Support for hacking other people's solutions
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Is there any support for automated hacking planned?
I imagine this could work roughly as follows:
- User locks a problem.
- Hightail automatically downloads all the sources for that problem, and runs them against all test cases it knows of.
- If hightail finds a test case that causes a solution to fail, it automatically submits a hack.
- Rinse and repeat...
It might also be useful to compile the programs with all warnings enabled, and show warnings to the user. Sometimes compiler warning could give hints on potentially wrong solutions.
Anyway, these are just ideas. I guess they would give quite an advantage to Hightail users, so maybe they are considered unfair... but I thought I'd post them here.
Well, this is not how hacking works :) It's impossible to download other sources. They are only shown in a Flash applet to the hacker. Running OCR on that applet would be considered cheating (and probably also too resource-consuming etc.).
Once or twice I did find myself retyping other people's code into a file on my computer, then using Hightail to stress-test it.
I see... maybe better this way. I'm closing the issue :)