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This is a great article/post. It affirms everything we have known all along about programming as a profession:
Learn to code, it's harder than you think[^]
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Yea it is; programming is super hard to start. Once you figure it out though, it isn't too bad.
It is hard to get in because universities don't take you far enough. Software can be very complicated. A college degree program cannot teach a student to be much more than entry level, because a single course cannot teach the complexity of many systems; not enough time. It takes a large investment by a company to hire someone into programming because the degree alone is not enough. I was in the same boat, it wasn't until I wrote my second content management system at home, that I knew I could surely be in. So for me, the degree helped open the door, but the self studying at home gave me the skillset to have a little success and give me that middle class paycheck.
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That was a great summary of how it works and possibly includes the real key to what the article and everyone is invovled is trying to figure out: why can some people code and others can't?
jgakenhe wrote: it wasn't until I wrote my second content management system at home, that I knew I could
Answer: the ones who can code, want to. 
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In school when people study theory, i have been reading and trying to code different function. Coding is trying out not just only about read theory.
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Yeah, read it a few days ago - indeed, really cool read 
And yeah, I'm also mostly self-taught
Best,
John
-- LogWizard Meet the Log Viewer that makes monitoring log files a joy!
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The hardest part is figuring out what the previous programmer meant to do with his $%#^&O*432 piece of s*** code
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I agree entirely, it is a sodding difficult job, requiring the concentration of a chess grand master.
I liked this line: "Take Object Oriented programming for example. In the 2000’s, it seemed to be establishing itself as the default technique for enterprise programming, but now many people, including myself, see it as a twenty year diversion and largely a mistake"
I agree. I hate OO code. Its often worse than structured code with so many pitfalls for creating really nasty bugs. As a kernel engineer I only ever use structured C and done properly its perfect.
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Me big trouble article this. Generalizations much; unwarranted assumptions many too.
Computer Science (theory, algorithms, NP vs. P, etc.) ... words meaning have some-computer-language in skill/craft/art is. Mix-um-up no like, meaning not.
Dinosaur-dentist programmer is: legacy code bollocks, spaghetti apis, jumble frameworks many, documentation execrable. Suck is: developer first to taste, first to crash, last to poisoned be.
Everything change today genius tomorrow idiot is: story moral.
You discomfort this ? : Flip-burgers, pump-gas: go !
«Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.» Benjamin Franklin
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The author states that their opinion is from a "UK" perspective. It is of my opinion, that this is an issue here in the States, as well.
This can be a good thing, for us. ![Java | [Coffee]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif)
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I am surprised that my skills haven't been replaced by kids out of college. It seems they either teach them high brow stuff or there just aren't enough of them.
And yes, its working out very well for us who can do.
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I think the article missing some obvious points, and is therefore a little self-indulgent.
I think "passion" is a better word than "aptitude". Leave that bogus "natural aptitude" to the people in the art community that need that sort of validation in their lives; code is about making a useful product bit by bit.
The fact is that if you are passionate about, and therefore invested in, writing code then you will make better use of your experience and will always pursue a better product, rather than doing the minimum required to call it done. Those that work code because of some odd societal pressure will never be invested in it, and will not fare so well as abstraction piles onto abstraction.
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![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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You've got to feel sorry for the poor bugger driving the truck. He didn't go to work that morning thinking "Things to do today: 1) drive, 2) kill someone" - now he has to live with that for the rest of his life.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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He would have had zero chance of stopping and nowhere to go, and yeah I would not like to be in his seat...
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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I was thinking - wth is a "road train"? then clicked on the other link. Holy Crap Batman!
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Even Texas does not have them that large. The people who drive those things are amazingly skillful (I hitched a ride on one over 40 years ago  ).
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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I guess our limit in the states is a tandem trailer. I'm on my last day of full work before I go into Christmas double-time work. That's where everyone invades, and I'm supposed to entertain adult children, help my beloved wife cook, keep the dogs under control (I own no dogs, I inherit them). Maybe I can scrape some time together to do some historical research on these beasts.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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I have a problem with a legal case (car accident of my Misses daughter, her car has been crashed by a truck, the truck was wrong confirmed by Police, so far so good).
Now, recover her car is Little bit more problematic:
One reviewer writes a report in which he mentions that he has the object (her car) positioned and inspected every 4 diagonals.
So far I know, there are only two diagonals. Can anyone Point out where I'm maybe wrong?
[Edit]
Let us have a view on this in a 2 dim Scenario
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[Edit1]
Stupid from my side not to consult first wiki, sorry for that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diagonal[^]
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modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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I'm afraid you're going to have to explain that a bit better. It's not really clear what you're referring to here.
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Are there 2 or 4 diagonals?
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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There are 4. One for each corner of the car.
Within you lies the power for good - Use it!
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a "broken" diagonal 
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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We are talking about insurance people, not mathematians.
Within you lies the power for good - Use it!
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