Re: Access to the Practice problems of last year

2009-07-22 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
The site is having some trouble right now, so practicing is down. :-/ It should come back up some time later today -- sorry about that. FWIW it's unlikely to happen again -- we're currently on a rickety old copy of App Engine, and we're about to move to the shiny main version that everybody else

Re: Which language to use?

2009-07-22 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
Do you have the link to that stats page, Luke? That was pretty cool. 2009/7/22 Luke Pebody luke.peb...@gmail.com I used PHP in the Qualification Round last year, as did 117 other people. 2009/7/22 蔡智聪 braindevelop...@gmail.com: I am wrong, Yes, every way or method to get the answer is

Re: Access to the Practice problems of last year

2009-07-22 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
We're back up. Sorry for the inconvenience! On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Rafa Couto rafaco...@gmail.com wrote: Yesterday, I printed and downloaded some practice, but it is as you say since this morning. Oh no, that page is down right now... :( On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Marcel

Re: All practice questions

2009-07-24 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
I have downloaded all the problems and packed into pdf. u can download it from http://sites.google.com/site/sunergostech/manish This is one of my favourite things about Code Jam -- when people see something they want, and implement a feature on their own. Thanks, मनीष!

Re: Solution to The Last year Problems:

2009-07-27 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
We have no problem with you guys posting the questions elsewhere if you have a link pointed back to us. If you don't want to put a link like that, then we'll have to talk. :-) As for solutions, I guess we need to make this more obvious, but if you go to the scoreboard you can download every

Re: Try this search

2009-08-10 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
Thanks, Roger. Girish: your link doesn't seem relevant to this discussion group's topic. Please try to stick to talking about programming contests. Cheers, Bartholomew On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Roger Leite rogersilvale...@gmail.comwrote: No spam service, right! On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at

Re: can somebody help me plz!!!!!!!!111

2009-08-10 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
Right you are. The official announcement will go out some time tomorrow, but adventurous souls may try registering now. :-) On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 7:42 PM, Hawston LLH haws...@gmail.com wrote: registration has opened! On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 9:43 AM, zyx zyx3d...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: can somebody help me plz!!!!!!!!111

2009-08-11 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
after i click register, i was then led back to code jam page without a confirmation notice, wonder if it is a bug? Hopefully you should see a note in the top-right saying You have registered... You should also have received a confirmation email. However, you didn't. We're aware of that and

Re: Mistakes during Coding

2009-08-11 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
Stay calm. The costs of a debugging a bug are still relatively enormous in terms of development time. Rushing has a negative expected value, occasionally it will pay off when you hack out a solution that just works, but most of the time being slow and deliberate will be much better (is this

Re: help

2009-08-12 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
Those won't help; there's currently no way to change your nickname. On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 11:09 PM, arjun mamulla arjun.mamu...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Shreyas Go through these links to change your nick name. http://code.google.com/codejam/contest/irc_info

Re: codejam problem explanation

2009-08-16 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
: kau.mad On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 2:17 AM, Bartholomew Furrow fur...@gmail.comwrote: Link to Egg Drop: http://code.google.com/codejam/contest/dashboard?c=agxjb2RlamFtLXByb2RyEAsSCGNvbnRlc3RzGIP6AQw#s=p2 On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 12:23 PM, algo.maniac padhy.su...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, I

Re: Does Google give a chance for recruitment for successful contestants of CodeJam?

2009-08-16 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
I want to know the opportunities given , if any? And how much candidates manage to get those? I think the answer to this question is what you would expect it to be: doing well on Code Jam is a signal to us that you're good at algorithms and coding small projects. It won't get you hired on

Re: How can i calculate from the large.in?

2009-08-16 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
Thanks shreyas p and token0! I have optimized my algorithm.Now I have got it. It's so difficult fo me. Mousetrap was a hard problem: 1715 people got points in the contest; and of those, 387 tried Mousetrap's Large input; and of those, only 95 got it correct. You should be proud of yourself

Re: 大家还是说中文的好

2009-08-20 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
2009/8/20 Paulo Lúcio de Oliveira Júnior ufvpa...@gmail.com 偶是中国人,英语,偶是中国人,英语??? 是人中英语!!! Convenient translation: Even as Chinese, English, even as Chinese, English??? Is in English!!! --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed

If you're seeing more messages than you'd like...

