You know exactly what that picture is, and it’s how I prefer to hang my toilet paper rolls because I’m in the small minority that finds it more aesthetically pleasing.
I sometimes feel like the last person that managed to land a decent tech job without an undergraduate degree, but a good part of that was being able to play a normal, likeable person in the interview.
I think what you say might be true for any field that’s new enough. There’s high demand for labourers, very little skill around, and a low barrier for an autodidact to pick up the basics and outshine the competition.
I think this is accurate on a larger scale, but I’ll often do things like breaking up a large chain of methods with an interim variable just for readability. A few lines of simple math is better than one line of bit shifting wizardry that does the same thing but doesn’t show the semantic meaning of the operation.
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