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Re:Qualities that I believe make the most difference in prog... by fnord123 on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @09:06AM (#13753812)
So you're saying that 10x developers definitely exist, it's just a disappointing state of affairs.

Like how the Turing Test was rendered obsolete because online comments (e.g. Youtube) became so bad, the bar to writing a bot that passed as one of them was lowered dramatically.

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Re:Qualities that I believe make the most difference in prog... by sametmax on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @09:23AM (#13753895)
Lol, I didn't know about the Turing Test state. Hilarious perspective.
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Re:Qualities that I believe make the most difference in prog... by hex13 on Thursday March 02, 2017 @02:10PM (#13777180)
Maybe all these "I'm \d+ years old, and I like this song" before each old* song were written by bots. This would explain a lot.

*old song, according to Youtube comments is every song recorded before 2016 AD.

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