creamytaco

Typical zero substance self-help opinion piece masquerading as something better. Complete waste of time.

Not very wise to export your (assumed) copyright-infringing activity over to a third party that has complete records of who you are. Folks have been sued for less.

It's called "commoditization". Since programming is now a commodity, the barrier to entry had to be lowered in order to pump up the numbers. Growth at all costs!

There is still rock-solid engineering to be found, usually in domains where the stakes are high (for example, fintech), but anything web-related is best kept away from if one is allergic to bullshit.

I don't see how this is in any way competitive with the current options. It would't be competitive at sub-$500 pricing, nevermind $2000+.

And then there's the platform bit which is the final nail on the coffin. Let's not kid ourselves here, VR at this point in time is all about the ecosystem rather than hardware and if there is no ecosystem [or backing from the heavyweights], odds are one is going to end up with a very expensive paperweight.

Start with:

Varela / Maturana - The Tree of Knowledge

Miller - Living Systems

Prepare to have your mind blown apart.

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.. but exa is not backwards compatible with ls OOPS

Which is why I stick with ls (and grep instead of rg and coreutils instead of shiny rust equivalent), I can't deal with the cognitive dissonance that arises from these differences.

"I've never read anything that wasn't a bad regurgitation of ideas better presented elsewhere from this guy, and I have to wonder why he has amassed such a following."

I wrote this 2 months ago, my opinion hasn't changed. I guess there are worse charlatans out there (ribbonfarm springs to mind) but why should one waste his/her time reading chewed takes by someone who doesn't seem to have a single original thought-idea streak in him.

Having lived in SF for more than a decade, I couldn't agree more. When I left, years ago, the guilt syndrome was so prevalent among well-compensated young tech workers that one could talk about mass-psychosis. I'm told it's gotten a lot worse...

> that have basis on European ways of handling these sort of issues

I suggest you try shoplifting in any European country and see what happens.

> - Designing Data Driven Applications - Kleppmann

OK

> - The Art of Unix Programming - Raymond

Waste of time

> Pretty much any of the programming books published by No Starch Press

Waste of time (mostly)

> 1) Learn SQL

OK

> 2) Absorb everything you possibly can by Rich Hickey and Stu Halloway. "Simple Made Easy"

Disagree. The Clojure ecosystem is a silo and a lot of their edicts do not translate.

> ribbonfarm

Waste of time, besides being able to write thousands of words about absolutely nothing, vgr is now pushing web3 / metaverse / cryptos. Charlatan.

> You're going to learn most by immersion in an ecosystem

Wrong. You're going to learn most surrounded by people better than you. Find those people and teams and go work with them.

Background: Worked on multiple FAANGs, including Google and Amazon, also fintech, now retired.