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Re:No CS Degree – Interviews with self-taught developers by huehehue on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @05:07PM (#20510211)
Many are bad at communicating in general, e.g. selectively ignoring/missing parts of an email, incomplete sentences, typos. Some also have the nasty habit of skimming stuff and replying to what they thought they read.

I've seen this from interns to CTOs and remain baffled by its prevalence.

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Re:No CS Degree – Interviews with self-taught developers by ThrowawayR2 on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @05:43PM (#20510489)
> Many are bad at communicating in general, e.g. selectively ignoring/missing parts of an email, incomplete sentences, typos. Some also have the nasty habit of skimming stuff and replying to what they thought they read.

I've seen this as well. It really makes one wonder how they're able to code properly since programming is, in a sense, also the expression of ideas as text.

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Re:No CS Degree – Interviews with self-taught developers by alain_gilbert on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @06:15PM (#20510706)
Maybe they are used to compilers telling them all the typos before it actually compile.
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Re:No CS Degree – Interviews with self-taught developers by bdamm on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @05:18PM (#20510301)
Well, it's human nature to try and efficiently summarize. You may have to adjust your communication methods to account for that. For example, I almost always try to write emails that contain one central point.
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