Love this. I like puzzles (and scifi) and definitely fit the more traditional model of a programmer, though I'm entirely self-taught and didn't take CS in schoo

Love this. I like puzzles (and scifi) and definitely fit the more traditional model of a programmer, though I'm entirely self-taught and didn't take CS in school. I really don't like algorithms that much. What I do enjoy is API design, writing elegant code that is maintainable, and solving the macro, human-scale problems.