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Google "No Farewell" Round
By AlephZero01, 14 months ago, In English

Coders Community,

for the ones among you that — like me — feel sad about the Google Farewell Round that will be held on Saturday, or that feel there is something wrong with this leadership decision, I would propose to put the following comment line as first line of every submission in the Farewell Round, that should not violate any rule:

// NO FAREWELL: KEEP GOOGLE COMPETITIONS ALIVE

This is clearly naive, and very likely will not reach any decision maker, and even if it does it will be certainly useless to make anybody in Google leadership change their minds. But at least, if sufficiently scaled, it would leave a tangible on-line trace of the community feeling, for a few months. And who knows, 2024 might be a better year for Google and things might change.

Last but not least, thanks a TON to MikeMirzayanov and to the Codeforces staff for keeping the competitive coding so active, and also for making available this blog where to share ideas.

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14 months ago, # |
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I will do my part and write these lines....

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I don't want to take part in this round, so I will probably just submit WA submissions with the above or similar line.

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    14 months ago, # ^ |
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    Great Idea. Lets do this. "KEEP GOOGLE COMPETITIONS ALIVE" This will be our motto.

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    Following in your footsteps, I have submitted the same for every problem in each of the rounds :P

    Spoiler

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I think it is a good idea

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A big flaw in corp organized thing is always about money and profit. I hope some ngo org start world wide contest in future and make it replacement of gcj.

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Looks like a valid idea, gonna do it (and also thank you for reminding me and the community about the farewell rounds).

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Thank you to everyone that read, and to everyone that will participate to this initiative at 2PM UTC

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Well, this was easy. Solved all problems (of round A) in 1.5 hours with the above comment included in every source code.

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i did on my side

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14 months ago, # |
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Keep GOOGLE COMPETITIONS ALIVE

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14 months ago, # |
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funnily enough, on the same day, at around 10:20pm UTC +0, the submission IDs on CF were 20230415x and the day is 20230415

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May the force be with you.

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