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I had a long response typed out to an up thread comment, then remembered the rule "don't feed the trolls". I did get a chuckle afterwards when I read their user

I had a long response typed out to an up thread comment, then remembered the rule "don't feed the trolls". I did get a chuckle afterwards when I read their username, it certainly is apt. Edit: oh God, I looked at his linked personal site and this isn't a parody account. I really hope this guy is drinking or something, he claims to have worked in VR/AR. Claiming that none of his coworkers in 20 years have been able to understand linear algebra, while working in that field?

hnfong 4y ago
I think he's probably above average in technical skills and below average in human skills. In that context it makes sense he doesn't like being told by others how to write code. I can imagine it can be frustrating if unqualified people review my code and make irrelevant comments, but usually if you're that good, why are you working with morons anyway?
- Jensson 4y ago
  Some people just hate rethinking their views even if the other person is competent. I know people like that, smart and right about a lot of things, but can't admit that they are wrong ever. I can imagine code reviews being torture to such people.
- VirusNewbie 4y ago
  I’ve seen this pattern a few times in my now long career. Above average Engineer with missing (social skills/theory/cs degree) ends up only getting experience at companies with sub par developers. Sub par developers parrot industry recommendations such as code reviews or microservices, and Above Average anti-social dude asks why and gets a dumb answer, and out-engineers all the idiots trying to mimic industry best practices. Now Above Average engineer’s ego expands even more. Not only is he smarter than everyone else, all these best practices are dumb too. Look at all these people needing code reviews or unit tests, they still can’t ship. Those people doing it at Meta and Amazon must be dumb too.” They think. The thing is, their arrogance and/or disdain for (whatever) endures they only get hired at companies where this cycle repeats. It is not a “brag” to say none of the developers you’ve ever worked with don’t understand linear algebra, it means you only work with morons. Being the king of morons isn’t a thing to be proud of…
8note 4y ago
For the most part you don't really need to understand linear algebra for most things -- engineers past have done a great job on abstracting interesting math problems away in everything. If you're not constantly working with linear algebra, you're going to get rusty fast. Mind you, he seems like he writes a matrix multiplication with goto based loops every time, so he can make sure that he keeps knowing linear algebra, and to prevent the business he's working at from getting anything done because he doesn't like their ethics

hnfong 4y ago

I think he's probably above average in technical skills and below average in human skills. In that context it makes sense he doesn't like being told by others how to write code. I can imagine it can be frustrating if unqualified people review my code and make irrelevant comments, but usually if you're that good, why are you working with morons anyway?

Jensson 4y ago
Some people just hate rethinking their views even if the other person is competent. I know people like that, smart and right about a lot of things, but can't admit that they are wrong ever. I can imagine code reviews being torture to such people.
VirusNewbie 4y ago
I’ve seen this pattern a few times in my now long career. Above average Engineer with missing (social skills/theory/cs degree) ends up only getting experience at companies with sub par developers. Sub par developers parrot industry recommendations such as code reviews or microservices, and Above Average anti-social dude asks why and gets a dumb answer, and out-engineers all the idiots trying to mimic industry best practices. Now Above Average engineer’s ego expands even more. Not only is he smarter than everyone else, all these best practices are dumb too. Look at all these people needing code reviews or unit tests, they still can’t ship. Those people doing it at Meta and Amazon must be dumb too.” They think. The thing is, their arrogance and/or disdain for (whatever) endures they only get hired at companies where this cycle repeats. It is not a “brag” to say none of the developers you’ve ever worked with don’t understand linear algebra, it means you only work with morons. Being the king of morons isn’t a thing to be proud of…

8note 4y ago

For the most part you don't really need to understand linear algebra for most things -- engineers past have done a great job on abstracting interesting math problems away in everything. If you're not constantly working with linear algebra, you're going to get rusty fast. Mind you, he seems like he writes a matrix multiplication with goto based loops every time, so he can make sure that he keeps knowing linear algebra, and to prevent the business he's working at from getting anything done because he doesn't like their ethics