23 November 2010

Liar, Liar: Solved - FaceBook Puzzles

I have solved the first problem of Facebook Engineering Puzzles (Snack difficulty). It took me more time that I've planned, as usual, being a blackbox is harder to reach a solution.

Right now the robot has problems to receive emails from gmail (using the webmail app), therefore the solution is to send the solution through a script that uses SMTP.

This is the email sent by the robot:
Thank you for your submission of a puzzle solution to Facebook! After running your solution to liarliar (received on November 22, 2010, 9:24 am), I have determined it to be correct. Your solution ran for 1400.789 ms on its longest test case. If you have not already, try installing the official Facebook Puzzles application from http://apps.facebook.com/facebookpuzzles/ and publish a story about your solution! To publish, just go to http://apps.facebook.com/facebookpuzzles/mypuzzles.php and click on the publish link.

If you are applying for a position within Facebook, the puzzle difficulty solved will be taken into account with regards to how much time you had available to solve it (remember that Hors D'oeuvres are only tests for your benefit). I have taken the liberty of alerting our recruiting team about your success. Best of luck!

Sincerely,
-The puzzle robot

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