Re: [gcj] Re: Problem C source code rejected for some unknown reason!!

2010-05-09 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
hi, in C, normally we use printf(%0.0lf,n) to ignore the decimal part.. while printing.. Though if you're doing a floating-point calculation for something with an exact integer answer, you're probably doing something wrong, and should consider using long long instead. -- You received this

Re: [gcj] Re: Limited Friend List Capacity

2010-05-18 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
Is there any reason to limit number of friends to 30? I want to watch results of more than 30 people. Because our friends page used to be *really inefficient*. Now it's just mildly inefficient, and we may up the limit at some point. No promises, though; our first priority has to be site

Re: [gcj] Disqualification from Google code jam 2010

2010-05-18 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
You're emailing the wrong address. The most common reason for disqualification is having the same code as someone else; if you can't think of a reason why you would, please contact programmingcontest-feedb...@google.com to let us know, and sorry for the trouble. Best, Bartholomew On Tue, May

Re: [gcj] Re: The small and large input file

2010-05-21 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
I think the generator on just use the simple rand(). So I think there is no P.d.F. Even rand() has a probability distribution function! It's just a boring one. FWIW, I don't happen to know what the cases were like in Snapper Chain, but since with a straight rand() there'd be a low chance of

Re: [gcj] Re: confirmation mail ?

2010-05-22 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
Anybody receive confirmation email for Round1B? Give me a minute, at least! :-) Those haven't gone out yet, but they should before long. -- 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] Command line submission tool?

2010-05-28 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
Such a tool would be allowed. We couldn't guarantee that we won't change the javascript and server code, but we have no plans to do so. If you're seriously interested in doing this, I can set up a test contest for you on another app. On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Reinier Zwitserloot

Re: [gcj] Re: Unfortunately, you did not place in the top 1000 (but I actually did!)

2010-06-01 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
That one was all me. I even sanity-checked the number of people that I was sending you advanced emails to. 2000 sounds about right, right? -- 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] Re: Ideone.com

2010-06-01 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
A LiveCD would do the trick too, as long as you boot up with plenty of time to spare. On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 4:44 AM, Reinier Zwitserloot reini...@gmail.comwrote: Yeah, the time limits on ideone mean any solution that works but is borderline slow won't work out. I've written plenty of gcj

Re: [gcj] Re: Command line submission tool?

2010-06-02 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
http://codejam-devel.appspot.com/codejam The contest is live for 6 days. Ping me if you need it re-created. It looks a lot like the live site, but it's flawed in a couple of ways: - The scoreboard won't populate properly. - It's got pretty limited quota, so don't hammer it -- you're sharing it

Re: [gcj] Re: confirmation mail ?

2010-06-02 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
As long as there were a quantum interpreter freely available, right? (Yes|0 + No|1) / sqrt(2). -- 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

Re: [gcj] Re: Command line submission tool?

2010-06-02 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
Log in with another account. :-) On Jun 2, 2010 6:26 AM, Jorge Bernadas jberna...@gmail.com wrote: What about if we submit a correct solution for a problem? If there any way to reset it so we can submit it again? -- Jorge Bernadas On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 01:58, Bartholomew Furrow fur

Re: [gcj] Re: Command line submission tool?

2010-06-02 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
Heh. P.S. don't do that on the real contest. On Jun 2, 2010 10:23 AM, Hernan Badenes her...@gmail.com wrote: Wow, that was a dangerous suggestion, indeed -- given that some people asked what's the problem in using multiple accounts already! :) H. On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Bartholomew

Re: [gcj] Re: Onsite finals

2010-06-02 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
The NDA is mainly in case you discover our secret algorithms by mistake, and so you don't share interview questions. Contestants should feel free to share their experiences at the finals. On May 25, 2010 2:39 AM, AdrianKuegel akue...@googlemail.com wrote: Every finalist has to sign a NDA. But

Re: [gcj] Re: Old CodeJams

2010-06-02 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 6:14 PM, cjoa2 carlos...@gmail.com wrote: Q: Are we allowed to post the problem sets used in GCJ hosted at TopCoder? Who owns those problem statements, Google or TopCoder? I actually have no idea! They'd have more in common with modern TopCoder problems than modern

Re: [gcj] Re: Small request

2010-06-03 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
That's actually a pretty cool feature idea, Carlo. It has the properties of being useful, interesting and feasible. We have other priorities right now, but we'll definitely add it to our to-do list! Cheers, Bartholomew On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 3:38 PM, carlop piovesan.ca...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [gcj] ruan xi wants to chat

2010-06-07 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
Yeah, I've set this guy to be moderated. On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 4:40 AM, Nikhil Mishra mishra00...@gmail.com wrote: spam ... ? On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 5:08 PM, ruan xi washingto...@gmail.com wrote: --- ruan xi wants to

Re: [gcj] Re: Command line submission tool?

