Now, my opinion of Martin in general is not especially high and he's a bit of a controversial figure, but it wasn't just the kids. And Martin is also all about reliable software, so that makes it even more surprising.
Not an actual quote but a factual statement
It's the same reason he's so pro Trump I think.
> Doors and wheels fall off airplanes. Hundreds of illegal immigrants assault and overrun border guards in Texas. We can’t even muster support for our allies in the security council. But at least our pronouns are in order.
https://twitter.com/unclebobmartin/status/177262869295654553...
You really need to be a special sort of individual to go from a collapsed bridge to ranting about pronouns with no prompting or any prior mention of that. What a complete spanner.
Pure evil, as Trump would call it.
Or he's a hyper-politicized idiot completely consumed and obsessed by some topics and needs to talk about them all the fucking time at the drop of a hat, whether appropriate or not.
It has nothing to do with "sides"; it has to do with the forceful injection of completely unrelated matters.
Agree. Out of control neo-feudal lords taking up all the slack out of every system they can get their tendrils into in the name of efficiency, thus endangering us all in order to extract as much profit as possible out of our entire economic system.
The "other side"'s solution tends to be to further deregulate industry and the economy, and to empower and lower the tax burden of these neo-feudal lords, all while pointing at gays, trans-folk, and immigrants as if they are the reason people can't afford rent and bridges are falling down.
Just one problem, huh?
This illustrates what I meant about black and white thinking.
This is not black and white reasoning. Each problem can be on a continuous plane, from "slightly bothersome" to "there is an absolutely horrible evil lurking here".
To me the difference was in recognizing that the architecture advice is implicit - its not actually written down in the code, rather the code exemplifies it - and the business domain is explicitly modeled. When developers name everything "use case" and "interactor" and go crazy with packages and folder structures with architectural names it's a recipe for terribleness.
https://twitter.com/unclebobmartin/status/107212575854868889...
Which means his opinions are more often than not uninformed opinions and should be taken with a grain of salt.
You don't need a college education to read research articles, books and journals. But you certainly need an open mind and some discipline to not try to reinvent the wheel all the time. You need to learn about the state of the art in your field.
Some ideas and algorithms are proven and battle tested, and people should learn about them, before trying to create something new and claim it is much better than the old thing. This is very noticeable in some fields like cryptography.
His modus operandi certainly seems to be on the other extreme, everything old is bad and the new thing around the corner is going to change everything. Which causes a lot of people who believe him to collectively waste millions of hours of their time.
About your comments on the degree... it really depends on how you got it. For most people, I would agree with you. A small group of people in academia are insanely smart and are focused on research.