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Actually, I worked with Garann at Etsy, and she's great. In fact I can think of numerous occasions in which she paid down organizational technical debt. She s
by wdewind 12y ago
Actually, I worked with Garann at Etsy, and she's great. In fact I can think of numerous occasions in which she paid down organizational technical debt.
She says this in the article:
> I made a very successful career of programming while entirely motivated by having a good paying job, and at the risk of being a braggart, I was a good programmer.
and she is right.
- _random_ 12y agoNo offense, but it means either you are both indeed great or none of you are, which one is true I will never know.
- argonaut 12y agoThe extent to which this is dismissive is quite offensive.
- wdewind 12y agoHow about this: instead of flat out accusing the author of causing technical debt (essentially an ad-hominem attack), why not disagree with the substance of her argument. That is: that one does not truly need to be passionate about this industry to be both successful and good at your job, and that the assumption that one does is keeping qualified people out of our industry. That way you don't need to worry about whether or not we are great. It's truly immaterial.