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		ghostdiver on Nov 11, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Amazon Code Ninjas How many of those tasks represent some real-world problem?

twic on Nov 11, 2013 [–]

All of them. This is the back-end of Mechanical Turk.

mkohlmyr on Nov 11, 2013 | [–]

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.

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