2009-08-22 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
It's great that so many people are having discussions and finding out about each other on this mailing list. On the other hand, the number of messages we all get can be frustrating if they're all showing up in your email inbox. Here are some ways to reduce the clutter: - Go to

Re: Could somebody set a subject prefix for every thread posted in this group?

2009-08-22 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
These are all good reasons why it's unnecessary; can anyone think of a reason not to do it, though? Certainly it's easier to visually scan through messages if they start with some common prefix. Perhaps [gcj]? On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 5:53 AM, wanng fenng wanng.fe...@gmail.com wrote:

[gcj] Re: If you're seeing more messages than you'd like...

2009-08-23 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
! Regards, Kaushalya Madhawa http://kaumad.wordpress.com http://most-wanted-stuff.blogspot.com twitter: http://twitter.com/kau_mad skype: kau.mad gtalk: kau.mad On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Bartholomew Furrow fur...@gmail.comwrote: It's great that so many people are having

[gcj] Re: Carriage Return

2009-08-28 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
The judge code doesn't care which of the standard kinds of newline you use: \n and \r\n are both fine. On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 8:03 PM, Iuro Nascimento iuro...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have a problem. I'm using a program to compare the output files(one mine and another from this group) and the

[gcj] Re: Is CUDA allowed ?

2009-08-29 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
What does one need in order to run CUDA in non-very-very-slow mode? A modern NVIDIA graphics card? On Aug 29, 2009 6:47 AM, Prakhar Jain prakh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, There is no use in running CUDA on emulator mode. It would be v v slow. If the server supports real time CUDA, then only it

[gcj] Re: Ontario?

2009-08-29 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
I did my undergrad at Queen's University in Kingston, and a couple of other members of the Code Jam team did degrees at UToronto. On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Nikhil Mahajan nikhil...@gmail.comwrote: Mississauga here ^^ On Aug 21, 9:49 am, Andrew Tarzwell atarzw...@gmail.com wrote:

[gcj] Re: Is CUDA allowed ?

2009-08-29 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
Actually I can't imagine for what GCJ's problem you need CUDA. All tasks can be solved even by 80's ZX-spectrum. Turn on your mind, CPU power won't help you. That's not true, and it's a little unkind. :-) Our problems are designed so that a pretty big range of modern computers can handle

[gcj] Re: Using pre-written code

2009-08-30 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
As far I understood it's ok to use 3rd party libraries. So I suppose it's ok to my libraries written by me too. But what is not completely clear for me is if it's ok to add source files that are written by me prior the contest (for examples java classes that handle the google input/output

[gcj] Re: Iranian students in US

2009-09-01 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
Dear Mehdy, Iranian nationals are not allowed to compete. As I understand it, that means Iranian citizens who are not *permanent residents* of another country. Also as I understand it, that means that in the U.S. you would have to have a green card to be allowed to compete. Regards, Bartholomew

[gcj] Re: Iranian students in US

2009-09-01 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
Really?Iranian are not allowed?It's so crazy.Really bullshit We tried our best to get permits to fix the situation, but couldn't get it done in time. We're very optimistic about next year, though. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are

[gcj] Re: Update on Iran and other embargoed countries.

2009-09-02 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
Ken, That's an excellent question, so I passed it on to our export compliance lawyer. He sent me the following response: The sanctions program against Iran only allows for a narrow range of services to be provided there without an OFAC license, and we would not have been comfortable with

[gcj] Re: Suggestion for next year

2009-09-04 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
25 hours of paranoia regarding the probability I submitted the wrong large output for all three problems have lead me to think about this idea: The first line on all input files would be hash calculated from the rest of the file. The output must begin with a line that had this hash as

[gcj] Re: Optimism and flags

2009-09-04 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
won't change. Cheers, Bartholomew On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Mustafa Acer mea...@gmail.com wrote: I am also for the country of citizenship. I was disappointed when I wasn't able to see my home country's flag because there weren't too many people from there. On Sep 4, 11:43 am, Bartholomew

[gcj] Re: waiting for final intimation of 1st round

2009-09-05 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
You advanced if you got at least 33 points and didn't cheat. We'll send the official announcement, as well as an email about round assignments, some time in the next few days. On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 5:33 AM, gun gunjan.m...@gmail.com wrote: Could anyone please tell, when we will get final

[gcj] Re: Water Shed

2009-09-05 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
Why you said that? Recursion is part of dynamic programming (top down approach), am i wrong? This is actually a matter of definition. I'd argue that a simple recursion like that doesn't have any of the interesting properties of dynamic programming, but I suppose you could call it DP if you

