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I never figured how to pronounce the ®


You pronounce it like the letter 'R'. So "Adobe® Photoshop®" becomes "Adobe-ar Photoshop-ar".


But you wouldn't want to refeer to copyrighted software like of of those pirates, would you?


It needs some polishing, there are quite annoying aspects:

1) Mandatory gender and country? Seriously, why? Even e-mail shouldn't be mandatory IMO. Hitting 'Enter' on register/login forms doesn't work as submit, I need to grab the mouse for that (especially annoying on a programming-related site)

2) The "How are programs run" section is completely useless. It's never mentioned how is my code actually invoked, just how it is compiled (when applicable). Let's take C for example, it says 'gcc contestx.c -o contestx.c'. Assuming the argument to '-o' is a typo, this way of compilation includes linking... so it seems I'll need `int main()` to avoid linker errors, but what's to be in `main`, I'm never told. I'm just assuming .c code is just `-c` and `dlopen`ed, but I'm not sure, since 15 minutes after submitting a solution, there's still no feedback.

Other nitpickery includes email validation code that's not clickable (okay, this is arguably a good thing) and other stupid memes implemented on the site like asking for the email twice or showing me my local time in the upper-right corner even though all other times on the site are displayed in the server's time zone (e.g. upper-right corner shows 16:45, but the solution I just sent is shown as submitted at 7:45)


Another interesting thing on the "How are programs run" page is the fact that the programs are apparently run on a Linux system, yet C# files are compiled with Microsoft Visual C# somehow!


Kinect is the closest I can think of. Not sure if you live in that world.


Would you credit Microsoft or Prime Sense for the Kinect?


Microsoft acquired the Kinect technology.


Oh my god not the "Kinect was acquired Herpa-Derp" argument again. On the kinect sensor, there's pose estimation being performed @ 200 fps which is the product of work done @ MSR. Here is the paper that describes how the kinect does pose estimation faster than any comparable tech on the market : http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=1453...


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