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Gild to donate $5 to EFF fo each coder that solves our programming puzzle

by federicof on 12/27/11, 7:06 PM with 10 comments

• by jc4p on 12/27/11, 11:00 PM

  Clever idea to generate buzz while making an impact.

  Edit, took a shot at it:

  Is there something wrong with how you're running the scripts? My Python script seems to die saying:

      No such file or directory: '/opt/puzzles/*.in'
  

  But your example on how you're going to run it on the bottom says you will specify an actual file rather than a wildcard. Running it locally on my machine on all your tests results in this:

      $ python test.py d.in > d_me.out
      $ md5 d.out 
      MD5 (d.out) = c6dc722a7020baacebd876d4377065ad
      $ md5 d_me.out
      MD5 (d_me.out) = c6dc722a7020baacebd876d4377065ad
  

  So I doubt it's a silent failure in my code.

• by davidw on 12/27/11, 10:59 PM

  How long does it take? I earn an hourly rate such that $5 is not a lot of my time - perhaps it'd be more efficient simply to send them $5.

• by TwistedLogic on 12/28/11, 1:05 PM

  I solved the puzzle :) $5 to EFF for my solution