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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. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    the FI+RIST!!!

  2. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fp

  3. First post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First post!

  4. Re:Yes, I did RTFA...and TFWS... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Read this page

  5. Re:What language did they use ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Actually, according to the official Google page, they didn't. One of them used mainly Java but coded his native hooks in C++.

  6. Re:Good for google by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    However quite a few entries did utilise the Google API quite extensively. Admittedly, not the ones that won, but still ..

  7. Re:What did they write? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    They are partially related. Some of the people organising both are the same. In fact, both contests shared quite a few entrants as well.

  8. parent link = gay by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    do not visit his url yo

    1. Re:parent link = gay by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Shut up, troll

    2. Re:parent link = gay by turbofisk · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      kiddieporn blows! Ban the IP of the mofo who posts that kind of shit. Makes me angry as hell.

  9. Re:Yes, I did RTFA...and TFWS... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm sorry, did you masturbate unexpectedly?

  10. Re:Google is snobby.. I hope this wakes them up by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    That's bullshit. Nowhere on their website does it indicate such snobbery. If ever there was a company that based its employment on meritocracy, it's Google. Why do you think they ran this contest in the first place?

  11. Re:The problem with TopCoder by spectecjr · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What is your TopCoder handle?

    Guess. I'll give you a clue: it's quite similar to my handle here.

    Clearly you are another clueless droid that thinks he knows what TopCoder is all about. I've learned a lot from the solutions that many of the top TopCoders have put forth to earn them their ratings.

    Yes, absolutely. By golly, you're right. That must be why I get paid all that money to develop software. Because I'm yet another clueless droid.

    If you want to see an example of my work, check out the .NET framework. Or a number of Sierra products. Or heck, even, if you want, you can read my article here:

    Code Project - Bip Buffer

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    Coming soon - pyrogyra