AFAICT, the best *anyone* can ever claim to be in this field is "I do okay sometimes".
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Anyone with more swagger than that is either working in a very narrow domain, or is comparing themselves to a thin field (not hard to find!)
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As commendable and empowering and necessary as "learn to code" efforts are, what'll we tell those "graduates" on day/week/month/year two?
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"If you do well, you'll maybe make some $$, and constantly live with the anxiety of eventual failure"?
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I guess those 10x engineers are the ones that get depressed less often?
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To tie it back to
@Jonathan_Blow's talk, yes, the best we can do with current materials is (1) be more aware, (2) be/make better programmers2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@cemerick@Jonathan_Blow you're focusing overly on qualities of individuals and tools. Organizational complexity also makes us stupid.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@cemerick@Jonathan_Blow at some point, Twitter has 10,000 employees in order to deal with the problems created by 5,000. It's like a cancer1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@peidran yes,@Jonathan_Blow alludes to this as well. But if one person has trouble w/ the raw materials, what hope does a team have?2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
@cemerick @Jonathan_Blow speaking of crises of imagination: I don't think we know yet what programming well would look like
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@cemerick@Jonathan_Blow but I suspect it involves drawing as much from informatics and psychology as in logic and cs0 replies 0 retweets 1 likeThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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