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Great post. But why is there a biographic blurb about being a developer at Microsoft at 18 at the end? Isn't this exactly the kind of "in your face, I did coo
by nzmsv 14y ago
Great post. But why is there a biographic blurb about being a developer at Microsoft at 18 at the end? Isn't this exactly the kind of "in your face, I did cooler things at 18 than you ever will" kind of thing that you are arguing against?
On another note, I think one of the problems in the community is that criticism is directed at people, not their code. We forget that people can and do learn and get better. For an example, read the comments about people who fail the FizzBuzz test, or those who code in PHP.
- mechanical_fish 14y agoSurely it is no sin to state one's bio on one's own blog. Especially if one avoids using phrases like "in your face, clueless peons!!!"
- tessr 14y agoThe next time I write my boilerplate bio, I'm totally going to use that line. Just kidding. (Can people on HN read sarcasm? I never know.)
- andrewflnr 14y agoIt seemed to me like a boilerplate signature, mainly because of the italics.
- tikhonj 14y agoAnd that's the point: her boilerplate signature is basically exactly the sort of thing she's complaining about (as far as I can tell from the post, which, admittedly, left me somewhat confused).
- andrewflnr 14y agoShe's not complaining about people having experience or qualifications, she's complaining about attitudes some people have as a result.
- tessr 14y agoExactly. Thanks. Besides, I include that mostly to show that I think like an 18 year old. I'm talking mostly about behavior I've seen from other 18 year olds. That's where I am in the world right now.
- thyrsus 14y agoLet's adopt this attitude toward those who use what we might consider inferior tools (PHP in this example): it is harder to succeed with an inferior tool, thus success with it is to be all the more admired - in the same way that one might admire someone who implemented a web server on a TRS-80, or dug a basement with a simple shovel. From there, one can ask: why did you do it that way? And then do our best to learn from the answer.
- pnathan 14y agoSorry, but, actually, intern, not developer.
- tessr 14y agoIndeed.