> I can fix anyone's code, even when I've never used the language before [..]
You can jump into any codebase and solve core architectural problems like precise garbage collection, eventual consistency, or miscellaneous dead locks? I'm not making up contrived examples, these are some of the problems my friends and I are currently dealing with at work for different companies.
> I would only have a vague idea of how to do a integer => string conversion with base N without googling it. So am I shit? Am I suddenly a useless programmer because lazyjones only likes people who studied CS?
I've never had to do integer => string conversion until asked in an interview either and I still did it. It's not a difficult problem. Anyone with a basic understanding of division and string manipulation should be able to reason out a solution.
> You have picked an arbitrary, and extremely rare in the programming world, standard. No-one needs to write their own string handling routines any more.
I wrote my own C++ string library before std::string was introduced. I contribute to Rust which has its own string, big number, vector libraries and much more. The web site I work on gets >130M monthly uniques and we have extended Python's string, dictionary, iteration, and datetime modules because the standard library isn't enough.
> [Programming languages are] all pretty much the same after you've used 3 or 4.
Then you haven't used enough languages. Try functional programming via Haskell, or dependent typing via Coq, or concurrency via Erlang, or memory safety via Rust.
The world is a really big place. I know people infinitely smarter than me doing incredible things, and there are many more like them. Stop being limited by your own experiences.
Yeah, probably, but that's one of my skills, I have fixed a lot of bugs.
But take a step back. What are you trying to say? You're better than everyone who hasn't done these things? You're somehow a real programmer and everyone else isn't?
And look how big your penis is!
Seriously, what were you trying to achieve with this comment? What have you demonstrated? You're a specialist, you know certain things other people don't. So what? It doesn't make you any more of a programmer than I am.
And seriously, don't puff up the differences between languages, in the end every language is just a different way to take some data, transform that data and emit that new data. What happens in between is nothing particularly complex, it's simply the sheer number of those steps that can happen that make it complex. The whole point of languages is to make it easier to express something. Not harder.
I honestly don't know what perceived slight you were responding to. Carry on believing only the highly specialized 0.1% of programmers are real programmers if you want. Stop being limited by your own snobbish elitism.
Wow, dude, chill out ... in my opinion, wting did not write anything, that gives you reason to accuse him, that he is an elitist.
He simply pointed out, that you are limiting yourself with the kind of believe, that there is no need to know how to solve simple problems on your own, and give you examples of things that he was able to do, because he did not limit himself in such a way ...
You can jump into any codebase and solve core architectural problems like precise garbage collection, eventual consistency, or miscellaneous dead locks? I'm not making up contrived examples, these are some of the problems my friends and I are currently dealing with at work for different companies.
> I would only have a vague idea of how to do a integer => string conversion with base N without googling it. So am I shit? Am I suddenly a useless programmer because lazyjones only likes people who studied CS?
I've never had to do integer => string conversion until asked in an interview either and I still did it. It's not a difficult problem. Anyone with a basic understanding of division and string manipulation should be able to reason out a solution.
> You have picked an arbitrary, and extremely rare in the programming world, standard. No-one needs to write their own string handling routines any more.
I wrote my own C++ string library before std::string was introduced. I contribute to Rust which has its own string, big number, vector libraries and much more. The web site I work on gets >130M monthly uniques and we have extended Python's string, dictionary, iteration, and datetime modules because the standard library isn't enough.
> [Programming languages are] all pretty much the same after you've used 3 or 4.
Then you haven't used enough languages. Try functional programming via Haskell, or dependent typing via Coq, or concurrency via Erlang, or memory safety via Rust.
The world is a really big place. I know people infinitely smarter than me doing incredible things, and there are many more like them. Stop being limited by your own experiences.