2010-06-07 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
if there is a way to get them. Thanks for the opportunity to develop this tool, I learned some python and HTTP today =). On Jun 2, 2:28 am, Bartholomew Furrow fur...@gmail.com wrote: http://codejam-devel.appspot.com/codejam The contest is live for 6 days. Ping me if you need

Re: [gcj] Re: Command line submission tool?

2010-06-09 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
it. On Jun 7, 4:33 pm, Bartholomew Furrow fur...@gmail.com wrote: Awesome, thanks for taking this on! The csrfmiddlewaretoken is our way of stopping cross-site request forgery ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_request_forgery). From memory (let me know if you need something more specific

Re: [gcj] Re: T-shirt

2010-07-22 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
Shirts haven't been sent yet. You should have gotten an email about those today. On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 5:57 AM, Wen X wenxiao1...@gmail.com wrote: I'm waiting to [?] Has anyone in China got the T-thirt? 2010/7/17 wRabbit_AlMag vntu.accep...@gmail.com now i'm worrying :) still

Re: [gcj] Finals Setup

2010-07-22 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
We just sent that out earlier today -- thanks for the reminder. Let me know if we missed anything! On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Luke Pebody luke.peb...@gmail.com wrote: +1 On 21 Jul 2010, at 21:13, pauljefferys pauljeffe...@gmail.com wrote: Apols if I've received this info and not

[gcj] Re: World Finals start soon!

2010-07-30 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
And we're off to the races (actually we only got delayed about 30 minutes). On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 12:44 AM, Bartholomew Furrow fur...@gmail.comwrote: The world finals for Google Code Jam 2010 start soon! The original plan was to have them start at 8:10 UTC, but we're having power issues so

Re: [gcj] problem printing the 256th ASCII character in C

2010-08-04 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
There is no such thing as cyclic data type. Its just that every data type has limited size (1 byte for unsigned char). I think it's reasonable to talk about a cyclic data type -- it isn't a standard term as far as I know, but certainly there are data types that cycle under incrementation

Re: [gcj] Re: About GCJ-Africa T-Shirt

2010-08-25 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
Helooo, Gooogle, ... Where are Cairo T-Shirts??? Is that we will receive them after next year's round? Who contacted you in the first place about the shirts? I'd suggest writing that person back. I personally don't know anything about them, I'm afraid. -- You received this message because

Re: [gcj] Re: About GCJ-Africa T-Shirt

2010-08-26 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
Hi Bartholomwe, thanks for your reply. Actually I received the email from codejamafr...@google.com which looks like an noreply email, correct me if I'm wrong. I think it actually isn't a noreply email. Please give it a shot; I'll make sure someone is still checking it. -- You received

[gcj] How should TLE work?

2010-09-12 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
We had a bit of a discussion about this in the judges' room at the finals, and I'm interested in hearing what you guys think. What should happen on the scoreboard when someone downloads the Large, and then 8 minutes pass without a submission? Obviously at the end of the contest it should say

Re: [gcj] Hagamos una reforma educativa

2010-11-14 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
This group is for discussion of Google Code Jam. Please treat it as such. -- 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

Re: [gcj] Good shopping good mood! 2010.11.28.21.56.50

2010-11-28 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
Looks like Joel got spywared. Sorry about the spam. -- 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] Problem-Preparation Guide and More

2011-01-19 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
Code Jammers, With 2011 upon us and the next Code Jam only a few months awayhttp://code.google.com/codejam/schedule.html, it seems like a good time to do a few site updates that we've had in the works. This update has a focus on educational content: our old Practice and

Re: [gcj] Country statistics

2011-02-22 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
I can't confirm those numbers or competitors/countries are eligible, but I can confirm that the one in rank #28 (from UK) is ineligible, don't know how come. That person chose to represent the U.K., but lives in Africa or Arabia. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to

Re: [gcj] Codejam Schedule

2011-04-08 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
Hi Ed, We re-evaluate our schedule every year, and we'll be sure to consult this mailing list next year as well. Unfortunately we'll almost certainly collide with exams somewhere; what country are you in, and which rounds conflict? Best, Bartholomew On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Ed

[gcj] Registration for Google Code Jam 2011 is Open!

