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Don't know if I am a good enough programmer, but I am clearly bad at leetcode too. After so many years programming, that is, solving puzzles at work, I really h
by sam_lowry_ 4y ago
Don't know if I am a good enough programmer, but I am clearly bad at leetcode too. After so many years programming, that is, solving puzzles at work, I really hate doing it in my spare time, so leetcode makes me instantly mad.
I even avoid board games for the same reason. OTOH, I enjoy cooking, construction work... manual labor, that is.
- tlextrait 4y agoEveryone is bad at everything they haven't tried to do. You can be good at anything. I can't ride a bicycle but if I wanted, I could be good. Just gotta go and do it. Unfortunately doing things is work. Solving abstract problems is the main thing engineers do, if you're not doing that then you're not really engineering you're just copy pasting text.
- sam_lowry_ 4y agoThis is the thing. I've been solving abstract problems for a living well over 20 years by now. Can I have some time off? I know I can solve many leetcode problems (fizzbuzz? roman to arab numerals?) given some time, but I hate doing it. As software developers, we constantly have to proof ourselves. At dailies, in leetcode. This is fun when you are 25, much less so when you are 50.