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malice ghoulpus

“What’s with these dev comedians?” and “Giving a talk doesn’t make you a good developer” are mealy-mouthed ways of saying “I feel threatened by people who can code *and* communicate, so I will devalue the communication part as much as possible.”

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One day I want to be able to say “if you can’t communicate effectively, you can’t participate in tech” because clearly we aren’t there yet. Keep up the great work 👍✊👏 (wish I could have attended your talk, sounds spectacular)

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What if you are not neurotypical?

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Seems a bit dickish to say you can't write software unless you're good at public speaking

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said, as they said it far more eloquently than I could (clearly *I* am still working on the effective communication thing… and always will be).

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The tweet was about giving talks so I assumed that's what you meant. I agree that you can communicate effectively in various ways.

6:18 PM · Aug 8, 2019Twitter for Android