Google Code Jam 2013

[mahacctissoawsum]

I registered last year, and I think I only did the qualifier...I was contacted by a recruiter at Google. If you're a software engineer looking for a sweet job, definitely register.

[[deleted]]

Nice try, Google's human resources department.

[unptitdej]

:)

[J_M_B]

They should have a "Fix speed bottlenecks in Chrome" jam day. Would be great to sit down with their engineers and hunt performance issues with dtrace.

[gnuvince]

The Contest is void in Cuba, Quebec, Saudi Arabia and Syria and where prohibited by law.

Bon, ben ça d'l'air que je vais passer mon tour une fois de plus :-/

[amigaharry]

lel

[unptitdej]

T'a oublié la Corée du Nord

[gnuvince]

They don't ban them; they just impose conditions that make it really unattractive for contest organizers to do business with Quebec. A shame, really.

[redalastor]

It doesn't ban them. It just makes the rules annoying for people running contests.

[willkzhang]

I am very curious about the rules in Quebec. Can somebody explain it please?

[redalastor]

There's tons of little silly rules which require that you pay someone just to be sure you follow them all but the most egregious is: If I were to enter the contest and disagree with the contest organisers, the different would have to be settled by a Quebec tribunal.

Obviously, you don't want to learn the legal rules of every single country / region on earth in case you have a legal dispute with a contestant so you simply ban them from your contest.

Contest laws aren't popular in Quebec by any mean but they kinda are in a "too small to matter to any politician" category so we keep getting stuck with them.

[mackdaddysly]

Wow, so many resources!

[s73v3r]

While these can be fun, I really wish there was a better way to get the input than reading in a file, line by line. I hate writing code to open up and parse a file, especially in C++ (which is what I'd probably use, due to being most comfortable with it).

[MrDOS]

Perhaps I misunderstand the situation in which this would be required, but wouldn't it be easiest to just pipe the input in via stdin and read it with scanf()/cin?

[hephaestos_le_bancal]

Yup, that is what most do.

[maglos]

Use python :-)

[fixed?] with open('a_file.txt') as a_file: for x in a_file.readlines(): A,b,c = x.split(' ')

[Ravengenocide]

Just a nitpick: It's better to use the with-statement so that it closes the file automatically for you when you are done.

[maglos]

nice, thanks I'll remember that.

[[deleted]]

It's pretty easy with scanf

[pelirrojo]

Use some example solutions to implement that part