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Most tech content is bullshit (2020)

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Re: Most tech content is bullshit (2020)

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Post by kelvinjps10 »

hirvi74 wrote: post #108
factorialboy wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The fundamental deficiency with our society is that we value talking about X more than performing/implementing X. This is true for most fields, including programming. Most teams have folks to do the heavy lifting, and a small percentage of folks who talk about it. The talkers are considered more valuable than the doers, within the organization or without. These are our thought leaders, influencers, architects, you na…

> The fundamental deficiency with our society is that we value talking about X more than performing/implementing X. I am so guilty of this. I spend so much time on here and other platforms just mindlessly consuming and participating in discussions about software engineering, new technology, best practices, etc.. So much so that I basically barely program anymore (except for my job where none of this information is im…

Man you wake me up,I have doing the same these day, I'm gonna start working on my projects agaun.

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Post by mplanchard »

quenix wrote: post #74
jlengrand wrote: post #21

" On est toujours le con de quelqu'un, et tant pis pour lui". -> "We are always someone's jerk, and so much the worse for him". Agree with the article, I just wished it wasn't conflating "bullshit / actual harmful content" as much with "stuff that is valid, but in a given context". 200% that nothing online, (nor IRL to be fair), should be taken as universal truth. I see that same at conferences, with certain topics/f…

I think a more natural translation would be “You are always the idiot to someone else. And too bad for them.”

^ this. Idiot is a much better translation for con than jerk, and it also makes the saying make more sense.

Re: Most tech content is bullshit (2020)

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Post by brailsafe »

spacemadness wrote: post #18

One devious form of bullshit is always using the simplest of examples to prove out an architecture pattern and call it a day. I’ve lost count on how many times I’ve seen patterns with glaring open questions and pitfalls the author avoids. Then the cacophony of likes follow from folks who’re likely very early in their career or hobby and don’t know any better. This is very prevalent on iOS development blogs as authors…

I've been learning SwiftUI for MacOS to explore the plausibility of a particular idea I had, and I do think there's some truth in this. So far, I've found it best to seek out more robust, somewhat complete examples that use a particular API in a more realistic context, as well as many other discrete tidbits of information wherever they may be found.

In this case, that's the hackingwithswift blog posts, the hackingwithswift youtube tutorials that follow the blog posts, swiftbysundell, and a number of other independent developers that have fairly lengthy but digestible detailed tutorials on specific APIs; using all of it feels a little like the process of getting a fingerprint registered on a new phone, where you get decent coverage and breadth quickly but then fill in the gaps.

However, I don't think this is unique to WWDC or swift or iOS, it's just that those platforms typically demand only the newest versions of iOS or macOS or even unreleased hardware to get much value out of them, so I can't imagine you'd be implementing them any time shortly-thereafter.

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Post by throwawaaarrgh »

tracerbulletx wrote: post #30

Opinion pieces probably are, but honestly most tech content is tutorials which are generally pretty cool.

Most tech tutorials are terrible. It's some junior engineer who has no idea what they're doing and barely got something to function. It's the blind teaching the blind.

Re: Most tech content is bullshit (2020)

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Post by mattkrause »

thefourthchime wrote: post #55
BiteCode_dev wrote: post #43

True, but most content in general is bullshit. Most scientific publications is BS published for the sake of pumping your numbers. Most student memoire is BS to pass the exam. Most financial analyses, most TV journal reporting, most tweets, most books are BS. Ever read doctors or lawyers specialized magazines? Most pages are BS on top of BS. Paid content, content produced to fill space, making volume, low quality auth…

I think you're going a little bit far, but I tend to agree. My reasoning for this is, to look back on experts from the past. Unless it's a hard scientific fact, a law of physics, most things are really just opinions that people tend to agree with. Remember Leaded gasoline? How about DDT or Asbestos? How about Freud? Of the thing the bible likes to talk about, slavery. Even in the 25 years, I've been in programming, i…

I wouldn't say that any of those are bullshit per se.

Leaded gasoline reduced knocking/increased compression in contemporary engines, asbestos is a top-notch insulator, and DDT did kill a lot of bugs. Each just has really unfortunate side-effects, most of which were known at the time--if not appreciated widely enough.

Re: Most tech content is bullshit (2020)

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Post by faizmokh »

spacemadness wrote: post #18

One devious form of bullshit is always using the simplest of examples to prove out an architecture pattern and call it a day. I’ve lost count on how many times I’ve seen patterns with glaring open questions and pitfalls the author avoids. Then the cacophony of likes follow from folks who’re likely very early in their career or hobby and don’t know any better. This is very prevalent on iOS development blogs as authors…

I feel you. I dislike when people following VIPER pattern blindly just because they read a few articles on Medium.

What's the point of adding multiple layer of classes if your code is still tightly coupled together.

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