Re:Ask HN: Resources for Older Developers?
by latchkey on Thursday May 11, 2023 @01:16PM
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Great response!
That said, my intention wasn't to whine. I truly don't care about the act of getting downvoted.
What I was trying to point out is that I was getting downvoted in my original post, because "kids these days" are against the general concept of TDD. That's in response to this OP's comment that I quoted.
Why were they against TDD? One person said it was because their CTO made them do 100% test coverage and that caused the startup to fail. Is that the failure of TDD or the failure of the CTO? ;-)
Now you're getting downvoted? LOL! For the record, I upvoted you.
> Now I'm getting downvoted again. Oh hn, you crack me up.
Because you were whining about down votes.
Generally, when I see someone whining about voting, I'll vote down without a second thought, regardless of the content of the post. Why?
From the guidelines: "Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."
I know a good number of other people react this way as well.
Instead of whining about getting voted up or down, instead, use this as an opportunity to improve your messaging.
> I'll happily take the negative karma, cause I know it brings some awareness.
Up-voted comments bring more awareness. If you truly cared about bringing awareness to something, you'd want to communicate effectively, and effective communication is critical in our field.
Anyways, I generally hate meta comments like this one, but hopefully you have a better understanding of why people are most likely down voting this comment.