Comments on: Testing, Please Ignore http://yaserzt.com/blog/archives/120 Shadowlessness, and how it feels. Fri, 30 Dec 2011 19:29:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: yzt http://yaserzt.com/blog/archives/120/comment-page-1#comment-181 yzt Sun, 02 Dec 2007 15:53:42 +0000 http://yaserzt.com/blog/2007/10/08/testing-please-ignore/#comment-181 How did you guess! I can't believe someone actually managed to do that! How did you guess! I can’t believe someone actually managed to do that!

]]> By: mohsen etezadi http://yaserzt.com/blog/archives/120/comment-page-1#comment-177 mohsen etezadi Fri, 30 Nov 2007 17:14:12 +0000 http://yaserzt.com/blog/2007/10/08/testing-please-ignore/#comment-177 now it seems clear to me that u r not Alan Turing !. now it seems clear to me that u r not Alan Turing !.

]]> By: Mahdi Milani Fard http://yaserzt.com/blog/archives/120/comment-page-1#comment-100 Mahdi Milani Fard Fri, 19 Oct 2007 01:17:45 +0000 http://yaserzt.com/blog/2007/10/08/testing-please-ignore/#comment-100 I guess so. The bad part was that by some misfortune (that I don't believe in) we had that problem exactly at the end, when there is no judge response. Otherwise it would have needed 10 seconds to correct an "output format error". The problem statement was clearly unclear (so many people complaining about it.) They told us that this was the same for all the teams and that we should not argue about that. But I don't see how that can be the case, as all the ones that had similar problems just got their lucky "output format error" and had fixed the problem, with a time penalty of course. This gets more "funny" if you take into account that we were 30 minutes ahead of the second team that made it to the final, with one fewer accept. I guess so. The bad part was that by some misfortune (that I don’t believe in) we had that problem exactly at the end, when there is no judge response. Otherwise it would have needed 10 seconds to correct an “output format error”.

The problem statement was clearly unclear (so many people complaining about it.) They told us that this was the same for all the teams and that we should not argue about that. But I don’t see how that can be the case, as all the ones that had similar problems just got their lucky “output format error” and had fixed the problem, with a time penalty of course.

This gets more “funny” if you take into account that we were 30 minutes ahead of the second team that made it to the final, with one fewer accept.

]]> By: yzt http://yaserzt.com/blog/archives/120/comment-page-1#comment-99 yzt Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:55:43 +0000 http://yaserzt.com/blog/2007/10/08/testing-please-ignore/#comment-99 That was really funny! But I'm sure it was quite the opposite right after the contest! Tell me now, this wasn't by any chance the problem E you were talking about, was it? And maybe we all say the same thing because we are a good team! That was really funny! But I’m sure it was quite the opposite right after the contest! Tell me now, this wasn’t by any chance the problem E you were talking about, was it?
And maybe we all say the same thing because we are a good team!

]]> By: Mahdi Milani Fard http://yaserzt.com/blog/archives/120/comment-page-1#comment-98 Mahdi Milani Fard Thu, 18 Oct 2007 02:30:31 +0000 http://yaserzt.com/blog/2007/10/08/testing-please-ignore/#comment-98 For me, it is like bitter then, sweet and bitter now. I don't know if you have seen this really old post of mine: http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-YjgwYDI8dq8HKmpWliyQ8xn1Dg--?cq=1&p=74 About your team, I should say that all of you say merely the same thing! I remember talking to Ehsan several times, and he would say that it's "all" because of you and Ms. Elahi. For me, it is like bitter then, sweet and bitter now. I don’t know if you have seen this really old post of mine:
http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-YjgwYDI8dq8HKmpWliyQ8xn1Dg–?cq=1&p=74

About your team, I should say that all of you say merely the same thing! I remember talking to Ehsan several times, and he would say that it’s “all” because of you and Ms. Elahi.

