So Hows the Hackathon Going?

[text] You fairly average software dev claims not to be competitive but secretly dreams of landing on the leaderboard at least once uses a full IDE wastes a minute right out the gate waiting for it to start still parsing the problem statement while others are already submitting answers actually uses a debugger when things arent working Hackerman InfoSec major sits at his PC on a nearlethal dose of Adderall waiting for the timer to hit 0000 has automated scripts for pulling the input and submitting solutions and his own library of helper functions for every imaginable problem class knows your IP at all times mhfwalters research scientist at Intel does puzzles for fun that are harder than any job you will ever have so utterly bored with the problems that he creates increasingly ridiculous selfimposed restrictions to keep things interesting solved last year exclusively in APL on a System360 emulator and still finished 9th on the global leaderboard personal homepage is HTML 2.0 compliant L software dev from undisclosed EasternEuropean country making 200kyr for a company youve never heard of isin literally every coding competition Twitch stream is just a Vim terminal and the sounds of a mechanical keyboard types faster than you can read or think Tharg Linux kernel hacker specialization in compiler design is golfing in some esoteric language nobody has ever heard of can mentally transpile any code he sees to assembly measures his solutions performance in actual clock cycles g Ly overworked Chinese university student double majoring in theoretical physics and chemical engineering has been locked into various educational institutions since he was 3 years old only time outside of school is for piano lessons can literally only see the relevant parts of the problem statement you will not understand his solutions without a PhD in discrete mathematics Samir Nagheenanajar outsourced IT support technician does puzzles because he has nothing better to do during his shift forced to solve in Excel because he isnt allowed to install other software can reveal the face of God using only VBA rumored to possess the combined knowledge and power of all Indian educational YouTubers