The Cancers In The Ruby Community
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The Cancers In The Ruby Community
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#2All three of those things are merely symptoms of the real problem: a lack of professionalism.
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#3All three of those things are merely symptoms of the real problem: a lack of professionalism.
How do you fix lack of professionalism?
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#4All three of those things are merely symptoms of the real problem: a lack of professionalism.
How do you fix lack of professionalism?
You don't. Non-professionals will become professionals with time and experience, but there will always be more non-professionals to take their place. The only reason some communities have to deal with more non-professionals than others, is that those communities are perceived to have a lower barrier to entry--so, when a non-professional tries to select a community to join/language to learn/tool to use/etc., they end up with the "easier" one, and thus the "easier" community builds a reputation of non-professionalism. The only real measure one can take to avoid this is to make the community unattractive to non-professionals: in est, to raise the barrier to entry.
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#5All three of those things are merely symptoms of the real problem: a lack of professionalism.
lol he said "professionalism". Feels like 1997.
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#7All three of those things are merely symptoms of the real problem: a lack of professionalism.
I don't think it's so much a matter of professionalism as much as lazy thinking. For instance, the notion of "best practices" is utterly professional, but when overapplied or misapplied it results in some of the same symptoms.
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#9Interesting article, though the point could have been carried across just as well without all this motherflippin' swearing.
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#10All three of those things are merely symptoms of the real problem: a lack of professionalism.
lol he said "professionalism". Feels like 1997.
Common courtesy, decorum and a prevailing sense of personal responsibility are lost in these frothy times of high demand and inflated economy (i.e. the fast train to DoucheVille). But one day this economy is going to correct in earnest and all these allusions of grandeur are going to give way to some harsh realities. Being too-cool-to-act-professional is going to make a lot of mustaches sad.
Effective smart people are humble and kind (like Matz). Blowhards are insufferable douchebags and no amount of fake rebellion against 'professionalism' is ever going the change that.