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It seems there's a cult following of pseudo-intellectuals/dev celebrities who all seem to have only worked at "faang" like companies. Everything about it is a b
by lloydatkinson 3y ago
It seems there's a cult following of pseudo-intellectuals/dev celebrities who all seem to have only worked at "faang" like companies. Everything about it is a bit weird.
In this case, the one named like prime number, seems to spend extraordinary amounts of time waffling on about nothing in particular on twitch streams with a relentless torrent of energy, and then this feeds the echo chamber of their fans.
Nothing of substance is touched on more than briefly. I am not really sure what the point was of this whole article and guest appearance.
- SJC_Hacker 3y agoPrimagen is like the textbook definition of a brogrammer. He's not an idiot but I suspect there was more to him getting hired at FAANG than aside from just his technical ability.
- viraptor 3y agoHe knows how to work with audience. The twitch persona does what twitch persona does. The non-twitch educational dev content is quite different and good quality - his htmx intro is great for example. There are areas he knows how to play well. I wouldn't try to infer much about the real person from the content.
- reducesuffering 3y ago> I suspect there was more to him getting hired at FAANG than aside from just his technical ability Any evidence? He was at Netflix for practically a decade, and Netflix is known for letting go underperformers very quickly.
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