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I've noticed this pervasive bias that if a person is good at programming, they must be terrible at anything and everything else. Perhaps this is a hacker-cultu
by MartinCron 16y ago
I've noticed this pervasive bias that if a person is good at programming, they must be terrible at anything and everything else.
Perhaps this is a hacker-culture reaction to that kind of thinking?
- cookiecaper 16y agoIn the specific case of HR, I think most people assume programmers would hate it because you're going from such an engaging and creative field (programming) to something that is totally brain-dead (filling out forms, reciting orientation spiels every few weeks, looking up answers about insurance and forwarding them on).
- tome 16y agosomething that is totally brain-dead (filling out forms, reciting orientation spiels every few weeks, looking up answers about insurance and forwarding them on) Sounds a bit like writing FooInterface and FooInterfaceImpls all day, to me.