[gcj] Re: How To Know

2009-09-05 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
ACRush. did. Not ACRush, ACRush.. On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Luke Pebody luke.peb...@gmail.com wrote: Did anyone answer more than one large problem set but no small problem sets? On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 7:39 PM, Bartholomew Furrowfur...@gmail.com wrote: Once again: if you have at

[gcj] Re: waiting for final intimation of 1st round

2009-09-06 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Bartholomew Furrow fur...@gmail.com wrote: Per rules you have to solve at least one small and one large input, not score =33 pts. While this seems to be same - ACRush. (with dot) will or will not advance based on this. Per current rules he

[gcj] Re: Prohibited National Participation (IRAN)

2009-09-06 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
Thank you for the pointer. Please send any reports where you think someone has cheated or is ineligible for the contest to programmingcontestfeedb...@google.com. On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 1:13 AM, Doron doron.neum...@gmail.com wrote: How come there is a participant from Iran?

[gcj] Re: waiting for final intimation of 1st round

2009-09-06 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
I didn't get your last point that who is being eliminated because of registration under false name?? There's a contestant who took the nickname ACRush. -- NOT ACRush, who won last year's Code Jam -- who provided a name that was clearly false, so he was eliminated. This sort of thing happens

[gcj] Re: Query

2009-09-06 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
We'll have to ask for your patience here -- we're working our way through a large number of cheating claims. Plus it's a weekend, so a lot of the team is recovering from a very hectic week. :-) Rest assured that if you have 33 points (and didn't cheat, of course), you qualified. Regards,

[gcj] Re: Can i change the time for round 1 at this time???

2009-09-07 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
We have? No we haven't! :-) On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 12:25 AM, ashish khurana just.ash.wid...@gmail.comwrote: No, day have removed the access to the settings page, now not possible.. On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 1:39 PM, kiran deorukhkar kirande...@gmail.comwrote: Can i change the time for round

[gcj] Re: waiting for final intimation of 1st round

2009-09-07 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
I thought we can choose any google-id, and any nick name (of course, by entering the remaining personal details correctly). You can. It was his First name and Last name fields that were clearly fake. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because

[gcj] Re: favorite programming language?

2009-09-08 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/algorithm/ I believe the most important to learn are STL algorithms and containers. P.S. I can link to other sites right? You seem to be able to! Please feel free to link to them and use them -- as long as a site isn't about the current round

[gcj] Re: Egg Drop

2009-09-08 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
Attempt on 4, does not break, attempt on 6- does not break, attempt on 8. If breaks answer is 7 does not answer is 8. If breaks answer is 7 -- or 6, if you're looking for the highest floor from which it doesn't break. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this

[gcj] Subrounds: you have been assigned to all of them

2009-09-08 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
We've decided to allow all contestants to compete in all subrounds of Round 1 -- unless they qualified for Round 2 in an earlier subround. Good luck to everyone in Round 1! *FAQ* Q: Where is my qualification email!? A: We haven't sent them yet, because we're still dealing with cheaters. Sorry

[gcj] Re: Still have no email

2009-09-08 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
We've decided to allow all contestants to compete in all subrounds (unless they've previously qualified for Round 2). The email will hopefully come out tomorrow (UTC -7), but hopefully now it has no more useful information. Regards, Bartholomew

[gcj] Re: Subrounds: you have been assigned to all of them

2009-09-08 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
can i change my programming language now? When we asked you about programming languages, that was as an indication of preference rather than locking you in to a language. You can use whatever language you like, as long as it falls within our rules.

[gcj] Re: Water Shed

2009-09-09 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
Ultimately, as per your definition, is memoization a DP technique or not? I could not understand that. Forgetting the definition -- which has a few holes, I'll admit -- memoization is basically another way of expressing DP. It's rare that you have a DP algorithm that can't be expressed as

[gcj] Re: I'm in???

2009-09-10 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
Looks like we missed today, but they're pretty much ready to go and they'll go out on Thursday. On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 8:32 PM, Bartholomew Furrow fur...@gmail.com wrote: I'm estimating tomorrow (Wednesday, UTC -7). And, just so there's absolutely nothing useful to you in that email: All

[gcj] Re: Subrounds: you have been assigned to all of them

2009-09-10 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
If a person got in top 1000 in round-1A itself, then *can* he participate in 1B, 1C? I remember it as, he/she can participate but it wont affect the competition i.e. in those rounds (1B,1C in this example) No, there's currently no mechanism for doing that. Vexorian: to answer your

[gcj] Re: Easiest Round?

