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The EngineYard Contest is becoming a lottery of smarts. The ability to build or find the best solution increases your odds.

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And yet: the human and CPU effort expended will exceed the prize value by many multiples, which is why I consider this the Swoopo of computing contests.

And for those concerned with such things: think of the carbon footprint! <:gazes down at the co2stats insert at the bottom of every HN page>

I doubt a contest like this is really about the prize for many people. It's an opportunity for people to play around with code and learn.

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