How I Became HackerRank #1 in Two Hours (williampross.com)

I hope there will be more articles like this exposing HackerRank and its ilk. Recently, I found myself on that site, and quickly gave up on it after having to deal with bugs and artificial impediments, even having problems copying and pasting from my text editor to their textbox.

It is a waste of time for anyone who can program.

See another somewhat recent post about HackerRank [0]. No surprise that it was flagged.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12667174

Funny, this article was reposted about an hour ago but instead of using the actual link, they appended:

?ref=yc

Nice touch to suck up the karma for an obviously hot topic.

The stdin nonsense on Hacker Rank is what got me. I neither know, nor do I care how to process standard in in Swift. When a ten line program needs 70 lines of boilerplate you have a lousy system.