2009-09-10 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
any one got mail of round one ? it's nearly Thursday over Not in California when you sent that email. :) You should have received it by now. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups google-codejam

[gcj] Re: Hardware speed advantage

2009-09-12 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
Sometimes solutions run near the limit, and it can help to have fast hardware; I'd like to think this is the exception rather than the rule. With that said, it's a shame when it does happen. I'm hoping you can think of an optimization or two that would have brought the runtime down by some

[gcj] Re: Round 1A : Problem A Large Input

2009-09-12 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
java drives me nuts for that reason -- old versions, at least, would limit the amount of memory you could use to some constant. You have to run with java -Xmx10 to give it 10^9 bytes of memory; otherwise it defaults to something absurdly small, like 32 MB. Of course, my working knowledge

[gcj] Re: Parallelization - allowed/how to submit code?

2009-09-12 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
I think it is perfectly legal provided you include source code for the parallel system you are using ( and that you code it) Man, now you are tempting me to find a way to use my netbook's core... Yeah, there's no rule against using multiple machines; just make sure you submit code such that

[gcj] Re: Round 1C - All your Base

2009-09-13 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
minor point and irrelevant now, but the first example case in All Your Bases implies the alien language uses a left-right notation. If that assumption is wrong and they actually used right-left you'd be 54 seconds late for the war : 11001001 binary = 201 decimal, but the reverse 10010011 is

[gcj] Re: Contest Analysis

2009-09-13 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
To clarify: the contest analyses by Google are *not* out yet. Downloading of other people's submissions, however, became available the second the contest ended. On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Ferriludian cornelius.perk...@gmail.comwrote: They're out already. On Sep 13, 5:29 pm, Nikhil

[gcj] Re: Where can i find past code jam contest problem to practice

2009-09-20 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
Before 2008, Google Code Jam was run by a company called TopCoder. I don't know where you can find their past GCJ problems, but I think most of their tournaments would have stuff that's comparably similar to this year's rounds. On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 9:13 AM, freemasons blakli...@gmail.com

[gcj] Re: MULTIPLE TEST CASES

2009-10-01 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
while( scanf(%d,N)!=EOF ) Also: int x; while (cin x) { } works. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups google-codejam group. To post to this group, send email to google-code@googlegroups.com To

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2009-10-01 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
Yeah, sorry about this crap -- one of us moderators fat-fingered the accept button by mistake. A fair amount gets sent to the list, so occasionally we click the wrong button and it gets through. On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 6:34 PM, gustavo pacianotto gouveia gustavo.paciano...@gmail.com wrote:

[gcj] Re: when will official results of round 2 be available?

2009-10-04 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
If you were in 501st you should be OK. We'll be sending notice to cheaters today or tomorrow, and then final, official notice to everyone the next day. 2009/10/4 serg tkser...@gmail.com Hi, CGJ team, When official results of Round 2 will be available. I am wondering because in 2-nd round I

[gcj] Re: Disqualification from Google Code Jam 2009 (Or there is no hard choice between the Code Jam and the football match Russia-Germany now)

2009-10-05 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
success. The similarity is too subjective concept, an it's so sad that you use such vague criterion. We didn't co-operate during the contest, you can't prove the fact. You are able to disqualify anyone using such criterions. 2009/10/5 Bartholomew Furrow fur...@google.com Dear

[gcj] Re: Round 2 confirmation email?

2009-10-07 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
To follow up on this, has anyone not yet received a You have( not)? advanced email? We sent them yesterday. Regards, Bartholomew On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 9:05 PM, Bharath Raghavendran rbharat...@gmail.comwrote: nor did i receive the you didn't advance to the 3rd round email yet :P 2009/10/4

[gcj] Round 3 Analysis Posted

2009-10-10 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
Wow, that was an exciting round to watch. The analysis has been posted at: http://code.google.com/codejam/contest/dashboard?c=243103#s=a --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups google-codejam group. To post

[gcj] Re: Invitation for getting a visa

2009-10-10 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
We'll start contacting people shortly. On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 1:04 PM, e-maxx e-m...@inbox.ru wrote: How could I receive an invitation, which is a first document necessary to start obtaining a visa? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because

