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frigfog··on Programmer Competency Matrix
I'd say Fibonacci heaps are not worth learning for programmers.

I think augmenting datastructures should be added somewhere there.

> About people with high tc rating

In Theory, yes,that would ne great. But in practice high gaps in compétence are not good for team moral.

- Just like in highschool, people feel threatened and don't like looking stupid. So They overcompensate.( Nuclear plant problèmes). In Germany,This made worse by a culture of never admitting that one doesn't understand. ( especially in Theory heavy stuff).

- object-oriented vs problem-oriented leads to communication problems.

- Compétitive programmers are not ( usually / on average) the most socially competent people. Which hurts team atmosphere.

- it's not worth the hassle: to ne honest most of what we do ils Boring CRUD. The programmer gets bored and the improvements are not worth the social cost.

frigfog··on California law banning bots from pretending to be real people without disclosure
Well, at least the Turing test is solved.
frigfog··on I Charged $18k for a Static HTML Page
Have you heard of freecodecamp? The idea is for non-profits to work with currently self-teaching devs.

Non-profits get free labor and the devs get real world experience.

frigfog··on Senior Developers Are Getting Rejected for Jobs
What do you mean by Fizzbuzz? Normal fizzbuzz or the pointless overengineering fizzbuzz?
frigfog··on Meta-study finds robust sex differences in children’s toy preferences
Google would fire those scientists.