Google Code Jam Registration Opens Today

Bamfarooni writes "Registration for Google Code Jam 2006 opens today. The event consists of 3 online rounds (September 5-6, September 14 and September 19,) in which participants compete to solve three coding problems faster and more accurately than their competitors. If you've got what it takes, and more of it than anyone else, then you can take home up to $10k for your code-fu."

Comments

Definitely an American code jam

[br00tus]

A look at who is not eligible to participate shows that it includes "citizens of Iran, Cuba..." etc. I have been reading the Advogato blog of roozbeh for a while, an Iranian who is pissed off he can't participate. Here is a middle class Iranian who wants to participate in something like this and he is shown the door. Of course maybe there's some legal reasons for Google to do this, one can look at their kow-towing to the Chinese government to see it wouldn't be for any ethical reason.

Roozbeh is the one who got me thinking about this, about how this fun worldwide code contest is marred by a no thank you to those countries on their hands and knees to the US elite. On the news you'd think all Iranians are screaming bloodythirsty people in the dark ages, these restrictions help people forget that there are normal hackers like anyone like Roozbeh, I guess they want to dehumanize and alienate us from Iranians so it will be easier to go to war with them. I guess with policies like this, the US government is trying to keep Iranians in the dark ages. Then there's Cuba, the only country in Latin America not on its hands and knees to the US (although Venezuela has not been so over the last few years either). I'm not religious but it reminds me of Daniel 3:4-6 "To you it is commanded, O people, nations, and languages, that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of music, ye fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king hath set up: and whoso falleth not down and worshippeth shall the same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace."

Re:Recruiting

[TheRaven64]

Are the problems going to be more interesting this year? I looked at last year's questions, but they seemed very dull; the kind of things any first year computer science student ought to be able to find an optimal solution to.

I don't think I am one of the top 100 coders in the world, and so if I entered I probably wouldn't win any money. This being the case, the only reason to enter would be for the intellectual challenge; something which seems to be missing. And Google wonder why they have a problem recruiting in the UK...