Back in 2015, Google open-sourced its internal build system, Blaze, under the anagram name of Bazel. Since then I had worked to migrate and unify the various build scripts in my company into a single Bazel workspace. Not long after, however, I decided that maintaining a Bazel workspace is not …
This Round 1A was crazy. I was barely awake when it started, and I spent about two hours on the first problem — which is probably going to be the hardest problem one in historical first rounds! Anyway, it turned out to be OK for me as the other problems …
It was probably depressing to realize that I have not participated in any programming competitions since the last October. It is more depressing that I nearly missed the Code Jam of this year: I received no notification mails and I did not think of it either. Anyway, I was lucky …