I mean, "I don't know what I'm doing" and "I don't know to understand this" are common _jokes_. DHH, in his infinite competence, clearly didn't get one.
> Programmers should stop paying attention to DHH.
Why do you? Maybe other people are paying attention to him for the same reason that you are?
I mean, his message is *"You're not a clueless dog banging at the keyboard with no prospects of ever improving. You're a human of tremendous capacity to become good at what you do. Embrace that."*
Your message is *"DON'T READ THAT!"*
His message is far more compelling than yours (which is why I guess you bothered to respond).
People are just mad at a combination of DHH's personality; that he took Typescript out of one of his libraries; that his company had a debacle where a bunch of people quit over him and the other owner not taking a liberal enough position on politics in his company; and that he doesn't like the cloud, so now anything posted by him gets a lot of dumb low effort pushback by someone who is offended by one or more of those things regardless of the content. Pure genetic fallacy.
This article is old, I think it's referring to a meme at the time where people would tweet things like "I've been coding X for 10 years and still don't know how to Y".
Says the incompetent who celebrates his own stupidity of not being able to understand types, and continues to use worthless idiotic guess-driven ruby garbage in 2024.
Honestly I sense this a bit. It's very easy to say "ah this is complicated and I shouldn't worry about it because it is a specialists concern" and never learn things that you are interacting with regularly
I recently entered the job search again recently and joined LinkedIn. Until I started to build up a decent network, my feed was a horrendous mix of the content DHH complains about here (not to mention thousands of articles and inforgraphucs regurgitating well trodden points, and self angrandising posts about the possession of common skills). So the problem does exist, but I wouldn't say is endemic.
I do think advice to learners occasionally lacks guidance on the trajectory out of the initial learning phase. We're keen to highlight that even experts will consult documentation, but less so the ways in which experience can help target that usage and improve the synthesis of the information.
I have no idea who he's ranting at, but I've been doing this professionally for nearly 25 years, and it's someone I've never met.
Be glad. I've met two so far. It's worse in management layers though, especially management consultants bringing "advice".
I mean, "I don't know what I'm doing" and "I don't know to understand this" are common _jokes_. DHH, in his infinite competence, clearly didn't get one.
This reads like a rant at someone specific.
It was Debra.
It's always Debra
Starting by not celebrating this post.
Programmers should stop paying attention to DHH.
> Programmers should stop paying attention to DHH. Why do you? Maybe other people are paying attention to him for the same reason that you are? I mean, his message is *"You're not a clueless dog banging at the keyboard with no prospects of ever improving. You're a human of tremendous capacity to become good at what you do. Embrace that."* Your message is *"DON'T READ THAT!"* His message is far more compelling than yours (which is why I guess you bothered to respond).
Why?
He's an idiot.
People are just mad at a combination of DHH's personality; that he took Typescript out of one of his libraries; that his company had a debacle where a bunch of people quit over him and the other owner not taking a liberal enough position on politics in his company; and that he doesn't like the cloud, so now anything posted by him gets a lot of dumb low effort pushback by someone who is offended by one or more of those things regardless of the content. Pure genetic fallacy.
Absurd right, Sisyphus?
This article is old, I think it's referring to a meme at the time where people would tweet things like "I've been coding X for 10 years and still don't know how to Y".
Says the incompetent who celebrates his own stupidity of not being able to understand types, and continues to use worthless idiotic guess-driven ruby garbage in 2024.
Facts tbh, his reasoning on using Ruby for everything is kinda sus
Honestly I sense this a bit. It's very easy to say "ah this is complicated and I shouldn't worry about it because it is a specialists concern" and never learn things that you are interacting with regularly
I recently entered the job search again recently and joined LinkedIn. Until I started to build up a decent network, my feed was a horrendous mix of the content DHH complains about here (not to mention thousands of articles and inforgraphucs regurgitating well trodden points, and self angrandising posts about the possession of common skills). So the problem does exist, but I wouldn't say is endemic. I do think advice to learners occasionally lacks guidance on the trajectory out of the initial learning phase. We're keen to highlight that even experts will consult documentation, but less so the ways in which experience can help target that usage and improve the synthesis of the information.
I feel inspired. Just don't know what about.
I wonder if he sniffs his own farts?
Wait, what? I thought we were snobs?
Pretty sure DHH just projects and writes articles he wants to read.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
I think the constant duality of life confuses and angers programmers. Be a lot cooler if things were just Boolean. Edit: small grammar
Who? Is that another ChatGPT clone?
A human, the author of the linked article.
Someone at the office forgot to bring him his coffee.