{"id":1916,"date":"2006-11-29T17:48:02","date_gmt":"2006-11-29T22:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/?p=1916"},"modified":"2016-05-10T14:34:23","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T18:34:23","slug":"dougs-matlab-t-shirt-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/2006\/11\/29\/dougs-matlab-t-shirt-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Doug&#8217;s MATLAB t-shirt challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new MATLAB programming contest is up as of this morning. I am issuing a challenge to all of you:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you write a better contest entry than me by the end of the twilight phase (Friday at Noon), I will send you a MATLAB t-shirt. However, if my entry is better than yours, you agree to send me a t-shirt from your company, university or local community.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That is it. The first ten people to comment to this post accepting the challenge are in. I will get your mailing address, if needed, via e-mail so make sure I know how to get in touch with you.<\/p>\n<p>As a note: Normally MathWorkers do not participate in the contest. I was involved with the internal play testing, but I do not have any special knowledge of the test suite or the scores that people are getting. I am not eligible for any prizes and, I will stop playing the contest once the twilight phase is over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new MATLAB programming contest is up as of this morning. I am issuing a challenge to all of you:<br \/>\nIf you write a better contest entry than me by the end of the twilight phase (Friday at Noon), I&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/2006\/11\/29\/dougs-matlab-t-shirt-challenge\/\">read more >><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7040,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916\/revisions\/7040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}