[gcj] command line tool gives error?

2015-05-30 Thread Vexorian
NetworkError: HTTP error while logging into the Google Code Jam server (404): Not Found This is new. It was working fine in round 1B. -- 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

[gcj] Re: command line tool gives error?

2015-05-30 Thread Vexorian
https://developers.google.com/api-client-library/java/google-api-java-client/client-login So they'll have to migrate the tool to OAuth 2.0 On Saturday, May 30, 2015 at 8:18:28 AM UTC-4, Vexorian wrote: NetworkError: HTTP error while logging into the Google Code Jam server (404): Not Found

Re: [gcj] Qualification Round Contest Analysis

2014-04-26 Thread Vexorian
Such a post is just unfair towards the organizers. They organize a competition. They do not organize a course. As a competition, codejam is really a waste of time. It is totally exclusive, top 25 advance? That's basically no one. 500 t-shirts? Also a very small proportion and AFAIK t-shirts

Re: [gcj] Code of conduct

2014-03-29 Thread Vexorian
On Thursday, March 27, 2014 10:52:37 AM UTC-4, Paul Smith wrote: Yes, I think if you could be specific about what you expect to see in the terms and conditions then that would help. https://code.google.com/codejam/terms.html Paul Smith pa...@pollyandpaul.co.uk On Thu, Mar

Re: [gcj] Code of conduct

2014-03-26 Thread Vexorian
I guess that's a no then, okay. It has been nice participating in the google code jams. Can't say I will ever wear those t-shirts with pride again though. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google Code Jam group. To unsubscribe from this group and

Re: [gcj] Code of conduct

2014-02-28 Thread Vexorian
I just think competitive programming would be more inclusive if we embraced codes of conduct: http://adainitiative.org/2014/02/howto-design-a-code-of-conduct-for-your-community/ It is your choice as organizers. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

[gcj] Code of conduct

2014-02-26 Thread Vexorian
I've been wondering if the on site finals have or will have a Code of Conduct. I may have made a CoC Pledge the other week, so it would be improtant for me to know if I am going to participate in this tournament this year :) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

[gcj] Re: Next time offer t-shirts to top 999 and everyone tied with 1000-th place.

2013-07-15 Thread Vexorian
Our greatest disagreement is related to the Only part. 1000 vs. 70 is 7%. -- 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

Re: [gcj] Re: Next time offer t-shirts to top 999 and everyone tied with 1000-th place.

2013-06-04 Thread Vexorian
that the day I win it, it is me making it to the exclusive club, instead of shirt valuing down for me ;). On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 5:07 PM, Alex Essilfie fal...@gmail.com wrote: I think this is a good idea. Vexorian wrote: Just saying' :) -- You received this message

Re: [gcj] Re: Next time offer t-shirts to top 999 and everyone tied with 1000-th place.

2013-06-04 Thread Vexorian
It is not about getting the same score, but about how well the score tiers differentiate between advancing/winning ranks. Also, there weren't really 81 possible scores in this round because only one person solved D. D could have balanced things out. If we go by 1000/81 = 37. There was quite a

Re: [gcj] Re: Next time offer t-shirts to top 999 and everyone tied with 1000-th place.

2013-06-02 Thread Vexorian
I meant with score equal to the 1000-th place's. -- 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 google-code+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this

[gcj] Next time offer t-shirts to top 999 and everyone tied with 1000-th place.

2013-06-01 Thread Vexorian
Just saying' :) -- 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 google-code+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to

Re: [gcj] Re: Violations observed

2013-05-13 Thread Vexorian
On Saturday, May 4, 2013 11:48:17 PM UTC-4, CoderBaba wrote: Well contrary to what Bartholomew Furrow said I think the violators should have been disqualified from Qualification round. In that case these emails would not have come in one after another. At the end though, there are no limited

[gcj] Re: Is participating in code jam helpful to find job in google?

2013-05-12 Thread Vexorian
Participation in contests even if it is not great seems to increase your likely to get an interview. Even I was offered the chance to get interview thrice, but I chickened out, thrice. Of course, the ticket to interview is just that. You'll still have to do well in the interview and

Re: [gcj] Re: If you are using c++,can you expect to go to round 3 without using STL?