[gcj] Re: Invitation for getting a visa

2009-10-12 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
a search for rule-breakers. Cheers, Bartholomew On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 8:22 PM, Jeru jeru.sh...@gmail.com wrote: So is there a timetable for things like the date the invitation letter should arrive, the due to confirm VISA availability or something else? On Oct 11, 8:06 am, Bartholomew Furrow

[gcj] Re: How To Unlock Locked iPod

2009-10-13 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
What the heck? That email looks like it came from me, though I sure didn't send it. If anyone on the list has any idea how that could have happened, please let me know. I have a few ideas: - Someone spoofed me as the sender in a mail to this list, and Groups fell for it. - I have spyware on

[gcj] Re: How To Unlock Locked iPod

2009-10-13 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
: 2367 X-SMTPCOM-Tracking-Number: 71890081 ... *X-Mailer: SendBlaster.1.6.2* Message-ID: *3860660064962420412...@sweet-a0aa22526* Bartholomew Furrow 写道: What the heck? That email looks like it came from me, though I sure didn't send it. If anyone on the list has any idea how that could have

[gcj] Re: Download AVira 2010 And key 2014

2009-10-16 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
Apparently I'm not the only one they're spoofing now. I'm setting the whole list to moderated for now. On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 2:35 AM, Avira vexor...@gmail.com wrote: Download AVira 2010 And key 2014 http://bit.ly/2dWFN5 http://bit.ly/2dWFN5 Download AVira 2010 And key 2014

Re: [gcj] World Finals 2009

2009-11-13 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
That is an excellent question! The finals start at 9:00 AM Pacific (I'm way, way too tired to convert that to UTC), AKA 6.5 hours from now! You'll be able to see the scoreboard online. On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 6:48 AM, condor karthik.tu...@gmail.com wrote: what time is the 2009 world finals ?

Re: [gcj] Re: languages on the T-shirt

2009-11-17 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
recognized by Google. Can we print this image and have it on a t-shirt? Any copyright issues? On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Bartholomew Furrow fur...@gmail.comwrote: For those who are curious, I've attached the image on which the shirt back was based to this email. Personally I really

[gcj] Accouncing Google Code Jam 2010!

2009-11-19 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
There's one more thing that we announced at the award ceremony: Code Jam 2010! We'll be announcing official dates early next year, so keep practicing, stay tuned and spread the word. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups google-codejam group. To post to

Re: [gcj] Re: languages on the T-shirt

2009-11-19 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
I also want to know if we can print the image and paste it on a T-shirt... OK, that took some thought! I consulted with the team, and the responses varied between the cachet of having the shirt is an important part of the prize, and let people do what they want. In an attempt to achieve both

Re: [gcj] Accouncing Google Code Jam 2010!

2009-11-24 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
True that. That is my goal as well. Also Furrow, don't you know that Announcing is spelled with 2 ns not 2 cs. Do I get a prize? Holy crap, I had no idea that I'd done that! Good catch, but no prize. :-P Oh, one note: sorry for the slow posting of messages over the last few days. I've

Re: [gcj] Re: languages on the T-shirt

2009-11-30 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
Well, were t-shirts already shipped? Because two weeks passed even after GCJ finals, and there are no signs of it. Thanks, Alex I gather the Russian shirts are taking / took longer than the rest. Give it another week, then email me personally if you still don't have your shirt and I'll bug

Re: [gcj] Re: languages on the T-shirt

2009-12-03 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
To those Russians who haven't yet received t-shirts, here's the latest from the Googlers who are making it happen: We are very sorry for the delay. Unfortunately we have run into a bit of difficulty in shipping the shirts to those contestants who reside in Russia and are working on shipping

Re: [gcj] When will the 2009 Finals analysis will be posted?

2009-12-03 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
Apparently I was prophetic, though instead of week I should have said day. On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Bartholomew Furrow fur...@gmail.comwrote: Within the next week, I imagine; we'll send a message to the group when it's ready. Sorry for the delay. On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 7:02 AM

Re: [gcj] When will the 2009 Finals analysis will be posted?

2009-12-08 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
About a week ago: http://code.google.com/codejam/contest/dashboard?c=311101#s=a -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups google-codejam group. To post to this group, send email to google-c...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to

[gcj] 2010 -- What do you think?

