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Meet the Michael Jordan of Sport Coding

Posted by timothy on from the who-is-michael-jordan? dept.

pacopico writes: Gennady Korotkevich — aka Tourist — has spent a decade ruling the world of sport coding. He dominates TopCoder, Codeforces and just about every tournament sponsored by the likes of Google and Facebook. Bloomberg has profiled Korotkevich's rise through the sport coding ranks and taken a deep look at what makes this sport weirdly wonderful. The big takeaway from the piece seems to be that sport coding has emerged as a way for very young coders to make names for themselves and get top jobs — sometimes by skipping college altogether.

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  1. He's discovered the Ballmer peak by marovada · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ballmer peak

  2. I absolutely love self-taught programmers! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    And many of us self-taught get paid very well for it.

    I'm thankful for this each and every day! You people make my life so much easier.

    See, my job is to come along and fix the many, many mistakes that self-taught programmers tend to make.

    These self-taught programmers create absolutely monstrous software disasters. These systems are utterly broken from top to bottom.

    Thanks to my many years of formal education and experience, I know how to easily avoid the mistakes that these untrained amateurs make time and time again.

    I take completely broken software systems hacked together by self-taught programmers, and turn them into reliable systems that actually work.

    Yes, that often does mean throwing away most, if not all, of your work. But if it weren't for all of these self-taught programmers half-assing it all over the place, I wouldn't have a job!

    In fact, the more you get paid, the more I eventually get paid when I clean up your disaster! You guys set the baseline high, which I then get to multiply many times over.

    Keep doing what you're doing! I'm actually really looking forward to the crap you guys will do with Rust. I see it's getting more and more hype, and I know that it won't live up to this hype. I'm going to have many lucrative years ahead replacing awful Rust code with working C++ code, I do believe!