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cmurdock
Cool, but man, could that website possibly take up less of my horizontal screen space?
abecedarius
This is a real problem reading the submitted entries -- each snippet has a horizontal scrollbar and needs it even for ordinarily-formatted code.
pak
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.
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.
Argorak
Fun idea, I will definitely try it out!

By the way:

  if ( ready? && set? ) { fight! };
ain't valid ruby code :).
jewel
How about:

   if ready? && set? then fight!
jkreeftmeijer
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
This is very cool. It seems like a well thought out process too. Any plans on doing languages other than Ruby?
noonespecial
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.
stewbrew
Is this supposed to be a successor of the ruby quiz series?
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
No, but you can still use 10x10 chunks where possible and use chunks as close to 10x10 as possible for the rest.
jcoder
Sure, but that wasn't the specced challenge. If you can bend the rules, what becomes of the game? [edit: moved reply to nest]
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atomicdog
You want to see the real world of Ruby programming? The one they don't show you in magazines or the E Channel?