Lisp In Summer Projects: Coding Competition

Re:Lisp In Summer Projects: Coding Competition by pauldelany on Monday May 06, 2013 @06:16PM (#5665131)

"Q: Why can't citizens of Cuba, Iran, Myanmar (Burma), North Korea, Sudan, Syria, Brazil, Italy, Quebec, and Saudi Arabia participate? A: Lisp In Summer Projects is similar to Google's Code-It, which is where the requirement originated. Lisp In Summer Projects does not have access to Google's cadre of lawyers and cannot invite legal risk to ourselves, our associates or our sponsors."

-- what's up with Brazil, Italy and Quebec that they're on this list, can anyone tell me?

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Re:Lisp In Summer Projects: Coding Competition by kbrowne on Monday May 06, 2013 @06:31PM (#5665202)

Quebec has restrictive laws governing contests in which prizes are awarded.

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Re:Lisp In Summer Projects: Coding Competition by edran on Monday May 06, 2013 @09:19PM (#5665950)

This is the second time I see Italian people banned from a coding contest - the first being Google Code-in, but they had problems with paying under-age students [0]. Here instead you are allowed only if >18 years old, so I assume the problem lies in our monolithic and bloated taxes regulations.

Sigh.

[0] http://goo.gl/vnzL3

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Re:Lisp In Summer Projects: Coding Competition by aidenn0 on Tuesday May 07, 2013 @12:38AM (#5666539)

From the site FAQ, they just took the list from code-in without having a lawyer vet it.

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Re:Lisp In Summer Projects: Coding Competition by why-el on Monday May 06, 2013 @06:30PM (#5665194)

And Syria, and Sudan, and Saudi Arabia? As far as I can tell these countries are in good relation with the US, some even great allies.

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Re:Lisp In Summer Projects: Coding Competition by halter73 on Tuesday May 07, 2013 @02:45AM (#5666803)

Syria certainly does not have good relations with the US. Currently the White House is considering providing more, potentially lethal aid to Syrian rebels. The White House Press Secretary has stated it is "highly likely" that the Assad regime has used sarin nerve gas.

US relations with Sudan is not much better due to the humanitarian crisis in Darfur.

[1] http://bigstory.ap.org/article/white-house-assad-likely-behi... [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_response_to_the_W...

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Re:Lisp In Summer Projects: Coding Competition by gcr on Tuesday May 07, 2013 @10:51AM (#5668409)

Does this have to do with ITAR restrictions?

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Re:Lisp In Summer Projects: Coding Competition by moron4hire on Monday May 06, 2013 @07:36PM (#5665475)

so basically admitting to cargo cultism

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