It's all meaningless!
According to this, good programmers are strongly correlated with people who can accept meaninglessness:
They found a near-perfect correlation between those who use a consistent model to solve problems -- even when it doesn't make sense -- and those who become good programmers. So maybe being consistently late is a good thing?
Somehow, this reminds me of any number of gamers who will insist that whatever the rules says gives them the bigger bonus should be allowed. No wonder the local RPG group started out at the CS department.
To write a computer program you have to come to terms with this, to accept that whatever you might want the program to mean, the machine will blindly follow its meaningless rules and come to some meaningless conclusion.
They found a near-perfect correlation between those who use a consistent model to solve problems -- even when it doesn't make sense -- and those who become good programmers. So maybe being consistently late is a good thing?
Somehow, this reminds me of any number of gamers who will insist that whatever the rules says gives them the bigger bonus should be allowed. No wonder the local RPG group started out at the CS department.