“Let's settle this in a Ruby programming contest”

[jkreeftmeijer]

http://jeffkreeftmeijer.com/2011/lets-settle-this-in-a-ruby-programming-contest/

[jcoder]

Wait, so the current challenge is to mosaic a 225px-wide image into 10px chunks, without changing the overall size?

Not even the power of Ruby can make 225 % 10 == 0

[rogerbraun → jcoder]

No, but you can still use 10x10 chunks where possible and use chunks as close to 10x10 as possible for the rest.

[jcoder → rogerbraun]

Sure, but that wasn't the specced challenge. If you can bend the rules, what becomes of the game? [edit: moved reply to nest]

[Argorak]

Fun idea, I will definitely try it out!

By the way:

  if ( ready? && set? ) { fight! };

ain't valid ruby code :).

[jewel → Argorak]

How about:

   if ready? && set? then fight!

[jkreeftmeijer → jewel]

I know the code snippet doesn't actually work, but I used it because it looks pretty cool. `if ready? && set? then fight!` is the first Ruby snippet one that I really like. :)

[stephth → jkreeftmeijer]

This is very cool. It seems like a well thought out process too. Any plans on doing languages other than Ruby?

[noonespecial → stephth]

I'd be down for a perl regex fight. The great part about that is the participants would look like they were typing obscenities at each other.

[cmurdock]

Cool, but man, could that website possibly take up less of my horizontal screen space?

[pak → cmurdock]

The huge super-dotty background actually makes my monitor sound different when I have his page open. I can literally hear the scanlines firing. And this is a laptop LCD. I've never heard this sound before.

[abecedarius → cmurdock]

This is a real problem reading the submitted entries -- each snippet has a horizontal scrollbar and needs it even for ordinarily-formatted code.

[chunky1994]

Really cool idea, it would be even more awesome if you can extend it to other languages, like python etc.

[luismmontielg → chunky1994]

Yeah, something like that but for python would be great, like http://www.pythonchallenge.com/

[Acorn → chunky1994]

Someone please make this!

[stewbrew]

Is this supposed to be a successor of the ruby quiz series?

[ankimal]

"TopCoder for real world problems"! Great idea. Hope a lot of open source stuff comes out of this or at the very least helps current projects.

[atomicdog]

You want to see the real world of Ruby programming? The one they don't show you in magazines or the E Channel?