Why You’re Failing to Realize Your Potential as a Developer
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Why You’re Failing to Realize Your Potential as a Developer
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#211. You don't exercise enough
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#311. You don't exercise enough
12. Replying to HN comments
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#4If the original title begins with a number or number + gratuitous adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it. E.g. translate "10 Ways To Do X" to "How To Do X," and "14 Amazing Ys" to "Ys." Exception: when the number is meaningful, e.g. "The 5 Platonic Solids."
Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait
http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Please
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#6Good article, yet do not fret, an average developer with great ideas and execution can churn out a money making product thus hire developer rock stars to scale and improve your average code.
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#7It's not bad advice - and also nothing new - but it's very condescending: "I want to help average developers who want to improve by calling out 10 performance-killing behaviors that stagnate the careers of most developers".
What makes this guy so great? He states that his product is "difficult even for large companies to master" so I'm inclined to think he's doing a few things wrong himself.
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#8While I agree with most of what the author is saying, the tone of the post really bothered me, I'm not sure why because I usually don't pay much attention to tone provided the content is valid. The longer I read the more I started to think he wasn't really describing strong vs. weak developers, he was describing strong vs. weak personalities. It was wrapped up as commentary on our profession but for almost all of his points you can replace "a strong developer" with "a confident person" and "a weak developer" with "an insecure person", and it actually reads better if you do.
Maybe the author needs to take some time to learn how to increase confidence in his employees? It is usually more useful to see how you can affect positive change than complaining that life/the world/other people are to blame for everything.
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#9I don't want to make this a slight against .NET programmers. It's no surprise to see all the references to .NET and Microsoft I know we have hit this topic a bit in the past, with various blog posts. This may be enlightening article for some. . But I will say, a lot of this is mostly true of a large swatch of the .NET/Microsoft developer crowd. A large percentage are really, to be honest, and you could probably say this about a couple other big crowds, uncurious, and not very deeply interested programmers. It's not surprising because so many, especially those that attend conferences and the like, are doing government contract work. Just my thoughts Also, the tone is a bit odd to me.