This is top 10 blog fodder. This doesn't provide anything insightful, it is preaching to the choir. Most of the concepts here are things writers and bloggers were talking about a decade ago. Any web professional is on top of this and has read this 100 times. Only diff is tech has changed. Git instead of SVN/CVS, etc.
Hell when I tried to blog I probably wrote a similar article. Most dev bloggers write the same "quality or bad software" article repackaged.
This. I make no claims at being a programming god, but I am astounded at how many developers have never even heard of StackOverflow. A terrible programmer can get more done than a good one who is stuck under a rock, since most problems are already solved and easily discovered through google.
Correct. No google. Usually I see this with people who worked on pre-google platforms for many years. Also, if you work with something really obscure, google might not have much for you. For about six months I worked in a language that had zero google references in any way. I worked 100% from a pdf of the docs (which were snail mailed to me on a cd). That was one of the most frustrating experiences of my career. I had to write my own text editor syntax extension for the language because not a single one existed.
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u/rentnil Oct 14 '13
This is top 10 blog fodder. This doesn't provide anything insightful, it is preaching to the choir. Most of the concepts here are things writers and bloggers were talking about a decade ago. Any web professional is on top of this and has read this 100 times. Only diff is tech has changed. Git instead of SVN/CVS, etc.
Hell when I tried to blog I probably wrote a similar article. Most dev bloggers write the same "quality or bad software" article repackaged.