> If you're really dyslexic why choose software development as a job. People do things they enjoy. Very few people pick their jobs based purely on what they're

> If you're really dyslexic why choose software development as a job. People do things they enjoy. Very few people pick their jobs based purely on what they're innately best at. > I'm sure everyone on your team says the same thing when you spell all your shit wrong and can't do 90% of the refactoring shit legacy code that they do. That's a very strange point. Neither the IDE or compiler will let you produced "wrong" code and push it into the codebase. Also refactoring has nothing at all to do with writing individual lines of code (i.e. it is "big picture stuff") and is very much a learnt skill (see the literature on effective refactoring). There's no rational reason why someone with dyslexia couldn't be just as effective at refactoring a codebase than someone without. > ugh, hn, get a grip seriously. Programming can be hard, that's the deal. It's not an every-one is the same we can all bring our special snowflake to the party deal I'm surprised and disappointed that this kind of low effort trolling is on Hacker News now. I've come to expect this from Reddit and Slashdot, but the tone here has always been better.