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Interesting to see this formalized. When I was in grad school and graded undergrad homework/exams, I could most definitely recognize the students by their codin
by GuiA 12y ago
Interesting to see this formalized. When I was in grad school and graded undergrad homework/exams, I could most definitely recognize the students by their coding styles after just a few assignments. Every student ends up developing their own habits, and they're quite easy to spot in something as repetitive as code.
I remember teaching a Matlab class for engineers and scientists that was about 50/50 male/female, and the women tended to have much neater code. Code written by males often had comments all jumbled up, inconsistent number of spaces between braces/operators/etc, incoherent variable names, worse names for functions, and so on.
- okasaki 12y agoIt's funny to think that if you reversed the genders the comment would at the bottom of the page rather than the top.
- vertex-four 12y agoOn HN? Definitely not.
- juliangregorian 12y agoIt's funny that you seem to always see a really butthurt dude whining at the slightest bit of anecdotal bias.
- jrs99 12y agocould you spot plagiarism?
- digi_owl 12y agoReminds me of that story about why switchboard operators were women. During the telegraph era, boys often hung around outside the office, as they could earn a bit of coin delivering telegrams. With the introduction of the phone, they tried using those boys as switchboard operators. Problem was that they would prank the callers by either cross wiring calls or unplugging them mid-call. So instead women were hired, as they didn't do that. Instead they would listen in on calls, and so became a source of gossip. This was seen as an acceptable trade-off by the companies, as at least the calls where properly and reliably routed.