2013-05-11 Thread Vexorian
On Friday, May 10, 2013 8:31:11 AM UTC-4, Vaibhav Tulsyan wrote: What is the best place to learn STL from? Most websites/tutorials are really lame and I never learn much from them. Best way to learn the STL is to use it. Grab a tutorial about templates in c++ (so that you get to understand

[gcj] Re: If you are using c++,can you expect to go to round 3 without using STL?

2013-05-10 Thread Vexorian
On Friday, May 10, 2013 7:44:19 AM UTC-4, Adii wrote: Yes, but it is a very lame objective. Why not just use STL? It is very useful. -- 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

[gcj] Re: Better samples please

2013-05-04 Thread Vexorian
The small dataset should test if the coder didn't hard coded the solution. Among other things. -- 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

[gcj] Re: Best Language for code jam

2013-04-28 Thread Vexorian
Or is it? My C-small-2 solution has worse complexity than most others, I only passed because of my i5 processor, using 4 threads and sticking to C++ instead of another language. I think that if I used python, same solution with same complexity would need more than 4 minutes even with threads.

[gcj] Just in case (Codejam command line tool + 2 factor verification)

2013-04-12 Thread Vexorian
I was having issues logging in with the command line tool. Then I remembered that I use two-factor verification. The fix is to use the application-specific passwords from My Account. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google Code Jam group. To

[gcj] What's up with the t-shirt shipment method?

2012-08-16 Thread Vexorian
I usually receive t-shirts and what-not by mail or fedex, received 2 codejam shirts in the past. But this time I received a call from Fedex that I need to pay an import fee and register a importer's number and other non-sense. I'd like to know if this is some strange mistake by the fedex

[gcj] Re: When will the new t-shirt be shipped?

2012-06-04 Thread Vexorian
They wait till the tournament ends (on-site finals) before sending the t-shirts. El lunes, 4 de junio de 2012 15:02:36 UTC-4, Gordderp escribió: As the summer is coming, I'm really looking forward to that.. Thanks! Shawn -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

[gcj] Command line tool issues during qualification round

2012-04-15 Thread Vexorian
I had a couple of issues with the tool during the qualification. Wondering if it was just me or if anyone else experienced them. I was surprised it did not have any issue downloading and submitting problem A, as it has a different format and all that. When I tried to solve B, I was able to

[gcj] Re: Will GCJ be updated to the new google design guidelines?

2012-03-14 Thread Vexorian
Wow, so I am looking at the new google groups interface, and I feel compelled to ask the original question all over again. El martes 29 de noviembre de 2011 01:10:53 UTC-4, Vexorian escribió: So, inspired by the recent changes on google reader, I wonder if GCJ will also be updated

[gcj] Re: Will GCJ be updated to the new google design guidelines?

2011-12-05 Thread Vexorian
Your choice. On 30 nov, 00:26, Khalil khalil.saw...@gmail.com wrote: Sarcasm ? :) -- 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

[gcj] Will GCJ be updated to the new google design guidelines?

2011-11-28 Thread Vexorian
So, inspired by the recent changes on google reader, I wonder if GCJ will also be updated with the same intent. I am including some concepts of how the updated GCJ would look. https://picasaweb.google.com/vexorian/NewGCJ#5680277328523025954 https://picasaweb.google.com/vexorian/NewGCJ

[gcj] Re: Very minor piece of suggestion to GCJ Team..

2011-05-27 Thread Vexorian
For results with decimals it is easy enough to see the sample outputs that the format uses . and there is always a note about acceptable relative/absolute error (From which you can conclude not only that 0.5 is the same as 0.50 but also that 0.5 is the same as 0.501). On May 24, 1:52 am,

[gcj] Re: Very minor piece of suggestion to GCJ Team..

2011-05-27 Thread Vexorian
Forgot to mention, try uploading a file that says Case #1:NO in the practice room. The site will reject the solution saying that the file must start with Case #1: On May 27, 8:16 pm, Vexorian vexor...@gmail.com wrote: For results with decimals it is easy enough to see the sample outputs

[gcj] Re: A question about float number Binary Search (Revenge of the Hot Dogs).

