Russian Programmers Dominate At Google Code Jam

New submitter Migala77 writes "Now that the third round for Google Code Jam is finished and only 25 contestants are left, we can look at which nationalities performed well and which didn't. Code Jam contestant foxlit has the stats, and some interesting things can be seen. Although there were over 3000 contestants from India in the qualification round (17% of the total) , only 3 of those managed to reach the third round (0.7% of the round 3 contestants) . This in contrast to Russia with 77 out of 747, and Belarus with 13 out of 114 reaching the third round. The U.S. performed somewhat below average too, with only 25 out of 2166 contestants making it to the third round."

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Re:It's the cold and Isolation

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but yes, people should have access to computers in prison.

I'm just one of those old-fashoned type people that think that prison should be a strong deterrent against breaking the law. Violate someone else's rights and find yourself in a hole with all your privileges taken away for awhile.

As it is now, go to prison, get free health care, free internet access, free weight room, free cable tv, free library, free sports, free laundry, free education, free housing, free food, free clothing, free dental.

Must be nice. This is deterrent to commit crime? Sounds more like incentive to!

Now some of that I can see as helpful to rehabilitation. But some of it is spoiling them (weight room, cable tv) and a lot of the rest they should have to work for while they're there instead of putting the tab on my taxes. They violate my rights, then the state charges me for it, lovely system we have here.