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> signalling to the world that you have the chops and the work ethic to go through with a major project with many frustrating stepping stone i.e., hazing.
Or, less dismissively, commitment.
You demonstrate commitment by surviving the hazing ritual.
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It sounds like you're speaking for yourself more than for anybody else.
No, I'm speaking about human nature. Most people don't learn things they dislike because it fills a knowledge gap. How many people do you know with hobbies they hate? It's natural to gravitate towards things that interest you. Some people are driven by gaps and learn things regardless, most people do not. That's not even controversial.
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No, I'm speaking about human nature. Most people don't learn things they dislike because it fills a knowledge gap. How many people do you know with hobbies they hate? It's natural to gravitate towards things that interest you. Some people are driven by gaps and learn things regardless, most people do not. That's not even controversial.
I didn't know we were talking about hobbies.
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tabs v spaces may be an even greater conflict.
Here is a pretty good explanation of why tabs are superior: https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/c8drjo/nobody_t...
Easily the most trivial objection I've ever seen in the never ending spaces/tab debate.
Many people I know customise their local environment to suit.
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The CS program taught me the history and context for Computer Science. It taught me the fundamental physics that make a gate work and how to put those gates together to make a logic circuit. It then built on this one step at a time, walking us through each layer from how machine code manipulates bits to how to properly evaluate the run time of a complex algorithm. CS told me the comprehensive story. Earning my BS and…
I am absolutely confident that you couldn’t tell I’m self-taught if you worked with me. All the stuff that your CS degree taught you is also possible to learn by reading books.
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Well, my attempt to summarize OOP: OOP is a concept. It doesn't care about the implementation and neither should you. So if you are talking about integers, don't care about the implementation which might have limitations like MAX_INT, care about the idea of having a number which you can increase and decrease. That is a concept and it can be implemented in different languages and with different limitations. Next, unde…
>1+2*3=9 I think this is a failure of Smalltalk, not OOP. I tried it in Ruby and Python (languages where everything is an object), both return 7.
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> And I think imperative languages are way more easy and clear to read and write. Because it's what you've had exposure to. Perhaps, they're even objectively easier to read and write, I don't know. It's also completely besides my point. My point was that I want my programs to work as desired. That's orthogonal to how easy it is to read and write. I don't want runtime exceptions where I could've gotten a compile-time…
But I had exposure to math functions much earlier. And I never liked their syntax. I did understood the math, but the math language made it harder for me. And null pointer exceptions? They only happen to me very rarely, when I quickly hack something together and then it is a "oh forgot - and fixed" problem. The problems I do struggle with are non reproducable race condition fun etc. and I doubt haskell could help me…
And you never run into NPEs in production? It's something you always discover during development? How?
> The problems I do struggle with are non reproducable race condition fun etc. and I doubt haskell could help me with them.
In a pure system, thread race conditions are impossible. You can still get race conditions for your external effects, which is unavoidable.
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philosophy degree here too. in general, the ability to approach a problem from multiple angles is helpful, not only in software, but (imo) for life in general. I'd started with software well before university (5th grade - maybe 6th?) and there were not many resources. Our school had a computer, but no classes as such - the staff weren't really even sure what to do with the 3 we had. HS - there were some "computer cla…
wow, now wondering what that accident might really be.. ;)