2011-05-21 Thread Vexorian
When doing binary/ternary search for double I prefer to do this: hi = 1e100 lo = 0 for i = 0 to MAX_ITERATIONS --- ha = (hi+lo)/2 etc This way your loop is guaranteed to end after aconstant number of iterations. If you pick the constant well, you can also be sure about the error :

[gcj] Re: Preferable c++ compiler for codejam

2011-05-15 Thread Vexorian
The one that you best know how to use. If you really want a suggestion, g++ is fine, but there is nothing in codejam that makes you less able to use another compiler, as all code is run locally in your own computer. On May 15, 6:02 am, Ram ramss...@gmail.com wrote: Can any body tell me which is

[gcj] Re: fast and furious

2011-05-08 Thread Vexorian
But not all. Actually, you will normally spend more time reading at your solution than typing it. Macros are not often that necessary. I am fairy certain that the 128 minutes more minutes it took me to solve the problem I did not spend typing the solution. I guess that making your code

[gcj] Re: fast and furious

2011-05-08 Thread Vexorian
I am a decent programmer and when I started out I too was looking for those elusive tips and tricks that the top rated programmers know of. True, there are quite a few little things that would separate a good from an awesome programmer but none the less its all about practice. Just like

[gcj] Re: Codejam Registrants

2011-05-08 Thread Vexorian
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? On May 8, 3:41 pm, Bartholomew Furrow fur...@gmail.com wrote: Registration numbers are kind of

[gcj] Re: Any mail received after qualification round

2011-05-07 Thread Vexorian
The results are not official yet. The admins will try as hard as they can to find cheaters and people that didn't submit source codes correctly before sending emails. If you did not cheat and if your submitted source codes are correct, then you have advanced to round 1, but you won't get an email

[gcj] Re: your experience as a coder

2010-05-17 Thread Vexorian
I would say about a year of experience and ~2 years of messing around. On May 15, 11:01 am, just justforchitc...@ymail.com wrote: hey here let us know each other's experience as coder(in terms of months n years), just type in.. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

[gcj] Re: Debugger

2010-05-13 Thread Vexorian
I use valgrind in TC and other contests and also when coding games :/ to deal with segmentation fault and other bugs. I have never really needed step by step debugging over just printing the variables but maybe one day it will happen. On May 11, 4:50 pm, Lucas Thom thx...@gmail.com wrote: Yes

[gcj] Re: Languages used

2010-05-10 Thread Vexorian
I would prefer it if things that are EXCLUSIVE to windows/other non- free OS were banned but I guess they had to make an exception. I.e: VS- only submissions are untestable by me and I think that is a problem. VS express is not freely available, you need a whole windows license to run it. I can

[gcj] Re: New in GCJ

2010-04-23 Thread Vexorian
I disagree in something. I think that MS' IDEs have a lot of features that beginners won't ever get to use and would just distract them. I'd say something lighter like code::blocks will be more helpful to a beginner. In windows or Linux-based operating systems code::blocks can work easily and is

[gcj] Re: Code Jam at TopCoder

2010-04-20 Thread Vexorian
A large amount of those 1+ used C++, Java, python or C#, the languages offered in TC codejam. I don't think the other languages really increased participation that much. I just wish go-hero would have overall statistics because getting them individually for each round is not that useful in

[gcj] Re: Code Jam at TopCoder

2010-04-20 Thread Vexorian
, 7:03 am, Vexorian vexor...@gmail.com wrote: A large amount of those 1+ used C++, Java, python or C#, the languages offered in TC codejam. I don't think the other languages really increased participation that much. I just wish go-hero would have overall statistics because getting them

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

2010-01-08 Thread Vexorian
Onsite regionals were a little overrated. What we need is more spots for the finals 25 was too low. On Dec 20 2009, 2:57 am, arkar a.lamm...@gmail.com wrote: I would like to voice my support for having onsite regionals, too :) On Dec 17, 6:19 pm, Bartholomew Furrow fur...@gmail.com wrote:

[gcj] Re: Total flameout :(

2009-09-27 Thread Vexorian
I am generally bad at greedy problems so I knew problem A would cause me issues even though i thought of that solution. I decided to play it safe, first solved A-small using the bruteforce BFS method, then coded the greedy I couldn't prove and compared its output file with the one I already

[gcj] Re: T-Shirts for top 1000?

