also i've been playing ("playing") some programming game website. it is weird b/c it's half about NETWORKING and BUILDING A PORTFOLIO; there are challenges ingame that are like "and then when you pass this yr code will be forwarded to the people at {corporation} who might extend a job offer to you!!". you have to qualify to look at ads b/c those ads are IMPORTANT PROGRAMMING JOBS YOU QUALIFY FOR BASED ON YR PROGRESS INGAME!! gamifying looking for work; it's kind of grotesque.
anyway here's my profile. a lot of these problems are v. easy using haskell; i tried solving one in c and it immediately reminded me of why i stopped using c once i started using haskell.
i think it's weird how like two days of writing code took me to the top 5% and then another two days of writing slightly more complex code took me to the top 2%. it's like, is this because i am in fact Good At Programming? or just that the site doesn't hook most users? (i tried a 'shortest source' challenge and got 3 pts b/c i am real bad at that, and that still puts me in the top 3% since presumably 97% of accounts have precisely 0 pts in optimization)
ACHIEVEMENTS! STATISTICS! QUANTIFICATION!!!
