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"The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a personality test designed to assist a person in identifying some significant personal preferences. Katharine Cook Briggs and her daughter Isabel Briggs Myers developed the Indicator during World War II, and its criteria follow from Carl Jung's theories in his work Psychological Types.
The Indicator is frequently used in the areas of academia, group dynamics, employee training, leadership training, marriage counseling, and personal development. The registered trademark rights in the phrase and its abbreviation have been assigned from the publisher of the test, Consulting Psychologists Press Inc., to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Trust."
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Apparently, I am an ISTJ (Introverted Sensing Thinking Judging), best suited for a career in the following areas: Business executives, administrators and managers, accountants, police, detectives, judges, lawyers, medical doctors, dentists, computer programmers, systems analysts, computer specialists, auditors, electricians, math teachers, mechanical engineers, steelworkers, technicians, militia members. Similar to the ESTJ, they have a knack for detail and memorization, but work more behind the scenes instead of up front as a leader. |
Here are the top 20 replies given to testers from programmers when they run into a "bug."
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| 20. "That's weird..." |
| 19. "It's never done that before." |
| 18. "It worked yesterday." |
| 17. "How is that possible?" |
| 16. "It must be a hardware problem." |
| 15. "What did you type in wrong to get it to crash?" |
| 14. "There is something funky in your data." |
| 13. "I haven't touched that module in weeks!" |
| 12. "You must have the wrong version." |
| 11. "It's just some unlucky coincidence." |
| 10. "I can't test everything!" |
| 9. "THIS can't be the source of THAT." |
| 8. "It works, but it hasn't been tested." |
| 7. "Somebody must have changed my code." |
| 6. "Did you check for a virus on your system?" |
| 5. "Even though it doesn't work, how does it feel? |
| 4. "You can't use that version on your system." |
| 3. "Why do you want to do it that way?" |
| 2. "Where were you when the program blew up?" |
| 1. "It works on my machine" |
Why, "Oh, thats just a new feature," isn't up there is anyones guess.
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Read a very interesting article by one , director of research for Google:
"Walk into any bookstore, and you'll see how to Teach Yourself Java in 7 Days alongside endless variations offering to teach Visual Basic, Windows, the Internet, and so on in a few days or hours."
Using specific search methods on Amazon.com, Peter searched for books entitled "Teach Yourself" or "Learn" along with other keywords like "days" and "hours." These methods brought back near 500 books, most (96% of the top 200) being computer related.
What does this mean? Well, "the conclusion is that either people are in a big rush to learn about computers, or that computers are somehow fabulously easier to learn than anything else. There are no books on how to learn Beethoven, or Quantum Physics, or even Dog Grooming in a few days."
"Researchers have shown it takes about ten years to develop expertise in any of a wide variety of areas, including chess playing, music composition, painting, piano playing, swimming, tennis, and research in neuropsychology and topology."
So what is Mr. Norvig's recipe for programming success? to find out. |
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