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If you haven't seen this talk; watching it will make you a 10x better programmer. This is what I take for my definition of complex and it applies broadly in a v
by ajdegol 7y ago
If you haven't seen this talk; watching it will make you a 10x better programmer. This is what I take for my definition of complex and it applies broadly in a very practical manner.
- heinrich5991 7y ago>watching it will make you a 10x better programmer. That sounds wrong. Can we drop this rhetoric?
- Ma8ee 7y agoIt's obviously hyperbole.
- radicalbyte 7y agoIt needs to be rephrased into this: "Watching this video will make you into a developer who is respected 10x more by their peers."
- coldtea 7y agoWould it?
- _jal 7y agoWell, no, but it will make you 10x richer.
- Ma8ee 7y agoharhar
- criddell 7y agoProbably not, but it's fun to think about. If respect is measured by an integer, going from level 2 to 20 is great. But if you have no respect, then gaining 10 times as much still leaves you at none. If you are disrespected DON'T WATCH THE VIDEO unless you want to be disrespected more by a factor of 10!
- radicalbyte 7y agoNo it's hyperbole. However if you go from writing spaghetti code to something more structured (i.e. loosely coupled, however that is expressed in your language) then you're team mates will hate you less.
- thwarted 7y agoWhat rhetoric? Are you confusing this with "the 10x programmer" meme? Claims of becoming a 10x better programmer aren't claims about making one a 10x programmer. The former is about relative self-improvement and motivationally hyperbolic; the latter is about relative comparison to others, is often used negatively to belittle, and is detrimentally hyperbolic.
- Dylan16807 7y ago> motivationally hyperbolic It's such a ridiculously high number that it ceases to be motivational.
- kazagistar 7y agoI would defensively be more hyperbolic and use a different number, just because 10x is tainted by stupid ideas in programming. But your intent was pretty clear to anyone paying attention... that's just a high bar sometimes.
- simongray 7y agoAlso: try out Clojure (... the programming language created by Rich Hickey based on this principle).
- pixelrevision 7y agoWas 100x for me. My boss unfortunately did not agree with me.
- ErikAugust 7y agoI've measured between 2x - 3.5x for every 12 minutes of a Rich Hickey talk. What's even more staggering is this continues even for repeated viewings.