Windex007

Who is your parties candidate?

Is it a common theme to shit on people for not having rollied their own C implemtations or was that a one off lapse of judgment on their part?

I'm not God's gift to the field, but I am clearly better than most of my competition - that is, practitioners who haven't put in the reps to build their own C libraries in a cave with scraps, but can read textbooks and use libraries written by elite institutions.

I agree not reading isn't a virtue, but after reading something that caused my eyes to roll entirely out of my skull, I had to choose to cut the damage to my optic nerves.

Maybe the rest was good. That was bad. My critique is constrained to that specific, nauseating paragraph.

You're not a real data scientist unless you've written your own libraries in C??

I couldn't get past the inferiority complex masquerading as a confident appeal to authority.

Maybe the rest of the article was good but the taste of vomit wasn't worth it to me.

Edit:

Ok, I read the whole thing. I agree with all of it. None of the domain specific content is objectionable (or uncommonly held views) from a technical standpoint, and the ties to misuse and misunderstanding by business is something we're all watching at our respective employers I'm sure.

But I stand by original point that it's an arbitrarily low-blow to snipe his competitors for never having implemented a C library. Why not x86? Why not an ASIC implementation? What must I do to be a true fucking Scotsman?