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vijayr on April 5, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Programming competitions correlate negatively with...

Could boredom be a factor? Most programming jobs aren't very challenging, we just do the same thing over and over again with little variation.

cloakandswagger on April 5, 2015 [–]

I doubt it. Most programming jobs are repetitive, but they still consume an average of 8-10 hours of each weekday.

A lot of the winning contestants in things like Topcoder are people from countries where it's lucrative and desirable to get a few hundred dollars for a day's worth of algorithm writing.

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