2009-09-27 Thread Vexorian
Most likely the t-shirt does not 'look like' yet. On Sep 27, 10:08 am, Felix Halim felix.ha...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone knows the T-Shirt look like? Is there any screenshot of it? Felix Halim --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are

[gcj] Re: T-Shirts for top 1000?

2009-09-26 Thread Vexorian
I vote for top 744 getting a T-shirt. On Sep 26, 3:11 pm, Lev green.entheo...@gmail.com wrote: Pretty please.  All I want is the T-Shirt :((( --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups google-codejam group. To

[gcj] Re: I'am 1004 in Round 1C :) Will I advance to Round2?

2009-09-13 Thread Vexorian
http://g.odessa.ua/topcoder/SimilarGCJ2009_R1C.html I'd say you better start to practicing for round 2 ^^. On Sep 13, 8:36 am, Vadim M dealan...@gmail.com wrote: I'am 1004 in Round 1C with 38 scores:) It is only possible way to advance in Round2 if 4 people will be disqualified. Do you think

[gcj] 'You have advanced but you didn't really advance yet'

2009-09-12 Thread Vexorian
Ok, let's stop to think of what would be the problem with allowing everyone -including round 1A top 1000- to compete in the remaining rounds. Dear vexorian, As one of the top 1000 contestants in Round 1A of Google Code Jam 2009, you have unofficially advanced to Round 2! An official

[gcj] Re: Hardware speed advantage

2009-09-12 Thread Vexorian
It seems like we have the same hardware? My Core 2 Duo is a 2.93 Ghz one overclocked to 3.3 Ghz. You should have tried to use two threads/ processes, it basically makes your algorithm take 3.5 minutes ^^. Yesterday I made a whole new c++ template that uses a messed up hack to split the i/o in two

[gcj] Re: Easiest Round?

2009-09-12 Thread Vexorian
Apparently the easiest round was 1A. With only 2000~ competitors getting a positive score, and people advancing by just doing a brute force algorithm for A. On Sep 9, 6:19 pm, Brian Watkins wildu...@gmail.com wrote: It looks like I've been assigned to all the rounds: 1A, 1B, and 1C. Maybe

[gcj] Re: Editorial?

2009-09-12 Thread Vexorian
hmnn about round 1A: A: Bruteforce/implementation, if you do some caching or if you do a precalculation, you can pass the large input as well. B: This was a nice problem in my opinion, unless the idea was done before in some other contest and that's the reason a lot of people thought it was

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

2009-09-12 Thread Vexorian
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... On Sep 12, 10:28 am, Bjoern bjoer...@googlemail.com wrote: My non-caching solution to problem A

[gcj] Re: 'You have advanced but you didn't really advance yet'

2009-09-12 Thread Vexorian
TAG's an admin? It's amazing that people still submitted duplicate source files in this round. I don't think fame or activity necessarily means you are honest :) On Sep 12, 10:31 am, Chauncey Chan chaunceyc...@gmail.com wrote: It sounds a little serious. Vexorian, congrats! Andriy, Thanks

[gcj] Re: 'You have advanced but you didn't really advance yet'

2009-09-12 Thread Vexorian
that problem's score so you can participate in the round 1B and/or 1C . On Sep 12, 10:36 am, Vexorian vexor...@gmail.com wrote: TAG's an admin? It's amazing that people still submitted duplicate source files in this round. I don't think fame or activity necessarily means you are honest

[gcj] Re: Flags

2009-09-12 Thread Vexorian
Perhaps it would be nice to have a country to represent flag. Though that threatens to fill codejam of Antarcticans. On Sep 12, 10:41 am, Carlos Guia zyx3d...@gmail.com wrote: They changed the shown flag from country of residence to country of citizenship I believe. It was requested on the

[gcj] Re: Ranked 1023... FML

2009-09-12 Thread Vexorian
Or , he could do round 1C. On Sep 12, 5:38 pm, serg tkser...@gmail.com wrote: you still have a chance to advance... if at least 23 person before you be disqualified ;-) Missed it by 23 spots =. I solved A-small and then began to solve A-large. I was using eval() in python to

[gcj] Re: next_permutation() in java

2009-09-12 Thread Vexorian
But hash tables are still a little messed up... On Sep 12, 7:13 pm, Adam Czachorowski gis...@utumno.pl wrote: Dnia niedziela 13 wrzesień 2009 o 01:09:27 Grant Kot napisał(a): there's a language that has that? anyway, wikipedia has sums everything up C++ STL has next_permutation() in

