I know what I said about lacking raw intellectual power probably feels like a personal attack rather than a description. However, that comment is in comparison to guys like Peter Norvig or Donald Knuth, not random Hacker News mid-wits like myself.
I had a younger cousin who wanted to start a career in software engineering. He asked me, assuming my years of experience had some merit, what programming languages to learn, what code editor to use, what platforms and frameworks to study. I told him the most important thing he could do is to be persistent. The computer will constantly humble you. Your coworkers will constantly try to rail-road you into solutions that are sub-optimal. You have to be resilient and keep going no matter what, you can't ever give up.
I think it is fair to say that George excels at what I consider to be the most important aspect of programming. And if he could manage to stop disparaging others in his streams, suggesting that everyone else is stupid and that the code they write is rotten, I could very easily look over the fact that he is frequently careless and hasty.
I had a younger cousin who wanted to start a career in software engineering. He asked me, assuming my years of experience had some merit, what programming languages to learn, what code editor to use, what platforms and frameworks to study. I told him the most important thing he could do is to be persistent. The computer will constantly humble you. Your coworkers will constantly try to rail-road you into solutions that are sub-optimal. You have to be resilient and keep going no matter what, you can't ever give up.
I think it is fair to say that George excels at what I consider to be the most important aspect of programming. And if he could manage to stop disparaging others in his streams, suggesting that everyone else is stupid and that the code they write is rotten, I could very easily look over the fact that he is frequently careless and hasty.