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Geek Olympics Code for Gold

Posted by samzenpus on from the synchronized-clicking dept.

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."

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  1. Great! by Fortress · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just don't make them play beach volleyball..

    *shudder*

    1. Re:Great! by k0ft · · Score: 5, Funny

      Just don't make them play beach volleyball..

      shhhhh... Dont let them hear that, they might start playing ddr.

  2. Yey Baby! by mbrewthx · · Score: 5, Funny

    Do the female Geeks get to wear those hot outfits like the Olympic Vollyball teams???

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  3. How sweet would it be... by DumbWhiteGuy777 · · Score: 5, Funny

    How sweet would it be to have cheerleaders for this kind of thing?

    1. Re:How sweet would it be... by weenis · · Score: 5, Funny

      not sweet at all!
      nobody would get any coding done!

    2. Re:How sweet would it be... by polecat_redux · · Score: 5, Funny

      Gimmie a 'p'.
      Gimmie an 'r'.
      Gimmie an 'i'.
      Gimmie an 'n'.
      Gimmie a 't'.
      Gimmie an 'f'.
      What does it spell?

      NERD!

  4. Remember the Last Marathon? by Hypharse · · Score: 5, Funny
    I remember the last time....a brazilian was in the lead with only a couple functions left. Then out of nowhere a drunk irishman with the words

    "I use FreeBSD you insensitive clods!"

    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.

  5. Condoms. by xotx69 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Somehow, unlike the "Athletic" Olympics, I don't think they're gonna need to hand out condoms.

    Just personal lubricants...

  6. Re:Code fast or Fast Code? by BizidyDizidy · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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