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by rm_-rf_slash 2879 days ago
I don’t enjoy math and I simply don’t have the intuition for it. Every time I attempt to do math in my head my brain groans and says “It’s the 21st century, jackass. Use a calculator.”

I do, however, have a talent for language.

The reason I am a good developer is because I can communicate with different machines through different programming languages in the same way I can communicate with different people through different human languages.

I have tried as of late to learn math in an attempt to contextualize it as language - the language of the universe, really - but it is far more of an uphill climb for me than JavaScript or Chinese.