Re:How to Succeed as a Poor Programmer
by anon91831837 on Sunday September 29, 2019 @08:34PM
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Yes, it's a terrible, second-stringer attitude. Curiosity and obsession are a couple of the key differentiators between a workaday jobber in it for the money (like many who flocked to tech in the dot-com times) and a badass. TBH, if someone's only in it for the money, they're wasting their life in the wrong field when they could be doing something else such that their morale and satisfaction would be greater.
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Ahh yes, I'll be sure to let consults notes Distinguished Scientist at NVIDIA and adjunct professor at the University of Utah Peter Shirley that he's a second-stringer and not nearly "badass" enough for Hacker News commentator anon91831837 and he's wasting his life in the wrong field.
Re:How to Succeed as a Poor Programmer
by throwaway0990 on Monday September 30, 2019 @12:29AM
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It is not like distinguished scientist credentials necessarily correlate with exceptional code quality or software development practices. And it is not like NVIDIA is particularly known to be a place that excels at such.
Re:How to Succeed as a Poor Programmer
by diminoten on Sunday September 29, 2019 @10:43PM
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It's actually sad, his credentials suggest he's capable of a much better post than this...
Re:How to Succeed as a Poor Programmer
by michrassena on Sunday September 29, 2019 @11:12PM
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Either the post is intended sarcastically, or there's something to learn from it.
Re:How to Succeed as a Poor Programmer
by tastroder on Monday September 30, 2019 @12:03AM
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> Curiosity and obsession are a couple of the key differentiators between a workaday jobber in it for the money (like many who flocked to tech in the dot-com times) and a badass.
Unit tests and sensible comments are a couple of the key differentiators between a workaday jobber in it for the money and a badass. And now what? While I kind of agree that some people might be in the wrong job, that's true for every profession and the comparison seems lacking. If we're talking day job programming, a badass is neither a requirement, nor desirable in most environments honestly.