Twitter at the speed of parenting
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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Yes it does. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ See also: RMS, aka the whole reason the free software movement remains marginalized even among engineers
There are many other folks saying things with equal or more insight on the same topics, who AREN’T assholes. Being an asshole is like sending a cover letter with the wrong company’s name when applying for a job. Your resume can be discarded at that point, no matter what’s on it.
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Not because the people doing the screening are mean or arbitrary, but because it indicates a lack of care that will carry over into your work. Similarly, being an asshole indicates a deficit that compromises all of your thought processes, to some degree.
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So, I don’t put credence on anything rms or esr or linus say - nor anything their apologists say - unless I also hear it explained well by someone who isn’t an asshole. That’s just a thing for you to know about how it looks when you quote assholes.
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RMS has a great quote about how Conway’s law works, but I don’t use it anymore in my presentations, because I found equally smart comparisons made by better people. The ones I found avoid the “ew, RMS” reaction that many people have, which make them quite simply more convincing.
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Ok, I understand a lot better now. You're totally right. I'm sad, though, because "on the Internet nobody can hear you being subtle" is a great way of expressing that idea. And I feel like saying it unattributed may seem like I'm passing it off as my own.
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I think many people act like assholes on the internet because it’s a way to stand out from the crowd and draw attention to themselves. If that really is the objective one is chasing, one could also just be more insightful.
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