Google Code Jam Winner Announced

Wild-eyed Visionary writes "According to the San Jose Mercury News, Jimmy Mardell, 25, of Stockholm, Sweden, beat out more than 5,000 coders to win $10,000 in Google's second annual Code Jam programming contest. Second place: Christopher Hendrie (Canada), third place: Eugene Vasilchenko (Russia), fourth place: Tomasz Czajka (Poland). Tom Rokicki, of dvips/Radical Eye Software fame, was the oldest finalist at age 40."

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A sad realization of self

[roninmagus]

It's a sad thing--if I'd won the money, I'd have just bought more computers. :(

Re:Anyone know...

[sulli]

Not enough coders willing to work for free or cheap at Google?

Re:Interesting that the winner was from Sweden....

[eddy]

I think we're seeing the results of having a large C64 and then Amiga demo scene.

Re:Bullshit

[ear2ground]

Google - Searching 3,307,998,701 web pages:

Google Search: Altavista
First site returned: [altavista.com]
Hmm..... returns the 'competitor' - commies?
Or worse - liberals!
;~0

Altavista searching worldwide: Google
First site returned: [hoovers.com]

Serves business first - you're right - very American.

jimmy mardell's other achievements

[p4r4d0x]

Besides his calculator endeavors jimmy's also a known fast typer :)

#23 all time on typerA [jouko.iki.fi].