PyCon India or Code Jam?
anomit | September 15, 2009That is something which has been playing at the back of my mind for the past couple of days. 
Google Code Jam Round 2 is on 26th Sept, 21:30 IST, right on the day PyCon India starts. In theory I can attend the 1st day of PyCon and compete in GCJ as well at night. But there are a few small things that have been bugging me like the possibility of being dead tired at the end of the day, lack of a decent internet connection etc.
Advancing to round 3 of GCJ would require me to be placed within the top 500 of the 3000 competitors. Effectively I have about 5-6 days in total to prepare for it, excluding the useless exams in between and a ~500 rank isn’t asking for too much. This is one of the reasons that I’m inclined to stay back instead of taking on a 10 hour long overnight bus journey coupled with running around the city for a whole day.
If you are reading this, put in a few words of wisdom (considering you have them at your disposal).
Had I been you I would have gone for PyCon.
l0nwlf | September 16, 2009Had I been you I would have gone for PyCon.
However it totally depends on what is u’r priority : Algorithmic coding og GCJ
GCJ will have more weight on u’r resume though. II saw a few of u’r py code at Codechef, they were dirty and !(pythonic)
just my 2 cents
Maybe they are that way. I really couldn't care less
anomit | September 16, 2009Maybe they are that way. I really couldn’t care less about how my code reads for coding contests
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Toss a coin?
Rohit Arondekar | September 16, 2009Toss a coin?
+1 for PyCon -1 for GCJ Come to Pycon, bangalore ain't far
ideamonk | September 23, 2009+1 for PyCon
-1 for GCJ
Come to Pycon, bangalore ain’t far away, then you me and l0nwlf can sit together and write some pythonic solutions to gcj.
I hope you really mean that
anomit | September 23, 2009I hope you really mean that