Hacker News | I'll become interested in the Olympics when they add programming to it. I've be...

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6 points by edw519 339 days ago | link | parent

I'll become interested in the Olympics when they add programming to it. I've been an aspiring prograthelete for years, but alas, the Olympics still doesn't have the most grueling sport of all: the prograthelon, 36 consecutive hours of mind blowing competition:

  1. IDE Finger Gymnastics
  2. 100 Lines-Of-Code Dash
  3. Individual Text Editor Medley
  4. Regular Expression Datelifting
  5. Greco-Roman Webpage Translation
  6. Modern Compiling
  7. Databaseball
  8. Hackstroke
  9. Printer Throw
 10. Debugging Marathon

9 points by gaius 339 days ago | link

You forgot race condition :-P

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7 points by rikthevik 338 days ago | link

Don't forget the longjmp.

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2 points by tome 338 days ago | link

Exception throwing.

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