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摘要

Spin the globe, looking for elite computer-programming talent. Now let your finger stop in Ekaterinburg in Siberia. At an obscure Russian startup, Alexander Yakunin, a theoretical physicist by training, is writing brilliant code. How in the world are you supposed to find him? A few years ago such out-of-the-way stars were invisible to U.S. recruiters. Today it's much easier to spot them. Thanks to a flurry of online programming contests that attract entrants worldwide, it's possible to identify coders who do Caltech-quality work, even if they live halfway around the world and earned their degrees at Ural State University.