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Personally, I find it refreshing to read a blog post that isn't - either directly or indirectly - about how amazing the author is. Programming blogging has a s
by alex_c 16y ago
Personally, I find it refreshing to read a blog post that isn't - either directly or indirectly - about how amazing the author is.
Programming blogging has a strong culture of focusing on the newest, shiniest, and cleverest; the only negative blog posts tend to be "why X is wrong". No one blogs about their difficulties, weaknesses, doubts, or the huge amount of effort it takes to get really good at something. I think that's unfortunate, because it paints an inaccurate image of programming.
- gwtw 16y agoBut thankfully, that ever mythical "she" of the technical literature has got herself a blog and we note a shift in the tendencies of the clickety click crowd. Oh damn that CAP! Its so hard to scale. I think I'll go shopping for an off the shelf solution.
- alnayyir 16y agoMy eyes crossed a bit at the linked-list thing, but I agree whole-heartedly with the sentiment expressed here. Despite being engineers/programmers, we have the same proclivities for superficiality and marketing as any other field.