On: Terence Tao on O1

[calmworm]

Job interview? You might be surprised at the number of us who don’t code for a job.

[__loam → calmworm]

I'd bet most people on this forum program professionally.

[calmworm → __loam]

I would take that bet.

[idiotsecant → calmworm]

Me too.

[atomic128 → idiotsecant]

Somebody tested people on Hacker News to evaluate programming competency.

This was part of a larger evaluation comparing the Hacker News population to people on Reddit programming subreddits.

Here is a very heated discussion of the result:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33293522

It appears that Hacker News is perhaps NOT populated by the programming elite. In contrast, there are real wizards on Reddit.

Surprising, I know.

[__loam → atomic128]

Not surprising given how bad the takes here are and how many of the users here are dumb kids right out of college who are aspiring founders.

[calmworm → __loam]

Unnecessarily negative. Maybe rethink it.

[calmworm → atomic128]

Not surprised there would be a “heated” discussion as a result of this one link, that measured only those who engaged it, and how? I opened the link, hit Submit just to see what would happen… now the percentage of HN users who are competent programmers is even fewer than before, by that metric.