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God damn it I begin to hate Medium. Just another Bullshit article. When I read those dipsts description: "Software Engineer and Architect, Teacher, Writer, Film

God damn it I begin to hate Medium. Just another Bullshit article. When I read those dipsts description: "Software Engineer and Architect, Teacher, Writer, Filmmaker, Photographer, Artist…" Great. And you want to tell me that OO is dead and functional the only future? Fuck off.

maxxxxx 10y ago
I had the same reaction. We need more self-indulgent people!
rhizome 10y ago
Only thing missing is "Father..."
- fbonetti 10y ago
  Well he did leave an ellipsis at the end of the sentence, implying that the list isn't exhaustive. He could have many more grand titles and occupations. His headshot is also a Jobs-esque, black and white photograph of him wearing a black shirt. This must be satire, right?
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fbonetti 10y ago
The self-descriptions people use these days are so ludicrous it's hard to tell if it's satire. If I had a Medium account, here's how my description would read: "Software Engineer, Philanthropist, Astronaut, Shark Hunter, Breaker of Chains, Lord Commander of the Snack Bin, Protector of the Repo, and Part-time Cat Dad" Too much or just right?
- maxxxxx 10y ago
  Add some beer brewing or artisan mustard, also "Educator". Makes you more well-rounded. "Philantropist" is always good.
  - stevehiehn 10y ago
    "artisan mustard" lol
- RobertKerans 10y ago
  "Software Astronaut" maybe? I'd go for "Teacher" (just a little bit more gnomic than "Educator"), and put it before "Philanthropist", all segues nicely from "I'm a serious adidactic genius" to "but I've got a fun side"
- ternaryoperator 10y ago
  "former philanthropist" would give it a kind of edgy feel
  - gnuvince 10y ago
    "I went backrupt philanthropying, that's how much I care!"
- david-given 10y ago
  'Part-time Cat Dad' doesn't sound plausible to me --- everyone knows that owning a cat is a full time job. And as for 'Protector of the Repo'... basically what you're saying is that you're a repo man?
  - djKianoosh 10y ago
    part time cat dad is totally plausible. my wife has three cats.
- rsp1984 10y ago
  Don't forget "Father of 5 Children and 8 Bastards, Environmental Activist, Feminist, Intellectual, Playing 10 Instruments and Speaking 20 Languages, More Wifes than King Solomon"
laurentdc 10y ago
It's missing "web artisan". So much self-entitlement.
- biocomputation 10y ago
  >> It's missing "web artisan" Snicker. I totally love this and am stealing it from you.
  - abrkn 10y ago
    Artificial[1] Programmer [1] in the sense 'workmanship'
- pmarreck 10y ago
  > Bespoke website designer
  - markdown 10y ago
    webmaster.
oliwarner 10y ago
Put perhaps a little more coarsely than I would have, but I completely agree with the sentiment. A[nother] minority view getting mainstream (for us) exposure because a few other dinosaurs and hipsters agree. People need to chill out about this stuff. You don't like OOP? That's great but if it's alright with you, the rest of us are going to carry on with it while you fade into irrelevance. Of course not everything fits an OOP flow but even Java (the very most verbose OOP IMO) will let you do things linearly or functionally if you want to.
biocomputation 10y ago
Agreed. Just about everything on Medium is crap. It's all designed to push the same social media narcissism button.
- alanaut 10y ago
  Do you have any suggestions for alternatives? I think HN does an excellent job of separating the person from the ideals.
  - biocomputation 10y ago
    HN has lots of great articles published on lots of different platforms. For whatever reason - reasons I certainly can't explain - Medium just attracts all the junk.
StreamBright 10y ago
Well he just said he wants to do functional programming. He did not mention OOP is dead and functional is the only future...
vram22 10y ago
It's not just Medium. I get followers on Twitter who have that kind of bio, except that the bio words are separated by pipe signs. My bogofilter tells me that they are all likely part of a scam of the same group. Further confirmed by the content of their tweets, which follow a pattern.
- oldboyFX 10y ago
  If only t'was a scam. Praise the sun.
jm547ster 10y ago
Usually not a fan of flavoursome language here but in this case it's apt.
aibottle 10y ago
Oh damn, 72 points on HN, time to do a "How I reached >70 upvotes on HN and changed the way I think of myself" - Article on Medium ;)
drauh 10y ago
Well, I don't know much about the photographer and artist tags, but he was credited as writer on a few movies.[0] The "teacher" bit may be because he ran a training session somewhere, or was a TA or tutor at some point. But, yeah. I agree with you. [0] http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1099939/ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1099939/
programath 10y ago
agreed
mturmon 10y ago
I get your desire to deflate something you dislike. I know this calling-out of OOP, as in TFA, has become routine (e.g., Steve Yegge's posts were quite celebrated here, and that was years ago). Maybe you're tired of the banana quote, and thought this post brought nothing new. But your comment is purely ad hominem -- to the point of calling the author a dipshit with absolutely no basis -- and does not engage TFA (breaking the first two comment guidelines at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).
- oldboyFX 10y ago
  You gotta admit it was quite funny. There needs to be balance. Let it be.
pmarreck 10y ago
So basically, you've given zero actual counterarguments other than an ad hominem. Or let's go at it this way- How exactly did you expect someone to introduce themselves who felt they had something to say about OO in a negative light?
RockyMcNuts 10y ago
Future mad science project ... build an RNN to generate random buzzy bios.
jccalhoun 10y ago
begin? I've always hated it. I think it is called "medium" because it isn't well-done... However, I don't think the style of this article is Medium's fault. I find it more and more common that I see a headline and have to skim through the whole article to find out what the point is. I don't know if it is from watching too many TED talks or just poor writing (not mutually exclusive, of course). But then I go read the comments and see tons of people commenting about how they loved the article and how well written it was so maybe it is me that is wrong. On second though, no. It's the children who are wrong.
sctb 10y ago
Aside from the quality of the submitted article, this comment does not contribute to the discussion and invites a trail of predictably off-topic replies. Please comment civilly and substantively on HN, or just not at all.

