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Has “Not everyone can be a programmer” been studied?
An old adage that many programmers stick to is "It takes a certain type of mind to learn programming, and not everyone can do it."
Now I'm sure that we all have our own trove of anecdotal evidence, ...
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Blaming the ills of today on the technical debt of yesterday
A surprising number of quality, scalability, and load problems have been occurring on an application I currently support that I did not originally write. Thankfully I have new projects that I have ...
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Coworker that detrimentally picks on every minutia
Hypothetically speaking imagine that there exists a coworker that has a very shallow understanding of computing. To avoid stereotyping lets give this coworker the gender neutral name Chris.
Now ...
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How do you avoid the law of the instrument?
A common expression you hear is "If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail". It appears on Wikipedia as the law of the instrument.
It also manifests in IT, with developers, that, once ...
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When would someone be considered a bad programmer? [closed]
How would you consider that a programmer is bad at what he or she is doing?
If possible... How should he/she improve?
