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So do you have anything constructive to add to the conversation? Alternative resources you've found useful in your, I assume, long tenure as a manager and coac

So do you have anything constructive to add to the conversation? Alternative resources you've found useful in your, I assume, long tenure as a manager and coach of staff? I mean, we can't do better than "Eternal September" here on HN if talented, experienced folks like yourself don't share the wisdom you've acquired over your long and illustrious career. Right?

x0x0 7y ago
Yes, I constructively added this guy has no idea what he's blathering on about, and is definitely not letting that stop him from pretending he's an authority and dispensing advice. Now, you have a choice on where to learn things. You can learn eg development best practices from people who have 10 or 20 years of development, or you can ask someone who's built small greenfield projects. You apparently think we should value advice from noob's equally; good luck with that there. Since you don't know how to use google, try going to barnes and noble and asking them to get copies of Camille Fournier's or Michael Lopp's books.
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- CarelessExpert 7y ago
  > Yes, I constructively added this guy has no idea what he's blathering on about, and is definitely not letting that stop him from pretending he's an authority and dispensing advice. Okay, well, so... examples? This sounds an awful lot like a simple appeal to authority to me. But "noobs" may have useful insights, just as "people who have 10 or 20 years of development" might have bad habits, biases, or misconceptions. Look, I think we can all use our brains and determine if this post contains some value or not. Personally, I've been a manager of staff for about five years, and the more regimented, structural approach outlined in this post illuminates some ideas that I might explore in my own practices, and dovetails well with how I've been trying to improve myself in this area. Am I going to take what this guy has written and follow it as though it's the bible of staff management? No, of course not. Again, I have a functioning brain, and in general I try to use it. But, I will read this post with an open, thinking mind and decide for myself if there's value to be gotten from it. That said, I come to these comment threads to find commentary or discourse that might touch on things I've missed when reading this material for myself. Ideally, that would include constructive criticisms of the content so we can, as a community, learn both from the post itself and from contributions from folks like yourself. If that's not what you're here for, and you'd rather just tear the author (and this community) down, I guess that's fine. But it seems like a waste of your time, not to mention an unnecessary expenditure of emotional energy. HN comment threads are really not worth getting worked up about. Anyway, I hope you have a good day!
  - x0x0 7y ago
    So you think that appealing to authority is pointing out the author has extremely limited experience in matters he's discussing. Interesting.
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    - sixstringtheory 7y ago
      It's definitely an ad hominem. You haven't said a thing about the actual ideas presented.
    - CarelessExpert 7y ago
      Yes, or rather it's the inverse. You appear to be using the author's relative inexperience to then conclude the author's statements or claims are false, irrespective of the content of those claims. This is the inverse of an appeal to authority where you use the author's experience or credentials to then conclude the author's statements or claims are true, irrespective of the content of those claims.
- dang 7y ago
  Could you please not be a jerk in HN comments like this? It breaks the site guidelines badly and we ban accounts that do it. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

x0x0 7y ago

Yes, I constructively added this guy has no idea what he's blathering on about, and is definitely not letting that stop him from pretending he's an authority and dispensing advice. Now, you have a choice on where to learn things. You can learn eg development best practices from people who have 10 or 20 years of development, or you can ask someone who's built small greenfield projects. You apparently think we should value advice from noob's equally; good luck with that there. Since you don't know how to use google, try going to barnes and noble and asking them to get copies of Camille Fournier's or Michael Lopp's books.

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CarelessExpert 7y ago
> Yes, I constructively added this guy has no idea what he's blathering on about, and is definitely not letting that stop him from pretending he's an authority and dispensing advice. Okay, well, so... examples? This sounds an awful lot like a simple appeal to authority to me. But "noobs" may have useful insights, just as "people who have 10 or 20 years of development" might have bad habits, biases, or misconceptions. Look, I think we can all use our brains and determine if this post contains some value or not. Personally, I've been a manager of staff for about five years, and the more regimented, structural approach outlined in this post illuminates some ideas that I might explore in my own practices, and dovetails well with how I've been trying to improve myself in this area. Am I going to take what this guy has written and follow it as though it's the bible of staff management? No, of course not. Again, I have a functioning brain, and in general I try to use it. But, I will read this post with an open, thinking mind and decide for myself if there's value to be gotten from it. That said, I come to these comment threads to find commentary or discourse that might touch on things I've missed when reading this material for myself. Ideally, that would include constructive criticisms of the content so we can, as a community, learn both from the post itself and from contributions from folks like yourself. If that's not what you're here for, and you'd rather just tear the author (and this community) down, I guess that's fine. But it seems like a waste of your time, not to mention an unnecessary expenditure of emotional energy. HN comment threads are really not worth getting worked up about. Anyway, I hope you have a good day!
- x0x0 7y ago
  So you think that appealing to authority is pointing out the author has extremely limited experience in matters he's discussing. Interesting.
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  - sixstringtheory 7y ago
    It's definitely an ad hominem. You haven't said a thing about the actual ideas presented.
  - CarelessExpert 7y ago
    Yes, or rather it's the inverse. You appear to be using the author's relative inexperience to then conclude the author's statements or claims are false, irrespective of the content of those claims. This is the inverse of an appeal to authority where you use the author's experience or credentials to then conclude the author's statements or claims are true, irrespective of the content of those claims.
dang 7y ago
Could you please not be a jerk in HN comments like this? It breaks the site guidelines badly and we ban accounts that do it. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html