2011-04-08 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
Ladies and Gentleman, start your editors: registration for Google Code Jam 2011 is now open! Visit http://code.google.com/codejam to register, read the Termshttp://code.google.com/codejam/terms.html, check out the FAQ http://code.google.com/codejam/faq.html, and

Re: [gcj] Registration for Google Code Jam 2011 is Open!

2011-04-08 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
It's possible that some of you had noticed this. On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 5:30 PM, Bartholomew Furrow fur...@google.comwrote: Ladies and Gentleman, start your editors: registration for Google Code Jam 2011 is now open! Visit http://code.google.com/codejam to register, read the Termshttp

Re: [gcj] Query regarding rankings

2011-04-09 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
Umer, 1. The ranking of CJ are stored somewhere we can refer to our potential employers? They're stored on a public scoreboard, under your handle. We're thinking about ways to make it so that they can verify that handle belongs to your email address. 1. Are rankings based on

Re: [gcj] Re: Programming Languages

2011-04-12 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
Yes, there is no problem in using two or more different programming languages to solve a problem. However, all of them must be *freely* and *easily* available. We actually changed that rule this year, because we didn't define easily clearly. Now it just says freely (but the links are still

Re: [gcj] Can I enter my shipping information later?

2011-04-26 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
Hi Stonos, That's the exact intention of that section: so that you don't need to fill in your information until we need it. Feel free to leave it blank for now, though bear in mind that if you do win a shirt, you'll have a limited amount of time to fill it in. Cheers! Bartholomew On Tue, Apr

Re: [gcj] Re: Can I enter my shipping information later?

2011-04-28 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
Top 1000 this year for a shirt, actually. On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 8:34 AM, Leopoldo Taravilse ltaravi...@gmail.comwrote: It's pretty harder.. you have to be at the top 500 for the T-shirt if it's like the past two years. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: [gcj] Question to the admins

2011-05-02 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
I'm excited that you're starting up this site, Ahmed, and I hope we'll be able to add some tools for you to list soon! As for the question of how to verify identity, by design it should currently be impossible. We're definitely willing to think about ways of making identity verifiable with the

Re: [gcj] Re: minimum scalar

2011-05-04 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
i don't understand the meaning of this sentence : Choose two permutations such that the scalar product of your two new vectors is the smallest possible, and output that minimum scalar product. Why two??? One permutation for each of the vectors. -- You received this message because you

Re: [gcj] How do you avoid frauds?

2011-05-04 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
What happens if someone registered in the competition sends the problems to another person and that person resolves the problem before enter to the contest, so the only thing the last person does is to upload the code?... No timers start when you start reading a problem, so sharing the

Re: [gcj] Minimum Points needed to Qualify Google Code Jam

2011-05-05 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
This year it's 25. On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 9:22 PM, Rahul Gulati rahul.neot...@gmail.comwrote: There is a minimum score that you need in the Qualification round to go to the next round. On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 9:49 PM, Satyajit Bhadange satyajit.bhada...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I was just

Re: [gcj] How do you avoid frauds?

2011-05-06 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
For me its a challange to my personal skills. If anybody wants to cheat - please do, I really do not mind. I mind! I mind! Everyone should please feel free *not* to cheat. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups google-codejam group. To post to this

Re: [gcj] Regarding MapReduce

2011-05-06 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
Umer and Marcelo: Yes, as long as you use freely-available programming languages as described in the Terms. Cheers, Bartholomew **Actually Visual Studio .NET is fine even though it isn't free -- there's an exception for that. On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Marcelo Ramires

Re: [gcj] Re: Somebody tell me What's wrong of my output Problem-B?

