Chicken Little:Ok, I hate to be impatient here, but when will we know who won the competition? Actually, what I want more is to see the other entries. Is it possible to post all the entries before the winner is actually announced?
You're not the only one nervously reloading http://omg.worsethanfailure.com/ every five minutes. However, I think they're going to announce it when they announce it. I mean, they have a pile of @$#! 350 entries tall to wade through. (And I proudly include my entry as, hopefully, significantly contributing to the stink.)
It took them[1] two days to get through 250 entries. They've had another two days since then, so they've probably compiled everything and run it by now. Probably. Which means they now have the task of deciding. They are probably busy reading code, READMEs, SOLUTIONs and what have you. They must choose amonst bad, atrocious, and vomitous interfaces wrapped around spaghetti, rotten, crufty, kludgy engines.
"Is this enterprisey themed entry better than this legacy code entry?" "OMG, What the hell did this guy do with polymorphism." "Geez, I'm glad I don't have to maintain his code." "Ugh, that's an obnoxious interface... Extra points."
It would seem that compiling all the entries is only the first 90% of the job. Hopefully, they're well into the second 90%. Otherwise, this could take months.
[1] By 'them', I, of course, mean Intern Boyd.
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