Monday, January 25, 2021

Friendly-contest: we have a winner!

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 Since my last post, no new issue has been filed. As the deadline has passed (8 am, AST), I have written a short program to randomly draw a ...
Sunday, January 24, 2021

Friendly-contest: 20 hours left

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There is only 20 hours left in the Friendly-traceback contest: write bad code to win a prize . After a slow start, there has been quite a fe...
Saturday, January 23, 2021

Friendly contest: two days left after a surge of submissions

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This is just a quick update. Yesterday, the number of valid entries jumped from 9 to 23. Many of them have given me ideas on how to make Fri...
Friday, January 22, 2021

Contest: 3 submitters, 3x3 entries, 3 days left

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 The contest I announced for Friendly-traceback has resulted in a total of  nine entries so far from three different programmers.  Two of...
Monday, January 18, 2021

Don't you want to win a free book?

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 At the end of Day 2 of the contest , still only one entry. If this keeps up, by next Monday there will not be a draw for a prize, and we wi...
Sunday, January 17, 2021

Friendly contest: the race is on

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tl; dr: Python was wrong ;-) After one day, I've had one valid entry submitted to the contest I announced yesterday ; I've also had ...
Saturday, January 16, 2021

Write bad code to win a prize

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  Summary Get a chance of winning a prize by writing code with ONE error that Friendly-traceback cannot properly analyze, in one of three c...