Although I do think between Python and Java, just pick your poison, they're not night and day. Unless you're writing 1990s Java consisting of factories of factories which is more to do with library style and over-conventionalism (back then when people were writing APIs after reading GOF). Even in 2004 I don't think there's much credibility in knowing both languages although I wasn't around.
What I find stupid that a lot of recruiters and jobs look for certain languages/technologies and require X years of experience in them. Sometimes requirements predating the existence of certain frameworks. Makes sense if you for some reason need a Kubenetes guy but mostly not.
Since I have been following PG on Twitter I understand that the reason he has so many good takes is because he has so many takes in general. And most people tend to skip over the incoherent, offensive or just plain dumb ones.
I wish more of those weren't flagged to death when people post them here.
PG's takes are pretty good by Twitter standards at least. Honestly his account is one of my favorites on Twitter. If you don't think his tweets are good, I'm genuinely curious whose tweets you actually like -- can you recommend any accounts?
No. People aren't clocks. The best way to make something great is to make ten meh things and discard a hundred crap things. I guarantee you everyone whose takes you admire also have many, many bad takes (which they perhaps don't tweet, but there's a definite trade-off here and PG's lower threshold for tweeting seems to work well enough for his goals).
This here. Regardless of talent, you will produce quite a lot of junk.
I am a programmer and a published book author (8 books so far and over 35000 sold copies). I wrote a pile of shit, too, but it helped me become a better coder and a better author.
Pseudoscience feels like the wrong label, because it's not trying to be science. To me, it's clearly just an opinion post based on his personal experience.
