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by cutemonster 1682 days ago
What did and didn't the score algorithm like?

(Did you reverse eng it during work time :-))

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There were several components, but the parts that were I can remember were gamed were code duplication - someone figured out the minimum number of matching lines required for it to be detected and made minor changes in the middle of blocks - and number of imports. The penalty for .* imports was quite low, so we just ended up with wildcard imports everywhere.
Ok :-) I'm surprised they were looking for duplicated code, interesting