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Here's Eric Elliot, doing his Eric Elliot thing. Pages and pages of beautifully worded, perfectly structured arguments about absolutely nothing. And this month

Here's Eric Elliot, doing his Eric Elliot thing. Pages and pages of beautifully worded, perfectly structured arguments about absolutely nothing. And this month he's a Distributed Systems Expert. More power to this guy for building a brand for himself, but what a load of nonsense.

seattle_spring 8y ago
> Pages and pages of beautifully worded, perfectly structured arguments about absolutely nothing. I don't know Eric Elliot, but this sentence captures my perception of most "influencers" perfectly.
- uxp 8y ago
  I've personally been hired to clean up at least two of his codebases after he finds the next shiny object. Much like his prose, they flow beautifully and end up doing very little substantive work. I'd rather someone that knows that their shit stinks for X number of reasons than one that thought theirs was a work of art. My favorite question to ask a mid to senior interviewee is what do they hate or what would they change about the framework, language, or technology that we're hiring for and why. If they're unable to answer that, yet they give dozens of reasons why they hate Java over C# or what-have-you then I usually assume they don't have enough experience or have pigeon-holed themselves into some specific task and will flail if you start to steer out of their comfort zone. Eric seems to have dug himself a very successful hole. Good for him, but I wouldn't trust him to work on a business application that's core to the monetary success of a company. I'm sure he makes great homepages though.
  - ericelliott 8y ago
    Hello. Eric Elliott here. Which codebases were those, exactly?
    - lugg 8y ago
      Not AP, But I'm curious, can you Tldr the tax for typescript? I skimmed half the article but I couldnt actually find what the tax was? In similar vein to the above above poster, you might find this lecture useful: https://youtube.com/watch?v=vtIzMaLkCaM https://youtube.com/watch?v=vtIzMaLkCaM Your writing has a very nice cadence to it I'm just not sure you grasp the reason I might want to read it!
    - uxp 8y ago
      Hi Dilvie, it's been a while. Mechanized was the first. The second was a job board type application I'm still under NDA for.
AriaMinaei 8y ago
I didn't notice the name, but came to say the same thing. After skimming through, It's obvious that reading this article would be counterproductive for anyone with any sort of interest in this topic.

seattle_spring 8y ago

> Pages and pages of beautifully worded, perfectly structured arguments about absolutely nothing. I don't know Eric Elliot, but this sentence captures my perception of most "influencers" perfectly.

uxp 8y ago
I've personally been hired to clean up at least two of his codebases after he finds the next shiny object. Much like his prose, they flow beautifully and end up doing very little substantive work. I'd rather someone that knows that their shit stinks for X number of reasons than one that thought theirs was a work of art. My favorite question to ask a mid to senior interviewee is what do they hate or what would they change about the framework, language, or technology that we're hiring for and why. If they're unable to answer that, yet they give dozens of reasons why they hate Java over C# or what-have-you then I usually assume they don't have enough experience or have pigeon-holed themselves into some specific task and will flail if you start to steer out of their comfort zone. Eric seems to have dug himself a very successful hole. Good for him, but I wouldn't trust him to work on a business application that's core to the monetary success of a company. I'm sure he makes great homepages though.
- ericelliott 8y ago
  Hello. Eric Elliott here. Which codebases were those, exactly?
  - lugg 8y ago
    Not AP, But I'm curious, can you Tldr the tax for typescript? I skimmed half the article but I couldnt actually find what the tax was? In similar vein to the above above poster, you might find this lecture useful: https://youtube.com/watch?v=vtIzMaLkCaM https://youtube.com/watch?v=vtIzMaLkCaM Your writing has a very nice cadence to it I'm just not sure you grasp the reason I might want to read it!
  - uxp 8y ago
    Hi Dilvie, it's been a while. Mechanized was the first. The second was a job board type application I'm still under NDA for.

AriaMinaei 8y ago

I didn't notice the name, but came to say the same thing. After skimming through, It's obvious that reading this article would be counterproductive for anyone with any sort of interest in this topic.