From the follow-up[0]: ""Bad programmer" is also considered inflammatory by some who think I'm speaking down to them.

From the follow-up[0]: ""Bad programmer" is also considered inflammatory by some who think I'm speaking down to them. Not so; it was personal catharsis from an author who exhibited many of those problems himself. And what I think made the article popular was the "remedies"--I didn't want someone to get depressed when they recognized themselves, I wanted to be constructive." Which I think is fair enough. Besides which, there's plenty of feel-good 'you can do it!' material out there. Some of us prefer a more vigorous pep-talk. Frankly, my impostor reflexes were far more triggered by the 'interviewing is broken' posts on here in the last couple of days; I've got two literary degrees and a big vocabulary. I interview well, despite the fact that I know ( counts ) two algorithms. I am haunted by the idea that it was my vocabulary that got me hired, and not my engineering potential. YMMV, etc. [0] http://www.yacoset.com/Home/signs-that-you-re-a-good-program...

Posted by tragic on Mar 9, 2015, 9:59 AM

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