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When people call themselves "lazy and incompetent" they're not sincere. It's the equivalent of an obviously fit person saying "oh I'm so fat". It's just fake h
by gizmo 4y ago
When people call themselves "lazy and incompetent" they're not sincere. It's the equivalent of an obviously fit person saying "oh I'm so fat".
It's just fake humility. The same people would get offended if you actually suggested they were lazy and incompetent.
- mejutoco 4y agoIn a programming context lazy does not need to be a bad thing. https://thethreevirtues.com/ https://thethreevirtues.com/ Incompetence, I agree, sounds either self-deprecating or fake.
- mfru 4y agoincompetence is most likely just the impostor syndrome speaking
- rowanG077 4y agoI don't think this is true. How fat you are can be pretty objectively measured and it won't change in the short term. Being lazy and incompetent however is always fluctuating. There are days I'm lazy, there are days when I can work 12 hours and feel energized. There is also days where everything in my mind aligns and all the problems melt away. There is also days where I ram my head into the wall on some relatively simple problem. The point being is that programming is something that no human can do without errors. So you want a language that provides as much low overhead guard rails as possible to stop yourself from shooting yourself in the foot. Even on the days you're lazy and incompetent. That's how I see the statement they make.
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- taneq 4y agoI think it’s often Socratic laziness. Not fake, but “humans are dumb and weak, let’s make this easy for ourselves.” For most of my coding work I take it a step further than this with the simple premise that the code you wrote professionally is not for you. It’s for whoever next has to work on it, no matter their level of expertise. Sure, maybe you ‘just know’ that the equality operator comes between bitwise-OR and logical-OR in precedence, but the code isn’t for you so maybe just use the brackets anyway.
- hutzlibu 4y ago"The same people would get offended if you actually suggested they were lazy and incompetent. " Maybe, because it is all relative. I know my flaws and compared to my (often unrealistically) high standards, I feel incompetent quite a lot. So I can say the above and mean it. But if I get criticized as incompetent by someone way below my level, then yes, I might take offense and depending on the mood, also hit back (or ignore it).