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Programming Contests - Worthwhile for Real Life?
Ustaad asks: "We are running some sort of a club in our University which has members who are interested in programming and related stuff. With many sites like TopCoder and Valladolid Online Judge providing heavy machinery practice equipments to programmers, the level of competition in programming contests like ACM ICPC have gone really high. However, we are finding it really difficult to motivate new entries to join our club. There are few key questions that we face from our members. Firstly, how important are these programming contest techniques for solving the real-world industrial problems? Secondly, Do employers really care about the achievements in programming contests while recruiting? And thirdly, what other advantages does one gain by venturing into these contests?"
AMD is better because they take the time and engineer the shit out of their product. 1. A 1600 mhz proc(Ath. XP 1900+) beat out a 2000 mhz proc(with 2x the L2 cache(512 kb)!) 2. Intel is always first to market, pushing FSB speed, but the have not been able to get proportionate performance gains. 3. The only reason Intel sells more is that their marketing dept. is 8x the size of AMD's. This concludes my random tirade of the day. For an unrelated and equally random tirade you might want to check out the article posted earlier in the day, Review:U-571