Let's Play a Game – find bugs in popular open-source projects

Re:Let's Play a Game – find bugs in popular open-source proj... by ViktorasM on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @05:57AM (#12085057)

so frustrating when the answer is obvious but where to click is not.

e.g. in "if a.length != a.length" the "correct" token is the first "a". Should really be anything in the whole expression.

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Re:Let's Play a Game – find bugs in popular open-source proj... by __david__ on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @11:07AM (#12086702)

Yeah I fell victim to that, too. Also having a timer counting down caused me to freeze up. I got about half the questions right immediately, and half after the time had ticked down so that my mind could relax and pay attention. I think I legitimately only got 2 wrong. And one of them I could argue that I found a different bug than the one they were looking for.

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Re:Let's Play a Game – find bugs in popular open-source proj... by kartD on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @10:09AM (#12086240)

Completely agree, I got three wrong, but because I clicked the wrong spot, I only got 3 right, it's pretty frustrating.

The test is also pretty easy. I only know C and some Java and I figured most of the problems. The standout important questions to me were the memset and free ones.

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