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Hey! I'm a self taught programmer and I resemble that remark. I think that you're painting with a little too broad a brush, the inverse is true too, I've seen
by pacaro 7y ago
Hey! I'm a self taught programmer and I resemble that remark.
I think that you're painting with a little too broad a brush, the inverse is true too, I've seen way too much blind application of GoF patterns by professional engineers.
I think the key word is understanding. what each idiom needs is a good rubric explaining why this is the/a correct approach, but that is much harder to provide
- lewilewilewi 7y agoResemble? Or resent?
- pacaro 7y agoIf you haven't encountered the phrase before, "I resemble that remark" is absolutely a play on the similarity between resemble and resent, suggesting in a light hearted fashion that the speaker has (perhaps) mild resentment, but recognises the truth because it is personally applicable. It also has an overtone (at least to me) of downplaying the seriousness of the "remark" by answering it with humor For myself I'm a 25 year industry veteran, with 35 years of self-taught programming experience. My experience with stereotypes and generalizations is that the problem is not so much that they might be wrong, but rather that they are always incomplete