Comment On The Worse Than Failure Programming Contest

Tom Ritchford:

What a shame it requires Windows... after being a professional programmer for 25 years, I still don't own a Windows machine (and I've written hundreds of thousands of lines of C++ too...)

I don't exactly understand why you did this, either. Seems like there's absolutely no need for it as the code is pure C++. Care to explain?

Frustrated with our architecture:

Maybe I'm just blind, but I don't see anything about a deadline. When is the submission deadline for this contest?

Frustrated with our architecture:

Maybe I'm just blind, but I don't see anything about a deadline. When is the submission deadline for this contest?

Tom Ritchford:

What a shame it requires Windows... after being a professional programmer for 25 years, I still don't own a Windows machine (and I've written hundreds of thousands of lines of C++ too...)

I don't exactly understand why you did this, either. Seems like there's absolutely no need for it as the code is pure C++. Care to explain?

For the Linux folks out there, you may use the mostly equivalent GTK skeleton solution.

Volmarias:

This is gonna be a cheap idea, but...

You've posted the test cases, all of them. What's to prevent me from simply hardcoding the answers to those, and calling that my WTF and submitting?

Tom Ritchford:

What a shame it requires Windows... after being a professional programmer for 25 years, I still don't own a Windows machine (and I've written hundreds of thousands of lines of C++ too...)

I don't exactly understand why you did this, either. Seems like there's absolutely no need for it as the code is pure C++. Care to explain?

Otto:

Let me get this straight: one of the prizes is a Mac, but if you actually write code on Mac OS X then you can't enter the contest? Talk about a daily WTF!

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Marak:

Test cases.

What is up with the test cases? Is it still considered a valid entry if all those cases are hard coded into the application?

Please answer this! It is very important to how I will pick my design.

Volmarias:

This is gonna be a cheap idea, but...

You've posted the test cases, all of them. What's to prevent me from simply hardcoding the answers to those, and calling that my WTF and submitting?

a moron:

Um, isn't the mac now an extension of linux?

Shinobu:

The whole UI thing scares me away. I don't have Visual Studio and getting the skeleton to work in MINGW or coLinux is probably going to be too much of a bother. Besides, I'm coding some slightly iffy code to keep me amused already.

wk633:

Wouldn't it be cool to implement addition by creating a whole bunch of files, and then a whole bunch more, and then counting them? Ooh, I'm giving away my best ideas!

th0mas:

Can our entry use a database, like mysql for example?

Zylon:

WTF.

Tom Ritchford:

What a shame it requires Windows... after being a professional programmer for 25 years, I still don't own a Windows machine (and I've written hundreds of thousands of lines of C++ too...)

I don't exactly understand why you did this, either. Seems like there's absolutely no need for it as the code is pure C++. Care to explain?

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(1) the symbol of the International Olympic Committee, consisting of 5 interlocking rings;

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(3) any trademark, trade name, sign, symbol, or insignia falsely representing association with, or authorization by, the International Olympic Committee or the Corporation; or

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The Corporation shall have exclusive right to use the name "United States Olympic Committee"; the symbol described in subsection (a)(1) of this section; the emblem described in subsection (a)(2) of this section; and the words "Olympic", "Olympiad", "Citius Altius Fortius" or any combination thereof subject to the preexisting rights described in subsection (a) of this section.

Chris:

Will my new laptop come with award winning calculator software pre-installed?

Search used to be horrible in Outlook. It was so bad that for all intents and purposes, you couldn't search your old email. Instead, you were encouraged to carefully sort it out into a hierarchy of folders (shudder).

Sarni:

A GUI is required? Fuck, fuck, fuck. Who the fuck needs a GUI? And then fucking C/C++? I think I'll pass.

JOHN:

2,450 emails in my inbox right now