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Wasn't this posted, like, two weeks ago? Same thing applies here as applied there. I know you admit that it's a gross oversimplification but this kind of talk
by Blackthorn 11y ago
Wasn't this posted, like, two weeks ago? Same thing applies here as applied there.
I know you admit that it's a gross oversimplification but this kind of talk still bothers me a lot. It's a lot like when, to use a (honestly shoddy) metaphor, people talk about rankings in a video game like League of Legends. Some times you'll hear talk like "the difference between a bronze and silver player is game sense!" or "objectives control!" or "mechanics!". The truth is it's all of these things and none of them. A silver player is simply better than a bronze player.
I think the same goes here. There's not some magic thing that a senior developer has that a junior developer is missing. They are simply, overall, better.
- dang 11y agoIndeed it was: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9648807 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9648807.
- bvanvugt 11y agoAh interesting. Wonder why it allowed me to resubmit...
- dang 11y agoAny small change in the URL will let it get through. That's on purpose, to give good stories multiple chances at getting attention. The downside is that more dupes get through as well, but we catch most of those and users point out most if not all of the rest. It's on our list to make a more sophisticated dupe detector, but I don't know when we'll get to that.
- felixgallo 11y agoare you seriously saying there's no magic thing, but that the quality they have is unnameable?
- Blackthorn 11y agoI think you're misunderstanding me. There is no specific quality that makes them better. A senior engineer is just, on average, better than a junior engineer on every quality that makes an engineer an engineer. For a specific number (I don't think I implied that), their inner product is higher.