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it was just one line! :-)

is it only me or there is a (just one) line of code gone wrong on ed's comment handling server?

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Crowd-Sourced TSA patdown.

I might put it on a T-shirt this way: "Got root? $rm -rf / - make computer faster!" :-)

In big corporations the opposit might be true. Programming is outsourced and analysts are driving the decision-making (in the best case). The point with the programming skills stays, though. To me it seems there exists a whole corporate ecosystem with analysts who can't code and the managers around them who do not ask tough questions. It is even hard to get scored there if you can and want to code and generally to dig deeper, because it bothers them.

Another possibility would be to work for companies that have big data already.

Anything is better than not present gut feeling!

Freenet.Org

You can survive with no German knowledge if your coworkers target group predominantly speaks English. This is not a given, though.

If you have this Lesson learned you'd appreciate this followup.

1+99 = 100, 2+98=100 etc. So the sum of integers between 1 and 100 is 100*49 + 50. Is this what the author refers to? I believe he has misunderstood the point in that math problem.

I doubt that physicists care who would pass the physics class but for those who have understood physics.