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The Making of Software Engineering Myths

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Re: The Making of Software Engineering Myths

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Well, at least he's doing his best to prove the myth of all programmers being humorless autists who take everything literally to be true... Yes, sure, we're talking about exactly 10x when we talk about 10x programmers. Etcetera, etcetera. Even the most fanatical Agile evangelist gets both the tongue in cheek humor (with a serious undertone) of Zed's "programming, motherfucker", but not this guy.

To be fair, sometimes it is hard to tell when those in the Ruby/JavaScript/Web 2.0/NoSQL/"opinionated" crowd are being serious and when they're joking. Some of the claims or statements they make in a serious manner are so far off-base that they appear to be jokes to those with more experience or higher standards. The "JavaScript is like Scheme" claim is a good example of this. A lot of JavaScripters will openly expre…

A detailed discussion of the "JavaScript is like Scheme" meme's history and a critical look at it:

http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2013/07/18/javascript-isnt...

Re: The Making of Software Engineering Myths

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Well, at least he's doing his best to prove the myth of all programmers being humorless autists who take everything literally to be true... Yes, sure, we're talking about exactly 10x when we talk about 10x programmers. Etcetera, etcetera. Even the most fanatical Agile evangelist gets both the tongue in cheek humor (with a serious undertone) of Zed's "programming, motherfucker", but not this guy.

I don't mean to make fun of you, but: http://badassprogrammers.com/ basically demolishes that line of argument (and in the bargain confirms that Poe's Law does apply in Zed's case).

Particularly poignant is the way they redacted "autistic idiots" to "socially awkward idiots": if you're going play the "politically incorrect" card, play it with panache instead of being hypocritical about it.

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