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I'm glad the conversation of social skills is finally coming to the fore -- software as with any other human endeavour is a social exercise and to pretend socia

I'm glad the conversation of social skills is finally coming to the fore -- software as with any other human endeavour is a social exercise and to pretend social skills are somehow less valuable or necessary than technical skills is fallacious, you can't really have one without the other

turk73 7y ago
You can be "glad" all you want, but the underlying reality here is that the type of brain that is excellent at coding is not excellent at "social skills." Instead of telling people to "deal with it" maybe realize that there is no dealing with that and that expectations for what people are capable of are unrealistic. For example, some shithead journalists who got laid off complained bitterly about being told to "learn to code." Those fuckers got downright angry about that and yet people who code are all the time told "be more sociable," or "don't be an introvert." Yeah, uh not.