77 karma · joined October 8, 2007
I'm joking here but I think that a lot of people ignore basics like writing unit tests, and that statically typed languages will break a lot more quickly and predictably for people who are lazier, since it enforces structure.
However, I agree with you. Also I think that the people who really push for static typing are the kinds of people who already would write unit tests.
Edit: This appears to be fake and debunked (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/plone-develop...)
This is arrogance. In my experience, most companies throw simple tests even at people applying for higher positions for several reasons:
1. It very quickly sorts out people who lie on their resume
2. You can tell a lot about a person's skill level by how they answer even a simple coding assignment - how are functions and variables named, does it take in args, what style is the commenting, does it do error handling, input validation, which language features are used to solve it etc, etc?
I particularly thought this was cute:
"It is one of the first duties of a professor, for example, in any subject, to exaggerate a little both the importance of his subject and his own importance in it. A man who is always asking ‘Is what I do worth while?’ and ‘Am I the right person to do it?’ will always be ineffective himself and a discouragement to others. He must shut his eyes a little and think a little more of his subject and himself than they deserve."
Titles like these can be cruel for people fighting or with loved ones fighting because it's a false sense of hope for those who currently need it.
I am stoked about the research though, the ability to actually distinguish between cancer and noncancerous cells is a huge breakthrough if this translates into humans.