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Meet the Michael Jordan of Sport Coding
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.
He won silver medal at international informatics olympiad and he is a college dropout. He is probably the smartest programmer i know. The people saying that a guy like that can't integrate systems or write code in large complex systems don't know what they are talking about. He now writes linux kernel code, that's pretty complex most of the times. I saw some pretty cool optimizations from him in code that was already written/tested to be high performance. Some people who think about themselves great coders should really try to solve at least one DIV1 topcoder problem.