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I wish more people hear your opinion. I'm on my late 20 and I went to my alma-mater library once a week in the past. I grabbed old books (Liskov, Bentley, Kern

I wish more people hear your opinion. I'm on my late 20 and I went to my alma-mater library once a week in the past. I grabbed old books (Liskov, Bentley, Kernighan, some of the software engineering books, etc) a few times and I was surprised to see methods or techniques that people use these days and considered cutting edge were being discussed in a THIN, DUSTY, paper with YELLOW-ish color books. There are plenty wisdoms in those old books yet these days people were gung-ho with the latest greatest. I'm not saying that the latest greatest aren't advancing our thought. It's just that there are more noises than actual wisdoms.

christkv 15y ago
The noise I contribute to the general low average age of our industry. Lots of strong opinions combined with inexperience leads to flame wars. More people would be better off doing their 10 000 hours of practice before raising their voice in an opinion. That said I always thought the guild model of apprenticeship would be a better model for developing our craft. But I'm not sure how one would go about setting something like that up.
- v21 15y ago
  Raising your voice to have an opinion and getting in lots of flamewars is a fine way to improve.