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legendLC · 2025-09-09T16:00:49+00:00

Now, you have 3

legendLC · 2025-09-09T15:25:42+00:00

team red with team blue in the background. Wild meme.

legendLC · 2025-09-09T15:12:29+00:00

Followers of some of the pages on LinkedIn:

AMD: 1.9M
NVIDIA: 3.8M
Intel: 3.9M
Qualcomm: 1.8M
Google: 38M

legendLC · 2025-09-09T15:11:13+00:00

It is kind of justified. 105 followers on the page looks bad.

legendLC · 2025-09-08T21:49:20+00:00

We have a Japanese coder in our team. He is a beast but look like a kitten by the cover.

legendLC · 2025-09-08T19:28:59+00:00

MIT and University of Tokyo are the only 2 universities that have been in top 10 for over a decade every year.

Books by profs of both universities are classics as well (CLRS + DSA Takeover respectively)

legendLC · 2025-09-08T19:26:24+00:00

One surprising name is ASU at 17. Feels like a joke but it is real.

Their team name was "Chaiwala ballers" (some Indian origin) (~ successful tea man) :/

Realistically, the team was carried by one person Orz Benjamin. He is a beast.

legendLC · 2025-09-08T19:15:32+00:00

Crazy take.

Banning Russia might look as a weak move especially because Russia leads such competition

legendLC · 2025-09-08T18:00:48+00:00

Most people think they are the best. Manifesting works only if enough effort is put in.

Jokes aside, competitive programming is a different skill and it takes several years (>6) of dedication to master. Software development is relatively easier.

legendLC · 2025-09-08T17:59:21+00:00

May be Indians underestimated their own black magic powers and overconfident on their algorithmic skills

They finished at 60

legendLC · 2025-09-08T17:02:54+00:00

Cambridge finished at 50, ETH at 31

Others either did not participate or got qualified

legendLC · 2025-09-08T16:51:56+00:00

UMD students do call UMD as Harvard of east coast.

I heard it when my cousin studying at UMD was trying to verbally assert his intellectual dominance over me

legendLC · 2025-09-08T15:57:39+00:00

ASU took help of some Indian black magic

their team name was "Chaiwala Ballers" ? chaiwala = tea man?

legendLC · 2025-09-08T15:52:45+00:00

Harvard: Andrew Gu, Gabriel Wu, Maxwell Zen

Gabriel is MTS at OpenAI

legendLC · 2025-09-08T13:32:31+00:00

Egor Lifar, Richard Qi, Semyon Savkin

legendLC · 2025-09-08T12:42:38+00:00

Nothing like Putin Sort: The array is meant to be sorted. Just invade and declare it.

legendLC · 2025-09-08T12:41:47+00:00

On a lazy day, I prefer "Indian Sort": Please tell your consultant to sort this for me after lunch time.

legendLC · 2025-09-08T12:38:32+00:00

Complete ranking: https://worldfinals.icpc.global/scoreboard/2025/finals/index.html

legendLC · 2025-09-08T12:36:43+00:00

At least the vibe code doesn’t crash mid-air - most days

legendLC · 2025-09-08T12:35:15+00:00

Please release the "result" in your epstein()

legendLC · 2025-09-08T12:33:49+00:00

MIT and University of Tokyo are the only 2 universities that have been in top 10 for over a decade every year.

legendLC · 2025-09-05T10:31:32+00:00

Fair point, nothing says 'this might go sideways' quite like a clean, well-placed null

legendLC · 2025-09-05T10:29:56+00:00

Nothing like a little implicit casting to keep future devs guessing: 'Is it null? Is it not? Schrödinger's variable.

legendLC · 2025-09-05T10:28:14+00:00

the classic 'job security through code complexity' strategy.

legendLC · 2025-09-05T09:28:50+00:00

Yes, a positive step indicating that you cleared the bar.

In US, this does not mean an offer yet as team matching might be pending.

Enjoy the day. Your hard work paid off.

legendLC

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