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Google Code Jam Winner Announced

Posted by simoniker on from the very-clever dept.

Wild-eyed Visionary writes "According to the San Jose Mercury News, Jimmy Mardell, 25, of Stockholm, Sweden, beat out more than 5,000 coders to win $10,000 in Google's second annual Code Jam programming contest. Second place: Christopher Hendrie (Canada), third place: Eugene Vasilchenko (Russia), fourth place: Tomasz Czajka (Poland). Tom Rokicki, of dvips/Radical Eye Software fame, was the oldest finalist at age 40."

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  1. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 0, Funny

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  2. A sad realization of self by roninmagus · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's a sad thing--if I'd won the money, I'd have just bought more computers. :(

  3. Re:Anyone know... by sulli · · Score: 3, Funny

    Not enough coders willing to work for free or cheap at Google?

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  4. Re:Interesting that the winner was from Sweden.... by eddy · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think we're seeing the results of having a large C64 and then Amiga demo scene.

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  5. Re:Bullshit by ear2ground · · Score: 2, Funny

    Google - Searching 3,307,998,701 web pages:

    Google Search: Altavista
    First site returned:
    Hmm..... returns the 'competitor' - commies?
    Or worse - liberals!
    ;~0

    Altavista searching worldwide: Google
    First site returned:

    Serves business first - you're right - very American.

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  6. jimmy mardell's other achievements by p4r4d0x · · Score: 3, Funny

    Besides his calculator endeavors jimmy's also a known fast typer :)

    #23 all time on typerA.