maxxxxx 10y ago

I had the same reaction. We need more self-indulgent people!

rhizome 10y ago

Only thing missing is "Father..."

fbonetti 10y ago
Well he did leave an ellipsis at the end of the sentence, implying that the list isn't exhaustive. He could have many more grand titles and occupations. His headshot is also a Jobs-esque, black and white photograph of him wearing a black shirt. This must be satire, right?
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fbonetti 10y ago

The self-descriptions people use these days are so ludicrous it's hard to tell if it's satire. If I had a Medium account, here's how my description would read: "Software Engineer, Philanthropist, Astronaut, Shark Hunter, Breaker of Chains, Lord Commander of the Snack Bin, Protector of the Repo, and Part-time Cat Dad" Too much or just right?

maxxxxx 10y ago
Add some beer brewing or artisan mustard, also "Educator". Makes you more well-rounded. "Philantropist" is always good.
- stevehiehn 10y ago
  "artisan mustard" lol
RobertKerans 10y ago
"Software Astronaut" maybe? I'd go for "Teacher" (just a little bit more gnomic than "Educator"), and put it before "Philanthropist", all segues nicely from "I'm a serious adidactic genius" to "but I've got a fun side"
ternaryoperator 10y ago
"former philanthropist" would give it a kind of edgy feel
- gnuvince 10y ago
  "I went backrupt philanthropying, that's how much I care!"
david-given 10y ago
'Part-time Cat Dad' doesn't sound plausible to me --- everyone knows that owning a cat is a full time job. And as for 'Protector of the Repo'... basically what you're saying is that you're a repo man?
- djKianoosh 10y ago
  part time cat dad is totally plausible. my wife has three cats.
rsp1984 10y ago
Don't forget "Father of 5 Children and 8 Bastards, Environmental Activist, Feminist, Intellectual, Playing 10 Instruments and Speaking 20 Languages, More Wifes than King Solomon"

laurentdc 10y ago

It's missing "web artisan". So much self-entitlement.

