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> it’s a pretty long read... clearly the author did not learn brevity in his coding, or that his blog’s color scheme does not contribute to readability It's al
by _asummers 7y ago
> it’s a pretty long read... clearly the author did not learn brevity in his coding, or that his blog’s color scheme does not contribute to readability
It's also riddled with typos which made reading it hard. There's some wisdom in there, but it was clearly written in an editor without spell/grammar checks. Maybe there should have been a section about rereading your own work before sending to your team/prod? =)
- reallydontask 7y agoI would guess that based on name and link to a book, he wrote, in Portuguese, that the chap's first language is not English
- Kreotiko 7y agoAs a fellow not native speaker I don’t think this should matter the moment you choose to use English. Also, personally, it wasn’t just the grammar that put me off but also all the aggressive colloquialism used.
- reallydontask 7y agoI give non-native speakers a lot more leeway for typos, grammar and odd expressions for, hopefully, obvious reasons. A lot of people use English as it's the language of tech, which means that the potential audience is significantly larger.
- tomelders 7y ago> Turn off comments
- pmarreck 7y agoThere should be a way to vet negative people in some way that comments wouldn't be toxic