>>>>>Well I never said I was normal... though if I'm also nuts I've never measured to what degree. Maybe I should just look at the(1+rmometer).
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>>>>Normal? I can not code and claim to be normal.
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>>>You're perpendicular?
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>>Is this a requirement?
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>>View one
>>To be a good programmer, you must have an odd view, programming is more about what possibly could go wrong then straight forward solution seeking.
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>>View two
>>To program, one must have an analytical mind
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>>Now, tell me what of both is normal? Both are rare. The first one makes a good nitpicker, the second one a scientist.
>>The combination is even odder. This will bounce back to daily life. Normal. in the sense of common, is something different.
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>>To have the skills, one will normally end up IQ125 and above. This is a rarity of 21 or only 4.75% will end up there. Assuming the sum of all skills is constant, one pay a price for this. Bein social awkward, have two hand full of thumbs, name it. IOW - not normal. Normal is IQ 100, that's the definition.
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>>;)
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>To clarify -- I was referring to "normal" in a mathematical sense, which means to be perpendicular, as opposed to "tangent" which would be along the surface.

Ah! Orthogonal!