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Re:Ask HN: Uncommon but attainable programmer skillsets valu... by volkk on Monday April 23, 2018 @01:34PM (#16905568)
Great skill, but a far better skill is knowing when to give up and move on from the problem instead of wasting days on something while other backlog work piles up.
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Re:Ask HN: Uncommon but attainable programmer skillsets valu... by ksk on Monday April 23, 2018 @02:22PM (#16906015)
Well that applies to every task, not just to problem solving. "Work hard" doesn't imply "neglect your wife and kids".
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Re:Ask HN: Uncommon but attainable programmer skillsets valu... by stocktech on Monday April 23, 2018 @04:02PM (#16906884)
That's a good way to only be assigned easy tasks.
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