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Internet Problem Solving Contest 2004

Posted by simoniker on from the looking-quizzical dept.

misof writes "The sixth year of the annual Internet Problem Solving Contest (IPSC) will take place on Friday May 21st. IPSC is one of world's largest online programming contests with over 600 teams from more than 50 countries participating last year. The main purpose of IPSC is to compare problem solving skills of people from around the world and, of course, to have fun. IPSC is not oriented on a specific programming language instead you are given the input data and may produce the output data by any means. (This could actually be THE way to show your friends the superiority of both your skills and your favourite programming environment!) The contest is open for everybody and we invite you to participate!"

14 of 101 comments (clear)

  1. All the smartest people... by Plaeroma · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...in the world still can't fix the problem of stupid user syndrome.

  2. Time of Day by XanC · · Score: 4, Funny

    I know I won't be at my best at 6 in the morning...

  3. T-Shirt? by fore1337 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Can't I just get a T-Shirt, and *SAY* I participated?

  4. Whitespace Language by SirChris · · Score: 3, Funny

    What was the whitespace language from like 2 april fools' days ago. I'll use that.

  5. Cool, but.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny
    During the competition, do not read e-mails and www pages except the e-mails from the IPSC and the IPSC www pages.

    Don't think I could do it...

    Not even slashdot??!

  6. SUperior programming language by pdxdada · · Score: 5, Funny

    This could actually be THE way to show your friends the superiority of both your skills and your favourite programming environment!

    All the hours of practice, the computer science degrees, all the long dateless Friday nights coding, I now know they have led up to this contest. Why I can program anything, except for this emotion you call "love."

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  7. Glaven by lewko · · Score: 5, Funny
    This could actually be THE way to show your friends the superiority of both your skills and your favourite programming environment!

    Friends?

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  8. The most superior coding environment... by djcreamy · · Score: 4, Funny

    PHP? pfffft. Perl? pfffft. C++? pfffft. Hell I don't know even know of any more languages. Not that any of them matter. I can finally prove to the world that HTML is more than just font and table tags. HTML really is all you need to know. And I use Microsoft Frontpage. I'm SO gonna win.

    1. Re:The most superior coding environment... by Shivantrill · · Score: 3, Funny

      ASP, Bah!
      Shell Scripting, So 70s
      LISP, AWK, BASIC (Visual and DOS), Java, Javascript ... all pale in comparison to HTML
      I will SO join you. Lets show these so-called "real programmers" what some HTML magic can really do!
      You know I'm kidding right? right?!

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  9. Change of plans, guys... by shigelojoe · · Score: 5, Funny

    The competition has been outsourced to India.

  10. Internet Problem Solving? by tmk · · Score: 3, Funny

    I hope the participants code - a new AOL software - an Outlook-Skin for TheBat - a new IRC protocol and - WinXP Servicepack 3

  11. will take place on Friday May 21st. by Concerned+Onlooker · · Score: 3, Funny
    Thanks for the advance notice.

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  12. Re:suck rules by tesmako · · Score: 4, Funny

    That is just sadistic, they state problems that just scream 'Please use prolog to crunch me!' and then forbid symolic manipulators (read: prolog). It's like a drinking contest where you cant use your mouth :P

  13. Re:Prediction by thetroll123 · · Score: 3, Funny

    judging by the number of entries and the percentages of countries per entries

    Does it still count as a win for the country the team registered from if they outsource the actual work to India?