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My take: I like the Bruce Lee quote: I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.
by BeefWellington 4y ago
My take: I like the Bruce Lee quote:
I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once,
but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.
The people who blog about being great developers are largely bordering on snakeoil salesmen/women. I think the great devs are too busy writing code.
- xenocratus 4y ago
- P5fRxh5kUvp2th 4y ago^ that sounds to me like you're trying entirely too hard to be offended.
- xenocratus 4y agoI'm really not one to be offended by stuff like that, I couldn't care less, but the "he/she" "man/woman" trend is annoying me so much for some reason, it's like there aren't already words we can use as a replacement.. Just use "they"! Or "person"! Or really whatever else, it just becomes annoying to me mostly because the grammar around these obviously becomes complicated and you have to use "/" in other places as well, and sometimes it's confusing like here, and argh.... We have enough words to designate "human of nondescript gender"! Hell, I wouldn't even have noticed if it was just "salesman", though I know a lot of people seem to care nowadays. Anyway, rant over. And of course, you don't _have_ to listen to me, or care about my rants, just like I don't have to listen to you complaining that I'm "offended".
- P5fRxh5kUvp2th 4y agoYou understood the intent, communication occurred. Just leave it at that. he/she has been a thing since at least the 90's.
- xenocratus 4y agoArguments of the form "X has been a thing since Y" are one of the reasons we're shit at progress. Lots of shit things have been happening for a while - how is that an argument in their support?
- Eupraxias 4y agoTo me it read like "snakeoil salesman, and snakeoil women", but my mind was not able to form a clear picture of what the latter might be.
- Cthulhu_ 4y agoSnakeoil seller, or, I don't believe selleress is a word?
- BeefWellington 4y agoI cannot edit my comment now but I'd hope it was very clear I meant snakeoil salesmen / snakeoil saleswomen. Context is key there but your point is taken and I will try to avoid any possibility of confusion in the future.
- sshine 4y agoI'd elaborate and endorse this view, but I'm too busy writing code.
- TakeBlaster16 4y agoAs a mediocre developer, I'll gladly endorse this view.
- avg_dev 4y agoThis gave me a good chuckle.
- oh_my_goodness 4y agoMostly https://tenor.com/view/aliens-newt-mostly-gif-25791528 https://tenor.com/view/aliens-newt-mostly-gif-25791528
- codazoda 4y agoI write in order to understand and solidify a concept in my mind and so that I don’t have to remember it next time I face a similar problem. I used to do so publicly but I mostly write privately now.
- dasil003 4y agoDepends on your criteria. If you are interested in the best solo developer it's probably true. But in software engineering the hardest part is working in teams. Building a large scale system too large to fit in anyone's head while still maintaining a reasonable degree of modularity and cohesion is very difficult and requires a degree of verbal and written communication that could translate very well to blogging. More relevant is the low barrier to entry to blogging and Sturgeon's Law.