After Raphie blew away the crowd and judges (one of them offered him an internship at Facebook, another at Google), I had the opportunity to connect with him and chat about his project, how he learned to hack at the tender age of 15, and which companies excite him right now.

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Mere chat about the Elwha project already seems to have emboldened foes of dams on the Snake river in Washington state and Idaho.

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Bernie Marcus used to warn salesclerks that he would bite off the finger of the next one he caught pointing a customer toward where to find something. (The clerk is supposed to walk you there and chat you up about your project along the way.) Marcus would have a mouthful of digits if he had followed this reporter over the last few weeks.

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We were able to chat with head of Club Penguin, Chris Heatherly, about the project.

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We chat about the regime, Suu Kyi, the Irrawaddy delta reclamation project, the difficulty of getting good beef, former drug baron Law Sitt Han.

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