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Lol, wonder how much adderall he was on when he wrote this? Brilliant rambling but with a somewhat feverish, twitchy aspect to it...
I used to take adderall and it was awesome. I got shit done, was fabulously thin, and all my documents were meticulous and colour coded. I didn't like the insomnia though, and it made me sort of depressed in the evenings when coming off it.
"And women will fall for it instantly"? WTF
I dunno. She didn't really follow the instructions. Maybe the error messages should be more helpful. But part of being a programmer is being very precise and having to deal with initially obscure and unexpected errors like that. Its frustrating yes, but if a person's reaction to that tutorial is to give up rather than be intrigued and push harder, I can't imagine them ever having the patience or drive to debug way more complicated systems.
Project Euler is good fun and great for improving your algorithm design and understanding of basic programming constructs, but I think its a poor way to improve software engineering skills in general. Being able to write clever efficient algorithms is good but not nearly as critical as grasping important design patterns, OOP, methodologies like TDD, frameworks and databases you're using, etc.