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Last post 06-13-2007 5:56 PM by Matt Nordhofff. 54 replies.
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  • 05-27-2007 12:37 AM

    Testing out other people's entries

    Who else has already started playing around with everyone's entries?
    Download my OMGWTF entry, Romanorum Computus
  • 05-27-2007 5:29 AM In reply to

    • wacco
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    Re: Testing out other people's entries

    That'd be no-one, since they're not online yet. Or did I miss something?
  • 05-27-2007 5:40 AM In reply to

    Re: Testing out other people's entries

    wacco:
    That'd be no-one, since they're not online yet. Or did I miss something?

    I doubt many people have been lucky and/or l33t ski11d enough to work it out, but they can all currently be downloaded. I'll let people have some more time to work it out for themselves before I post it though (unless someone asks nicely). If you don't believe me, post your entry's id number and I'll have a look and see if I can't prove it :D
     

     

    PS: I had dumb luck, not ski11z
     

    Download my OMGWTF entry, Romanorum Computus
  • 05-27-2007 5:48 AM In reply to

    • wacco
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    Re: Testing out other people's entries

    Einsidler:

    wacco:
    That'd be no-one, since they're not online yet. Or did I miss something?

    I doubt many people have been lucky and/or l33t ski11d enough to work it out, but they can all currently be downloaded. I'll let people have some more time to work it out for themselves before I post it though (unless someone asks nicely). If you don't believe me, post your entry's id number and I'll have a look and see if I can't prove it :D
     

     

    PS: I had dumb luck, not ski11z
     


    Ah, you have to do some effort to see them. In that case, you're probably the only one. Still, if you feel like gloating; #100239 ;)
  • 05-27-2007 6:18 AM In reply to

    Re: Testing out other people's entries

    wacco:
    Einsidler:

    wacco:
    That'd be no-one, since they're not online yet. Or did I miss something?

    I doubt many people have been lucky and/or l33t ski11d enough to work it out, but they can all currently be downloaded. I'll let people have some more time to work it out for themselves before I post it though (unless someone asks nicely). If you don't believe me, post your entry's id number and I'll have a look and see if I can't prove it :D

     

    PS: I had dumb luck, not ski11z


    Ah, you have to do some effort to see them. In that case, you're probably the only one. Still, if you feel like gloating; #100239 ;)

    Love your model.c:
    /* I honestly don't know what to do here.
     */

     ;D
     

    Like I said, dumb luck is really what led me to the url for the entries, there's probably plenty of others that had more than 500 characters in their descriptions...

    Download my OMGWTF entry, Romanorum Computus
  • 05-27-2007 7:42 AM In reply to

    Re: Testing out other people's entries

    OK, I'll bite. Can you please tell me how you download entries?

  • 05-27-2007 8:11 AM In reply to

    Re: Testing out other people's entries

    Welbog:

    OK, I'll bite. Can you please tell me how you download entries?

    They can be downloaded from http://omg.worsethanfailure.com/Entries/DownloadEntry.ashx?id=foobar, eg mine is this. I had to use Save target as... though, because firefox just displayed them as text. After downloading it just a matter of renaming to 189.zip, 069.tar.gz etc and unzipping.

    I used this javascript to give me a list of them all ready for downloading:


    for (i = 1; i <= 352; i++)
    {
        document.write ('<a href="http://omg.worsethanfailure.com/Entries/DownloadEntry.ashx?id=100' + (i < 10 ? '00' : (i < 100 ? '0' : '')) + i + '">' + i + '</a><br>');
    }

     

    I guess this is just one more WTF of OMGWTF 

    Download my OMGWTF entry, Romanorum Computus
  • 05-27-2007 8:29 AM In reply to

    Re: Testing out other people's entries

    Einsidler:

    I used this javascript to give me a list of them all ready for downloading:


    for (i = 1; i <= 352; i++)
    {
        document.write ('<a href="http://omg.worsethanfailure.com/Entries/DownloadEntry.ashx?id=100' + (i < 10 ? '00' : (i < 100 ? '0' : '')) + i + '">' + i + '</a><br>');
    }
     

    Good grief. This bizarre notion of 'automation' is a WTF in its own right. I can just imagine a government operation employing somebody to sit and click on each of these and download them.

