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dsddsaaaa👉😎👉 embrace the script•

In my daughter's similarly sized highschool 400 to 500 of the students had some proficiency in writing code... Of those, perhaps a dozen were people who I would equate to the 'hackers' that we had at my high school.

This led me to conclude that its a small fraction of the population that has what I think of as the 'compulsive puzzle' gene... There are ways to identify them. If you have the ability to give puzzles, leave some around to be found. Watch for the ones who solve them.

Programmer eugenics

Programmer eugenics

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wrkbttype astronaut•

This led me to conclude that its a small fraction of the population that has what I think of as the 'compulsive puzzle' gene...

I also want to only hire people that will obsess over puzzles instead of doing the work that is necessary to have a production system and not a demo.

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Zilluxlanguage master•

Imagine caring about a product after you reach the MVP stage.

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IDoCodingStuffsAutodidact's Degree in AI•

This but unironically

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Code_starOPI've never used generics and I’ve never missed it.•

Isn't that the plot to goodwill hunting?

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Bizzaro_MurphyCode Artisan•

Listen, I'm all for artificially gatekeeping our profession to keep the salaries high, but can we at least make sure we are teaching Go in high school so the kids I have to compete with have no idea about how good software design works?

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Farull•

My kids got to try javascript in school. Needless to say, we won’t have any competition from them any time soon.

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QueuedeSpoolblub programmer•

how fizzbuzz! how fizzbuzz!

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silentconfessorlol no generics•

Better idea: invent a new language.

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TheFearsomeEsquilaxCourageous, loving, and revolutionary•

Finally, an easy way to justify my attempts at job security code accessible only to the best and brightest to the rest of the team!

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