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Re:Negative Two-Thousand Lines of Code by amake on Thursday June 26, 2025 @05:44AM (#44385739)
(More than?) half of the difficulty comes from the vocabulary. It’s very much a shibboleth—learn to talk the talk and people will assume you are a genius who walks the walk.
Re:Negative Two-Thousand Lines of Code by bironran on Thursday June 26, 2025 @04:04PM (#44390764)
That! It took me a while to start. My education of graph theory wasn't much better than your average college grad. But I found that fascinating and started reading. I was also very lucky to have had two great mentors - my TL and the product's architect, the former helped me to expend my understanding of the field.