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Google Code Jam Registration Opens Today

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the best-and-brightest dept.

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."

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  1. A *whole* $10k? by Colin+Smith · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Hmm, the difference between cost and value again. Beads for the natives mate...

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    1. Re:A *whole* $10k? by Rakishi · · Score: 2, Insightful

      College students have time to burn and the people who enter probably consider this to be fun (personally I find interesting problems to be fun). Some people choose to value their life by how much they enjoy it and not by how much money they can make. Others may view this as a good way of making connections, a name for oneself or to impress potential future employers.

      If I was a true coder and didn't already have plans for the dates in question I would strongly consider it. Seems like a fun and interesting thing to do.

      You are right in some ways, note that many of the winners were from the former USSR where the standard of living is lower, unemployment higher (especially among the youth) but education is still strong. To them this is probably both much more fun and provides a better payoff (including a US work visa potentially) than the alternatives.

    2. Re:A *whole* $10k? by Bamfarooni · · Score: 2, Insightful

      $10k for 3 hours of work? If you can beat that, I sure would like to know about it.

    3. Re:A *whole* $10k? by Rakishi · · Score: 2, Insightful

      The potential for $10k given 3 hours of work, just like the lottery is the potential for $x million given $1 and 30 seconds of work. Also without preparing (a lot possibly) before hand the chances of getting that are fairly slim.

  2. Would be nice... by julesh · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ... if they included some previous questions with their previous results. That way, you could know what these people had done in order to win the prizes they won. Would be much more interesting than a table with apparently meaningless numbers in it.

  3. Bad timing for university students! by 5plicer · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The qualification round coincides with my first week of classes :(

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  4. Actually I get paid extra. by FatSean · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You say that like it is a bad thing. I'd rather keep my well-paid job than get a measly $10,000 and 'recognition'.

    I get money for rising to challenges, money for patents filed, money for new ideas. Of course it helps keep me away from the killing floor when job-cuts come arround, but I've survived 11 years...I'm doing pretty well.

    This is the Republican America, where 9-5 is a dream. Just accept that you need to work a little harder than most countries...in order to benefit from a richer life-style than most countries, and you will understand.

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