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118 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 8 Jan \ parent \ on: TechLead says drop learning to code and go all in on Bitcoin mostly_harmless
I'd struggle to find it, but I recall seeing a study done at Harvey Mudd (my retrospective dream school) where they could predict with 90% accuracy whether someone would graduate with a CS degree based on an aptitude test.
CS as a field has changed a lot, as have our device habits, so maybe aptitude matters less now than before. Still, I suspect we have a special kind of derangement too.
Yeah, I'll say this. Writing code for all these years has taught me a lot about myself. Both good and bad things.
I do think we humans like to simplify things a bit more than they should be. Its just neat and clean to do so. I'm not as good at math as many programmers I know but I have more artistic leanings than many. I'm also more comfortable communicating and with relational things. I've led teams and while everyone on the team had certain common traits and ways of thinking there is still diversity and it made those teams stronger.
I find it fascinating to observe these things. When you get a group of driven smart people focused on a central goal its pretty gratifying to work together.
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