Re:Modern software performance is firmly in its “beyond paro...
by toss1 on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @09:33AM
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>>because people are generally resistant to learning these things if you call them "incompetent hacks".
Therefore we should hide the truth?
Sorry, it doesn't matter what field you are in, if you can only build stuff but you lack at least a solid familiarity with the tools and techniques of your trade that enable you to improve the performance of your product/service, you are simply not yet fully competent.
Period. Full stop.
If you can write code that compiles and runs, and even do it at large scale, that's nice. But have some humility and recognize that while this is definitely far better than nothing, it is NOT the end, it is merely the beginning, and you are not yet anything special.
Same applies for any field. It is really great go from nothing to being able to build functioning stuff, but it is only the beginning.
Sadly, many people get one year of experience 20 times over, and then get all full of themselves thinking this is the same as 20 years of of digging deep into the technology. Saving them the hard assessment does no one any good.
Therefore we should hide the truth?
Sorry, it doesn't matter what field you are in, if you can only build stuff but you lack at least a solid familiarity with the tools and techniques of your trade that enable you to improve the performance of your product/service, you are simply not yet fully competent.
Period. Full stop.
If you can write code that compiles and runs, and even do it at large scale, that's nice. But have some humility and recognize that while this is definitely far better than nothing, it is NOT the end, it is merely the beginning, and you are not yet anything special.
Same applies for any field. It is really great go from nothing to being able to build functioning stuff, but it is only the beginning.
Sadly, many people get one year of experience 20 times over, and then get all full of themselves thinking this is the same as 20 years of of digging deep into the technology. Saving them the hard assessment does no one any good.