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I'm curious: Did those verbally talented people also produce complex working code? My experience is that people who sound impressive and accurate rarely do.
by gfiedler 8y ago
I'm curious: Did those verbally talented people also produce complex working code?
My experience is that people who sound impressive and accurate rarely do.
- cableshaft 8y agoI know the types of people you're talking about, and they do exist, for sure. But no, these people knew more than I did, at least in enterprise software (I came from mobile and video games, the apps mostly were all on the device making periodic api calls, I didn't have to worry too much about scaling to tens of thousands of concurrent users, or know anything about load balancing, or different environments, or query optimization, or all sorts of other fun stuff). I learned a lot from them over the years, from Code Reviews I've received as well as Dev Learning Sessions we used to do every week, where one developer would share their knowledge on a topic with the rest of the group (sometimes they had to research it, we burned through a lot of relevant to our business topics after about 8 months) in a 30 minute session.