Comment Re:... but if you live in mom's basement (Score 1) 478
Most of the competitors don't live in Mom's basement, many earn more than enough money not to have to do that. In addition, one of the finalists was just hired by Google, and UBS, one of the sponsors of the event has made two hires so far from the field of TopCoder competitors in the last year or two. VeriSign has also hired many TopCoder competitors and were a sponsor at this year's event.....
