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> who are stunningly ignorant of some of the things they talk about what interests me is that you say "some of" (I have had the same experience). where I strug

by n42 9y ago

> who are stunningly ignorant of some of the things they talk about what interests me is that you say "some of" (I have had the same experience). where I struggle is trying to pay attention when these people actually know what they are talking about. it becomes so difficult to know what is bullshit and what is real, and I often miss out on valuable insight because I can't trust what they say 50% of the time.

lawn 9y ago
Exactly. There's an old school programmer at work who founded the company, created his own programming language a big application is running on and is widely considered to be a programmer guru. He has some really strong opinions about programming, some I agree with and others I find difficult to swallow, but he's also firmly against vaccines, believes his kung fu is superior to the MMA in UFC and is generally very positive to pseudo medicine of different kinds. I find it very difficult to take his programming advice seriously when he follows by saying vaccines are anti science.
- HumanDrivenDev 9y ago
  I know you probably can't say who it is but I am bursting with curiosity.
- cabaalis 9y ago
  Wasn't there a very respected gentleman who has passed on in the past decade, who ran a large company we've all heard of, and who also just happened to believe greatly in pseudo medicine (maybe not vaccines in particular) and odd diets? What I'm saying is, it takes all kinds to make a village. The person you're talking about's beliefs on vaccines are unlikely to affect many. His genius at programming, however, is.
HumanDrivenDev 9y ago
I find common sense and skepticism usually works. I mean say someone is an extremely accomplished operating systems programmer. There's no reason to believe they are any kind of authority on programming language design, or that their ideas on programming language design are noteworthy or well thought-out.

by n42 9y ago

lawn 9y ago

Exactly. There's an old school programmer at work who founded the company, created his own programming language a big application is running on and is widely considered to be a programmer guru. He has some really strong opinions about programming, some I agree with and others I find difficult to swallow, but he's also firmly against vaccines, believes his kung fu is superior to the MMA in UFC and is generally very positive to pseudo medicine of different kinds. I find it very difficult to take his programming advice seriously when he follows by saying vaccines are anti science.

HumanDrivenDev 9y ago
I know you probably can't say who it is but I am bursting with curiosity.
cabaalis 9y ago
Wasn't there a very respected gentleman who has passed on in the past decade, who ran a large company we've all heard of, and who also just happened to believe greatly in pseudo medicine (maybe not vaccines in particular) and odd diets? What I'm saying is, it takes all kinds to make a village. The person you're talking about's beliefs on vaccines are unlikely to affect many. His genius at programming, however, is.

HumanDrivenDev 9y ago

I find common sense and skepticism usually works. I mean say someone is an extremely accomplished operating systems programmer. There's no reason to believe they are any kind of authority on programming language design, or that their ideas on programming language design are noteworthy or well thought-out.