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The programming talent myth

The programming talent myth

Posted Apr 30, 2015 13:14 UTC (Thu) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501)
In reply to: The programming talent myth by neilbrown
Parent article: The programming talent myth

Off-topic: Humans are rather poor short-distance runners but are actually evolutionally adapted to long-distance runs.

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The programming talent myth

Posted May 3, 2015 22:01 UTC (Sun) by paulj (subscriber, #341) [Link]

And not just adapted to, but extra-ordinarily well-adapted to it. Humans are wonders of the land mammal world when it comes to physical endurance. I'm not sure, but I think only dogs and wolves come anywhere near close - also often "run to exhaustion" hunters - but with enough distance we can easily exhaust them too.


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