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It blows my mind that this is so contentious and the only reason why seems to be that programmers think their job is unique or something. Are there people who
by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
It blows my mind that this is so contentious and the only reason why seems to be that programmers think their job is unique or something.
Are there people who are 10x better than others at a skill? Obviously. This is blatantly true in every human pursuit to ever exist. Why is the idea that som individuals are 10x better at this one skill than other individuals so mind blowing?
Programming isn't unique, it isn't special, its just a skill like anything else, and like anything else there is a variety of skill levels.
- sdiupIGPWEfh 4y agoWould it be anywhere near as contentious if folks weren't either constantly misinterpreting the scale of the original study involved or else going No True Scotsman to death on the definition? Would anyone care as much if the job interview process in our industry wasn't also infamously infuriating? Or if enough of us weren't familiar with egotistic assholes whose productivity wasn't necessarily the result of any particular innate skill? There are a lot of confounding factors for any given anecdote. Whether there's any fundamental truth doesn't much matter, everyone wants to bend the idea to fit their own agenda.