    for i in `seq -w 1 352`; do wget -O $i "http://omg.worsethanfailure.com/Entries/DownloadEntry.ashx?id=100$i"; done


     

  • 05-27-2007 8:51 AM In reply to

    Re: Testing out other people's entries

    asuffield:
    Einsidler:

    I used this javascript to give me a list of them all ready for downloading:


    for (i = 1; i <= 352; i++)
    {
        document.write ('<a href="http://omg.worsethanfailure.com/Entries/DownloadEntry.ashx?id=100' + (i < 10 ? '00' : (i < 100 ? '0' : '')) + i + '">' + i + '</a><br>');
    }
     

    Good grief. This bizarre notion of 'automation' is a WTF in its own right. I can just imagine a government operation employing somebody to sit and click on each of these and download them.

    for i in `seq -w 1 352`; do wget -O $i "http://omg.worsethanfailure.com/Entries/DownloadEntry.ashx?id=100$i"; done


     

    Well that doesn't work on windows, and it doesn't seem to take into account that 100001 isn't 1001 (though it might, i don't know shell scripts). The main reason I did this is because of the problem saving them in firefox, this let me use Save link as... without my old method of: Create new thread, make link to entry, preview entry, right-click, print, lay on wooden table, take photograph, scan in, OCR into a text file, save as zip

    Download my OMGWTF entry, Romanorum Computus
  • 05-27-2007 10:07 AM In reply to

    Re: Testing out other people's entries

    Einsidler:

    Well that doesn't work on windows

    Then it's a good example of why windows wastes your time. And anyway, cygwin. 

    and it doesn't seem to take into account that 100001 isn't 1001 (though it might, i don't know shell scripts)

    It does.

  • 05-27-2007 11:13 AM In reply to

    • wacco
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    Re: Testing out other people's entries

    Einsidler:

    Love your model.c:
    /* I honestly don't know what to do here.
     */

     ;D
     

    Like I said, dumb luck is really what led me to the url for the entries, there's probably plenty of others that had more than 500 characters in their descriptions...


    Well yeah, I mean, I had a controller and a view, so I just had to have a model, right? 8)

    Nice find about the links, but I'll wait untill the jury is out on what the best ones are. I'm not that enthousiastic about looking at 352 entries. And for the ones that I did randomly opened, they all had hardcoded testcases in them. Not that much originality there...
  • 05-27-2007 2:17 PM In reply to

    Re: Testing out other people's entries

    I just got them all and am feeling a bit guilty for possibly overloading the server. Not too guilty; after all, one of them is mine, and there are only 352 of us. I wonder if I should make a torrent out of it and post it on piratebay as a really expensive business calculator suite ;) Then , just for laughs, we can count how many PHBs decide to roll it out companywide...
  • 05-27-2007 4:43 PM In reply to

    • IMil
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    Re: Testing out other people's entries

    I, too, couldn't hold myself from downloading it all. I promise to click on some of Google ads in return for all the bandwidth. The simple wget solution didn't work for me because of all people who decided to include .ncb files in archives. Should've been prohibited by the rules, that. Luckily, I had a ruby script that downloads all xkcd pictures, it was easy enough to retarget at the contest entries... welcome back, #175! missed you.

    So far, I've just looked at some of the descriptions. #308 with its calculating filesystem looks simply great! A bluescreen in response to the invalid input - what can be better?


     

  • 05-27-2007 7:01 PM In reply to

    • Xeron
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    Re: Testing out other people's entries

    Well, I tried to get them, but attempting to download any of them seems to send Firefox into an infinite redirect loop for me.. :-(
  • 05-28-2007 12:37 AM In reply to

    • Worf
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    Re: Testing out other people's entries

    Was't there a WTF entry on URL haxx0ring?

     Though, I know there are several real life cases of 'hacked' out URLs that got someone (usually the site owner) angry...
     

  • 05-28-2007 6:43 AM In reply to

    Re: Testing out other people's entries

    Chemisor:
    I just got them all and am feeling a bit guilty for possibly overloading the server. Not too guilty; after all, one of them is mine, and there are only 352 of us. I wonder if I should make a torrent out of it and post it on piratebay as a really expensive business calculator suite ;) Then , just for laughs, we can count how many PHBs decide to roll it out companywide...

