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Dublin Code Jam
Google Dublin hosted the finals for the Code Jam Europe 2006. 10,000 registrants competed in Three rounds, with 50 finalists being flow to Dublin for the major final competition. 15 Countries were represented in the finals. Earlier this year, Google had Code Jams in China and India. Another Code Jam is set for this Fall. Tomasz Czajka won the €2500 grand prize, and Petr Mitricheve from Russia took home second, with Roman Elizarov from Russia taking third, both grabbing €1000 each.
You can ensure that these winners will be watched, or have offers from Google, and other high end tech companies in the upcoming days. Google has some video of the CodeJam on Google Video. Good show!
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
