>> I’ve even seen people talented enough to breeze through the entire degree without ever running into a problem too big to intuitively understand; those people

>> I’ve even seen people talented enough to breeze through the entire degree without ever running into a problem too big to intuitively understand; those people have a very bad time when they run into a 10 million line codebase in the real world. Reminds me of the classic Eric S. Raymond email to Linus Torvalds, where he says essentially this. http://www.vanadac.com/~dajhorn/novelties/ESR%20-%20Curse%20Of%20The%20Gifted.html http://www.vanadac.com/~dajhorn/novelties/ESR%20-%20Curse%20...