Juan-Carlos Gandhi (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
juan_gandhi) wrote2013-06-28 01:20 pm
juan_gandhi) wrote2013-06-28 01:20 pm
idiot's day
This morning, instead of doing suryanamaskara, I was lying watching tv, channel 9-3; Marissa Meyer was telling us what is the difference between a good programmer and a great programmer. Verbal skills.
Well, this is total nonsense; she probably should have told it to Guido van Rossum while they were in the same company, or to Linus when he was visiting, that would be fun.
But what's interesting here - this is the perception of higher-level management. They don't care about what you do. They care about what you brag about. And if you sound convincing (to them) and use the words they heard before (not "category theory", this will make you look stupid in the eyes of the people that never heard it), then you are a great engineer. If you do something too clever (codensity monad in JavaScript, double negation topology in a presheaf implemented in Haskell, union or existential types in Scala) - who cares? you are just a good programmer; good job! good dog!
So this was good. Opens our eyes to this kind of people. They don't care. We should not care about their ignorant opinions either. Never mind. Ps 1:1.
Well, this is total nonsense; she probably should have told it to Guido van Rossum while they were in the same company, or to Linus when he was visiting, that would be fun.
But what's interesting here - this is the perception of higher-level management. They don't care about what you do. They care about what you brag about. And if you sound convincing (to them) and use the words they heard before (not "category theory", this will make you look stupid in the eyes of the people that never heard it), then you are a great engineer. If you do something too clever (codensity monad in JavaScript, double negation topology in a presheaf implemented in Haskell, union or existential types in Scala) - who cares? you are just a good programmer; good job! good dog!
So this was good. Opens our eyes to this kind of people. They don't care. We should not care about their ignorant opinions either. Never mind. Ps 1:1.
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Nevertheless, this question is always asked, conscioisly or subconsciously. Processing capability of the human brain is limited, therefore selection is inevitable.
E.g. if someone said they achieved great proficiency in the ancient Tuareg art of towel folding, would it really move you more than the concept of monad moves a head fund manager?
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Towels folding, I like it for sure.
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Dang. Too bad I just made that one up :)
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