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Much as I hate the rockstar and ninja tags, this article itself is pretty arrogant. It makes some fairly unfounded assumptions about other professions like libr
by takno 11y ago
Much as I hate the rockstar and ninja tags, this article itself is pretty arrogant. It makes some fairly unfounded assumptions about other professions like librarianship, while really doing them down a bit.
- V-2 11y agoWhat do you mean? The only assumption about librarians is that they "enjoy quiet and order". While this may be an oversimplification (although if you didn't, wouldn't this affect your chances of becoming a librarian?), but what's so arrogant about it? This oversimplification, or stererotypization, is justified by the context anyway; obviously it doesn't refer to real-life librarians. It's metaphorical language, just as the ninja analogy has nothing to do with actual ninjas, only their image in (pop)culture
- takno 11y agoBasically it seems to say "I'm not a ninja, but I'm all these other things". It still seems to have the attitude of programmers as being better generalists than anybody else is a specialist without spending any time trying to understand their jobs. The librarian reference particularly annoyed me because it just plays into the cheap stereotype of librarians as little old ladies who put the books away and tell you to shush.