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Comrade, You Are So Not Getting a Dell

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the touchy-touchy dept.

theodp writes "At the World Economic Forum, Michael Dell's pitch to help Russia with its computers got the cold-as-Siberia shoulder from Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. 'We don't need help,' shot back Putin. 'We are not invalids. We don't have limited mental capacity' (video — rant starts at 1:24). 'Our programmers are some of the best in the world,' Putin continued. 'No one would contest that here — not even our Indian colleagues.'"

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  1. TopCoder by CaffeineAddict2001 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    According to the TopCoder algorithm competition stats:

    1 Russian Federation 2930.06
    2 China 2843.33
    3 Poland 2842.79
    4 Ukraine 2557.06
    5 Japan 2483.83
    6 Canada 2426.56
    7 United States 2320.98
    8 Slovakia 2291.73
    9 South Korea 2226.98
    10 Belarus 2206.81

    Let's just hope the next war isn't fought with robots.