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Any sensible person should probably be riled up -- or at least dissatified -- when an article contains this:

> With this approach, he claims he can always understand if someone is a competent programmer, and he has never seen it fail.

In this kind of situation, never seeing something fail is not a good sign. Evaluation metrics are noisy. One has to accept reality: no process is perfect. Better to admit it and actively seek out failures.

Statistical evaluations matter. Getting some objective distance matters.

> The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool. - Richard Feynman

https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/richard_p_feynman_137642



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