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"[..] still algorithms, data structures, and low level programming are marginal and it's hard to become a good developer without being exposed to this concepts.
by jeroen 19y ago
"[..] still algorithms, data structures, and low level programming are marginal and it's hard to become a good developer without being exposed to this concepts."
The people who would have become good developers in the "old days" will find their way to this information and become good developers anyway.
- Herring 19y agoThis bears repeating. People think increased difficulty identifying the good developers (lower signal:noise ratio) means there are fewer good developers. It's a heuristic bias, as far as I can tell. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_heuristic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_heuristic