I talk a lot about how you can’t be a great developer without great communication skills, but I don’t think people grok how _directly_ your communication skills are reflected in your codebase. Let me give you an example.
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Replying to @sarahmei
I like the threeeaaaddd, but it’s so long isn’t ironic you talk about hard to read code and need so long to make your point :-)
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Some points are subtle and take a lot of words to explain well. You can't tl;dr subtlety. Also, code has multiple paths and this thread has only one: statement; statement; statement; etc
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Sometimes I wish I could downvote tweets. You can’t distill every message to a TL;DR; without losing meaning and context. The point she was trying to make genuinely seems difficult to get across in a single sentence.
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Replying to @code_sean @abhinthere and
hah, would you rather not be heard on the internet, or be heard being an asshole on the internet?
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Replying to @parappayo @code_sean and
Torvalds has acknowledged his communication issues and is seeking help. There are many stories about it, eg.https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/after-years-of-abusive-e-mails-the-creator-of-linux-steps-aside …
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Yeah I've read the write ups on that.
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