Topcoder SRM 793 is scheduled to start at 21:00 UTC-5 on November 4, 2020.
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I feel like 500 was a cool problem, nice motivation but no pointless additional details, although maybe it wasn't really 500 difficulty.
However I felt like most of my energy went to reading the input and writing the generator; actual solving + implementing the solution took like 5 minutes. In short, I feel like TopCoder's input limitations have once again kind of ruined a problem. Seriously, authors should submit such problems to another platform: they simply are not suitable for TopCoder.
What do you think of TC providing copy/pasteable generators in every language? This would also solve the issue of errors in generator implementation.
There are numerous good platforms where generators won't be needed in many TopCoder problems.
There are plenty of interesting problems that are usable on TopCoder without generators.
So why take the pain?