2011-05-08 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
I'd like to apologize for all the confusion on Magicka. It seemed that there were a couple of pain points: 1. Some people thought that all the elements were invoked at the same time, and then combination and opposition rules were applied once the list was full. Thankfully this was refuted by

Re: [gcj] Re: Codejam Registrants

2011-05-08 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
Registration numbers are kind of meaningless, since a lot (no really, a *lot *) of people sign up but don't show up. Around 14k competed in some measurable sense, by downloading at least one input -- I'll put a more exact number in the editorial when I get the chance. -- You received this

Re: [gcj] Re: Codejam Registrants

2011-05-08 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Vexorian vexor...@gmail.com wrote: I think that in order to download an input you would need to at least think you have solved the problem. Would it be possible to know the amount of people that opened the dash board during the contest? That's a fair point.

Re: [gcj] Goro sort again

2011-05-09 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
It says Goro is sorting N integers, but not that the integers are 1...N. Are the GCJ question setters being kind by only using arrays of 1...N in their test cases? The second line of each test case will contain a permutation of the *N* smallest positive integers. Did anyone else go through

Re: [gcj] Problem C output !! Candy problem

2011-05-11 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
For practice questions, does everyone receive same input ? Or do they give different input files every time you download an input set?? Everyone receives the same practice input. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups google-codejam group. To post to

Re: [gcj] Re: A minor piece of suggestion on GUI of Codejam

2011-05-17 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
These are some great ideas, and we'll see what we can do about them (though it's unlikely it will be anything by this weekend). In the mean time, you can A) try Chrome, and B) Check the My submissions panel post-submission to make sure you submitted what you thought you did. If you didn't for a

Re: [gcj] Re: Codejam Registrants

2011-05-18 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
Thanks for the reminder. It looks like 21940 separate logins loaded the dashboard, and a number of un-logged-in people too. With that said, not everybody is a competitor; some people were just there to check out the problems, because they heard they were so awesome (true story). Cheers!

Re: [gcj] Google Code Jam Tools Website

2011-05-21 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
acrush is not ACRush, GCJ nickname is case sensitive. :) Same person, new nickname. -- 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 unsubscribe from this group, send

Re: [gcj] IOI 2011

2011-05-23 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
I wasn't personally aware of that, but there's nothing we can do about it at this stage. Did they announce their schedule before ours and have us not take it into account, or vice versa? On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 6:35 PM, TripleM stephenmerri...@gmail.com wrote: Are the Code Jam organisers aware

Re: [gcj] Re: Will the round 1 schedule be adjusted for the rapture?

2011-05-23 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
Already done: http://code.google.com/codejam/contest/dashboard?c=433101#s=p1 . Not that I recommend actually reading and trying to solve it; we've improved our problem-phrasing abilities since then. On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 4:48 PM, Dalek cbro...@gmail.com wrote: That could certainly be a

Re: [gcj] Re: [Connection problem in round C]

2011-05-24 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
As you've noticed, the platform sometimes gets a little bumpy at the start of contests. This is an improvement over last year, where a couple of times it got bumpy *during* contests, but still not good enough. We're going to work on fixing that or at least ameliorating it; in the mean time,

Re: [gcj] GCJ Ratings

2011-06-10 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
I don't know why when someone changes his nickname, this change does not affect the old scoreboard. I think if they updated all scoreboards with the latest nicknames, this will be good too. We do, except when people change their email addresses rather than just their nicknames. -- You

Re: [gcj] Problems statements license

2011-06-17 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
At this point they're just covered by copyright. We currently plan to release problems, analyses and input data under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0, but that hasn't happened just yet. The license is NoDerivs, but you will be able to modify problem statements to reduce them to

Re: [gcj] Re: Problems statements license

2011-06-19 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
Please also allow translating to other human languages. Oh, duh! Great idea. And why not more liberal license? Fair question. My initial reaction was to worry about what derivative works people might create and try to attribute to Google, but I'll consult with the team and we'll see what

[gcj] We Have a Winner!

2011-07-31 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
in his own country, *rng..58*! - Bartholomew Furrow, for the Google Code Jam Team -- 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 unsubscribe from this group, send email

Re: [gcj] Code Jam 2012 schedule

2011-10-24 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
Qualification round on Friday rather than Saturday? It's the same as 2010 and 2011 -- it starts on Friday in U.S. Pacific time. It is possible that a significant number of contestants have their wedding anniversaries on July 31st. My understanding is that most of those contestants live in

Re: [gcj]

2012-02-22 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
Sorry about the spam, folks. User banned. On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 12:56 PM, harsh007...@gmail.com wrote: http://trierstechsvcs.com/wp-content/uploads/trgrpo.html -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google Code Jam group. To post to this group, send

