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Google Code Jam 2005 Winners Announced
Ember writes "The results of Google Code Jam are in. The winner is Marek Cygan from Warsaw University. Second prize goes to Erik-Jan Krijgsman from University of twente (Holland) and third to Pyotr Mitritchew from Moscow State University." Registration for the event took place back in July and Google reported a total of 14,500 registrants which is almost twice as many as last year, making for some stiff competition.
I guess Google didn't forget Poland.
sigfault. core dumped.
Google could also somehow get me to get a job as a developer with their competition. My code would break, guaranteed. Now THAT is using code as a weapon.
... was this a contest or a recruitment tool?
Yes.
(I would have thought that was obvious)
You're special forces then? That's great! I just love your olympics!
Well ultimatly as you stated information providing is a service. In the long run services are where the money is. In the theoretical future of nanotech/robots/anything you want created instantly that things of value will be
1. Land
2. Matter
3. Services
4. Energy (even if we discover practically free energy our energy requirements will go through the roof when we start constructing things from atoms and beaming things from one place to another)
People won't nessesarly be willing to pay you to cook dinner or build a house any machine can do that, but you will pay for a human waiter, and for someone to design your meals and design your house. All three of these can be done by a machine, but people will pay for the special care that humans can provide. And there will always be lawyers and protitutions.. Sorry repeating myself.
Bah...the next thing you know, they'll want me to put comments in my code!
You must be a Slashdot editor: Your HTML code is horrible and you can't count. Twente is just before Twentwune, not Thirte.
Ice?
So... it's to be expected that they'll beat us in a coding contest, because their students have been programming for an extra five centuries?
Couldn't agree more about education in the Middle East. I just got accepted under a full scholarship to Bin Laden University in Afganistan (or maybe it's Pakistan, can't remember).
Their placement office said that the job market for new hires is exploding. Starting salary is around 72 virgins per year for new graduates. Never heard of that currency but they said the exchange rate is around 10USD = 1 middle east virgin. Not too shabby considering US engineers only start around $40k USD.
Solve increasingly difficult algorithmic problems within a set time period? How about write a piece of enterprise software with no requirements, users you've never met, an analyst who can barely check their email, and a project manager thinks unit-tests and documentation are "Version 2" features? Welcome to my hell, college boy!