The best programmers I know

(endler.dev)

628 points kiyanwang | 1 comments | 09 Apr 25 06:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.2s | source

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dockerd ◴[09 Apr 25 10:40 UTC] No.43630691[source]▶

For those unable to open the link due to owner site being hit by Cloudflare limit, here's a link to web archive - https://web.archive.org/web/20250409082704/https://endler.de...

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lapcat ◴[09 Apr 25 12:47 UTC] No.43631455[source]▶

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There's some irony, is there not, in presuming to be able to identify "the best programmers" when you've created a programming blog that completely falls down when it gets significant web traffic?

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1. nocman ◴[09 Apr 25 13:47 UTC] No.43632057[source]▶

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> presuming to be able to identify "the best programmers"

He was identifying the best programmers he knows (as is obvious from the title). I don't think it is unreasonable at all for even a semi-technical person to be able to do that.

Also, it is highly likely that the author never expected their article to receive a high volume of web traffic, and allocated resources to it with that assumption. That doesn't say a thing about their technical abilities. You could be the best programmer in the world and make an incorrect assumption like that.

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