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I am always amazed that people who blog, tweet etc. a lot think they are somehow "pushing things forward". Actually, it's people who write a lot of working code
by cgh 13y ago
I am always amazed that people who blog, tweet etc. a lot think they are somehow "pushing things forward". Actually, it's people who write a lot of working code who push things forward. Maybe they blog too, but maybe not. Tweeting and blogging does not mean you are productive or on the cutting edge of anything meaningful.
- deleted 13y ago[deleted]
- williamcotton 13y agoTweeting and blogging also does not mean you are unproductive or not on the cutting edge. Sometimes meaningful perspective can be clouded by being too deep within the work itself. I feel this is especially true for programming.
- tedks 13y agoFabrice Bellard doesn't have a twitter, doesn't blog, and maybe doesn't go to conferences. But he's done more than most who have, almost certainly. His wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabrice_Bellard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabrice_Bellard
- cgh 13y agoYep, one of my coding heroes.
- Dirlewanger 13y agoTweeting and blogging does not mean you are productive or on the cutting edge of anything meaningful. Damn straight. Good example is a sizable portion of the crap submitted here. Sorry, I really don't care why your startup-that-will-probably-fail-in-two-years picked Meteor and why I should too. I don't care that you had an epiphany about X and it vaguely relates to Y technology. Just useless noise that does nothing but serves to jerk off the author.