Re:The Silent Majority of Experts
by raganwald on Saturday July 14, 2012 @12:25PM
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I don’t write because I can, I write because I can’t not write. Alas, looking at my Github projects, it seems that I underscore the problem described in the OP. I have done a lot of writing, but how good is my code, really? If I published the exact same Github projects under a pseudonym, would anyone who hasn’t read my writing care?
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Re:The Silent Majority of Experts
by jamesbritt on Saturday July 14, 2012 @12:35PM
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I don’t write because I can, I write because I can’t not write.
That seems a better definition of a writer than the Thomas Mann quote.
If I published the exact same Github projects under a pseudonym, would anyone who hasn’t read my writing care?
You can pull a Stephen King and try it. Start rolling out new code under a new name. See what happens.
I think, however, that you'd run into the problem of getting lost in a sea of code, regardless of the quality of your work.