Geek Olympics Code for Gold

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Geek Olympics Code for Gold 243

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday September 15, 2004 @10:00PM from the synchronized-clicking dept.

Haydn Fenton writes "Wired has a recent article on the16th annual IOI (that's International Olympiad in Informatics), taking place in Athens from Sept 11th to Sept 18th. The 304 programmers from 80 countries will be competing in 7 marathon programming sessions to determine the world's fastest coder. The computers are being supplied by Altec and contestants will have a choice of using either Windows XP or RedHat 9.0. More information can be found on the IOI Website."

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Great! (Score:5, Funny)

by Fortress ( 763470 ) writes: on Wednesday September 15, 2004 @10:02PM (#10262224) Homepage

Just don't make them play beach volleyball..

*shudder*

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Yey Baby! (Score:5, Funny)

by mbrewthx ( 693182 ) writes: on Wednesday September 15, 2004 @10:02PM (#10262227)

Do the female Geeks get to wear those hot outfits like the Olympic Vollyball teams???

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How sweet would it be... (Score:5, Funny)

by DumbWhiteGuy777 ( 654327 ) writes: on Wednesday September 15, 2004 @10:04PM (#10262239)

How sweet would it be to have cheerleaders for this kind of thing?

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What could be better? (Score:4, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday September 15, 2004 @10:06PM (#10262251)

What could be better than winning a gold in the Geek Olympics?

A> Not being a fucking geek I'd warrant.

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Re:Yey Baby! (Score:5, Funny)

by irokitt ( 663593 ) writes: <archimandrites-iaur@@@yahoo...com> on Wednesday September 15, 2004 @10:06PM (#10262253)

Do we really want them to?

Most of the female geeks I've met haven't looked much better than their stereotypical male counterparts.

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Re:Great! (Score:5, Funny)

by k0ft ( 812724 ) writes: on Wednesday September 15, 2004 @10:07PM (#10262260) Homepage

Just don't make them play beach volleyball..

shhhhh... Dont let them hear that, they might start playing ddr.

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if you win... (Score:2, Funny)

by smartsaga ( 804661 ) writes: on Wednesday September 15, 2004 @10:07PM (#10262264)

Can you do my homework in c++ data structures????

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Coffee is not allowed! (Score:5, Funny)

by EmbeddedJanitor ( 597831 ) writes: on Wednesday September 15, 2004 @10:10PM (#10262281)

Urine checks after every line of code.

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Hold up... (Score:5, Funny)

by blueforce ( 192332 ) writes: <clannagael@gmaCHEETAHil.com minus cat> on Wednesday September 15, 2004 @10:10PM (#10262285) Homepage Journal

This sounds too much like something contrived by corporate America.

No, thanks. I'll take the quality olympics.

It's like... "Who can build the next skyscraper the fastest? Now, who wants to occupy it?"

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Scandal (Score:4, Funny)

by MikeMacK ( 788889 ) writes: on Wednesday September 15, 2004 @10:10PM (#10262288)

Let's just hope we can keep the doping scandals to a minimum.

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Remember the Last Marathon? (Score:5, Funny)

by Hypharse ( 633766 ) writes: on Wednesday September 15, 2004 @10:12PM (#10262299)

I remember the last time....a brazilian was in the lead with only a couple functions left. Then out of nowhere a drunk irishman with the words
"I use FreeBSD you insensitive clods!"
written on his back ran onto the floor and shoved the leader's chair into the crowd. Scooting the chair back into place cost the leader precious seconds and momentum which dropped him eventually to third place.

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Re:What could be better? (Score:5, Funny)

by Draconix ( 653959 ) writes: on Wednesday September 15, 2004 @10:12PM (#10262301)

What could be better than winning a gold in the Geek Olympics?

Having a girlfriend.

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Wait a sec (Score:5, Funny)

by StevenHenderson ( 806391 ) writes: <stevehenderson.gmail@com> on Wednesday September 15, 2004 @10:14PM (#10262312)

The computers are being supplied by Altec and contestants will have a choice of using either Windows XP or RedHat 9.0
I thought they only used Windows in the International Special Olympiad in Informatics. :)

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Re:What could be better? (Score:3, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday September 15, 2004 @10:15PM (#10262316)

Reminds of something I heard:
"Even if you win the Gold at the Special Olympics...you're still retarded."

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Condoms. (Score:5, Funny)

by xotx69 ( 571221 ) writes: on Wednesday September 15, 2004 @10:17PM (#10262325)

Somehow, unlike the "Athletic" Olympics, I don't think they're gonna need to hand out condoms.

Just personal lubricants...

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Re:How sweet would it be... (Score:5, Funny)

by weenis ( 656512 ) writes: on Wednesday September 15, 2004 @10:18PM (#10262332)

not sweet at all!
nobody would get any coding done!

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In related news (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday September 15, 2004 @10:18PM (#10262333)

In related news, the International Olympic Committee has sued the International Olympiad in Informatics for their illegal use of the organizations trademarks, copyrights, and software patents.