2009-12-17 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
Code Jammers, In the spirit of getting information out early and iterating on it, in this email I'm posting our *tentative* schedule for 2010. This means that these dates are *not final*, but are being posted here so you can comment. It will be impossible to make everyone happy, so if you have

Re: [gcj] Re: languages on the T-shirt

2009-12-18 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
My understanding is that the Russian situation is proceeding just fine, but that none of our shirts made it past the Ukrainian border. I gather there's some sort of Customs/FedEx problem, to which we're working on a solution now. Sorry about that. :-/ Bartholomew -- You received this message

Re: [gcj] Re: 2010 -- What do you think?

2009-12-18 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
. That being said, if you do move it, don't move it to the week after (May 29, 30) as that is Memorial Day weekend in the US, and many people are out of town, unplugged. Ideally, maybe move it and the qualification round back one week? Joel On Dec 17, 6:19 pm, Bartholomew Furrow fur...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [gcj] Re: 2010 -- What do you think?

2009-12-19 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
Indian Students: I'm assuming that for the Qualification Round and Round 1, there will be some time you can compete that is not *during* an exam (unless you have 24-hour-long exams). Will you be too busy studying to compete? I'm just trying to understand the scope of the issue. Joel: thanks for

Re: [gcj] Is Google Code Jam only for students?

2009-12-23 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
Also: students tend to have stricter schedules that they know further in advance, so they're the ones who are speaking up in the scheduling thread. By the way, students aren't a crazy majority or anything: in 2008 it was about an even split, and it was something like 60-40 for students in 2009.

Re: [gcj] DOPE'10 (An Annual Algorithm Intensive Online Programing Contest conducted By Daksh 2010,SASTRA UNIVERSITY)

2010-03-01 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
Sorry for the slow posting of this email. Because of spam problems, this list is moderated, and occasionally I've been known to screw up checking the moderation queue. If you have a time-sensitive email, like a competition announcement, please mail me individually and I'll try to make sure it

Re: [gcj] Re: languages on the T-shirt

2010-03-02 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
In roughly 3 months, we'll release a modified version of the image under the Creative Commons license. That day has finally arrived! The image is linked from http://code.google.com/codejam/archive.html under 2009. Cheers, Bartholomew -- You received this message because you are subscribed

Re: [gcj] Question About Submition

2010-03-05 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
Maybe just an additional dialog box asking You haven't submitted solution for small. Are you sure you want to submit for large? You won't be able to sibmit again blah blah blah will suffice. Just my opinion. That's a good idea, and one of the options we considered. Ultimately we didn't

Re: [gcj] Round 1 C -B in c++

2010-03-09 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
Whose solution was it? One round we had a contestant who used an unusual compiler, and had a solution that didn't work in gcc. Maybe this is that one? On Mar 8, 2010 7:02 AM, Stephan09 stephan.ribe...@googlemail.com wrote: Hello! I was practicing with some old problems and tried to solve the

Re: [gcj] Re: Qualification Round E-Mail for Africa Codejam

2010-03-19 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
I don't think they will send it on Saturday, as it's the week end. I think they will send it tomorrow (Friday). You have no idea how much this tempted me to send it yesterday. :-) Emails should go out shortly. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

[gcj] Reducing moderation levels on this mailing list

2010-04-08 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
*FYI* * * In the off season this list was fully moderated, because spam posts were outweighing actual posts. Now that's just inconvenient. I've turned on moderation for new users, which means that you're moderated unless you posted something reasonable last time it was set to moderation for new

Re: [gcj] Re: Is Dial Up connection an issue

2010-04-08 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
The questions from previous years are available for you try. I think the size of the input file should be similar for most of the questions. This is probably the best advice: try out previous years'. Be aware that for a Small you'll have 4 minutes from the second you click download (and hit

Re: [gcj] Eligibility question

2010-04-08 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
As a Google employee you will be ineligible to compete. I don't know if you're technically allowed to compete until you *become* a Google employee; it could go either way. I could check if it's important to you. Bartholomew -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: [gcj] What's Up? It's 19:00 on 4/7/10 and there is no link to sign up.

2010-04-09 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
Maybe you could change it to Sign Up, Bartholomew? There's actually a very silly^H^H^H^H^Hgood reason why we haven't done this. Ask me in person some time. :-) We're planning on a page redesign at *some* point which will hopefully make things much more obvious. Stay tuned! -- You received

Re: [gcj] Re: Could not open the .in file

2010-04-13 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
Look, I have a different situation here and would really appreciate if you clarify that as well. I am working with Flash AS3. I can make the Flash easily read the input.in file and generate an output but due to flash's limitations it won't be able to create a new output.out file. What I

Re: [gcj] Re: Contest closed to resident of Quebec?

