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Re:Online courses vs. colleges for software engineering by jdc on Sunday September 29, 2019 @03:26AM (#21105641)
"I don't need programmers. I write programs to write programs."

I call BS. I'd be impressed if you could even write metaprogram to answer your own interview questions.

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Re:Online courses vs. colleges for software engineering by curiousgal on Sunday September 29, 2019 @03:28AM (#21105654)
I remember reading about a guy who wrote a neural network to solve FizzBuzz in an interview which is as close to metaprogramming as it gets, I think.

He didn't get the job though.

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Re:Online courses vs. colleges for software engineering by kirubakaran on Sunday September 29, 2019 @03:43AM (#21105718)
Joel Grus wrote that as a joke :-) https://joelgrus.com/2016/05/23/fizz-buzz-in-tensorflow/
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Re:Online courses vs. colleges for software engineering by p4bl0 on Sunday September 29, 2019 @05:03AM (#21105974)
This is actually a very fun tensorflow tutorial. Thanks for linking to it!
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Re:Online courses vs. colleges for software engineering by jdc on Sunday September 29, 2019 @03:31AM (#21105669)
Their loss. Think of all the programmers he could have replaced!
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