Comment by ninetyninenine
9 months ago
>This is essentially using your own belief as proof that your belief is correct. You say I haven't been around the smartest people because I say the smartest people don't do what you claim. You are saying "I'm right therefore you are wrong". Maybe you haven't been around the smartest people.
I have quantitative evidence of this. There IQs were above 150.
>Complex is easy. Simple is hard. And yes, some things are inherently more complex than others. But the goal is to hold the important things in your head. Offload as much as you can so you can focus on what matters.
complex is not easy. And simple is not necessarily always hard. The story is obviously more complex then this.
>No. It's not the point you are making.
It is. It was a rhetorical question.
I looked at everything you said. First off I never said anything about strict adeherence to a style. Smart people have there preferences.
>And the rules should be logical and essentially second nature. Like indenting is completely optional in most languages. But proper indenting allows you to better visualize the flow of the code. Nobody reads/writes minified JavaScript.
I've seen smart people who can do this. They don't even really care.
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> It's almost like you are saying whatever you think will make you right in the moment.
Please don't cross into personal attack, no matter how wrong another commenter is or you feel they are. It just makes things worse. We've had to ask you this before.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It came up because we talked about Mensa and he was part of it. I asked his iq and he told me. He claimed it and I believe him. Then the other guy also said he was offered to join Mensa but didn’t. Take from that what you will.
So we're talking about two people?
Not a huge sample size. Not to mention, 150+ puts one in the 99.9th percentile. One in a thousand. So out of every thousand people you meet, one of them probably had an equivalent IQ.
That being said, I guarantee that there are way more people on these boards with equivalent levels of intelligence and that those people also know several people with equivalent levels of intelligence. You are likely arguing against a couple of them. And you aren't arguing about something you can do, you are arguing about people who claim to be doing it.
Also, let's separate "ability to program" from intelligence. While intelligence is a boon to most things, including ability to program, you can be smart and bad at things.
Also, let's give them some benefit of the doubt. There is a difference between code you don't understand and poorly formatted code.
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