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I stalk Steve Klabnik since I'm happy to see anarchism represented in the community.
But surely the state is seen with a more critical eye in this community than in society at large, no?
At PyCon, anyway, there's always a sense that, when the state finally falls (ideally with a whimper and not a bang) that we'll all be there for each other.
None of them. There are lots that I respect and admire, and there are lots that I think provide a great value to our community. But I don't "follow" them for a few reasons: (1) it takes time, which I don't have, (2) I don't like buying into a cult of personality, no matter how benevolent and (3) I don't derive much value from that and would rather spend that time/energy on creating my own thing. For example when I se…
You don't have to, but, it's probably a good thing.
None of them. There are lots that I respect and admire, and there are lots that I think provide a great value to our community. But I don't "follow" them for a few reasons: (1) it takes time, which I don't have, (2) I don't like buying into a cult of personality, no matter how benevolent and (3) I don't derive much value from that and would rather spend that time/energy on creating my own thing. For example when I se…
That's like a doctor not following leading medical scientists in his field... You don't have to, but, it's probably a good thing.
I stalk Steve Klabnik since I'm happy to see anarchism represented in the community.
Haha, I mean yeah. Steve is so much fun. But surely the state is seen with a more critical eye in this community than in society at large, no? At PyCon, anyway, there's always a sense that, when the state finally falls (ideally with a whimper and not a bang) that we'll all be there for each other.
His probably most well-known projects are Sequel[1] and Roda[2], but he has frequently contributed to many important projects and Ruby[3] itself focusing on simplicity and performance that impacts all the ecosystem.
0: https://github.com/jeremyevans/
1: https://github.com/jeremyevans/sequel
2: https://github.com/jeremyevans/roda
3: https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/12024
Edit: formatting
Edit: Also forgot to mention, I really like his approach on developing frameworks with great extensibility and modularity leveraging Ruby's capabilities without 'magic'.
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> (2) I don't like buying into a cult of personality, no matter how benevolent The reason to follow many developers is could be due to their useful output (e.g. informative blog posts). You don't have to agree with everything that someone puts out (cult of personality) to find things that they produce useful. There are developers that I have met in real life, whom I didn't really like their personalty, yet I still ta…
I suppose I prefer to consume my personal developer blog posts filtered through something like HN. It ends up being fairly high quality without worrying if I'm following enough people or the correct people.
But supposing everybody took your stance we wouldn't be able to have something like Hacker News. I think following popular developers and sharing what you believe to be good content may not be enjoyable all the time, but I do think it's necessary. Just as someone who has only been in the software culture for about two years now.
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That's like a doctor not following leading medical scientists in his field... You don't have to, but, it's probably a good thing.
Can't the doctor read medical journals and published papers in their fields instead of tweets from a select few peers?
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consistently helping us to express previously unthinkable thoughts Care to share three or four?
Sure, there's a couple in this post: http://tonsky.me/blog/the-web-after-tomorrow/ Humans think in language and as such the languages we use shape the ideas we can have, and as our ideas evolve we build upon old languages with new languages to express new ideas that old languages lacked the necessary atoms.
But this level of marketing spiel can be off-putting -- especially when you provide examples that non-web architectures have been using for many years.
Imagine I'm an experienced developer, and you've promised that I will be able to express previously unthinkable thoughts if I just learn what these guys are talking about. And then I look at it and it is exactly the same thing my colleagues and I have been doing for years in Java. What am I supposed to make of it?
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That's like a doctor not following leading medical scientists in his field... You don't have to, but, it's probably a good thing.
Can't the doctor read medical journals and published papers in their fields instead of tweets from a select few peers?