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

2009-09-09 Thread Vexorian
don't see your problem... On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Vexorian vexor...@gmail.com wrote: Considering the little time between rounds, shouldn't coders be allowed to participate in further rounds even if they advanced? It is unlikely we will have official results for 1A before

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

2009-09-09 Thread Vexorian
What if there's a rejudge for some outputs of 1A just after 1C finishes? On Sep 9, 10:24 am, Vexorian vexor...@gmail.com wrote: There's always the probability you would send an old version of the code, and when checking it after the round you don't notice it. On Sep 9, 9:53 am, Matteo

[gcj] GPU programming

2009-09-09 Thread Vexorian
Dear fellow codejammers, excuse the slightly OT question, but I have been wondering about GPU and the possible improvements it could have in these contests (or whether there would be an improvement or not). These questions are mostly because I do not understand things like CUDA or how the GPU

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

2009-09-09 Thread Vexorian
...@gmail.com wrote: The possibilities you are discussing were all possibilities back in   those grey old everybody-does-two subround days. This rule does not   seem to affect it. On 9 Sep 2009, at 15:26, Vexorian vexor...@gmail.com wrote: What if there's a rejudge for some outputs of 1A

[gcj] Re: favorite programming language?

2009-09-06 Thread vexorian
Note also that shorter code does not necessarily equal faster to code or easier to debug. On Sep 6, 12:27 pm, flaming flaminglaw...@gmail.com wrote: Note that Java is a very verbose language, like rem said. What you might do in 4 lines in Java might take you only 3 in Python or similar. Java

[gcj] Re: a simple c++ question

2009-09-05 Thread vexorian
Guía On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 12:57 AM, Aditya V Daga avd...@gmail.com wrote: We can also use char str[100]; scanf(%[^\n]s,str);getchar(); (getchar() used for eating '\n' charater) On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 1:20 AM, vexorian vexor...@gmail.com wrote: string x; getline(cin, x

[gcj] Re: how is everyone going on the qualification round

2009-09-05 Thread vexorian
I completely ignored the existence of regexes when solving it. It just seemed logical to just use bitmasks. I was surprised to see so many people using regexes later. A good C/C++ can use sscanf to the same effect as the regexes solutions. Though sscanf is a lost art that not a lot of people

[gcj] Suggestion for next year

2009-09-04 Thread Vexorian
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 well. If

[gcj] Re: Confirmation mail for Round 1 ?

2009-09-04 Thread vexorian
If your score in the qualification is greater than 33 and you don't get caught as cheating (unlikely) then you have advanced. There's most likely going to be a confirmation email once the results are official (again, they are not, google has to review the solutions and try to filter out cheaters

[gcj] Re: a simple c++ question

2009-09-04 Thread vexorian
string x; getline(cin, x); Also: char meh[100]; gets(meh); null terminated strings are a bad habit if you plan making apps with C+ + later . I think though that there is a safer version of gets that takes a limit for the number of characters... On Sep 3, 10:47 pm, 有D shiyo...@gmail.com

[gcj] Uh oh

2009-09-03 Thread Vexorian
Heya. Just some numbers: 7835 advancers. 2425 achieved perfect (99) score. 3888 solved at least 5 inputs correctly. Of them, only 3000 will advance to round 2. Expect round 1 to be lots of fun ^^ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are

[gcj] Re: Issue with time

2009-09-03 Thread vexorian
You can go to [update your profile] and change the times. You can change the time until September 5th. On Sep 2, 11:16 pm, Martín Fixman martinfix...@gmail.com wrote: I prefer to have the First round of CodeJam on Saturdays at 14:00 UTC, however I won't be a be to participate on September

[gcj] Re: query on qualification round

2009-09-02 Thread vexorian
Just notice that after you submit a large output, the site will not tell you whether it is right or not. The official result about the correctness of your large output won't be available until the qualification round ends. So, it is probably a good idea to try to solve the 3 questions just in

Practice contests / tournaments

2009-01-08 Thread Vexorian
Will we have any practice contests / tournaments this year? Thanks :) --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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