My sister is famous

Nov 05, 2007 09:03

Or at least, the Star Ledger quoted Kate Renaud about why she does programming contests.

"My friends ask, 'Why would you do that?'" said Kaitlin Renaud, 20, a Princeton junior, admitting it's difficult to explain to non-programmers the allure of rising early on a Sunday morning to do battle on a screen. "I really can't tell them. ... But it's ( Read more... )

icpc, acm, greater new york

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larrytc November 8 2007, 19:14:56 UTC
Wow, do they have the problem set up yet? It seems like an awful typing contest (and I'm damn good at those too!) with everyone and their mom solving tons of problems..

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ru_linux_geek November 8 2007, 19:18:29 UTC
I don't know if the problems are up, but benetin said that the problems are all just slight variations on older problem sets from the same region. It's pretty sad that the contest was this easy.

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She's lying ... anonymous December 1 2007, 04:00:32 UTC
she doesn't really think it's fun

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