Re: [gcj] please someone tell me how to solved Korea 2012 Round A

2012-03-13 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
You can visit the scoreboard, and download the solutions of other contestants by clicking 솔루션 다운로드. On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 11:45 PM, Minseok Jang ms2...@gmail.com wrote: where can I get the solution(not source) that how to solved KOREA 2012 ROUND A

Re: [gcj] Translations of Japan-2011 and Korea-2012 Problems

2012-03-13 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
Hi Jeong, The licenses for the problems are linked at the bottom of each page. Here's the English version: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ If you're going to translate the problem, the only requirement (as I understand the license) is that when you post your translation, you should

[gcj] codejam-annou...@googlegroups.com

2012-03-19 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
Fellow problem-solvers and coding enthusiasts, we are excited to announce that registration for Google Code Jam 2012 http://code.google.com/codejamis now open! We'll be flying the top 25 contestants to New York City this year to compete in the World Finals. So stretch out your wrists, get that

[gcj] Registration for Google Code Jam 2012 is now open!

2012-03-20 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
Fellow problem-solvers and coding enthusiasts, we are excited to announce that registration for Google Code Jam 2012 http://code.google.com/codejam is now open! We'll be flying the top 25 contestants to New York City this year to compete in the World Finals. So stretch out your wrists, get that

[gcj] Re: Registration for Google Code Jam 2012 is now open!

2012-03-20 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
P.S. Sorry for the double-send. Somehow I screwed up the first one. On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 15:08, Bartholomew Furrow fur...@google.com wrote: Fellow problem-solvers and coding enthusiasts, we are excited to announce that registration for Google Code Jam 2012http://code.google.com/codejam

[gcj] Changes worth noting for Google Code Jam 2012

2012-03-22 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
We've made a few changes to the rules and platform for Code Jam from last year. Here are some highlights: - MATLAB is now allowed. Since Octave and other open-source implementations exist, it seemed like a good idea. - We're no longer restricted by the rules to the format where there's one

Re: [gcj] Re: Changes worth noting for Google Code Jam 2012

2012-03-28 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
to seeing our email address in the result page. May that will be a good use for reference to future employers.. On Friday, March 23, 2012 6:58:43 AM UTC+5:30, Bartholomew Furrow wrote: We've made a few changes to the rules and platform for Code Jam from last year. Here are some highlights

Re: [gcj] Re: Changes worth noting for Google Code Jam 2012

2012-03-28 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
all the events down as whole day events - would it be possible to update the calendar with more detail? Barış On 28 Mar 2012, at 20:44, Bartholomew Furrow fur...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, that's coming up. You should get on that. Oh man, that's really soon -- do you have any good problem

[gcj] Code Jam hangout

2012-04-03 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
Hi Code Jammers, Igor Naverniouk and I will be doing a Hangout On Air on Wednesday, April 4th (tomorrow) at 12:30pm Pacific Time http://goo.gl/vepd1, from the Life at Google page http://goo.gl/MqeOi on Google+. If you have questions you'd like answered, add them to our moderator page

Re: [gcj] gcj

2012-04-04 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
Your numbers are a bit low for input and output files -- we let those get as high as 200kB (the input files can actually be bigger, but max out at 200kB gzipped -- all modern browsers [as far as I can tell] automatically request a gzipped version from the server). Bala, for my own information,

[gcj] Google Code Jam Hangout On Air #2, feat. Petr, Tomek, Onufry

2012-04-10 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
Code Jammers, Come join me in about 16 hours for a conversation with international programming contest superstars Petr Mitrichev and Tomek Czajka, and Code Jam problem-setter Onufry Wojtaszczyk. We'll talk about competitive programming in general, and Code Jam in particular. The hangout will

[gcj] Re: Google Code Jam Hangout On Air #2, feat. Petr, Tomek, Onufry

2012-04-11 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
This has been delayed for a while due to technical difficulties. We'll answer some of the Moderator questions on the Google Students G+ page, and we'll reconvene as soon as we can. Sorry about that! Bartholomew On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 3:32 PM, Bartholomew Furrow fur...@gmail.comwrote: Code

