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."

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And in other news

[toolz]

The KDE Project announces KDE.in.

This is a direct outcome of the the recently concluded FOSS.IN/2005 conference.

Re:Give me the winner's code, and

[smittyoneeach]

I dunno. I was just delving into the joy of SQLServer. I wanted to query against a DATETIME field, and build a string, say, "FY05" from that field.
Lot of cognitive dissonance how that game is played. I guess they have a lot of that calculation stuff sitting right in the database engine, as opposed to farming it out to an expression library when evaluating the query.
Not the cleanest looking thing I've ever seen, he said, not really wanting to troll.
Truly, I wish that the project could just use PostGREsql, and compile in Python support, but I guess I'd have to start my own company to achieve such feats of common sense.