.@paulg "we could not in 3 months train non-hackers to have the kind of insights they'd have if they were hackers..." Fundamentally disagree
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@AndreaKuszewski@paulg Well, I guess this item represents a real disagreement, at least. -
@kragen@AndreaKuszewski@paulg I think I could identify within 3 months whether a not-so-far-hacker had the potential to be a hacker. -
@kragen@AndreaKuszewski@paulg I mean, that was kind of how my minions happened in grad school. -
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@AndreaKuszewski@kragen@paulg Well, and, I mean, I hacked around with BASIC as a kid and then quit for ten years and now look at me. -
@AndreaKuszewski I do think@kragen has the right of it when he says the intuition@paulg is on about is hard to activate systematically. -
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@paulg It takes more than deep, lifetime's worth of, knowledge to be an innovator. Sometimes that actually hinders creativity. -
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@paulg You can learn about a new domain at any point in life and still be a worthy contributor to that new field. This means women, too. -
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@paulg Entering a new domain, you bring knowledge & insights from previous fields of knowledge, that sometimes leads to highest innovation. -
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@paulg "to do something well you have to be interested in it for its own sake, not just because you had to pick something as a major."(1/2) -
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@paulg You don't think women chose CS major because they intrinsically liked it... but men did? Why the sexist division of passion? (2/2) - 1 more reply
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