Bert Sarens · Jan 17, 2019 go to post

When will you be presenting your extension?

Will it be on the usergroup, or after the event?

Bert Sarens · Jan 17, 2019 go to post

When will you be presenting your extension?

Will it be on the usergroup, or after the event?

Bert Sarens · Dec 15, 2018 go to post

Wow day 15 took time but was a lot of fun:

I allmost made the leadeboard today: 

15   02:27:08    159      0   02:39:24    132      0
Bert Sarens · Dec 9, 2018 go to post

Maybe we should even start the competition from the day where we are working on the new way.

Bert Sarens · Dec 9, 2018 go to post

What I have seen happen a few times allready is that people from our leaderboard just copy the solution from another person in another language and submit the results without having done any coding at all. 

For example day 7 
last solution to fill top 100: 00:30:52

fastest solution part1:    00:09:27
fastest solution part2(after doing part1): 00:03:34

Someone on our leaderboard got this:
solution part1: 00:39:16
solution part2: 00:00:13

He did the second part in 13 seconds while the fastest person on the leaderboard took 3 minutes and half to do it. The second solution took quite a bit of programming and the 100th player to finish star 2 needed allmost 10 minutes. Someone on our leaderboard: 13 seconds.

This means he just copied a solution from another player, put in answer 1, after that was accepted he inserted answer 2 and submitted again.

Clearly because a big price is involved people resort to playing unfairly.

I only see 2 ways to fix this:
- Remove players who have been caught cheating
- Let all people post their public repository on here and after each star rerquire them to push their solution to that repository.

This doesnt stop people from copying from other players in our competition but at least forces people to use Caché. Blantant copying will still be spotted because the code will resemble another competitors code. Also this will make it so that a copying person cant win the day anymore cause he will have to wait for at least one other caché player before he can start copying.

What are your thoughts on this?
 

Bert Sarens · Dec 26, 2017 go to post

Working with docker.
A set of macros ready to go. I like your style. I think I will follow your example next year.

Bert Sarens · Dec 26, 2017 go to post

I will probably finish the one from 2016. have 4 days to do that I never finished. After I will be able to relax and for next year I am going to prepare with macros and code snippets.

Bert Sarens · Dec 25, 2017 go to post

It is done. I will finally be able to sleep a bit more again.
Thank you all for making it a great race. I had lots of fun.

Bert Sarens · Dec 24, 2017 go to post

I made the leaderboard today!!!!

Am insanely happy although it was only place 98: 

24   00:18:19   118      0   00:20:52    98      3
Bert Sarens · Dec 23, 2017 go to post

Wow. Day 23.

Hardest one for me so far. By the time I found out what the inner loops did I was about to give up. Such a simple optimisation as well.

Bert Sarens · Dec 22, 2017 go to post

That means you probably used the best method to solve this problem. That method is not writing bugs. It helps a lot.

Bert Sarens · Dec 19, 2017 go to post

It could work but for posts with 2 pages it still doesnt really solve the problem cause you have to scroll down to find out there is a 2nd page.

Bert Sarens · Dec 19, 2017 go to post

Well I did the same as Ivo, just kept running the 2 jobs in the same loop.
I think you can trade info with globals as well.

Bert Sarens · Dec 16, 2017 go to post

The breaks are hard to deal with indeed. I have 1h tops and then I have to take care of the kids. After that I have to hope that I find some time at work.

Bert Sarens · Dec 16, 2017 go to post

I was 11 seconds faster on part 2 then you today dmitry. That was close.
I think I could have been faster if I didnt brute force it. Once you get a cycle I guess you can calculate where you should end up. I just did all 1B iterations :p

Bert Sarens · Dec 15, 2017 go to post

My best result for the leaderboard was today:

Day       Time  Rank  Score       Time  Rank  Score
 15   00:10:36   312      0   00:13:22   198      0

And t hat means I am still only top 200. I was 4 minutes to slow.
How close have you guys come to top 100?

EDIT: I could have been 1 minute faster btw if I didnt submit the result of the test case as the first result. Waiting one minute doing nothing sucks.

Bert Sarens · Dec 13, 2017 go to post

Jozef, Have you allready joined our intersytems private leaderboard? the code is: 130669-ab1f69bf

(you can join multiple btw if you are allready in a leaderboard)

Bert Sarens · Dec 12, 2017 go to post

Can the community code itself be added to repository?
I sometimes have the feeling that pages are very slow and I want to contribute ^^

Bert Sarens · Dec 9, 2017 go to post

That is fine for me.

The only thing that we will miss a bit is the dirty code in case you clean in it up. But I can live with that. 
I learned a lot by watching the other repositories :)

Bert Sarens · Dec 8, 2017 go to post

Can you make it a requirement to share your code?

That way, we can learn something from other people and how they solve things.