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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And what he said about subtlety rings true. It's easy to misunderstand, and to be misunderstood, when your communication medium is as narrowband as tiny text exchanges in the vacuum of the net.
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