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That's an interesting, albeit selfish, perspective. Experienced developers usually aren't busy writing blog posts. Nor are they engaged on HN. As the old sayin
by hn_check 6y ago
That's an interesting, albeit selfish, perspective.
Experienced developers usually aren't busy writing blog posts. Nor are they engaged on HN. As the old saying goes, those who can are out doing, those who can't `teach'.
This touched a nerve, but sorry it's spot on. The more faltering the career, the less certain the skills, the more likely the person has a vigorous social media and blog presence.
- hn_check 6y agoGiven the great reception this has received, let me give an example, and one of HN's great "successes" - patio11. Guy made a tiny, miserable little service that would have made more money if he worked at Walmart. He was the seer who provided day after day of front page content for this site, the "fake it till you make it" ruse in full effect. Because his product was so miserably unsuccessfully he instead put all of his effort into blog posts and "lessons" for people to follow, and the suckers lined up. People with actually successful products were just off being successful.