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Re:Amazon Code Ninjas by ghostdiver on Monday November 11, 2013 @03:58AM (#6710656)
How many of those tasks represent some real-world problem?
Re:Amazon Code Ninjas by twic on Monday November 11, 2013 @04:00AM (#6710669)
All of them. This is the back-end of Mechanical Turk.
Re:Amazon Code Ninjas by mkohlmyr on Monday November 11, 2013 @12:51PM (#6712854)
Hah, would it not be fab if someone combined an elance type service for small programming tasks with a technical recruitment tool for programmers.

Get applicants to write code for company X in order to get hired by company Y.