Comments on: Programmers who can’t program http://thinkhole.org/wp/2007/02/28/programmers-who-cant-program/ There should be one obvious way to do it. Fri, 05 Dec 2008 11:00:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Marc http://thinkhole.org/wp/2007/02/28/programmers-who-cant-program/#comment-38234 Marc Fri, 02 Mar 2007 16:51:13 +0000 http://thinkhole.org/wp/2007/02/28/programmers-who-cant-program/#comment-38234 Hi im a spanish python junkie, i have not studied programming career at all, and i know some graduated ones that dont know some basics of programming xD, maybe is the devotion of the computer addicteds, i want to say that this blog is great and paste a snippet of code i made to makeFizzOrBuzz xD, a little bored in my work, keep the good work i like to read your entries makeFizzOrBuzz = lambda x: ["","FizzBuzz"][x%3%5==0 and x>=(3*5)] or ["","Fizz"][x%3==0] or ["","Buzz"][x%5==0] or x;[ makeFizzOrBuzz(num) for num in range(1,101)] i know a little sloppy snippet of code xD, and the ternary/array hack is ugly yeah xD but i wanted to make a version of a snippet pasted by one ruby addicted Hi im a spanish python junkie, i have not studied programming career at all, and i know some graduated ones that dont know some basics of programming xD, maybe is the devotion of the computer addicteds, i want to say that this blog is great and paste a snippet of code i made to makeFizzOrBuzz xD, a little bored in my work, keep the good work i like to read your entries

makeFizzOrBuzz = lambda x: ["","FizzBuzz"][x%3%5==0 and x>=(3*5)] or ["","Fizz"][x%3==0] or ["","Buzz"][x%5==0] or x;[ makeFizzOrBuzz(num) for num in range(1,101)]

i know a little sloppy snippet of code xD, and the ternary/array hack is ugly yeah xD but i wanted to make a version of a snippet pasted by one ruby addicted

]]> By: paryl http://thinkhole.org/wp/2007/02/28/programmers-who-cant-program/#comment-37896 paryl Thu, 01 Mar 2007 05:10:33 +0000 http://thinkhole.org/wp/2007/02/28/programmers-who-cant-program/#comment-37896 Indeed... I was the IT manager at my last job, and hiring 'programmers' was the hardest thing ever. I started hiring guys who had an interest so I could teach them myself. At my current employer, we've been looking for a /good/ programmer for some time now, and it seems like an impossible task. Weirdness. Indeed… I was the IT manager at my last job, and hiring ‘programmers’ was the hardest thing ever. I started hiring guys who had an interest so I could teach them myself.

At my current employer, we’ve been looking for a /good/ programmer for some time now, and it seems like an impossible task. Weirdness.

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