   best programmers are from Europe
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quote:Original post by nectarine   Proof  Wow, who''d have thought the Polish would be the smartest guys out there...THAT WAS A JOKE!   Don''t be fooled by cheap imitations! There is only one list of things that suck!;  Looks more like Russia and asia to me... ;  Haha CalTech is at 13th!Where is MIT?? They didn''t participate? ;quote:Original post by AnonymousPosterChild  quote:Original post by nectarine    Proof  Wow, who''d have thought the Polish would be the smartest guys out there...THAT WAS A JOKE!   Don''t be fooled by cheap imitations! There is only one list of things that suck! i hope for you that this was a joke (as you mentioned) otherwhise... but where is the MIT (shouldnt they be somewhere around)???T2k ;  Cool, the problems are up toProblemsMaybe we could make this a GD contest of some sort, just for fun?   -=Peon=- : A Poorly Implement Forum Bot© Kordova, 2003 ;  it''s mostly eastern-europe...in our first lecture of the first semester our professor told us that we (german) students shouldn''t aim for anything above average, because it''s always the east-europeans (in our uni in CS/maths we''re roughly 50% german, 25% east europeans, 15% chinese/japanese and 10% other) who really excel, because their work-mentality is much higher then that of us ''westeners'' because if they aren''t the very best in their field they have no chance of getting a good paying job when they return to their homecountries, and because of their relative poverty they are much more dependant on getting a good job then we. this was not really encouraging for the rest of us, but at least it is a reason why they are better then others...they just need to be.   ;  Nah.. the best programmers come from Canada.  We have no choice but to stay inside during the long cold winters and write code. ;  Nice, my school got honorable mention, yea Oregon. I am usually inside because of rain, but I write horrible code, so I doubt the Canadians are better because they are forced inside, I would say education, experience, and strategy are what would have someone get through those competitions well.Although that reminds me, I can get credit next year for trying to get onto an ACM programming team. ;  One year''s results don''t necessarily reflect a trend.Look at the past several years results and you''ll usually find Waterloo (located in Canada) and MIT in the top 5. Past champions 