Re:I Hate Puzzles: Am I Still a Programmer? (2011)
by cesarbs on Tuesday October 21, 2014 @02:26PM
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Agreed. Some people say you'll only use it in games or AI or something fancier, but that's not entirely true. I work with what would be considered pretty boring enterprise software, and yet I once solved a pretty big problem using graph algorithms. That actually earned me a good reputation among my coworkers.
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Re:I Hate Puzzles: Am I Still a Programmer? (2011)
by csallen on Tuesday October 21, 2014 @02:48PM
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I don't think the primary complaint about these types of skills is that they are never useful. It's just that they are treated as disproportionately important, i.e. interviews consist of 80% CS knowledge but the real job only requires it 1% of the time on average.