biocomputation 10y ago
>> It's missing "web artisan" Snicker. I totally love this and am stealing it from you.
- abrkn 10y ago
  Artificial[1] Programmer [1] in the sense 'workmanship'
pmarreck 10y ago
> Bespoke website designer
- markdown 10y ago
  webmaster.

oliwarner 10y ago

Put perhaps a little more coarsely than I would have, but I completely agree with the sentiment. A[nother] minority view getting mainstream (for us) exposure because a few other dinosaurs and hipsters agree. People need to chill out about this stuff. You don't like OOP? That's great but if it's alright with you, the rest of us are going to carry on with it while you fade into irrelevance. Of course not everything fits an OOP flow but even Java (the very most verbose OOP IMO) will let you do things linearly or functionally if you want to.

biocomputation 10y ago

Agreed. Just about everything on Medium is crap. It's all designed to push the same social media narcissism button.

alanaut 10y ago
Do you have any suggestions for alternatives? I think HN does an excellent job of separating the person from the ideals.
- biocomputation 10y ago
  HN has lots of great articles published on lots of different platforms. For whatever reason - reasons I certainly can't explain - Medium just attracts all the junk.

StreamBright 10y ago

Well he just said he wants to do functional programming. He did not mention OOP is dead and functional is the only future...

vram22 10y ago

It's not just Medium. I get followers on Twitter who have that kind of bio, except that the bio words are separated by pipe signs. My bogofilter tells me that they are all likely part of a scam of the same group. Further confirmed by the content of their tweets, which follow a pattern.

oldboyFX 10y ago
If only t'was a scam. Praise the sun.

jm547ster 10y ago

Usually not a fan of flavoursome language here but in this case it's apt.

aibottle 10y ago

Oh damn, 72 points on HN, time to do a "How I reached >70 upvotes on HN and changed the way I think of myself" - Article on Medium ;)

drauh 10y ago

Well, I don't know much about the photographer and artist tags, but he was credited as writer on a few movies.[0] The "teacher" bit may be because he ran a training session somewhere, or was a TA or tutor at some point. But, yeah. I agree with you. [0] http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1099939/ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1099939/

programath 10y ago

agreed

mturmon 10y ago

I get your desire to deflate something you dislike. I know this calling-out of OOP, as in TFA, has become routine (e.g., Steve Yegge's posts were quite celebrated here, and that was years ago). Maybe you're tired of the banana quote, and thought this post brought nothing new. But your comment is purely ad hominem -- to the point of calling the author a dipshit with absolutely no basis -- and does not engage TFA (breaking the first two comment guidelines at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).

oldboyFX 10y ago
You gotta admit it was quite funny. There needs to be balance. Let it be.

pmarreck 10y ago

So basically, you've given zero actual counterarguments other than an ad hominem. Or let's go at it this way- How exactly did you expect someone to introduce themselves who felt they had something to say about OO in a negative light?

RockyMcNuts 10y ago

Future mad science project ... build an RNN to generate random buzzy bios.

jccalhoun 10y ago

begin? I've always hated it. I think it is called "medium" because it isn't well-done... However, I don't think the style of this article is Medium's fault. I find it more and more common that I see a headline and have to skim through the whole article to find out what the point is. I don't know if it is from watching too many TED talks or just poor writing (not mutually exclusive, of course). But then I go read the comments and see tons of people commenting about how they loved the article and how well written it was so maybe it is me that is wrong. On second though, no. It's the children who are wrong.

sctb 10y ago

Aside from the quality of the submitted article, this comment does not contribute to the discussion and invites a trail of predictably off-topic replies. Please comment civilly and substantively on HN, or just not at all.