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Re:Code fast or Fast Code? (Score:5, Funny)

by BizidyDizidy ( 689383 ) writes: on Wednesday September 15, 2004 @10:22PM (#10262357)

Personally, I think embarassing posts are more pathetic than posting emabarassingly. But that's because I don't write posts that convey no meaningful information in a transparent attempt at gaining karma.

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Network (Score:3, Funny)

by mixtape5 ( 762922 ) writes: <hckymanr@yahoo.com> on Wednesday September 15, 2004 @10:24PM (#10262367) Journal

Which Lucky TV network gets to have continous coverage of these events?

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Suggestions for Coding: (Score:3, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday September 15, 2004 @10:32PM (#10262425)

Here's a few suggestions on what to code:

1) Fastest "Hello World"
2) 1337 0w|\|a63 Code (XP vs. RH9)
3) First one to hack HURD out from Emacs
4) First one to find (or paste) SCOde into Linux (anonymously sponsored but the prize check was stamped from Utah)
5) First to hack AI for dancing Osimo-like Ballmer.
6) First to uninstall their OS and install/compile Gentoo
7) Program a game...'cause we could use another one of them fsckin' Space Invaders clones.

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Re:Scandal (Score:2, Funny)

by britneys 9th husband ( 741556 ) writes: on Wednesday September 15, 2004 @10:33PM (#10262427) Homepage Journal

As long as caffeine isn't on the list of banned substances, I don't think they have anything to worry about.

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Who proofreads these things? (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday September 15, 2004 @10:37PM (#10262452)

the16th annual IOI (that's International Olympiad in Informatics)

Actually, that's 5.

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Re:Code fast or Fast Code? (Score:5, Funny)

by Lord_Slepnir ( 585350 ) writes: on Wednesday September 15, 2004 @10:39PM (#10262460) Journal

real-time media industry
Just say 'webcam porn' industry and get it over with

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Re:Yey Baby! (Score:5, Funny)

by Chess_the_cat ( 653159 ) writes: on Wednesday September 15, 2004 @10:58PM (#10262532) Homepage

My programming teacher in High School was also a Chip-n-Dale
Your teacher was a chipmunk? I think you meant Chippendale. lol.

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LOL (Score:2, Funny)

by d2_m_viant ( 811261 ) writes: on Wednesday September 15, 2004 @10:59PM (#10262539)

And in related news, 304 programmers will be going to bed without a woman tonight...

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Cocoa is a PEL (Score:5, Funny)

by ProfessionalCookie ( 673314 ) writes: on Wednesday September 15, 2004 @11:11PM (#10262588) Journal

Nope it's simpler than that- OS X [apple.com] was not allowed because of easy access to Objective C [apple.com] libraries. Cocoa is frowned on as a "Performance Enhancing Language"

Keep it fair folks.

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Re:Live Boardcasting? (Score:3, Funny)

by Fancia ( 710007 ) writes: on Wednesday September 15, 2004 @11:16PM (#10262599)

Painful, if you get in the way.

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Simple... (Score:3, Funny)

by Draconix ( 653959 ) writes: on Wednesday September 15, 2004 @11:20PM (#10262621)

...have all the judges be programmers from AOL and Microsoft. The less it looks like their own code, the higher the score.

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Re:How sweet would it be... (Score:5, Funny)

by polecat_redux ( 779887 ) writes: <[moc.liamg] [ta] [hciwmaps]> on Thursday September 16, 2004 @12:28AM (#10263124)

Gimmie a 'p'.
Gimmie an 'r'.
Gimmie an 'i'.
Gimmie an 'n'.
Gimmie a 't'.
Gimmie an 'f'.
What does it spell?

NERD!

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Slowest coder (Score:4, Funny)

by osvejda ( 799137 ) writes: on Thursday September 16, 2004 @03:07AM (#10263728)

The slowest coder will get The 3D Realms [3drealms.com] Award.

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Geek Olympics Code for Gold

Great! (Score:5, Funny)

Yey Baby! (Score:5, Funny)

How sweet would it be... (Score:5, Funny)

What could be better? (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Yey Baby! (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Great! (Score:5, Funny)

if you win... (Score:2, Funny)

Coffee is not allowed! (Score:5, Funny)

Hold up... (Score:5, Funny)

Scandal (Score:4, Funny)

Remember the Last Marathon? (Score:5, Funny)

Re:What could be better? (Score:5, Funny)

Wait a sec (Score:5, Funny)

Re:What could be better? (Score:3, Funny)

Condoms. (Score:5, Funny)

Re:How sweet would it be... (Score:5, Funny)

In related news (Score:1, Funny)

Re:Code fast or Fast Code? (Score:5, Funny)

Network (Score:3, Funny)

Suggestions for Coding: (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Scandal (Score:2, Funny)

Who proofreads these things? (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Code fast or Fast Code? (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Yey Baby! (Score:5, Funny)

LOL (Score:2, Funny)

Cocoa is a PEL (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Live Boardcasting? (Score:3, Funny)

Simple... (Score:3, Funny)

Re:How sweet would it be... (Score:5, Funny)

Slowest coder (Score:4, Funny)

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