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Difference between hackers and coders -

Rule: "You can have at most 50 sub-directories."

coder-action:

     #define MAX_SUB_DIRECTORY_NUM 50
hacker-action:

    main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
      int i;
      for (i = 0; i < atoi(argv[1]); i++) {
          create_subdir( ... ); 
      }
    }
Plus experiments.

The difference is that the coder is just doing their job so they note the limitation and move on, the hacker is curious and trys to test to see if its a hard limit, a soft limit, a big problem, a little problem.



A good developer should be testing for that stuff too. But hackers test these things out of curiosity, developers do it out of attention to detail. A great developer will do both :)




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