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> I thought the remote work was to blame — it made it hard for me to use my charisma. Big oof. > I understand when you surf the net to figure out how a new t
by iLoveOncall 4y ago
> I thought the remote work was to blame — it made it hard for me to use my charisma.
Big oof.
> I understand when you surf the net to figure out how a new technology works. Or when you need to use some exotic feature and not to bloat your head with unnecessary information. But basic things! How can you copy-paste basic things from the Internet?!
I'd say basic things are the unnecessary information that you shouldn't bloat your head with. You don't need to remember if it's "split()" or "splice()" or "slice()" because you can Google it in a second, but you do need to remember how advanced concepts work.
Lots of bad takes in this article.
- rickspencer3 4y agoI suspect that the author would argue that more competent programmers would use their IDE's statement completion functionality to quickly determine the function name, or which of the functions to use, what arguments to pass, and what return value type to expect and how to use it. That their knowledge of the language would allow them to write the code faster and better which such tools, rather than copying something from the internet.