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From: "Harald Korneliussen" <vintermann@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: ada is getting spanked :(
Date: 1 Nov 2006 06:31:53 -0800
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Ok, then, I moderate myself somewhat. Topcoder isn't a swindle, it's a
rip-off. They get people to develop software components for them for
almost nothing, by calling it a competition. I don't think the alleged
gains to reputation and experience are valuable enough to compensate
for this - don't you get that at regular employers too, if you do a
reasonably good job?

No, there is one software competition I have way more respect for, and
that is the ICFP. No prizes, but extremely impressing displays of skill
(as well as truly original challenges). It's may be a little biased for
tasks that functional languages are suited for (despite what they say),
but notetheless.