If you don't rant how do you learn from your mistakes?
It makes you reconsider what went wrong like The Mythical Man's Month (tools considered harmful aka silver bullets) by F Brooks the project manager that nearly killed IBM and OS360 is such an example.
Coding is about creativity and innovation. Not about respecting the authority. It is a hard mix of conservatism (standing on the giants' shoulders) and like the other giants ... to rant.
At one point the best developers new ideas are rants ex robe pike vs Unix (plan9, Go) (all his rants against unix (see cat) are a very good source of knowledge for unix devs)
And rants are always instructive when done by great person.
I have no problem with the article itself (I didn't even read it), nor the right of anybody to rant about anything. It's the cliched headline on which I was commenting.
It makes you reconsider what went wrong like The Mythical Man's Month (tools considered harmful aka silver bullets) by F Brooks the project manager that nearly killed IBM and OS360 is such an example.
Coding is about creativity and innovation. Not about respecting the authority. It is a hard mix of conservatism (standing on the giants' shoulders) and like the other giants ... to rant.
At one point the best developers new ideas are rants ex robe pike vs Unix (plan9, Go) (all his rants against unix (see cat) are a very good source of knowledge for unix devs)
And rants are always instructive when done by great person.
* http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/ (I learned a lot with http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/symlinks http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/dynamic-linking/ ) * computer for cynics on youtube (a rant against computer industry in general)
“It’s a curious thing about our industry: not only do we not learn from our mistakes, we also don’t learn from our successes.” — Keith Braithwaite