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first "code ninjas" now "street fighting" engineers and "martial art" engineers? really? I feel like these monikers are getting a little silly especially since

by darod 4y ago

first "code ninjas" now "street fighting" engineers and "martial art" engineers? really? I feel like these monikers are getting a little silly especially since you'd never see the reverse.

intelVISA 4y ago
LFM 10x rockstar/street-fighter (no LLMs!) SWEs PST
neilv 4y ago
> you'd never see the reverse. Excellent point! Competitive TKD practitioner: "Approaching this match, aware my opponent was a highly-ranked veteran competitor, I asked myself: what would a techbro do?"
dgunay 4y ago
reminds me a bit of this Elon Musk tweet: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1527774704018280448?s=20 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1527774704018280448?s=20
- neilv 4y ago
  He has an interesting mix of good ideas and bad ideas. Which is good and bad, in a society in which he can do almost anything he wants, and almost no one will tell him no.
mattmanser 4y ago
There's been a glut of these "two types of programmer" articles the last few days, it's just a stupid trend.
inawarminister 4y ago
Well I'm a HEMA swordsman moonlighting as a backend/LLM programmer and in many cases I think while wrestling with my spaghetti code: "How would Meyer deal with it?" Human cross-domain capabilities are amazing.
- AstralStorm 4y ago
  Fiore would just twist and throw the problem until it's obvious, solved, requirements are met or it's left for someone else to deal with. ;) Very direct. Force and control inputs, thus outputs will be ensured correct. Manhandling code has a long tradition. Meyer would evaluate a series of varying weights of golden hammers. Try to defensive code all possible cases. Find a decisive insight into a problem. And Polish sabre school would cut off the angles until the solution is all that remains possible. Feint all sorts of evil cases for testing. Now the fun part is that basic principles are the same. You write code that works and does what is required or you are not a programmer. You win swordfights or you're dead. Both of the swordmasters worked from first principles...
smugma 3y ago
The reverse/inverse is taking about a physical sport in cerebral terms, like the other commenter comparing boxing to chess. Another analogy would be someone talking about their music like (a) code.
- darod 3y ago
  Sure, but no one is comparing a quarterback with a physicist or in this case a programmer. I just think that our field is developing descriptions of ourselves to over embellish what we actually do and it's not necessary. We sit behind computers, think, and write code. We're not swashbuckling, throwing stars, or grappling with opponents in the streets.

by darod 4y ago

first "code ninjas" now "street fighting" engineers and "martial art" engineers? really? I feel like these monikers are getting a little silly especially since you'd never see the reverse.

intelVISA 4y ago

LFM 10x rockstar/street-fighter (no LLMs!) SWEs PST

neilv 4y ago

> you'd never see the reverse. Excellent point! Competitive TKD practitioner: "Approaching this match, aware my opponent was a highly-ranked veteran competitor, I asked myself: what would a techbro do?"

dgunay 4y ago

reminds me a bit of this Elon Musk tweet: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1527774704018280448?s=20 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1527774704018280448?s=20

neilv 4y ago
He has an interesting mix of good ideas and bad ideas. Which is good and bad, in a society in which he can do almost anything he wants, and almost no one will tell him no.

mattmanser 4y ago

There's been a glut of these "two types of programmer" articles the last few days, it's just a stupid trend.

inawarminister 4y ago

Well I'm a HEMA swordsman moonlighting as a backend/LLM programmer and in many cases I think while wrestling with my spaghetti code: "How would Meyer deal with it?" Human cross-domain capabilities are amazing.

AstralStorm 4y ago
Fiore would just twist and throw the problem until it's obvious, solved, requirements are met or it's left for someone else to deal with. ;) Very direct. Force and control inputs, thus outputs will be ensured correct. Manhandling code has a long tradition. Meyer would evaluate a series of varying weights of golden hammers. Try to defensive code all possible cases. Find a decisive insight into a problem. And Polish sabre school would cut off the angles until the solution is all that remains possible. Feint all sorts of evil cases for testing. Now the fun part is that basic principles are the same. You write code that works and does what is required or you are not a programmer. You win swordfights or you're dead. Both of the swordmasters worked from first principles...

smugma 3y ago

The reverse/inverse is taking about a physical sport in cerebral terms, like the other commenter comparing boxing to chess. Another analogy would be someone talking about their music like (a) code.

darod 3y ago
Sure, but no one is comparing a quarterback with a physicist or in this case a programmer. I just think that our field is developing descriptions of ourselves to over embellish what we actually do and it's not necessary. We sit behind computers, think, and write code. We're not swashbuckling, throwing stars, or grappling with opponents in the streets.