Y
HN Search
Hacker News Search
new
|
comments
|
top
|
jobs
lokiboi
searching PlanetScale…
1.
▲
2.
▲
3.
▲
4.
▲
5.
▲
6.
▲
3 ms
·
1.
▲
by
lokiboi
10y ago
Pattern matching is huge contributor to solving problems fast or even having the problems reachable. Just checkout these results https://icpc.baylor.edu/scoreboard/ They practically solve a very hard problem (it might
2.
▲
by
lokiboi
10y ago
Exactly, otherwise all those IOI and IMO contestants would be pure geniuses, probably they are, but they practiced a lot to be good at a single task - problem solving in programming or mathematics for competitions. That's a good founda