[gcj] Re: Google Code Jam Hangout On Air #2, feat. Petr, Tomek, Onufry

2012-04-11 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
OK, we're trying again 24 hours after it was originally supposed to happen. In your timezone: http://goo.gl/iYPGd On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 8:31 AM, Bartholomew Furrow fur...@gmail.comwrote: This has been delayed for a while due to technical difficulties. We'll answer some of the Moderator

Re: [gcj] Final Round - Rules

2012-04-15 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
Matthew, We've done our best with Code Jam to make it so that as many people as possible can participate. My understanding as a non-lawyer is that lots of countries have laws regarding how their citizens under the age of 18 are treated, and because of the effects and variety of these laws, we've

Re: [gcj] Online IDEs

2012-04-15 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
If you use ideone, make sure to press the private button so nobody else copies your code during a contest. On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 10:01 AM, teja pratap pratap130...@gmail.comwrote: ideone.com On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 5:56 PM, Prateek Kushwaha prateekkushwah...@gmail.com wrote: Can anyone

Re: [gcj] Re: code jam qualification email

2012-04-26 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
Sorry for the slow emails. Everyone should have gotten one by now. 2012/4/21 VFIX vivek.r...@gmail.com I guess all the qualified contestants will be receiving a mail ,about details for next round 1-2 days before next round. In case a contestant didn't advanced for next round he'll be

Re: [gcj] Re: code jam qualification email

2012-04-27 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
that mean that the questions of Round 1 is not ready yet? 2012/4/27 Luke Pebody luke.peb...@gmail.com It's probably time to start thinking of questions for round 1. On 26 Apr 2012, at 23:12, Bartholomew Furrow fur...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry for the slow emails. Everyone should have gotten one

[gcj] Sorry for the burst of messages...

2012-04-28 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
We got our wires crossed, and a bunch of messages that should have been posted a while ago were stuck in our moderation queue. Sorry to everyone whose messages got through late, and to everyone who just got a burst of less-than-timely messages. -- You received this message because you are

Re: [gcj] i cannot update my profile, why?

2012-04-29 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
The registration page (which is the same as the 'update profile' page) is served over https only, so my guess is that you're unable to connect to https://code.google.com/codejam. I don't know why that would be -- maybe something about your proxy settings, or your location? On Sat, Apr 28, 2012

Re: [gcj] Re: what time does round 1B start?

2012-04-29 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
Whoops! Sorry about that. The next contest is now visible. On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 3:34 PM, IdahoJacket tom@gmail.com wrote: 16:00 UTC on May 5th (next weekend) On Saturday, April 28, 2012 9:38:46 AM UTC-7, juh0 wrote: so they said it would start at 16:00 UTC

[gcj] Are Code Jam emails going through OK?

2012-05-03 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
I just got a report from a contestant that the email we sent him with his results from Round 1A got cut off, so he only got a partial message. Is this happening to anyone else, or is it a freak occurrence? We do most of our mass-email sending through the Code Jam app now, and this is the first

Re: [gcj] Re: Round 1B 2012 amateur analysis (while we wait for the real one)

2012-05-07 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
The official analysis for this round has just been posted. Please enjoy our lengthy explanations and super-consistent formatting! P.S. Challenge task: See if you can guess which problem's editorial was written by a math major, using *only the text of the editorial*. -- You received this

Re: [gcj] Re: code jam qualification email

2012-05-07 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
The video has been found! http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embeddedv=vQ35aWcjIE0#! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google Code Jam group. To post to this group, send email to google-code@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group,

Re: [gcj] Google Code Jam Hangout On Air #2, feat. Petr, Tomek, Onufry

2012-05-07 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
/technicalprograms/! On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 9:52 AM, vivek dhiman vivek4dhi...@gmail.comwrote: Do we have the video uploaded ? On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 4:02 AM, Bartholomew Furrow fur...@gmail.comwrote: Code Jammers, Come join me in about 16 hours for a conversation with international programming

[gcj] Round 1C's Analysis has been published!

2012-05-14 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
At long last, the analysis for Round 1Chttp://code.google.com/codejam/contest/1781488/dashboard#s=a is available. Particular thanks to John Dethridge for writing two editorials and the round editorial! Bartholomew -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: [gcj] Re: Command line tool issues during qualification round

2012-06-08 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
Sorry, that app's misconfigured. I suggest using the real qual round to test for now. On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 9:06 PM, Registered user imregistere...@gmail.comwrote: i m unable to login to link given by u : http://codejam-publictest.appspot.com/codejam/contest/35001/dashboard how do i login

Re: [gcj] in java : number of test cases not given , dont mind i m just a begineer, i m here to learn from u all....

