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The World's Greatest Competitive Programmer

Posted by timothy on from the wait-for-the-congressional-hearings dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Technology Review profiles Petr Mitrichev, who has since 2005 dominated the world of competitive programming, a little known sport where competitors furiously code for five hours in pursuit of glory and cash prizes worth tens of thousands of dollars. Mitrichev now works for Google, and competes only for leisure, but is still ranked number one. Many large tech companies, such as Facebook and Google, now sponsor and pay close attention to competitive coding contests, seeing them as a place to recruit new talent."

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  1. LOL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Might as well have a world's greatest virgin competition...

    1. Re:LOL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

      not a chip. it's the truth most peoples' egos won't allow them to see.

    2. Re:LOL by mcgrew · · Score: -1, Troll

      What does "imao" stand for, "ignoring my ass off?" Oops, sorry. You're just too lazy to use the shift key. Does your resume look like that? Do you think it looks "133t" or something? Well, it doesn't. It makes you look like a punk teenager trying to be cool, and makes your writing unreadable. BTW, I noticed the AC you responded to was also a lazy fuckoff who can't use the shift key, no wonder he can't find a job.

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