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Good reply. At first the sarcasm (usage of monkey) was almost lot on me. GP seems to have a very condescending attitude towards high level programmers. How woul
by aws_ls 10y ago
Good reply. At first the sarcasm (usage of monkey) was almost lot on me. GP seems to have a very condescending attitude towards high level programmers. How would they feel, if he is called a manager monkey, a deep learning monkey. Or simply a monkey monkey.
- pjmlp 10y agoWhen I started working in IT, those monkeys were everyone that couldn't write Assembly....
- pavlov 10y agoCompare our industry's attitude to how doctors and architects are treated. Does anyone call a doctor a "diagnosis monkey" because she isn't in the business of inventing antibiotics? Is an architect a "wall-placement monkey" because he doesn't create new kinds of construction materials himself? In the software industry, professionals who are just as important as doctors and architects routinely think of themselves as mere monkeys or data plumbers at best -- and the reason is this never-ending cycle of nerd hazing.
- aws_ls 10y ago>routinely think of themselves as mere monkeys...nerd hazing This phenomenon is also there. But I think, more prominent is the derogatory usage by others, especially when coining terms like <xyz> monkey. For that matter, I am Okay with critiques of tech/practices e.g. Javascript. But definitely don't like derogatory usages like calling the practitioners JS monkeys. Which was the case here. Difference between attacking techs/practices and people.