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Geek Olympics Code for Gold
Haydn Fenton writes "Wired has a recent article on the16th annual IOI (that's International Olympiad in Informatics), taking place in Athens from Sept 11th to Sept 18th. The 304 programmers from 80 countries will be competing in 7 marathon programming sessions to determine the world's fastest coder. The computers are being supplied by Altec and contestants will have a choice of using either Windows XP or RedHat 9.0. More information can be found on the IOI Website."
Just don't make them play beach volleyball..
*shudder*
Do the female Geeks get to wear those hot outfits like the Olympic Vollyball teams???
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How sweet would it be to have cheerleaders for this kind of thing?
What could be better than winning a gold in the Geek Olympics?
A> Not being a fucking geek I'd warrant.
Can you do my homework in c++ data structures????
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Engineering is the art of compromise.
This sounds too much like something contrived by corporate America.
No, thanks. I'll take the quality olympics.
It's like... "Who can build the next skyscraper the fastest? Now, who wants to occupy it?"
If you do what you always did, you get what you always got.
Let's just hope we can keep the doping scandals to a minimum.
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written on his back ran onto the floor and shoved the leader's chair into the crowd. Scooting the chair back into place cost the leader precious seconds and momentum which dropped him eventually to third place.
I thought they only used Windows in the International Special Olympiad in Informatics. :)
Somehow, unlike the "Athletic" Olympics, I don't think they're gonna need to hand out condoms.
Just personal lubricants...
In related news, the International Olympic Committee has sued the International Olympiad in Informatics for their illegal use of the organizations trademarks, copyrights, and software patents.
Personally, I think embarassing posts are more pathetic than posting emabarassingly. But that's because I don't write posts that convey no meaningful information in a transparent attempt at gaining karma.
The safest way to approach lava is to have another person with you and he goes first.
Which Lucky TV network gets to have continous coverage of these events?
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Here's a few suggestions on what to code:
1) Fastest "Hello World"
2) 1337 0w|\|a63 Code (XP vs. RH9)
3) First one to hack HURD out from Emacs
4) First one to find (or paste) SCOde into Linux (anonymously sponsored but the prize check was stamped from Utah)
5) First to hack AI for dancing Osimo-like Ballmer.
6) First to uninstall their OS and install/compile Gentoo
7) Program a game...'cause we could use another one of them fsckin' Space Invaders clones.
Just say 'webcam porn' industry and get it over with
And in related news, 304 programmers will be going to bed without a woman tonight...
Nope it's simpler than that- OS X was not allowed because of easy access to Objective C libraries. Cocoa is frowned on as a "Performance Enhancing Language"
Keep it fair folks.
Painful, if you get in the way.
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...have all the judges be programmers from AOL and Microsoft. The less it looks like their own code, the higher the score.
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The slowest coder will get The 3D Realms Award.