared when that >> happens in a contest. >> >> Also, some people spend a lot more time using our site to practice than >> to compete (some don't like the time pressure of the competitive pressure >> of an actual contest, for instance). And that's totally fine. And we want >> those users to be as well prepared to be programmers as we can, in the same >> way we want the test to reflect programming as accurately as possible, as >> I've already mentioned. >> >> It's totally fine if you disagree with these arguments, in the same way >> you have every right to dislike the UI or any other of our choices. I hope >> that you can still find good value in Code Jam despite those differences. >> >> Best, >> Pablo >> >> On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 1:26 PM Дмитрий Кузьминов < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi Pablo, >>> >>> There are many other things aside of an incorrect algorithm that can be >>> the reason of the "Wrong answer" verdict: precision, output format, case >>> sensitivity, trailing spaces... Due to the fact that the system is >>> completely new for us, we need to debug our code templates to get sure that >>> the rest is OK while the only thing we need to concern is the algorithm >>> itself. For now I experience lack of information at least for the Edgy >>> Baking problem. >>> >>> On Friday, April 27, 2018 at 1:11:57 PM UTC-4, Pablo Heiber wrote: >>> > Hi Alex, >>> > >>> > >>> > We've been asked this several times, and our policy is not to reveal >>> test data. If you are interested about the reasoning, you can refer to old >>> threads in this group that discuss the topic, like this one. >>> > >>> > >>> > Best, >>> > Pablo >>> > >>> > >>> > On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 9:47 AM Alex Wice <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > Please make input/output test case data available after contests end, >>> when appropriate (non-interactive problems.) 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