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Re:Dev Compass – Programming Philosophy Quiz by teapot7 on Saturday August 16, 2025 @09:50PM (#44928280)
Oh a bug, surely. How is the quiz supposed to give you insights when it's unanswerable?
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Re:Dev Compass – Programming Philosophy Quiz by thierrydamiba on Sunday August 17, 2025 @05:32AM (#44930202)
By forcing you to make a decision without context.

Similar to how when presented with the trolley problem some will ask many follow up questions about the individuals on each track, the train, etc.

That’s not the point.

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Re:Dev Compass – Programming Philosophy Quiz by shadowfox on Sunday August 17, 2025 @10:28AM (#44931816)
> By forcing you to make a decision without context.

Not the OP, but what would be the point to that? In any practical scenario there is always context, isnt it? I guess I don't quite get what we are trying to measure here.

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Re:Dev Compass – Programming Philosophy Quiz by mannykannot on Sunday August 17, 2025 @09:56PM (#44936659)
But here, the context is relevant, and the analogy does not change this.
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