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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. Bullshit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Last time I checked, Google was an AMERICAN company. You think that they would have the decency or the patriotism to give at least one award to an AMERICAN. Sorry Google but you are no longer my search engine of choice. Altavista here I come.

  2. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 0, Troll

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  3. No Americans by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    An interesting thing americans should notice is that no americans won.

  4. Not worth it by Amsterdam+Vallon · · Score: -1, Troll

    The first prize was only $10,000. This means that 99.9% of all applicants spent at least a hundred hours of their own time for nothing -- no reward, no fame, etc.

    One-hundred hours of my time is worth about $7,000 (100 hours * 70 dollars per hour salary).

    I think it's obvious to see who the losers are in this deal -- the contestants who were conned by a company who should be doing their own R&D and not making fake contests that barely compensate for the time it takes to enter the contest.

    Sorry, but you've been had people.

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  5. Re:Anyone know... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Although they haven't updated the main 'codejam' page, one linked further in has the list of problems and winners for 2003 Code Jam.

  6. Re:Google - Champion of the Common Man by FunkSoulBrother · · Score: 0, Troll

    Eh. I'd rather frequent a company that was interested in making labor feel good, rather than the customer.

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

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  8. Sure nigger lover by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I will go against your company of wogs and niggers against my company of White Boys..

  9. Ok, so what was there to "get" in Reloaded ? by GreenEggsAndHam · · Score: -1, Troll

    Go on then, tell me why the drivel the brothers served us should not be disregarded as aimless ramblings ? I'm curious, educate me.

  10. Re:my school career belongs to Jimmy Mardell by cybermace5 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Well then, if I had mod points, I would mod you up for saying you would mod me up if you had mod points. Actually I let about four mod points expire last week.

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