from Diary 2024-11-07 The argument that programmers should study programming on weekends as well.
kaityo256 When discussing whether programmers should study programming on weekends, the conclusion is usually, “You can study or not as you wish, but your competition should be those who study all the time. This seems to mean that if you want to compete head-to-head, you should study, but I don’t think that’s true.
kaityo256 I don’t think it’s limited to programming, but it’s hard for someone who does it out of necessity to beat someone who does it out of love. So you shouldn’t compete head-to-head in programming with someone who is like, “My job is programming and my hobby is also programming.
kaityo256 Then, what we should do is not to compete only in programming. For example, we could combine two skills, such as programming and law, programming and foreign languages, or programming and design, and aim for a so-called “pie strategy. - pi-type human resources
kaityo256 People who are extremely swinging their skill points are cool, but they are therefore sharp and can’t do a lot of things. Of the skill sets that I have that are not sharp, every skill I look at has its own top competitor. But few people have that skill “set” and they are not here now. That’s why there is a world where you can be active.
kaityo256 I wrote a message like … in the past in “Information Processing”, if you want to read it.
- Talents who grew up from unexplored youth] PART 1 Messages from young unexplored creators: 3. Development of QCAD, a quantum computing simulator
- [Informatics Plaza: Information Processing Society of Japan Electronic Library https://ipsj.ixsq.nii.ac.jp/ej/?action=pages_view_main&active_action=repository_view_main_item_detail&item_id= 78357&item_no=1&page_id=13&block_id=8]
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