I've had a go at solving the Eternity puzzle (1,000,000 GBP prize) and Netflix Prize ($1,000,000) in the past. I didn't win either, but they motivated me to find out about a new area. What other contests with prizes do you know about / have competed in yourself? ...
I'm currently developing a video contest web application using Ruby on Rails. It integrates closely with YouTube, which it uses for submitting videos, comments, average rating, and popularity stats. The application will also count Twitter and (possibly) Facebook mentions, and count the number of times visitors have clicked an "Add This" ...
Voting contests seem to gain a lot of attention from people who want to game a system for fun. I know I spend a good amount of time fooling around with their forms and URLs, deleting cookies and writing the occasional crappy script. Is there a way to create a foolproof voting system that only allows one vote a day? Is Captcha the only e...
EngineYard is holding a constest here, where given a phrase and a dictionary of words, come up with a 12 word phrase whose SHA1 hash has the smallest hamming distance from the SHA1 hash of the given phrase. A couple of sites are using cloud/crowd-sourcing to try to bruteforce it, while others are using CUDA and GPUs. Some reports hav...
Does anyone remember years ago in magazines like Byte where people competed to produce the most functional piece of code written in a single line of code? I remember games like Pole Position with scrollng text, etc. and fractal graphics being done this way. Granted modern languages like C# and Java an endless amount in one statement, d...
Does it help for wellrated competitors in finding good jobs? Do recruiters/HRs take into account mentions in CVs about participations in such contests? Do you think it will be a plus to write in CVs about your participation in contests having rating, for example, something about 70 percentile? ...
I'm running a contest on a website and I have 3215 entrants who are eligible for 5x Sony PSPs. I believe the formula to count the odds is totalEntrants - prizes / prizes: (3215-5)/5 = 642 so that's an odds of 642 to 1 of winning - is that right? ( I suck at math ) And in my table which contains 3215 rows in the database I would just s...
Hi, All, Do you know any online problem sets or contests that accept solutions in Haskell? I know only El Judge, but unfortunately it has some problems with ghc, so any Haskell problem is rejected with "memory limit" resolution. ...
This is a community wiki, to collect a list of contest sites that offer winning prizes for Android applications. This can be anything where Android is accepted, or where OS platform and GSM providers are not specified so I can apply with an Android app. It should also NOT be region specific, so someone from EU or Bangladesh can apply. ...
Hi folks, I'm working on a little (not so little actually) project in C (ref. this question) , and I need a little function in C that'd generate a unique and random string. I need a small one that I can include as a utility function in a .c file. Please help me with your brains, and show me how smart this could be done! Thanks and a v...
If not... let's start one here? Please add below! StreetApps Challenge Adobe Open Screen Nokia 1 million API-based contests ConstantContact API Daylife API (Profit Share) And more? ...
Hi!Since I'm getting ready for a competition , I'm looking for good online contests. I found codeforces and codechef and took part in them. but I need more practice so i decided to ask if you know good online contests. I have only 10 days to get ready so September contests won't work for me! Thanks ...
Not sure if there's a better forum for this...I want to host a photo contest on my website. But, I don't want to allow visitors to upload photos directly to my server. Is there a gadget/api where I can allow visitors to upload photos to my Flickr account, from my website? Then they would visit my website. Upload to Flickr, without le...
I would need a simple php photo contest system with rating option. Every user can register on it and upload his photo. Every user can rate the photos (obviously one rate per photo). I don't pretend to find anything which adheres perfectly to my specification, but something similar may be good, as I can hack and adapt it to my needs. Can...