Originally posted by wojta
Irish ? I think that there are good programmers in Ireland. I have heard it about Afghanistan.
[color=66ff00]Startlingly high number of programmers over here, the uni's and colleges are practically firing them out.
The most impressive pieces of programming I've heard of are; one kid who programmed a new browser that supposedly loaded webpages 600% faster, it got a good deal of news coverage but unless it's a state secret or something I've never seen it in action.
Then you have the guy working on 'Freenet' a supposedly totally anon. filesharing system, it's still in its infancy but it looks promising.
Last one I heard of was a secondary school (high school if I understand the american system) girl who cooked up a rather excellent encryption system that took a fairly concerted effort by a bunch of 'experts' to crack.
We also have a high level of overall computer literacy which helps the whole thing along. Pretty promising I think.

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