Why don't programming guides begin with actual bottleneck (shell navigation, config, env, port permissions)? Programming proper is easy.
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it has always seemed that environment setup is a weird weed-out test from the engineering community
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just like technical interviews. Too much of engineering is this brain-size contest bs and not enough is empathy, solving real problems.
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I had a former teammate who wanted to give fellow engineers pop quizzes on eng topics and minutae. It was exhausting/counterproductive.
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algos, factoids about libs we used, lang basics, mostly quickly researchable stuff. Point was not understanding but mental 1upsmanship
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