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if a person can't code in front of another person it is just because they can't code at all Never thought of it that way before, but it makes perfect sense. I

by edw519 17y ago

if a person can't code in front of another person it is just because they can't code at all Never thought of it that way before, but it makes perfect sense. If you can ride a bike, change a flat tire, or balance a checkbook, you can do it alone or in front of others. Why not the same for programming?

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justin_vanw 17y ago
I don't think it's intentional deception. There are a large number of 'programmers' who read slashdot and reddit and so on religiously. They probably hold a job where they are a developer of some sort, and they know about all the buzzy hot stuff out there from reading about it, but when they sit down to code they don't get anything done. Usually they manage to carve out a niche in whatever organization they are in doing non-coding tasks. They are complete wastes of whatever resources they consume, but they are totally oblivious to this either for psychological reasons (ego defense or something) or the usual 'incompetent people have no way to detect incompetence', but probably a generous helping of each, ego defenses prevent them from integrating the memory of each failure they are responsible for (when they are fired from one job they aren't qualified for they just apply for another job they aren't qualified for) and the incompetence thing means they are unable to detect any real reason for their suckiness, leaving them with only the potential explanations they can come up with (usually stuff about how they were distracted or were having personal problems or had too many things going at once, as they are convinced that if they could just sit long enough and work at it they would eventually get it done. They are of course wrong, no amount of time would allow them to succeed at the task in question.)

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if a person can't code in front of another person it is just because they can't code at all Never thought of it that way before, but it makes perfect sense. I

by edw519 17y ago

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justin_vanw 17y ago
I don't think it's intentional deception. There are a large number of 'programmers' who read slashdot and reddit and so on religiously. They probably hold a job where they are a developer of some sort, and they know about all the buzzy hot stuff out there from reading about it, but when they sit down to code they don't get anything done. Usually they manage to carve out a niche in whatever organization they are in doing non-coding tasks. They are complete wastes of whatever resources they consume, but they are totally oblivious to this either for psychological reasons (ego defense or something) or the usual 'incompetent people have no way to detect incompetence', but probably a generous helping of each, ego defenses prevent them from integrating the memory of each failure they are responsible for (when they are fired from one job they aren't qualified for they just apply for another job they aren't qualified for) and the incompetence thing means they are unable to detect any real reason for their suckiness, leaving them with only the potential explanations they can come up with (usually stuff about how they were distracted or were having personal problems or had too many things going at once, as they are convinced that if they could just sit long enough and work at it they would eventually get it done. They are of course wrong, no amount of time would allow them to succeed at the task in question.)