Argh!
> Well, I'd place money on Amir to win if I were you. I'll take that bet. Sigh. > I've spent an > absurd number of evening hours trying to improve that score already, to > little avail. I have 33 working solutions that I've saved (only the > best of those inflicted on the refs) I have at least 3 or 4 working 63's, but none is better than... > P.S. mine is 63.526 63.529. I guess I'll just have to go with the leaderboard's implication that I'm still tied with Chris :) > On 11/18/02 1:28 AM, Andrew Savige wrote: > > As a humble spectator of this spine-tingling golfing theatre, > > I am amused in the extreme by this: > > 10 63.53 Amir Karger > > 10 63.53 Chris Dolan > > Mr Referees, can we have a more accurate tie-breaker please? > > Or are they really tied? Yeah. I wish I could spectate, but actually both of my eyeballs fell out already. I got the other algorithm down to 80 or so, and even had an 85 or so that used lt instead of sort, not that that helps. But given that my company laid off 5% of its workforce today, and keeping in mind the Perl Golf Purity Test (or whatever)'s "convinced yourself that working on it at work is actually good for the company", I think I'm just going to have to call it quits. Especially since TPR07 will be starting in 12 days. (I really really really hope, for my own mental and physical health, that that's not true. Given that most English speakers have some vacation time the last week of the year, that might be a good time to do the next one, and then TPR07 could be Feb 1.) I guess being in the top 10 for one day is better than never, but I should've known it wouldn't last. I had to go and order the Oreilly PL/SQL book and actually pay money for it instead. > > Actually, I shouldn't be smirking because they will both soon > > go sailing gaily past me on the Career Money Leaders Board: > > 14. Andrew Savige $ 652,400.00 (8/12) > > 15. Chris Dolan $ 631,400.00 (8/12) > > 16. Amir Karger $ 591,466.66 (9/12) Perseverance is key! I've never actually won very much in a single contest. > > Also, I can't help but notice that the scores seem more bunched > > up than usual this month. Speaking of which, I think refs should try hard to modify tiebreakers so that they spread things out a lot. Note that the entire range right now is .5->.63. (Of course, in this case that actually helped me :) -Amir My permanent email address is my first initial followed by my last name at cpan. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your site http://webhosting.yahoo.com
