====== FreeStyle C0ding Contest ======
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===== Rules =====

  * [[user:harvie]] can override the jury, refuse task proposals or change anything else (but he cannot win anything)
  * jury member can refuse any task proposal or submission
  * jury member cannot submit (or win)
  * How will jury members rate submissions
    * If they will not meet the requirements give in task definition they will be disqualified
    * Task specific quality of solution will be rated (eg.: how strong compression is achieved)
    * If there will be two or more submissions with same quality, then speed will be rated
      * Using [[https://github.com/Harvie/Programs/blob/master/perl/timebench/timebench.pl|TimeBench]] (with low nice and ionice value, storing temporary files in ramdisk)
  * Common requirements for all submissions
    * Should work on Debian GNU/Linux
    * Should not need to install or compile any dependencies that are not included in official debian repositories (non-free packages are not supported!)
    * If compilation is needed you have to provide Makefile!
  * If you win you cannot get reward untill all code is publicly available (on web) and this wiki page links on it
  * Winner should make short talk about used alghorithms and programming techniques

===== Round #1 (status: gathering tasks, deadline: not yet) =====


==== Rewards (everyone can offer something) ====

| **donator** | **prize** |
| [[user:harvie]] | 1st place can choose: Pilsner Beer, Kiss, Harvie's autogram on belly |

==== Jury ====
  * Members
    * Harvie

==== Tasks ====
=== #1 - SubString optimalization ===
  * Find shortest string containing all of given (sub)strings (newline separated UTF-8 on STDIN)
    * (shortest string found wins :-)
  * Sample datasets
    * echo {00..99} | tr ' ' '\n'
    * echo {0000..9999} | tr ' ' '\n'
    * for i in {0..1000}; do echo -n $i | md5sum | head -c 5; echo; done
    * for i in {0..1000}; do head -c 1024 /dev/urandom | md5sum | head -c 10; echo; done
    * any other completely random strings
  * Example
    * input: 23, 42, 12, 34
    * output: 12342
  * Background story: hacking ancient answer machines :-)