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>IMO

Anecdata,

I've studied along guys/gals who've done IMO, also had them as co-workers at other times, they have never performed well.

I really like Linus' saying "talk is cheap, show me the code". These people can make a thousand arguments about why something should/shouldn't work (but never write code), then you show up with working code and they don't have much else to say.