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adjwilli on Oct 9, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Be nice to programmers

I have a very intelligent friend who try as he might cannot learn programming. He has interests all over the academic board and teaches two unrelated courses. I think I understand now why he cannot. He's an eternal optimist. I tell him he's selectively ADD about programming, but maybe he's just allergic to the negativity of it all.

dubcanada on Oct 9, 2012 [–]

He can't be that intelligent if he is externally optimistic about everything. Part of being smart makes you aware of the negatives of everything.

swalsh on Oct 9, 2012 | [–]

Sometimes I feel like people are starting to go out of their way to make it onto the "Shit HN Says" Twitter stream.

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