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Re:Ask HN: how do people solve the 3 Google Code Jam problem... by marketer on Thursday September 03, 2009 @02:37AM (#801923)
What's even more insane is that the leader, Neil Wu, is 16 years old.

http://www.topcoder.com/tc?module=MemberProfile&cr=22663...

Re:Ask HN: how do people solve the 3 Google Code Jam problem... by Tichy on Thursday September 03, 2009 @07:57AM (#802238)
Is that chart on the bottom of the profile his performance improvement over time? That would be pretty cool, like 3 years ago he was just a normal programmer (a 13 year old programmer, though)... Or is it accumulated points?
Re:Ask HN: how do people solve the 3 Google Code Jam problem... by mquander on Thursday September 03, 2009 @09:18AM (#802375)
It's the former.
Re:Ask HN: how do people solve the 3 Google Code Jam problem... by Alcides on Thursday September 03, 2009 @06:31AM (#802158)
I really don't find it insane. Young people have much more powerful brains, they just have to learn programming at a younger age. I did it, and I find myself (and others who learnt programming as kids) better programmers than those who learnt in college.