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This is a pretty weird standard that I don't think any other professional would be held to. You can be one of the best programmers in the world and be completel

• dvt 4y ago
  I disagree. Like all disciplines, programming/software engineering at its apex is fundamentally a collaborative one. There are no "hermit" mathematicians or physicists. Ideas necessarily must be bounced around and refined.
  • pg_bot 4y ago
    Ramanujan, Perelman, Grothendieck, Gödel, Nakamoto, Heaviside...
    • dvt 4y ago
      Don't confuse "formal training" with working in a vacuum (re: Ramanujan, Heaviside, etc.), all others are basically world-famous academics that went through typical doctoral programs and were in constant communication with their fellow academics; I mean, Godel's correspondence with von Neumann is extremely famous, and the same goes for Ramanujan's correspondence with Hardy. The age of the hermit polymath has been over for half a millennium.