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- analog31 2y agoWhile true, there are some clues such as the correlation between someone's occupation and their IQ.
- bee_rider 2y agoI just meant in the context of math skills, but I definitely acknowledge that it was poor phrasing on my part.
- dogboat 2y agoOn the other hand get them to try and debug code. And then you might realize the redicilous amount of unwritten lore that software engineering has. OTOH software engineering has courses but you need to work with people to get good not just read books. Like math.
- TechDebtDevin 2y agoI don't even understand how you interpreted that to have anything to do with being "smarter or making more money". Get some more coffee dude.
- dogboat 2y agoMaybe less coffee :)
- hughesjj 2y agoBut how else would I power this machine that outputs theorems?
- dogboat 2y agoErdős found stronger drugs
- NooneAtAll3 2y agobecome comathematician and turn cotheorems into ffee
- dang 2y agoPlease don't respond to a bad comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself. That only makes things worse. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- dang 2y ago"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html