The worst cases seem to be when there's an article (seems like it's always on Medium) about some complicated multi-part technical thing going wrong, a top level comment slings blame around as if they know exactly where to sling it and uses a PopSci understanding of the subject matter to justify it. Then someone who actually knows the relevant industry says "well actually it's a little more nuanced", proceeds to explain and then gets down-voted and flagged for it. Seems like a great way to send the message that technical knowledge and experience is not welcome here if it's going to go against whatever the convenient narrative is. What it definitely doesn't do is instill trust in comments about things I am less familiar in.
He sounds more confident.
Tongue-in-cheek of course, there's no need to downplay your own abilities and knowledge. But if anything, I'm no longer feeling like I'm missing out in the rat race. I'm missing out on the whole AI / machine learning thing but that's all right because it just doesn't pique my interest.
Reminds me of hackers :P
jurisprudence is the science of everything, both human and divine
:-)
Perhaps there needs to be some type of continuous formal evaluation system as is applied to airline pilots.
You are being unfair. Show offs are found everywhere, and all in all docs are not particularly worse than many others such as scientists, economists, CEOs, whatever...
Unless this is one of those "everything's weird and 'normal' is particularly weird" arguments.
If so I agree that "everything's stupid and therefore it's especially stupid to think anything could be 'smart'"
This is like telling someone in poverty "well you're actually in the top 1% of worldwide income, and the top 0.1% of all-time worldwide income, so things are pretty great!"
It's true, but it's a useless thing to say.
I'm very weary of "people are dumb" arguments because they seem to lead to "and that's why we should dumb down our product, remove their freedom and treat them like crap" with an alarming regularity.
- polymathy, don't specialize too much, it's good to walk in other fields
- listen, being able to discuss, see the situation from all parties POV, exchange well
It's indeed rare to find this, also, I tried being less stuck up and listen but you quickly get stomped on by less knowledgeable but more dominant minds, it's tiresome.
In fact, my experience with doctors (coming from a place where I worked closely with them specifically on IT matters) is that doctors believe that because they're good at medicine that they are good at everything, specifically making good business decisions and understanding and correctly using technology.