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"Blog it" contest winners
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Petr
I've never interviewed people. I've never told stories. But I've won
the last year TCO algorithm contest -- and I've lost this year. Telling
whose tie is the best and how everyone was excited at the sponsor talk
will never be my strength -- but I can tell for sure how does it feel
to see 'System test failed' when you were so close.
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jmzero
I figure I've spent as much time programming as many professional
athletes have spent pursuing their chosen sport. Somehow, through all
that, I have managed to remain "not all that proficient". If Canada
picked a World Cup team for programming, I would be a very unlikely
choice.
It's particularly great, then, that the field at TopCoder is wide
enough to accomodate everyone.
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rajeshrathod
Luka the Genius
Yes he is a topcoder ("TOP"-COder), yes he is Red, yes he is a Target,
yes you see his handle in the home page, yes he is a Croation! Guess
Who is he?
I am sure many of you already have (of course), I am talking of none
other than the silent killer - Luka Kalinovcic,(better known as
Kalinov).
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d000hg
My name's John, and I'm a TopCoder.
I'm writing this here after a hard day at work. As I have 51
minutes until the deadline, it will not be a 10-times proof-read,
edited, corrected, re-edited piece of fine prose. But I think that's
rather appropriate for a blogging contest, don't you?
As I said, I'm a TopCoder. Not a token TopCoder, swelling the
ranks of "over 100,000 developers waiting to create your application",
but a real TopCoder.
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Larry
Between sophomore year and junior year in high school, we had nothing
better to do during the summer. Unlike other ambitious students, I
wasn't in a hurry to do the "usual" thing at Stuy - getting an
internship, volunteering, or all the other things you do to put on your
college application.
Fortunately, I did nothing with a group of good friends.
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Johan.de.Ruiter
Hi and welcome. I will try to carefully introduce you to the stuff I'm
about to show you, because I'm aware that it contains imagery that
could be regarded as shocking (especially to the people involved).
Now what is this all about? Well, last Friday seemed to me to be a good
opportunity to mix some math, some beer and some 320 rolls of toilet
paper into lots and lots of fun.
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purplii
If there is one thing Sydneysiders love then it would be fireworks,
cheering, parades and participation. (Okay so I didn?t mean one thing,
I meant many things!) And they wouldn?t have it any different on the
historical day when The Queen Mary II and Queen Elizabeth II met at the
fantabulous Sydney Harbor for the first time after World War II.
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When calculating the winner in this type of election, one can organize the data into a matrix.
You can see that matrix here. Each cell (row,col) indicates how many times row was preferred over col.
If row beat col, the cell will be red.
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