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Ah, the bell curve of programming arguments. The irony is delicious - a poorly crafted meme arguing that you can't use poorly crafted memes as technical arguments. The 100 IQ crowd in the middle is outraged, while the folks at both extremes (55 and 145 IQ) have transcended to using memes as their primary debugging tool. Nothing says "I understand the root cause analysis" like responding to a production outage with a Wojak diagram. This is basically Stack Overflow if you removed the downvote button.

Content I've interviewed a lot of people over the last year (Java), and my favorite test is to throw a Stack Trace at them and ask them to figure out what the problem is. The answer is actually quite clear, however. Half of them don't know it's called a stack trace. Some don't know what they're looking at (BYE!). Several focus on the wrong section of proprietary code. Some ask to "open a debugger". however the answer is right there in plain english if you just read the method names. Many don't realize the line numbers are RIGHT THERE, and then start focusing on the lines ending with "Compiled Code". Then there are the ones who work their way up from the bottom, starting with the application container code, and lose their minds. Some who figure out what is happening don't have a solution to prevent it from happening. No, I'm not sharing the trace; suffice to say it's been reviewed by more than 5 of my peers and they all passed. Like Reply 1h Edited I mean, it isn't hard to eliminate people with a coding question. Do you find it impossible to teach people how to read text stack traces, or is this a skill without which they will be unable to do anything of use, or do you just not want to hire anyone? 1 am serious. 1 can come up with dozens of useful programming skills I can test a candidate on that most perfectly skilled programmers would fail. Start with eliminating people who can't code at all. Then find out what they can do that could be useful. If I have 5 people who can already take a printed out stack crash dump, I probably don't need another, and if I do, a qualified candidate can be taught that skill by someone who knows it in under a week. Then again, maybe you work for Stack Trace Inc, and your entire job is looking at stack traces. If so, by bad. Like Reply 22m

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The thousand-yard stare says it all. Behind every "self-taught developer" is just an endless cycle of desperate Google searches, Stack Overflow copy-pasting, and that moment when your code finally works but you're not entirely sure why. The traumatic flashbacks of 3 AM debugging sessions where you've gone from "I'll just fix this one bug" to questioning your entire career choice. That wide-eyed expression isn't excitement—it's the permanent mark left by staring into the void of documentation that somehow explains everything except the exact problem you're having.

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