On July 1, 2013, Google will retire Google Reader (source). A first step should be to save your data (especially your subscriptions). You can do that with Google Takeout. You could also sign a petition against closing Google Reader, but I doubt that this will have any effect. Currently, 106,712 people support this petition, though. [...]
4230 tried the first problem, but only 3189 people are listed in the scoreboard. Problem 1 (Diamond Inheritance): Small Set: 3077/4230 users (73%) Large Set: 2387/3044 users (78%) Problem 2 (Out of Gas): Small Set: 471/766 users (61%) Large Set: 73/253 users (29%) Problem 3 (Box Factory): Small Set: 1071/1810 users (59%) Large Set: 308/788 [...]
5614 tried the first problem, but only 3281 people are listed in the scoreboard. So quite a lot tried to solve a problem, but couldn’t even solve one. I think these problems were much harder than the ones from Round 1A 2012. Problem 1 (Safety in Numbers): Small Set: 2695/5614 users (48%) Large Set: 2016/2686 [...]
3691 people are listed in the scoreboard, but 3851 tried the first problem. So I guess the number of contestants might even be higher. Problem 1 (Password Problem): Small Set: 3511/3851 users (91%) Large Set: 2329/3376 users (69%) Problem 2 (Kingdom Rush): Small Set: 1912/3466 users (55%) Large Set: 1617/1848 users (88%) Problem 3 (Cruise [...]
I’ve passed the Qualification Round of Google Code Jam 2012. I’ve learned, that I am not allowed to submit the large dataset after the first 8 minutes. 18,365 programmers took part in this contest. 15,692 had at least 20 points and advanced to the First Rounds. These are my solutions: Problem A: Speaking in Tongues [...]
On October 14, 2010 Google announced that the number of scanned books is over 15 million. They did not simply scan those books, but they digitalized them. They can access not only image files, but the actual text. This allowes Google to search in those books and to analyse the information. Google has processed 1,024,908,267,229 [...]
Did you notice some strange autocomplete-results? Keep in mind that Google gets those suggestions by other searches. They don’t employ someone who tries to guess what you mean. So many others have searched for the term which is suggested. Here are some I’ve tested: Some nations: If you really like to know, you should go [...]
