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Microsoft's country challenge

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  • 02-06-2016 5:13pm
    #1
    unseen
    Registered Users Posts: 213 ✭✭


    From June 1st to 30th you can support the technical community of your country to win the European Online Learning Challenge. Participate and help your country by learning about the latest technologies! Just select the country you support and pick an Online Training from the wide offering of Channel9 or Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA).

    https://eurochallenge.azurewebsites.net/

    Italy at the top for now. Let's change this!


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    Aswerty
    Registered Users Posts: 586 ✭✭✭Aswerty


    Utterly ridiculous!

    Maybe if they were targeting 10 year olds, this might in some way have been a good idea...

    But Microsoft being Microsoft, these little gimmicks are expected.


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    CelticRambler
    Registered Users Posts: 6,697 ✭✭✭CelticRambler


    If I'm not mistaken, that's a soccer pitch in the background.

    That's me out! :cool:


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    Talisman
    Registered Users Posts: 6,006 ✭✭✭Talisman


    Cynical me: It's a gimmick to get more social shares and improve some of their website metrics.


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    #5
    unseen
    Registered Users Posts: 213 ✭✭unseen


    Guys you broke my heart!


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    #6
    Talisman
    Registered Users Posts: 6,006 ✭✭✭Talisman


    unseen wrote: »
    Guys you broke my heart!
    It's obviously a numbers game...
    Your country score is determined by the amount of time participants spend watching videos. Each minute watched give one point to your country. We will award you with extra points if you finish your first video that lasts longer than 20 minutes for each platform.

    Ireland has a population comparable to some of the major European cities and is dwarfed by the other countries in the EU. For example, Italy has a population 14~15 times that of Ireland so we would need to watch 15 times more videos to compete.

    You could automate the process using Selenium, or a framework like DalekJS but why would you go to the effort?


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    Aswerty
    Registered Users Posts: 586 ✭✭✭Aswerty


    Talisman wrote: »
    You could automate the process using Selenium, or a framework like DalekJS but why would you go to the effort?

    Hacking their competition seems like it would be the only interesting way to take part.


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