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Excellent writeup! I'm amazed people signed up to play their test game. Does anyone know if the points you get translate to any sort of other reward, or is a pl
by Rifu 11y ago
Excellent writeup! I'm amazed people signed up to play their test game. Does anyone know if the points you get translate to any sort of other reward, or is a place on the leaderboard more than enough of an incentive to keep playing?
Personally though, I think the linked article about on-the-fly resizing[0] was a more interesting "technical" read.
[0] http://code.flickr.net/2015/06/25/real-time-resizing-of-flickr-images-using-gpus/ http://code.flickr.net/2015/06/25/real-time-resizing-of-flic...
- jsjohnst 11y agoAs someone who participated in an earlier iteration of this, I can answer that there was no "prize" (I don't think there was even a leaderboard on the first iteration of this). I can't speak for everyone, but I participated mainly for two reasons, 1) to make sure a crappy compression didn't eventually effect my images I posted there 2) the geek challenge of finding which image was compressed