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by zingar 1965 days ago
The engineers you work with have to write code that does the equivalent of averaging a list of numbers, many times per day. If you can't (in any language) handle this then I question your ability to understand whether your choices make it easy or hard for the engineers to do their jobs.
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in some languages i will write the code. more complex algos not, because i don't know them. and never cared to know them. in reality engineers that i work with, write code that does whatever_library.avg(list_of_numbers). if i will see engineer that many times a day implements code that averages list of numbers I'll have a serious conversation with him about more efficient development practices

and maybe you are questioning my ability, but engineering teams that I work with - not. They come to me so i'll help them with problems that they have.