LiveCoda, Real-Time Coding Competition

Robert Shelton points out this "debrief" from ESCI LiveCoda 2006, a live programming competition. From the article: "On Wednesday the 24th of May at Loop Bar in Melbourne (Australia) fourteen teams of programmers gathered for the first ESCI LiveCoda real-time programming competition. Possibly the first performance based real-time programming competition. Before a packed night club with live music, each team had just ten minutes to write a program which could correct a corrupted image." (Here's a mirror of the LiveCoda site).

I'm sure that this will make the IT trade cooler

[Trigun]

Next, can we have Sergei Brinn found passed out in the bathroom stall with six hookers?

The first?

[bsartist]

Possibly the first performance based real-time programming competition.

In my day we called those "job interviews", and first prize was paid out in weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly installments.

Geeks?

[Ramble]

In other news geeks have been spotted in a bar near Melbourne, it's rumored to be the first documented case of geeks in an alcoholic establishment and will provide scientists with invaluable data on the migration habits of Australian Spotted Geek (Geekus Oceanus).

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Oh the possibilities

[kay41]

I shutter to think of the pickup lines that were spoken throughout the evening. After all, us programmers are foreign to this "club" environment. What is this "music" you speak of anyway?

Re:Oh the possibilities

[MrAnnoyanceToYou]

"Me so Hooorney. Me drool you long time. Computer Fixey Fixey five minutes."

Personally

[celardore]

Personally I can think of better things to do in a nightclub, with live music.
And, if I'm in a nightclub chances are I'm in no fit state to do any coding. Actually, I've had an idea - a coding competition where you have to drink eight beers first!

Know what it's called?

[Skadet]

Competitions already are judged on 'fewest bugs'.

That competition is called the free market, with the obvious exception of Windows, of course.

Ha....

[xCROSSFIREx]

wow...is there really nothing else for them to do in their free time?

"hey bill, what are you doing friday night"
"i'm gonna go out clubbin'....what about you?"
"Ermm....uhmm...i'm gonna go see how fast i can write a program....but it's at a club...."
"Dear lord...you're even more of a geek than i thought you were..."

Re:Personally

[slashflood]

Actually, I've had an idea - a coding competition where you have to drink eight beers first!

Erm... I wouldn't even start coding without eight beers first..