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uman · Jun 3rd, 2005, 5:45 PM

You don't have to make a GUI for this, CLI is fine. A GUI will win you big points on usability and features, but it's certainly bad for exe size and probably bad for efficiency.

tempest · Jun 4th, 2005, 1:21 AM

I'll do it...

Nuticulus · Jun 4th, 2005, 6:24 AM

This sounds like a bit of a waste of time. If you win, you get to spend more of your time judging more work! Yay! If you don't, you just spent your weekend writing something that's no use to you and doesn't cut it. Hooray! Alright, admittedly, some coding might be fun, but you might as well use your time constructively.

We ought to have some kind of competition that merely encourages a weekend of creative, useful coding. For example, google's summer of code encourages this -- but we can't exactly offer cash prizes. I figure we should either make the challenge smaller, cuter and funnier, or broaden up the task. Entries could be judged upon code quality, style and efficiency, although harder to judge as a whole.

uman · Jun 4th, 2005, 1:53 PM

Nuticulus, you're welcome to open up your own challenge and run it parallel to mine. This has no official blessing from anyone, just something I decided to do.

uman · Jun 5th, 2005, 10:53 PM

You each have about seven and a half minutes to submit your entries...

uman · Jun 5th, 2005, 11:01 PM

You all lose, thanks for playing. I figured with the big interest in a weekend challenge, that someone would actually participate in it. I guess not.

Infinite Recursion · Jun 5th, 2005, 11:45 PM

no one worked on it? damnnn... that sucks.
i personally didn't participate, because I was out of town.

EverLearning · Jun 5th, 2005, 11:58 PM

@uman and his challenge: re-inventing the wheel? nice time-waister! use WebCT-Vista

uman · Jun 6th, 2005, 12:03 AM

Tempest has some new one up, that's more open ended. I might give it a shot.

Infinite Recursion · Jun 6th, 2005, 12:05 AM

It would probably have gotten more attention if it was more practical... and didn't remind us of our old college assignments... lol

Jun 4th, 2005, 1:21 AM	#12
tempest Programming Guru Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 1,041 Rep Power: 5	I'll do it... __________________

Jun 4th, 2005, 6:24 AM	#13
Nuticulus Programmer Join Date: May 2005 Location: England Posts: 61 Rep Power: 4	This sounds like a bit of a waste of time. If you win, you get to spend more of your time judging more work! Yay! If you don't, you just spent your weekend writing something that's no use to you and doesn't cut it. Hooray! Alright, admittedly, some coding might be fun, but you might as well use your time constructively. We ought to have some kind of competition that merely encourages a weekend of creative, useful coding. For example, google's summer of code encourages this -- but we can't exactly offer cash prizes. I figure we should either make the challenge smaller, cuter and funnier, or broaden up the task. Entries could be judged upon code quality, style and efficiency, although harder to judge as a whole. __________________ http://www.nuticulus.net/hackmysig/sig.PNG Give my site a chance, you know you want to ;-) Google will solve 99% of your problems. Including those with your sex life. Caution, may <strike>contain</strike> be nuts.

Jun 5th, 2005, 11:45 PM	#17
Infinite Recursion Programming Guru Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: United States Posts: 3,467 Rep Power: 8	no one worked on it? damnnn... that sucks. i personally didn't participate, because I was out of town. __________________ http://jasonpowers.net "There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root."

Jun 5th, 2005, 11:58 PM	#18
EverLearning Hobbyist Programmer Join Date: May 2005 Location: Indiana Posts: 130 Rep Power: 4	@uman and his challenge: re-inventing the wheel? nice time-waister! use WebCT-Vista __________________ got math? yumm... "All men by nature desire to know" -Aristotle, Metaphysics

Jun 6th, 2005, 12:05 AM	#20
Infinite Recursion Programming Guru Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: United States Posts: 3,467 Rep Power: 8	It would probably have gotten more attention if it was more practical... and didn't remind us of our old college assignments... lol __________________ http://jasonpowers.net "There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root."

Jun 3rd, 2005, 5:45 PM	#11
uman Expert Programmer Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 794 Rep Power: 4	You don't have to make a GUI for this, CLI is fine. A GUI will win you big points on usability and features, but it's certainly bad for exe size and probably bad for efficiency.

Jun 4th, 2005, 1:53 PM	#14
uman Expert Programmer Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 794 Rep Power: 4	Nuticulus, you're welcome to open up your own challenge and run it parallel to mine. This has no official blessing from anyone, just something I decided to do.

Jun 5th, 2005, 10:53 PM	#15
uman Expert Programmer Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 794 Rep Power: 4	You each have about seven and a half minutes to submit your entries...

Jun 5th, 2005, 11:01 PM	#16
uman Expert Programmer Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 794 Rep Power: 4	You all lose, thanks for playing. I figured with the big interest in a weekend challenge, that someone would actually participate in it. I guess not.

Jun 6th, 2005, 12:03 AM	#19
uman Expert Programmer Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 794 Rep Power: 4	Tempest has some new one up, that's more open ended. I might give it a shot.

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