]]> By: yzt http://yaserzt.com/blog/archives/120/comment-page-1#comment-97 yzt Tue, 16 Oct 2007 23:04:20 +0000 http://yaserzt.com/blog/2007/10/08/testing-please-ignore/#comment-97 @Mohsen Etezadi: I think I know which booklet you mean, but it was not written by Dr. Ghodsi. It was done by Mohammad Hossein Bateni, one of the problem-setters that year (the 2005 regional.) And I don't think there's any "ارادت" in it, just some indirect quotes from discussions on the blog or mailing list. But you don't know me, and you can't even be sure I'm a half-decent programmer. Comparing Alan Turing with me? That just makes me dismiss what you've written as joke! After all, I have nothing in common with him except a taste for sour apple! @Mahdi: I think he must've meant our 2004 team, Ms. Maryam Elahi, Dr. Ehsan Adeli Mosabbeb, PhD! ( :D ) and me. One of the best times of my life in retrospect, those few weeks. Very bitter then, but very sweet now. But in my opinion, any "greatness" you mention in our team was a combination of great teammates and a measure of luck. I myself have never been able to solve any medium or hard problems in a contest at all! I can only code relatively easy problems moderately quickly, and that only in the first 2 or 3 hours of a contest. Any teamwork, plan, coherence, goal and organization that have existed in the teams I've been part of, and any medium and hard problems we've ever solved, have been the contribution of my teammates. Basically, I can never automatically act as part of a team, unless I'm made so. @Mohsen Etezadi:
I think I know which booklet you mean, but it was not written by Dr. Ghodsi. It was done by Mohammad Hossein Bateni, one of the problem-setters that year (the 2005 regional.) And I don’t think there’s any “ارادت” in it, just some indirect quotes from discussions on the blog or mailing list.
But you don’t know me, and you can’t even be sure I’m a half-decent programmer. Comparing Alan Turing with me? That just makes me dismiss what you’ve written as joke! After all, I have nothing in common with him except a taste for sour apple!

@Mahdi:
I think he must’ve meant our 2004 team, Ms. Maryam Elahi, Dr. Ehsan Adeli Mosabbeb, PhD! ( :D ) and me. One of the best times of my life in retrospect, those few weeks. Very bitter then, but very sweet now.
But in my opinion, any “greatness” you mention in our team was a combination of great teammates and a measure of luck. I myself have never been able to solve any medium or hard problems in a contest at all! I can only code relatively easy problems moderately quickly, and that only in the first 2 or 3 hours of a contest. Any teamwork, plan, coherence, goal and organization that have existed in the teams I’ve been part of, and any medium and hard problems we’ve ever solved, have been the contribution of my teammates. Basically, I can never automatically act as part of a team, unless I’m made so.

]]> By: Mahdi Milani Fard http://yaserzt.com/blog/archives/120/comment-page-1#comment-96 Mahdi Milani Fard Tue, 16 Oct 2007 18:05:28 +0000 http://yaserzt.com/blog/2007/10/08/testing-please-ignore/#comment-96 I also recall him talking in great words about "the" team from Azad University of Mashad, referring to you guys as his "favorites". You sure were a great team at that time (and you still would be if you could have a team now.) I also recall him talking in great words about “the” team from Azad University of Mashad, referring to you guys as his “favorites”. You sure were a great team at that time (and you still would be if you could have a team now.)

]]> By: yzt http://yaserzt.com/blog/archives/120/comment-page-1#comment-95 yzt Fri, 12 Oct 2007 22:51:49 +0000 http://yaserzt.com/blog/2007/10/08/testing-please-ignore/#comment-95 This is news to me! I didn't know Dr. Ghodsi even knew my name, let alone write about me or have any respect for me! Are you sure? Can you give me a link or something? This is news to me! I didn’t know Dr. Ghodsi even knew my name, let alone write about me or have any respect for me! Are you sure? Can you give me a link or something?

]]> By: mohsen etezadi http://yaserzt.com/blog/archives/120/comment-page-1#comment-94 mohsen etezadi Fri, 12 Oct 2007 21:31:40 +0000 http://yaserzt.com/blog/2007/10/08/testing-please-ignore/#comment-94 hey! i'm really interseted in the way you talk (i'm a M By the way!) and act as a real computer nerd, first time i heard YZT in booklet of regional contest in Sharif wich was written by Mr.Ghodsi (i thought that alan turing has came out from his grave cause Ghodsi had an eXtreme amount of "ارادت" to you), i'm here (or maybe there)in mashhad at Khayyam Institute of Higher edu(in Fallahi blvd) and hope to see you and make a connection with lead developer! guys like u. BEST WISHES "Mohsen Etezadi" hey! i’m really interseted in the way you talk (i’m a M By the way!) and act as a real computer nerd, first time i heard YZT in booklet of regional contest in Sharif wich was written by Mr.Ghodsi (i thought that alan turing has came out from his grave cause Ghodsi had an eXtreme amount of “ارادت” to you), i’m here (or maybe there)in mashhad at Khayyam Institute of Higher edu(in Fallahi blvd) and hope to see you and make a connection with lead developer! guys like u. BEST WISHES “Mohsen Etezadi”

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