Ivan Miatselski, aka mystic, won Code Jam 2013 ($15,000 prize) and will be returning to #CodeJam 2014 to defend his title. (Two years ago) As well as all other advancers to Yandex.Algorithm finals, I’ve got an e-mail from Yandex today. I found some parts of the e-mail surprising. “Yandex invites you to participate in the whole Summer School, and will compensate your airplane tickets, will provide all the accomodations onsite. You should buy your tickets, save the check and the boarding pass, and we will return your money onsite.” (that alone perhaps would be fine) “We (Yandex) like programming competitions a lot, and we respect the champions, but we don’t … Continue reading Ivan Miatselski