Re:Light Table - Embracing Abstraction
by zainny on Wednesday September 26, 2012 @07:51PM
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I wouldn't necessarily pinpoint the Javascript community, but yes, I would agree that there does seem to be an awful lot of really young and frankly inexperienced developers who seem to have ridiculous delusions of grandeur and are completely ignorant of the rich history of brilliant and accomplished people who have explored the problem spaces they are also exploring.
I blame the whole Silicon Valley "10x hacker" mentality. There's a whole lot of young and frankly pretty mediocre developers strutting around thinking that because they (a) live in the valley and (b) built shittytodoapp.io they're at the same level as Knuth.
Re:Light Table - Embracing Abstraction
by jgrahamc on Wednesday September 26, 2012 @08:00PM
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You are correct that I should not claim that the entire JavaScript community is like that, but that's where I've seen the most prevalent delusions of grandeur problem.
It's interesting that the author, who is speaking about things that were happening 20 years ago, graduated from college in 2008 (http://www.chris-granger.com/resume/) and thus 20 years ago he was likely a very small child.
This combination of lack of depth and yet grandeur is seen in other projects and is annoying because it means that one is forced to wade through a lot of noise to understand projects like nodejs, couchdb, etc. And it does the people who write like that a disservice. Rather then overselling their weak knowledge they should point out the cool stuff in what they are doing and let that speak for itself. It's counterproductive to pretend to be smarter than you are.