The Secret Guild of Silicon Valley
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The Secret Guild of Silicon Valley
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#2Maybe I should pivot my personal blog/website...
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#4The entire post bleeds with broad generalities about hipsters and neckbeards. How does this pass for discourse?
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#5A few points:
1. There is no guild. Just a cultural and perhaps even a generational gap.
2. This "guild" is not isolated to Silicon Valley. I would venture to guess that the neckbeard-to-hipster ratio is far higher everywhere outside of the Bay Area.
3. There is a minor inconsistency in the claim that the neckbeards don't use social media, and the claim that they receive recruiting messages on LinkedIn.
4. The neckbeards most assuredly DO use perl.
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#6Yes ... and the world is controlled by the Illuminati ...
On a more serious note, I find this statement to be BS: "Their tools of choice are C, C++, and Java — not Javascript, Perl, or PHP".
I'm a C person and have been for over a decade. That doesn't mean I think every problem can be solved by C. Most recently, I have fallen head over heals for Rails. I truly think that is an excellent tool for prototyping of web applications. Would I use C or C++ for this task? Absolutely not!
You have to use the right tool for the job.
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#7I'm surprised by the number of upvotes on this.
He overhears one guy's comment and spins a yarn. With no basis.
Sure there are programmers who like settlers of catalan and wear joke tshirts. Doesn't mean they're programming Gods.
What the original off the cuff remark meant is get someone with some serious experience who's done it before, someone skilled in more than one language and who actually understands the fundamentals behind the frameworks, in fact they could actually could write a framework themselves.
But Javascript, PHP and Perl? C, C++ and Java. Come on, who's this guy kidding?
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#8Autism is not a personality trait.
People magazine would have more respect.
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#9A broadly, perhaps overly general (and oversimplified) read, for sure, but still interesting.
As I am about to graduate college I stand at a crossroads of choosing, roughly, which path I want to go down... iOS development offers a nice compromise, as you can make beautiful things that get Rails hipsters excited, but it's still a strict superset of C and you can do some pointer magic when you need to.
Not sure what the implications are of entering industry as a FULL full stack generalist (not just HTML/JS/Ruby/SQL but all those + userland C++/Obj-C/Java and kernel level C code).
Sometimes those Mixpanel job posts look mighty interesting...
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#10Crap. We've been discovered. Time to go hide under a rock!
The article is stating the obvious: strong engineers that have been building very big services all know each other. That's what happens when you've been in any industry long enough.