2 4 8 16 32 64...
Storybytes, an ordered archive of nanofiction. It's been done before, by syllables (
17), by the masters (
Classic Short Stories), and by comedians (
Book-a-Minute). But in a dense natural language, with a high meaning-per-word, perhaps bytes would value infodensity more objectively:
256b,
1k,
4Kb. But then again, isn't a
spec as much of a cop out as a rigged dictionary? Perhaps the highest infodensities are achieved by works which will have
no human readers.
posted by hoverboards don't work on water
on Feb 14, 2006 -
8 comments
Project Euler is a running contest of programming challenges to hone your algorithm skills.
"Each problem is designed according to a 'one-minute rule', which means that although it may take several hours to design a successful algorithm with more difficult problems, an efficient implementation will allow a solution to be obtained on a modestly powered computer in less than one minute."
posted by Wolfdog
on Aug 20, 2005 -
11 comments
The Dark Side of Google? Google's
first annual programming contest was a shrewd way to encourage Java and Python programmers. But this may be shrewder than the programmers who entered the contest realized.
David Egnor may have nabbed a cool $10,000 as the contest winner, but for all the other entries, Google nabbed "worldwide, perpetual, fully paid-up, nonexclusive" rights.
posted by ed
on May 31, 2002 -
14 comments
Call it the 0.5k. Like a certain widely-heralded
Web design contest, the Minigame competition pits clever programmers against each other to see who can do the most with the least. But instead of Web pages, these competitors create games for obsolete 8-bit computers (Atari, Commodore, etc.) in two weight classes: 2K and 512 bytes (!).
posted by jjg
on Oct 18, 2001 -
5 comments
