A few months ago, a post on Tencent’s internal q&A forum read: “Do you have any ideas on how to make such a birthday gift for your child?” According to the post, the child will soon be one year old, and he plans to leave a birthday present by solving puzzles in code, integrating all kinds of mathematics, algorithms, decryption and reverse engineering, etc., so that the child can solve the puzzles and get the gift after he has the ability.
“Poor kids of programmers,” “Too much for a young age,” “That’s the most beautiful pose I’ve ever seen.” A post, triggered Tencent Intranet hot discussion.
There are also a number of positive “gourd fans” who have started to offer suggestions. Some people propose the idea of “hierarchical nesting” puzzle solving, with each level corresponding to an age level and gradual difficulty; Some have suggested using Least Significant Bit steganography to hide the desired message in a digital treasure map. Others suggest hiding the bitcoin address and private key in the code, so that kids can be rich or not…
The person who caused the discussion of “pit baby” is August, a technology expert from The security platform department of Tencent TEG. Although August has only been in his father’s job for a year, he has been a security and r&d icon for 16 years.
In the end August received 126 suggestions.
The unexpected buzz gave him an even bolder idea — how about using the post as an opportunity to launch a purely technical competition?
With the collective wisdom of “melon crowd” and the careful design of August and his team, “Geek Tech Challenge” was launched on Tencent’s internal technology exchange platform Code, and has become one of the most popular fun technology competitions in The company.
Now, Tencent’s in-house Geek Tech Challenge will go from the goose factory to the public, in the form of a series of events, open to all tech enthusiasts. June 23 on the evening of July 8, 17 to 24 o ‘clock, first game will be held in tencent official public security platform department, “I do in goose factory security” officially open, participants around “along the dusty years of seal” the mystery of the proposition, unlock 8 levels, layers of nested encryption and will have to work out the last question of customs clearance the secret key in the article the message reply, To participate in the greatest geek rivalry of all time.
The format of each subsequent competition will be different, including but not limited to solving puzzles, solving a problem in life, completing a game through code, etc. The content will cover research and development, security, algorithm and other technical fields. Now, Tencent’s new code culture with the core of “open source, collaboration and cloud growth” is growing rapidly. Taking the competition as the carrier, Tencent is looking forward to building an open, interesting and vivid technology exchange platform with technology enthusiasts from all walks of life, so as to jointly clash with technological inspiration and feel the charm of science and technology.
For the contestants, the challenge covers multiple fields of knowledge and involves various thoughtful questions and practices, which can enrich their practical experience and improve their professional skills. In addition to the prize and welfare, Tencent Security Platform department also provides excellent talents with the opportunity to promote the recruitment.
