Its sorta obvious this article won't go down well with the HN crowd. This is a site where everybody either believes they can code, or learn to code in a week, o

Its sorta obvious this article won't go down well with the HN crowd. This is a site where everybody either believes they can code, or learn to code in a week, or teach somebody else to code via codecademy or what-have-you. fwiw, I strongly agree with the article. Natural talent & inclination triumphs practice everytime, and while that doesn't mean you shouldn't practice, it does mean that you'd be better off pursuing avenues more closely aligned to your natural talent. Here's how you can convince yourself of the same - lets say you are the typical HN reader - lots of programming experience in one or more languages. How soon can you become an expert in oh I don't know BRST cohomology ? My advisor has a PhD in that, & he can't program his way out of a paper bag. Its easy for me to laugh at him & say, hey he should just try Ruby or JS for a week, but hey, how do I just try BRST cohomology for a week ? Where do I begin ?