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by eat_veggies 1762 days ago
Competitive programming is useless, but most things are useless! And here "useful" only means useful in the context of building and evaluating skills for industry. But my friends who do competitive programming do it because it's fun, and some of them don't even want to work in tech when they graduate!

There is a kind of pleasure in connecting the pipes and optimizing the loops and building a sick dynamic programming recurrence relation or whatever; we desire these flows. Who cares what skills they build?

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Agree completely, it's really fun. It's unfortunate it's factors so heavily into some hiring processes though.