2012-06-11 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
If you're looking to read integers until EOF with Java, try: while (scan.hasNextInt()) { i = scan.nextInt(); j = scan.nextInt(); ... } You can find out about all the capabilities of scanner at http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/Scanner.html. On Thu, May 24, 2012 at

[gcj] Analysis posted for Round 3

2012-06-12 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
http://code.google.com/codejam/contest/1835486/dashboard#s=aa=4 I hope everybody enjoyed the problem set! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google Code Jam group. To post to this group, send email to google-code@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from

Re: [gcj] World Finals 2012 Analysis

2012-09-10 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
Hi, folks! Sorry that took so long -- personally, I was in a Code Jam Coma brought on by too much problem preparation. The analysis is now available at http://code.google.com/codejam/contest/2075486/dashboard#s=a. Best, Bartholomew -- You received this message because you are subscribed to

Re: [gcj] Re: T-shirt has already sent?

2012-09-19 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
- It doesn't matter if you're under 18 for purposes of t-shirts. - If you haven't gotten yours by the end of October, please let us know at code...@google.com. We definitely want to make sure everyone gets his or hers! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: [gcj] How to change email in GCJ ?

2012-09-19 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
There's currently no way to update your notification email address for Code Jam -- it's just one of those features that we haven't had time to implement. If anyone who wants this feature is coming to work at Google, I'd love to help you add it; otherwise, we'll try to get to it by 2013 (but no

Re: [gcj] Re: T-shirt has already sent?

2012-11-02 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
T-shirts are sent to participants that placed in the top 1000. If you did so and have not received your t-shirt yet, please email codejam@google.comand include your Code Jam ID name and complete shipping address and we will research the status of your t-shirt. We want to be sure everyone

[gcj] 2013

2012-11-14 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
Check it out http://code.google.com/codejam. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google Code Jam group. To post to this group, send email to google-code@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to

Re: [gcj] Re: 2013

2012-11-19 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
and members of the Contest Entities' immediate families (parents, siblings, children, spouses, and life partners of each, regardless of where they live) and members of the Contest Entities' households (whether related or not) are ineligible to participate in this Contest Ah, good question.

Re: [gcj] In C , how do i create an array of size 10^9 ???

2013-01-27 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
I guess you are trying HackerCup problem 3? The truth is... Please don't discuss problems from contests that are ongoing. -- 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

Re: [gcj] Binary Power (x power y) x,y is very large.

2013-01-31 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
@upen, if you working with Java, look at biginteger data type. Google it up. For a number that big, an exact representation like BigInteger would be unwieldy. I'm guessing this needs something custom tailored to the problem it's being used to solve. -- You received this message because you are

Re: [gcj] Future of Google Sites?

2013-02-04 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
This mailing list is the wrong place to ask this question. A Google search about Google Sites doesn't show anything to me about it shutting down, so I'm assuming it isn't. :-) On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 1:35 AM, Rajesh Kumar rajesh.s...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! Google will be closing many of its

Re: [gcj] Hacker Cup Round 2 Question 3

2013-02-19 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
Thanks for implementing it, Matt -- I'm glad to hear that works! I got stuck in the last 40 minutes doing just the binomial part. I blame parent-brain. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google Code Jam group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop

Re: [gcj] Solved every last one

2013-02-23 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
Wow, that's amazing! Really nice work, Eric, and I'll make sure the rest of the team sees this. Congratulations on solving all the problems–it's good to know that even the really tough ones have had their day in the sun. We work hard to minimize the PITA factor, and I'm glad it showed! On

Re: [gcj] Regarding output file for submission

2013-03-10 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
On Mar 9, 2013 7:16 PM, Amir Hossein Sharifzadeh amirsharifza...@gmail.com wrote: During contest time you should first submit the output for grading (e.g Hello.out) and after upload a ZIP archive containing multiple source code files, as long as their total uncompressed size does not exceed

Re: [gcj] Regarding Knowledge

2013-03-11 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
Speaking in Tongues isn't a great problem to start with, because it's a little bit unusual and silly. I'd recommend looking at the Where should I start? section on our Practice Learn Pagehttps://code.google.com/codejam/contests.html and solving the ones listed there, from top to bottom. The

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