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Re:Instagram Engineer Challenge solved with Javascript by carnevalem on Tuesday November 15, 2011 @06:44PM (#3240927)
You might also be interested in DARPA's similar challenge: http://www.shredderchallenge.com/
Re:Instagram Engineer Challenge solved with Javascript by espes on Wednesday November 16, 2011 @01:08AM (#3242055)
Or for a similar, easier task, problem 3 "life" from this year's FARIO: http://orac.amt.edu.au/fario/11/problems_en.pdf

Here's case 8 to give you an idea: http://i.imgur.com/1fFzO.png :P

Test data here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/76985/life-all-linux.zip