You can not select more than 25 topics
Topics must start with a letter or number, can include dashes ('-') and can be up to 35 characters long.
47 lines
2.1 KiB
47 lines
2.1 KiB
5 years ago
|
+++
|
||
|
title = "Things I Learnt The Hard Way - Own Your Shit"
|
||
|
date = 2019-07-30
|
||
|
|
||
|
[taxonomies]
|
||
|
tags = ["en-au", "books", "things i learnt", "personal", "own your shit"]
|
||
|
+++
|
||
|
|
||
|
When I said "Scala is garbage" or "Gerrit is a mistake", it wasn't "l33th4x0r"
|
||
|
who said that; it was Julio Biason. 'Cause I do believe that putting your face
|
||
|
to be slapped is the way we grow.
|
||
|
|
||
|
<!-- more -->
|
||
|
|
||
|
I do understand -- and you must have realized reading some of the previous
|
||
|
points when I talk about it -- that privacy is important. For some people,
|
||
|
hiding their real name is important for lots of reasons.
|
||
|
|
||
|
But I also personally believe that using some weird name and some face that
|
||
|
isn't yours on your avatar may give you a false sense of "that person is the
|
||
|
guilty one, not me" when it comes to criticism.
|
||
|
|
||
|
I mean, yes, I hate Scala with a passion. I do understand _why_ the language
|
||
|
developers decided to come with some options about it, and I still think those
|
||
|
decisions were stupid and you should never sacrifice readability for
|
||
|
ease-to-use.
|
||
|
|
||
|
But it wasn't some random person using a weird name full of numbers and an
|
||
|
avatar of some anime saying Scala is garbage. My name is even in this blog
|
||
|
name, in the URL and in every social network I use there is a picture of me.
|
||
|
|
||
|
So yeah, Julio said Scala is garbage.
|
||
|
|
||
|
There is another thing about using your real name and real face: I'm not just
|
||
|
saying "Scala is garbage", I have to back that up with some facts -- or, in
|
||
|
this case, personal opinions -- about it. It's not simply an attack to Scala,
|
||
|
is a somewhat thought out attack on Scala.
|
||
|
|
||
|
And, on top of that, someone will one day come to me and say "Yeah Julio, that
|
||
|
thing you said about Scala: It is that way because of this, this and this".
|
||
|
And I'll probably have to say "You know, you're right: I was wrong." Because I
|
||
|
can't simply move my mistake to some other personality; who was wrong was
|
||
|
_me_. And unless I own my shit up, I'd never get the understanding I'd need to
|
||
|
see my mistake about Scala in the first place.
|
||
|
|
||
|
{{ chapters(prev_chapter_link="/books/things-i-learnt/time", prev_chapter_title="You Always Have The Time") }}
|