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Reminds me of the "Evolution of a Haskell programmer":

https://www.willamette.edu/~fruehr/haskell/evolution.html

Make sure you don't miss the punchline, "Tenured professor".

It's the same with the progression of engineering seniority: increasing levels of cleverness and unnecessary sophistication, until you reach a point where you don't have anything to prove anymore, and you can feel comfortable writing the simplest and most elegant solution.

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That was great— though not being versed in Haskell, I tried to follow their link to the original version, but it had died.

Here's the original:

http://www.ariel.com.au/jokes/The_Evolution_of_a_Programmer....

The punchline got me pretty good.

It's kind of amusing to me that a lot of engineering interviews also seem to be focused on doing things that you generally won't and shouldn't be doing for the position. What's the point of seeing if someone knows data structures and algorithms they won't be using if they can't write a web application that interfaces with a SQL database without doing queries in a for loop?

> What's the point of seeing if someone knows data structures and algorithms they won't be using if they can't write a web application that interfaces with a SQL database without doing queries in a for loop?

Isn't this the basic architecture of a node js "event loop" Cms that gets content from a rdbms? ;-)

  # pseudo code
  While new_user_request
    query_db with request parameters

I know it's not what you meant, you meant do the above, rather than:

    # pseudo code
  While new_user_request
    query_db for user data
    query_db for session data

    For parameter,
        user_data,
        session_data
        query_db with each item

I've been doing a lot of Haskell on Codewars.com recently. This is exactly what I see. I write up a long solution, that uses the basics like pattern matching, heads of lists and such. The solution that has the most "Best practise" up-votes are usually something involving importing control.monad and other similar stuff.

Sites like Codewars seem to me like good ideas starting out, but it doesn't take that long to turn into an arms race of complex one liners that people vote up as the coolest solution, not the best in terms of productivity for a company.

If you write code that other people have to ask you about, you will reach a point where you don’t have time to write code anymore because you’re too busy answering for your own code. You may interpret this as “helping your less fortunate teammates” but the wise know they can reduce your influence on the team by sending more people to ask you questions.

Giving them more time to clean up your mess and you none to make it worse.

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