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> I hope I haven’t done some elitist gatekeeping bullshit that discourages people from trying new things. Sorry for "saying it out loud", but that's exactly wh
by CTmystery 5y ago
> I hope I haven’t done some elitist gatekeeping bullshit that discourages people from trying new things.
Sorry for "saying it out loud", but that's exactly what you did.
This sort of post obviously irks many people. I think the reason is that pros have seen many many dimensions of what "being smarter" means. You can't claim that there is a correlation until you specify on what dimension of 'being smart' you're attempting to correlate against.
Further, it perpetuates this super annoying egotistical myth for a collection of folks: they think that they themselves are much better programmers than everyone around them. When they write crappy code that can't be maintained, it's the team's fault. The team is obviously not up to their level of genius. Etc.
Edit: removed an unnecessary bit for something hopefully more constructive.
- CTmystery 5y agoHere's a comment in another part of the thread, I see now what the phrase "skewing smarter" means to you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30258409 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30258409 I no longer have a horse in the race. I wonder why categorical claims really get the blood moving :)
- benreesman 5y agoIf anyone blames you for getting fired up by my original phrasing it won’t be me! I thought I was making a drive-by anecdotal observation about a signal I’ve used to work with smarter people than myself, by the time I had read it over once or twice there were like 100 child comments and it was too late to choose more temperate language. It wasn’t my intention to imply that I was smart personally, rather that of the crazy effective people I’ve had the privilege of working with, Haskell hackers are wildly over-represented in that group.