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Somebody tested people on Hacker News to evaluate programming competency. This was part of a larger evaluation comparing the Hacker News population to people o
by atomic128 2y ago
Somebody tested people on Hacker News to evaluate programming competency.
This was part of a larger evaluation comparing the Hacker News population to people on Reddit programming subreddits.
Here is a very heated discussion of the result:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33293522 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33293522
It appears that Hacker News is perhaps NOT populated by the programming elite. In contrast, there are real wizards on Reddit.
Surprising, I know.
- __loam 2y agoNot surprising given how bad the takes here are and how many of the users here are dumb kids right out of college who are aspiring founders.
- calmworm 2y agoUnnecessarily negative. Maybe rethink it.
- calmworm 2y agoNot surprised there would be a “heated” discussion as a result of this one link, that measured only those who engaged it, and how? I opened the link, hit Submit just to see what would happen… now the percentage of HN users who are competent programmers is even fewer than before, by that metric.