     That would be really good; so far I've just been downloading and trying random entries, it would be great to get a full set at once.
     

    Download my OMGWTF entry, Romanorum Computus
  • 05-28-2007 8:05 AM In reply to

    Re: Testing out other people's entries

    Einsidler:

    Chemisor:
    I just got them all and am feeling a bit guilty for possibly overloading the server. Not too guilty; after all, one of them is mine, and there are only 352 of us. I wonder if I should make a torrent out of it and post it on piratebay as a really expensive business calculator suite ;) Then , just for laughs, we can count how many PHBs decide to roll it out companywide...

     That would be really good; so far I've just been downloading and trying random entries, it would be great to get a full set at once.

    I suppose it depends on whether the judges have a problem with this. Despite the big warning not to submit your atm pin, medical records, or genetic history with the code, some might have done it :) I haven't been examining them that closely.

    I'll see if I can get a torrent put together. Since I've never done that before, it might take a while for me to rtfm. I'd also like to cut down on the size (currently 132M) by removing the .ncbs and other VC garbage people so thoughtfully left in. If nobody objects before, say, 8pm EST, I'll post the torrent link here and seed overnight.

  • 05-28-2007 5:24 PM In reply to

    Re: Testing out other people's entries

    I have nothing to be afraid of, so I went ahead and actually submitted my real name/email address. Although the approach is entirely WTF for a calculator, my code is (at least in my mind) good, solid code.
    Agile Team-Oriented Waterfall-Centric Cowboy Coder.
  • 05-28-2007 6:34 PM In reply to

    All entries torrent

    I have combined all the entries into a single torrent file, available from Mininova here. I was able to reduce the size from 132M to 26M by removing all the generated files; executables, object files, .ndbs, and yes, even precompiled headers which people have so thoughtfully provided. I also flattened the directory tree where possible. All this work has given me much appreciation for intern Boyd, who actually had to compile all these. So get them while they're hot! I'll be seeding until morning.
  • 05-28-2007 7:07 PM In reply to

    • wacco
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    Re: All entries torrent

    Chemisor:
    ...given me much appreciation for intern Boyd...
    What planet are you from?
  • 05-28-2007 8:27 PM In reply to

    Re: All entries torrent

    Chemisor:
    I have combined all the entries into a single torrent file, available from Mininova here. I was able to reduce the size from 132M to 26M by removing all the generated files; executables, object files, .ndbs, and yes, even precompiled headers which people have so thoughtfully provided. I also flattened the directory tree where possible. All this work has given me much appreciation for intern Boyd, who actually had to compile all these. So get them while they're hot! I'll be seeding until morning.

     What's the difference between the l/ and w/ directories?
     

  • 05-28-2007 11:51 PM In reply to

    • dsharp
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    Re: All entries torrent

    Just a guess but:

     

    L-> Linux calculators

    W-> Windows Calculators. 

  • 05-29-2007 6:11 AM In reply to

    Re: All entries torrent

    No seeders are available :-(
     

    edit: I wrote this waited one second, et voilà: one seeder is listed in azureus^^

  • 05-29-2007 8:33 AM In reply to

    Re: All entries torrent

    dsharp:

    Just a guess but:

     

    L-> Linux calculators

    W-> Windows Calculators. 

    No this cannot be correct because my entry (which is called entry #153) is linux based and listed in the "W"-DIR...

  • 05-29-2007 8:42 AM In reply to

    Re: All entries torrent

    rotalever:
    dsharp:

    Just a guess but:

    L-> Linux calculators

    W-> Windows Calculators. 

    No this cannot be correct because my entry (which is called entry #153) is linux based and listed in the "W"-DIR...

    That is correct. However, I did not look that closely at each item. I started out by sorting .tar.gz entries into l and .zip entries into w, since no real Linux geek would use zip ;) While deleting executables I did find a few that were gtk entries in a zip and moved them, but I am not surprized that I did not get them all.

  • 05-29-2007 10:43 AM In reply to

    Re: All entries torrent

    Chemisor:

    since no real Linux geek would use zip ;)

    I only used zip because I was not sure whether "they" can handle my tar.gz file...

     

    Ok, I really tried it but the fff* made something wrong with tar.gz)
     
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