Ask HN: What skills/hobbies/curiosities do you find compatible with programming? I once heard from a friend a theory that the memorization of the myriad “Indian Gods” helped him more naturally memorize the “nested layers / arrangements” of code. Are there any such things from “daily life” / from “growing up” that you feel may have contributed towards your development as a coder? If there is a natural or learned way about which you’ve picked up a new prog. language, what is it that your mind almost naturally has always grasped? Good with numbers? Puzzles? Where does one’s mind go when seeking to solve a programming problem? What skills do you feel (beyond work ethic) make a HQ programmer? |