Re: google "top coder" contest = stacked against C++ coders

From: Francis Glassborow (francis_at_robinton.demon.co.uk)
Date: 09/21/04 

Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 00:25:31 +0100

In article <1f2809cc.0409200231.7629cbf7@posting.google.com>, Paul
<invisiblepaul@hotmail.com> writes
>Seems to me that you are trying to use arrogance in place of "pride of
>work" and/or "confidence". No-one likes an arrogant *** so it
>doesn't fit.

No, I meant what I said. Believing you can do something that has never
been done before requires arrogance, not pride in ones work. I also sort
of meant laziness but not quite. It is the quality that drives the
person to want an efficient solution rather than just a solution. It is
why any mathematician worthy of the name finds the current proof of the
four-colour map problem some how inadequate. It lacks any insight, any
revealing quality and it just a tedious proof by exhaustion (in this
case so exhaustive that it needs a computer to do it:-) 

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