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Re:5 years of leetcode with no progress. I'm giving up by AnimalMuppet on Monday March 15, 2021 @06:58PM (#26470424)
Several people have tried to tell you this, but I'm going to try again: Your statement here is false. 99% of programming is using skills that are rather unlike the talent you need for leetcode.

Can you follow a recipe? If you're missing an ingredient, can you employ a substitution? That's what an awful lot of programming is like, except using keyboards instead of stoves. Now, it still takes some talent - a talent for computer "recipes" rather than literal cooking recipes - but it's not as out of reach as leetcode leads you to believe.

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Re:5 years of leetcode with no progress. I'm giving up by QuitProgramming on Thursday March 18, 2021 @02:24PM (#26505805)
>Your statement here is false. 99% of programming is using skills that are rather unlike the talent you need for leetcode.

Do you have evidence for this claim? Specifically, that the skills and talents that make one good at Leetcode are not correlated and predictive for being a good programmer.

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