Re: [gcj] Latin American CodeJam

2010-03-11 Thread Felipe Sodré Silva
Maybe they are trying to get good professionals in Africa for a new office. AFAIK, one of the main goals of codejam is to find new talents for google offices. Malkava On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 4:05 AM, Aleksandr Vinokurov aleksandr@gmail.com wrote: What is the point to hold an Africa Code

Re: [gcj] Latin American CodeJam

2010-03-11 Thread Felipe Sodré Silva
First: The winner of GCJLA was a Brazilian person. Second: GCJLA happened AFTER google opened an office in BH (they actually bought a search company there). Third: Feel like being minused. Even here. Malkava On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Leopoldo Taravilse ltaravi...@gmail.comwrote: Then

Re: [gcj] Latin American CodeJam

2010-03-11 Thread Felipe Sodré Silva
And I didn't even said anything about Brazilian teams' performance compared to Argentinian ones in the last ICPC finals. Ok, enough flamewar for today :) Malkava On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 9:24 PM, Felipe Sodré Silva fso...@gmail.comwrote: First: The winner of GCJLA was a Brazilian person

Re: [gcj] How many members are needed to particpate in Codejam 2010??

2010-03-30 Thread Felipe Sodré Silva
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Kumar Anurag anurag.it.jo...@gmail.comwrote: I was told that i cannot participate solely. It's the other way round. You must compete by yourself. Felipe -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups google-codejam group. To

Re: [gcj] Eligibility question

2010-04-08 Thread Felipe Sodré Silva
Hi. In 2008 I was exactly in the same situation as you. I asked my recruiter at Google about that and I was told I'd better not participate in that year's codejam. Regards, Malkava On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 3:18 AM, Malcolm Sharpe sharpe.malc...@gmail.comwrote: I have a question about the

Re: [gcj] Eligibility of future Google interns

2010-04-13 Thread Felipe Sodré Silva
www.google.com/jobs On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 2:13 PM, sandy tHe dAGgeR san01...@gmail.comwrote: CAN U PLZZ TELL HOW U APPLIED FOR THIS INTERN ?? -- 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] Google Hiring

2010-04-23 Thread Felipe Sodré Silva
Send your resume to www.google.com/jobs and do well in the interview. There's no secret about that. Even GCJ finalists have to do interviews. Regards, Felipe On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 4:12 AM, @Sanjiv Singh sanjiv.is...@gmail.comwrote: ya , working with GoOgLe , is my dream jobi greedy to

Re: [gcj] Using a slightly modified version of a programming language

2010-04-23 Thread Felipe Sodré Silva
On an extended question: Can I use a programming language totally made by me as long as I put it for free use on a website ? On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 6:18 AM, Luke Pebody luke.peb...@gmail.com wrote: I like this! On 23 Apr 2010, at 01:07, Martín Fixman martinfix...@gmail.com wrote: I plan

Re: [gcj] Previous contests

2010-05-06 Thread Felipe Sodré Silva
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Gökhan Çetin gkhnce...@gmail.com wrote: Better not to practice and see what you can do in real. I won't practice any old contests. Think its worth trying . So if I practice, won't my results be real? I hope Google will never know that I've cheated a lot last

Re: [gcj] Previous contests

2010-05-07 Thread Felipe Sodré Silva
No. You can write a program as if you were going to do the input through keyboard, and then set the input file as the standard input. The following works on linux and windows: int main(void){ int c; cin c; cout (c+1) endl; } The program above uses cin, which is the stream reader for the

Re: [gcj] Doubt regarding the penalty time

2010-05-07 Thread Felipe Sodré Silva
Folks, most of your questions are answered here: http://code.google.com/codejam/rules.html Regards On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Mathias Grimm mathiasgr...@gmail.comwrote: output data can be a zip file? On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Sakthi Priyan sakthiprofessio...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [gcj] Re: Difficult!