2010-04-13 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
Would it still be possible to participate, just without being eligible to receive any prizes? Unfortunately, much as I'd like that, we can't allow that either. I gather that's not a Quebec thing, but has to do with the zillion other laws we need to follow. Sorry... :-/ -- You received

Re: [gcj] New to Code Jam 2010

2010-04-13 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
Procedure is here: http://code.google.com/codejam/faq.html#quickstart On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 11:50 PM, Gökhan Çetin gkhnce...@gmail.com wrote: sample questions here mate http://code.google.com/codejam/archive.html 2010/4/12 Vineet ghatge vgh4us...@gmail.com Hi all, I am very new to this

Re: [gcj] Eligibility of future Google interns

2010-04-13 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
Dmytro, All future Google employees are welcome to compete in Code Jam, but they must stop competing once they're employed by Google. Since you aren't starting at Google until after the finals, you're eligible to compete throughout the competition. Enjoy! Bartholomew On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at

Re: [gcj] Regarding Registrations

2010-04-17 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
I think you should change your browser and try again. No, this one's our fault. Sorry, Dhruva; I'll have a fix in a few minutes. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups google-codejam group. To post to this group, send email to

Re: [gcj] Regarding Registrations

2010-04-17 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
Sagar dhruva.sa...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Bartholomew Furrow, Thanks a lot guys, I was able to register this time :) Thanks Regards, Dhruva Sagar. On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 07:45, chen liu mitchell.l...@gmail.com wrote: I think you should change your browser and try again. On Sun, Apr 18

Re: [gcj] Requirements in our company

2010-04-22 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
Rajesh and others, This mailing list is for discussion of Google Code Jam. While we sometimes deviate from that topic, for example to discuss other programming contests, this is not a job board. Please refrain from making any further posts on this topic. Thanks to those of you who have already

Re: [gcj] Re: Code Jam at TopCoder

2010-04-24 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
Heh SRM was just starting so I left a thought incomplete. I mean, it is annoying because you have to spend time messing with your web browser's file dialogs a lot, and then you have to use pipes to read input and then there is always the possibility that you upload the wrong output...

Re: [gcj] Re: Question about this group's code of conduct

2010-04-30 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
Hi Debashis, Thanks for asking! The old email of mine that Paul dug up pretty much covers it -- this list isn't the place for job postings. I've given the description for the group a much-needed tweaking to help out future recruit hunters: A group for discussion of the Google Code Jam series

Re: [gcj] about who is eligible to participate ?

2010-05-06 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
Please , could somebody tell me if people from Syria country can participate or not ? Being from Syria does not disqualify you (though it did last year and the year before). Best, Bartholomew -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups google-codejam

Re: [gcj] About durations. 4-8min

2010-05-07 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
Also, penalty is pointless in the qualification round This is absolutely correct. Penalty doesn't mean anything in the qualification round; it only matters in later rounds, when the contestants are expected to start at the same time. -- You received this message because you are subscribed

Re: [gcj] Coders in scoreboard

2010-05-08 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
Can you please add this year to the scoreboard all the coders who opened the contest but didn't solve any problem correctly? That would be great to do some statistics like simulating ratings like in TopCoder... For technical reasons I'm afraid that's more work than it's worth (we'd rather

Re: [gcj] 500 Server Error

2010-05-08 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
There were a number of messages sent to the mailing list about this during the contest, and I'm only posting this one because there are, well, a lot of them. Please feel free to reply to this thread. To clarify what happened, there was a 20-minute and a 5-minute event during the contest during

[gcj] Contest Analysis is Available for Qualification Round

2010-05-08 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
Visit http://code.google.com/codejam/contest/dashboard?c=433101#s=a to see the analysis. To see previous contests and their analyses, visit http://code.google.com/codejam/contests.html. Thanks for participating, everyone! We'll see 8523 of you in Round 1. Bartholomew -- You received this

Re: [gcj] Re: Languages used

2010-05-09 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
i have downloaded a 30-day trial version of mathematica 6.0 for gcj which is available freely over the internet. so can i use it to solve problems in gcj 2010? From the rules: Time-limited trials for compilers and interpreters are disallowed. The reason for this is that if I've previously

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