“I promise, seriously, my gatekeeping isn’t because of sexism. I just get personally offended when anyone of any gender claims they have skills in anything.”
Edit: after talking to this guy an unfortunate amount, I shouldn’t have given him the benefit of the doubt. I think he is probably sexist, he is wildly determined to take issue with her.
Is it not considered simping if you’re paid? According to your laughable bs, you’re a paid troll, since you’re not in the left.
There’s no question you’re a troll looking to shit on anything that resembles the left. The only question is, are you a jobless loser doing it, or are you on a dictator’s payroll?
Here is her stackoverflow profile https://stackoverflow.com/users/2274694/lyndsey-scott
She has 37k points there, this fact alone already makes her stand out. And yes she does have a specialization. It’s iOS Development.
Also it’s bullshit that experts only know one or two languages.
People with these type of salaries are usually managers and don’t really code that much anymore. I don’t really get your point there. Also could you explain what an expert for you really is?
Reading your posts, you seem to have no clue about how programmers work at a professional level, especial senior ones.
Whilst programming, mentally the programming language is but a layer on top of a logic structure for the program and you don’t structure a program from the language up but rather down from what you want to achieve breaking rhe problem into parts and eventually writti g it down into whatever language you’re working in.
It is stupidly easy to learn a programming language (I know at least 20) because the structuring of program blocks (loops,variable assignments, operations, method calls) is the usually the same, plus even the syntaxes of the languages themselves are often quite similar because they’re driven by by similar needs, and even the being intimatelly familiar with the language itself takes at most 2 years.
What takes longer is to be intimiatelly familiar with programming frameworks (bundled libraries, tools and pre-existing high level program structures) rather that the actual languages.
As for your example, those still working as programmers (rather than, say, technical architects) making high 6 figures are normally working in big companies with some obscure frameworks that are at end of life - hence it’s hard to find coders that know them - but are essential for the business (there used to be a time whe people programming in the old version of SAP could make tons of money exactly for that reason) or they’re doing high value obscure stuff that goes way beyond programming, such as being a Quant for a Hedge Fund, were the big bucks are for the business domain knowledge (i.e. understanding complex financial instruments such as derivatives) not the programming stuff.
Would you say the same thing about bilingual people? They’re language amateurs because they don’t specialize in one language?
Replying to this comment to warn people this person joined four weeks ago during the reddit exodus and has a history of purposefully inflammatory comments. Their name is literally a meme.
This is a troll. Simply do not engage.
Anyone considering taking this idiot’s comments seriously should know that they write comments like “btw I have more money than I know how to spend in decades” lmao
The cringiest incel shit I’ve read recently. Unlike on reddit, I’d love it if people like this were ostracized so thoroughly, they cannot stand to be on the platform, even to spread hate as this person is clearly aiming to do.
Maybe you, a single person, don’t have a full knowledge of the industry? Maybe you feel like that because those are the kind of people you’ve been around? Outliers happen, and there’s evidence to back up her statements. Why would you make assumptions about someone you’ve never met just because the people around you aren’t that good?
Aren’t you the one trying to argue stuff without evidence here? She has an entire career anyone can look at, and you just want to pretend that isn’t evidence of anything.
Most importantly, what the hell does “It’s not Pokémon world here.” Even mean???
The 10k hours claim you make further down (popularized by Gladwell) is also an absurd overreach on what the research actually was or claimed to be. Read Peak by K Anders Ericsson instead of Gladwell’s outliers and you get a very different presentation of what the research says from one of the researchers.
They were studying a very specific type of rote learning with a specific type of training (because being classically trained in violin is that standardized). The number of hours trained to reach expert status was not identical between practitioners. He made absolutely zero claims about the amount of time needed to learn different skills that fit the same pattern, and more importantly, really didn’t make such claims about entirely different and unrelated types of learning like code that aren’t formalized.
Gladwell’s book was straight anecdote with no rigor. Ignoring that, languages aren’t that different and an expert can very easily hop most languages with minimal impact.
Yes, most developers aren’t very skilled, as you apparently aren’t.
Learning multiple languages isn’t hard if you know what you’re doing. Thinking it’s impossible says a lot about you.
