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What do you believe is so special about swapping branches of a tree? Couldn't you just as easily say "if you can't make and maintain something more than a few t
by tabeth 8y ago
What do you believe is so special about swapping branches of a tree? Couldn't you just as easily say "if you can't make and maintain something more than a few thousand people use reliably, then you're not a great developer?"
- monocasa 8y agoOther than it's one of the simplest transformations of one of the simplest data structures?
- tabeth 8y agoSo, is your point that if someone can't do something that's "simple", then they're not "great"? I've seen Nobel Prize winning physicists make trivial math errors. I'm talking adding 8 + 9. If you can't say that is true for all cases is it not worthless as a metric?
- monocasa 8y agoIt wasn't that he screwed up a minor thing off the top of his head, he had fundamental misunderstandings on how to approach the problem. I doubt that's the case for your 8+9 example.
- tabeth 8y agoWhat exactly is your point then? Do you not think "great" people occasionally have "fundamental misunderstandings"? Who determines what is simple? Who determines what's fundamental? I also find it strange that you give the physicist a pass in my example, but not the developer. If someone makes a mistake adding any two 3 digit numbers in their head are they not great? After all, there are people in grade school who can do this easily.
- monocasa 8y agoThere's a huge difference between messing up a small piece, and not knowing how to even approach a trivial problem in the field. Do you not see the difference? Like, this is way more like Francis Crick asking 'what's a cell?' than screwing up a math problem.