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Starts at midnight where I live. Signed up out of curiosity, but I don't think I'll stay up till 5am. Wish I had learned about it sooner.

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Don't worry. We actually have it in 2 parts. 4 questions in a sprint over 5 hours, 3 other questions lasting a week. You might find the weeklong ones more fun.

Is this information on the web site? I, too, wish I heard about this sprint earlier in the week (before I made weekend plans).

It will be when the contest starts.

The three week-long problems are now up here: http://www.quora.com/CodesprintQuora

Interesting, though I have to say these seem more like "working for Quora for free". Would be nice to at least get some interesting data sets in exchange.

Granted, I probably won't improve on Quora's code in a week, but still.

I guess I am simply not the target audience, as I had no plans of applying to quora.

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