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jnotarstefano
I really loved this! I liked the fact that I could read other people solutions.

Is there an equivalent for Python, or any other language?

petercooper
vimgolf is very similar, and has an interesting mechanic of not letting you see significantly better entries than your own.
gurkendoktor
Interesting, but why require Twitter out of all things? I thought Ruby had the multi-auth thing nailed.
JonnieCache
It does. It's trivial to use as well. https://github.com/intridea/omniauth

Why would you not hook this up to github for auth?

EDIT: The site is great by the way. My tone of disappointment at the authentication system is motivated by how nice the thing is.

darkphnx
The game actually uses omniauth for authentication. Github support may be in for next weeks challenge :)
adamcooke
GitHub auth is now supported :)
danso
I'm a little slow this morning....the top solution is just a string? The submitter just did a fake entry to get the answer and then submitted a second one?
quandrum
They cheated. The page says all code will be rerun with different input at the end of the week to determine the true winner, so all the hardcoded answers will drop out at that point.

Though it seems this problem has an obvious fastest solution that has been found and mimic'd repeatedly.

extension
Perhaps they should rerun with different input immediately after submitting.
mr_luc
"This code has already been submitted by catphish."

Is this by design?

mr_luc
Also, if it's by design:

Placing a random comment after my submission lets it through. So you might want to strip out comments for that bit.

instakill
Inject is a beautiful thing, and looking at the leaderboard, a lot of people seem to agree.
rb2k_
> This code has already been submitted by darkphnx

Ok, so I have to add random noise to my solution? O_o

anonova
This is really lame, especially if elegance is part of the judging criteria.
adamcooke
a) this check only checked identical code so any more (or less) elegant code was still permitted.

b) we now don't check for this but "similar" code will be grouped together to make things easier to hear.

anykey
I really love this idea, and I want to compete but it appears the site is down, and I'm unable to submit solutions. I've been wanting a version of Vimgolf targeted at Ruby for quite some time, it's an awesome way to improve your skills and uncover great tricks.