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> i.e. passion.

This smells more like desperation than passion.

> It also requires intelligence.

I agree, but intelligence is a very wide term and I'm not sure that the "intelligence" that you need to find patterns and memorize a few numbers is the same "intelligence" you need to make good programs. I guess it is positively correlated, anyway.

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> This smells more like desperation than passion.

They are one and the same. If you're a nice company a lot of people want to work for, those who want to are prepared to go through hurdles in order to do so.

> I guess it is positively correlated, anyway.

Memory is very strongly correlated with IQ.

Most intelligent people I know hate memorizing noise. (But I have a few friends that memorized a few hundred digits of pi. Good luck convincing them to memorize your random numbers.)

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