2010-05-08 Thread Felipe Sodré Silva
2010/5/8 Jürgen Erhard jurgen.erh...@gmail.com On May 9, 2:13 am, Felipe Sodré Silva fso...@gmail.com wrote: For large: LOLCAT Actually, it's LOLCODE. Oops, somehow lolcats came to my mind when I wrote this :) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: [gcj] Is Qt a valid platform to be used in codejam

2010-05-08 Thread Felipe Sodré Silva
Qt has some classes that may be useful for solving geometry or string processing (regular expressions) problems. Another library that may be a lot useful for C++ programmers is Boost. On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 11:07 PM, shravan kumar shravann1...@gmail.comwrote: Why do you want to use Qt unless

Re: [gcj] Is Qt a valid platform to be used in codejam

2010-05-09 Thread Felipe Sodré Silva
, Mathias Grimm mathiasgr...@gmail.comwrote: in general case, just a pair of arrays will be suficient. On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 11:19 PM, Felipe Sodré Silva fso...@gmail.comwrote: Qt has some classes that may be useful for solving geometry or string processing (regular expressions) problems

Re: [gcj] Re: next jam

2010-05-09 Thread Felipe Sodré Silva
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 1:43 AM, Carlos Guia zyx3d...@gmail.com wrote: They also have a yearly big contest, www.topcoder.com/tco10, the next qualification round is this Wednesday if I remember correctly. If I am not mistaken, the registration period has ended for tco10. But the advice is

Re: [gcj] Mathematics

2010-05-09 Thread Felipe Sodré Silva
There is not A BOOK of Mathematics. But if you want a good one to help on algorithm design, I'd recommend *Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science, by Knuth et al.* On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Mathias Grimm mathiasgr...@gmail.comwrote: Mathematics is base for all

Re: [gcj] Re: next jam

2010-05-09 Thread Felipe Sodré Silva
maratona.ime.usp.br On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Rahul Gulati (Phoenix) rahul.neot...@gmail.com wrote: @ Felipe Is the competition for international teams as well? If so, could you please post a link related with the competition. On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 7:41 PM, Felipe Sodré Silva fso

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

2010-05-09 Thread Felipe Sodré Silva
http://code.google.com/codejam/contest/dashboard?c=433101#s=aa=2 On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 4:09 PM, Chethan B chethu1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, My source code for Problem C in qualification round GCJ 2010 is rejected for some unknown reason! At the time of submission i got submission successful

Re: [gcj] C/C++ Theme Park - Best Solution for large output

2010-05-09 Thread Felipe Sodré Silva
http://code.google.com/codejam/contest/dashboard?c=433101#s=aa=2 On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Pakku lingada...@gmail.com wrote: Guys, I am wondering what all optimization we can really do. Though, in the qualification, for the theme park problem, i could not solve the large input

Re: [gcj] Debugger

2010-05-11 Thread Felipe Sodré Silva
On an unknown segmentation fault, doing binary search with printfs is almost always enough :) On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 7:42 PM, Lev Neiman lev.nei...@gmail.com wrote: printing variables to standard output should be enough for algorithmic competitions. The solutions are always small (or

Re: [gcj] Re: confirmation mail

2010-05-12 Thread Felipe Sodré Silva
If you are using a standard library, you only need to put an URL in the comments inside your code. If you are using your own, you need to submit it as well. In this case, you cannot only make it available in a website and put a URL in your code, because this way one could write the library after

Re: [gcj] Marek's score

2010-05-16 Thread Felipe Sodré Silva
invalidated would be marked as wrong try, maybe he just wanted to watch people discuss about it =P On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Felipe Sodré Silva fso...@gmail.comwrote: Maybe one of his small inputs was invalidated after the contest ? On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Leopoldo Taravilse

Re: [gcj] How is the rank decided?

2010-05-17 Thread Felipe Sodré Silva
Of course, but Paul's point is that once you have an algorithm that is fast enough for running under 4 minutes, it's not worth wasting time trying to figure out a faster one. On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 8:53 AM, Dhruva Sagar dhruva.sa...@gmail.comwrote: Well the more efficient your algorithm, the

Re: [gcj] Re: your experience as a coder

2010-05-18 Thread Felipe Sodré Silva
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 10:56 AM, Gustavo Pacianotto Gouveia gustavo.paciano...@gmail.com wrote: here in brazil we doesn't have programming languages before graduation, only excel, Corel, Photoshop, power point ¬¬ It depends on the school. I had programming lessons (although I had learned

Re: [gcj] Round 1A - Problem B | Testcase clarification required

2010-05-21 Thread Felipe Sodré Silva
No. You are trying to make all numbers to have the same value, but you can't do that by just adding nem numbers. You'd need to remove two of them for that, so the answer would be 2. On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 12:43 AM, Qasim Zeeshan newbillga...@gmail.comwrote: What would be output against this

Re: [gcj] Way to get GCJ 2010 T-shirts

2010-06-09 Thread Felipe Sodré Silva
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Rajesh Nair rajesh.nair...@gmail.comwrote: now what could be more important than GCJR3? And a VERY IMPORTANT schedule on saturday night? Maybe he is getting married and the ceremony place has no wifi connection. -- You received this message because you are