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Port Mozilla, Collect $3696

Posted by timothy on from the but-to-amiga dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The goal of the AmiZilla effort is to raise such an obscene/huge amount of money to give away to the first programmer/team that can port Mozilla to Amiga that Amiga programmers will be falling over themselves getting this application coded in record time. The booty currently stands at $3696. Parties interested in making some extra cash to pay off student loans/go on a wild bender can find more infomation here."

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  1. I would rather see it coded well by earthforce_1 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Than coded fast. Code that is cranked out in record time ususally isn't efficient or stable. How do you verify that the winning code contains no major bugs?

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    1. Re:I would rather see it coded well by peksik · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I believe the idea isn't to get fully tested bug-free code, but moreover to get a somewhat working version of Mozilla to kickstart the development. It would work both as a proof of concept and a nice base for the port.

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  2. 23$ an hour is HUGE by CrazyJim0 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I just graduated CMU with a degree in CS, I'd take a $10 an hour job if I could find one.

    The problem with this thing is that second place gets mo money. So if you coded for 150 hours and someone else finishes, then you got paid 0$/hr. To me, this is unacceptable because I always end up getting shafted like that.

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