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I think this "hacking since teenage" crap is overrated. Wholehearted agreement. I didn't touch a computer, other than the ones in the typing lab in high school
by rosser 13y ago
I think this "hacking since teenage" crap is overrated.
Wholehearted agreement. I didn't touch a computer, other than the ones in the typing lab in high school, until I got my own PC for college. Here I am, the better part of two decades later, doing rather well for myself, and with colleagues and management at my last three jobs all having said I'm the best at what I do of anyone they've ever worked with.
Yeah, yeah, anecdata, but one thing anecdata can legitimately do is provide an existence proof against a universal claim like pg's.
- burntsushi 13y agoIt's not a universal claim. It's an observation of tendencies. Given the choice between two fresh college graduates where one had been hacking since middle school and the other only started in college, who are you likely to choose all else being equal? This isn't rocket science. People who start hacking at a young age and continue very likely have a passion toward the discipline. People who have a passion for programming likely care more about it. People who care more about it are probably better. Does this mean that the guy who didn't start until later can't be better? Not at all.