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More ACM-SPPC Goodness!

As predicted, our third place is final! This puts us one problem clear of 4th, and tied with second place, which is kinda nice. It also means that Josh, Simon and I are in limbo until early December when wildcard … Continue reading

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ACM SPPC (And related excitement)

The ACM South Pacific Regional Programming Contest is done and dusted for another year. My team (The Triple Helix) scored a provisional third place with seven problems (that’s tied with the team on second, but not the team on first … Continue reading

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ACM World Finals!!!!

Well, as previously reported here and here, my team, the Mehffort Musketeers had a pretty good run in the 2008 ACM South Pacific Programming Contest. Today, the SPP Contest website announced that we’ve been allocated a Wild Card entry into … Continue reading

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ICPC 2008 Final Results

The 2008 ACM South Pacific Programming Contest Results have been confirmed: my team’s come 3rd overall (as expected). We find out whether or not we’ve achieved a wild card position in the World Finals in December.

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A brief (though complete) history of “Mehffort”

For the benefit of those who were intersted, Mehffort is a portmanteau of meh and effort, and is a very popular word in the semester 2, 2008 Maclab dialect of English. It is used to convey one’s lack of motivation … Continue reading

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ICPC 2008 (huge success)

The ACM ICPC South Pacific Region was on yesterday, and was great fun (as usual). My team this year, the Mehffort Musketeers consisted of Alex Berry (who’ll be competing in the Google Code Jam regionals soon as well), Michael Ford … Continue reading

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Notes on the ensuing year

Uni goes back next week, and after a long, and mostly uninteresting holidays, I’ll be quite glad to go back. Not that my holidays were awful (NCSS and LCA made sure that they weren’t), but it’ll definitely be good to … Continue reading

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