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Competing to Work for Microsoft
theodp writes "Addressing 5,000 developers in Bangalore, Bill Gates announced the Code4Bill contest, a nationwide talent hunt which will begin in January and last eight months. Twenty finalists will receive internships with Microsoft India before one Superhero is selected to join Mr. Gates's own team."
I saw this movie once...
That's interesting. What are they going to do to the second one that's voted off the team?
this reminds me of Mr. Trump. Just dont know how!
Does the winner or loser of this competition get to code for Bill? :-)
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
If I lived in India, I think just for fun I would participate in this contest, and then when I win (because I am of course the best dev in the world), I will tell Balmer "I am sorry but actually I think I am gonna work for Google. Bye ! Oh BTW, nice chair you have there. Have a nice day !".
Compete to sell your soul huh? Sounds good, Where do I sign up?
I'm not fat, just big boned...
Sounds like the final push to get Vista out the door is on! Winner gets to stay on as scapegoat for any problems encountered.
Twenty finalists will receive internships with Microsoft India before one Superhero is selected to join Mr. Gates's own team.
It sounds like Bill Gates has watched just a bit too many episodes of The Apprentice.
Think of all the chicks you'd get...
That didn't take long at all.
Addressing 5,000 developers in Bangalore, Bill Gates announced the Code4Bill contest
As opposed to the "Code4Food" contest that they've been participating in?
I ate lunch with Donald Trump, I knew Donald Trump, Donald Trump was a client of mine. Mr. Gates, you are no Donald Trump.
- Tjp
I am in wallow with my inner money grubbing capitalistic pig. ... Oink!
Thank you, I'll be here all week.
And when you gaze long enough into the code, the code will also gaze into you.
Wouldn't it be cool if whoever won this contest turned down the job offer?
From TFA:
"I want to be like him. I am a huge admirer," said 24-year old Naveen Rao, a development engineer with the outsourcing company Aditi Technologies.
Well, for starters, you need to drop out of an elite college just before you would have been thrown out for skipping classes. If you've already earned a college degree, forget everything you've learned. Get the point here? Next, since you're mom is rich and has big business connections through charity work, use those connections to steal someone elses product (a crappy OS simular to CPM) and pass it off as yours to a big dumb company with deep pockets.
Are you getting the point now? After a few years of screwing the company you sold the product to, cut a deal with them to make a better product. Screw them over again by stealing yet another product by hijacking a product team working nearby that's been cancled (perhaps its a GUI on top of VMS by a guy named Cavid Duttler). Use this stolen product team to plow the compnay that gave you the big start (don't worry, your mom's friend moved on long ago).
Is it starting to sink in yet? From there, you just keep going with whatever makes you money and screws hard working programmers over. Hijack a web browser from some poor startup (make sure they rhyme with "eyeglass").
Through all of this, if you want to go after something, just throw money at it and duplicate features other companies have done the hard work for. By version 3 you'll figure it out more or less. If not, you can just spend them out of the market.
Truth is, if you want to be like Bill Gates, all you don't need any technical tallent. And, if you admire Bill Gates, you have a serious lack of ethics.
*** Sigs are a stupid waste of bandwidth.
"it's like competing in the special olympics. Even if you win, you're still retarded"
NOTE: the above is a *joke*. If you do not have a sense of humor, please ignore this comment and move on.
1. Whoever makes the first blue screen, wins!
2. Flying chairs screensavers earn a second place.
3. the third place, Assistant programmer, will be awarded to the one who makes a program whose clippy assistant says "Developers Developers Developers!" repeatedly.
4. Everyone in the country will be accepted to participate.
4b. Except in Nebraska!
So on Bill Gates team you get the privledge of getting coffee for the richest man in the world. Ah, status.
Nope, that's a part of "code4sony". Get yer facts straight :)
-- Linux user #369862
But in Soviet Russia, Bill codes for you!
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Wow, I'm glad to know I'm not the only one who has felt that way. I've worked with other outsourcers in Eastern Europe, and the code from their senior devs was always comparable to US senior devs. With India outsourcing, though, I usually feel it would take me less time to write the code myself than it does to code read and fix what I get. Here is an example:
boolean isBarSelected = bar.isSelected();
boolean returnValue;
if (isBarSelected) {
returnValue = true;
} else {
returnValue = false;
}
return returnValue;
Why in god's name would someone ever write code like this?
You left out a few lines:
boolean isBarSelected = bar.isSelected();
boolean returnValue;
boolean result;
if (isBarSelected) {
result = true;
}
if (!isBarSelected){
result = false;
}
if (isBarSelected && !isBarSelected) {
result = false;
}
returnValue = result;
return returnValue;
I actually saw code like this in a production system only it was far worse. Said code was framed on my office wall.
Willy Wanker and the Software Factory. What bad things could happen to the 19 people who don't win?