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The first sentence is "Sorry, I have to disagree with the entire premise here." What entire premise? What is this in response to?

kens 8y ago
I too was puzzled about what this is in response to. Midway through the comments I found a link to the premise article: http://jasonrudolph.com/blog/2011/08/09/programming-achievements-how-to-level-up-as-a-developer/#comment-287120251 http://jasonrudolph.com/blog/2011/08/09/programming-achievem... It's responding to an article saying the way to improve as a developer is to have more "experiences". To summarize briefly, some examples from the article are to write an application in a bunch of different programming paradigms. Write an app in a bunch of different platforms. Write a bunch of different types of programs. Do a bunch of different open source things. Do a bunch of different conference/teaching things. Personally, I think a laundry list of "experiences" kind of misses the point. If I think of great developers, they don't really check off many boxes on that list. Their ability is basically orthogonal.
- BrissyCoder 8y ago
  Thanks man.
  - edanm 8y ago
    Just FYI since you appear to be a new user: on Hacker News, writing comments like yours is considered bad form. You should instead just upvote the parent comment, that's the HN way of showing appreciation. The reason is that, at least in theory, every comment on HN should be adding value for people to read, and reading a bunch of "thanks" messages is just a waste of time. Much better to just have the original comment appearing higher because it got more votes.
    - 0xBA5ED 8y ago
      Just say you're welcome.
      - edanm 8y ago
        I'm not sure I understand? It wasn't my article, I'm just pointing out the site policy to someone who appears new so that they don't get downvoted in the future.
        0xBA5ED 8y ago
        My apologies. At the time, I was expressing my distaste for what I view as an over-zealously regarded sentiment here, but I did mistake you for the above user :)

kens 8y ago

I too was puzzled about what this is in response to. Midway through the comments I found a link to the premise article: http://jasonrudolph.com/blog/2011/08/09/programming-achievements-how-to-level-up-as-a-developer/#comment-287120251 http://jasonrudolph.com/blog/2011/08/09/programming-achievem... It's responding to an article saying the way to improve as a developer is to have more "experiences". To summarize briefly, some examples from the article are to write an application in a bunch of different programming paradigms. Write an app in a bunch of different platforms. Write a bunch of different types of programs. Do a bunch of different open source things. Do a bunch of different conference/teaching things. Personally, I think a laundry list of "experiences" kind of misses the point. If I think of great developers, they don't really check off many boxes on that list. Their ability is basically orthogonal.

BrissyCoder 8y ago
Thanks man.
- edanm 8y ago
  Just FYI since you appear to be a new user: on Hacker News, writing comments like yours is considered bad form. You should instead just upvote the parent comment, that's the HN way of showing appreciation. The reason is that, at least in theory, every comment on HN should be adding value for people to read, and reading a bunch of "thanks" messages is just a waste of time. Much better to just have the original comment appearing higher because it got more votes.
  - 0xBA5ED 8y ago
    Just say you're welcome.
    - edanm 8y ago
      I'm not sure I understand? It wasn't my article, I'm just pointing out the site policy to someone who appears new so that they don't get downvoted in the future.
      - 0xBA5ED 8y ago
        My apologies. At the time, I was expressing my distaste for what I view as an over-zealously regarded sentiment here, but I did mistake you for the above user :)