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> How does it matter? There are gazillions of educated people in the world with all the skills for a couple of order of magnitudes more languages than just 2! A
by lapcat 3y ago
> How does it matter? There are gazillions of educated people in the world with all the skills for a couple of order of magnitudes more languages than just 2! And it's especially preposterous making this arguments after waves of layoffs in the tech sector
I already explained how it matters: "The minimum qualifications for a good API doc writer is practical experience programming with the technology to be documented. That already narrows the field significantly."
You seem to think that it's just a trivial skill: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38914104 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38914104 But when you look at the Apple documentation archive, and the extensive, excellent conceptual articles, it's clear that this accomplishment required a lot of care, experience, and skill.
- eviks 3y agoYou haven't explained it since it doesn't follow. The fact that a single company uses many technologies has no effect in itself on the pool of people using those technologies. Besides, that's another misapplied requirement of yours: experience can be gained, it will take longer, but it's just another "takes more resources" issue, not something that narrows the field since for some reason you added that requirement before hiring, not before writing docs. I don't think it's a trivial (that's your straw man), I just disagree that it requires rare man of mythical set of skills to accomplish to make it justifiably hard for poor Apple